Barack Obama hasn't even announced his potential candidacy for President, but he's just scored an endorsement from a Congressman outside his home state — an unusual pickup so early in the game. As it happens, the Congressman comes from the place of Obama's birth: Hawaii. The Honolulu Advertiser reports that Hawaii Congressman Neil Abercrombie, an outspoken House liberal, took part in a Draft Obama rally held on the island in order to coincide with the Senator's ongoing vacation there.

Abercrombie was very blunt in his support of Obama: "I believe it's his destiny to run, and his destiny to win." Obama has said that he's using his stay in Hawaii to decide whether he's going to run for the White House.