The usual praises and well wishes are flowing now ... great statesman, served the interests of Hawaii well, etc., etc., etc. I wonder if anyone is going to do an honest, close examination of the good senator's record and how effective he was in reality. If the definition of effective and good is the fact he voted along with Senator Daniel Inouye then yes, he probably was.
There has to be a higher standard set for our elected representatives and given that senator Akaka is a member of the party that got us into the current fiscal mess and helps perpetuate the status quo, it can be said with certainty that he really was't as good for the state or effective as people say.
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