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Barack Obama failed to attend the service of the grandmother who helped raise him. No member of his immediate family showed up to honor the woman he said, "put off buying a new car or a new dress for herself so that I could have a better life." Many people fail to attend family members funeral services because they can't afford to travel, can't get off work or are too ill to make the trip. None of these reasons apply to Obama.
1 posted on 08/16/2009 6:01:05 AM PDT by Askwhy5times
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To: Askwhy5times

are you sure there was any service?

They may have sent her off to be cremated and then used the photo op of throwing her ashes into the ocean.


2 posted on 08/16/2009 6:02:28 AM PDT by RummyChick ("Free Speech....is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny" Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black)
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She was a “typical white lady.”


4 posted on 08/16/2009 6:11:51 AM PDT by GOPyouth ("I won't (insert verb), except when I do." - B. Hussein Obama)
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Same old campaign type speech. No details no substance.


5 posted on 08/16/2009 6:14:22 AM PDT by duckman (My Grandma Isn't Shovel Ready!)
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My grandmother refused to leave the tiny shotgun shack she lived in in what was essentially a ghost town in central Missouri until she was too sick and senile to resist. This in spite of the fact that two of her surviving children were doing well enough to take her in and had asked her repeatedly to live with them. At the time we lived two states away and couldn’t visit very often. So I’m thinking that even if Obama had asked her to live with him and/or offered to put her in a nice house with staff, she may have flatly refused being of the generation like my grandparents and parents of intense self reliance. In this story I see one valid criticism of Obama - he should have been there to see her at least once every month or two for the years leading up to her death. But my son should call me more often and he’s a good person. Oh well.


6 posted on 08/16/2009 6:17:25 AM PDT by Mercat (Scary middle aged people take to the street)
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This says everything I need to know about Obummer - these two quotes from Obummer’s book -

“I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.” and “I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother’s race”


7 posted on 08/16/2009 6:17:50 AM PDT by Paige ("All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing," Edmund Burke)
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If I remember correctly, Obama rushed to Hawaii to see "Grandma" during his campaign immediately prior to a debate with McCain.

Immediately following that trip, his birth records were sealed by the state of Hawaii.

8 posted on 08/16/2009 6:18:45 AM PDT by sonofagun
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Everything about this ‘Jim Jones’ type character creeps me out. How can he have such a following?


10 posted on 08/16/2009 6:28:38 AM PDT by ArchAngel1983 (Arch Angel- on guard)
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I have no data on the possibility, but it’s not uncommon for family members to arrange a private ceremony, with another later ceremony attended by others.


12 posted on 08/16/2009 6:31:12 AM PDT by Sherman Logan ("The price of freedom is the toleration of imperfections." Thomas Sowell)
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He couldn’t attend the service since he was too busy burying his Birth Certificate.

Pray for America


13 posted on 08/16/2009 6:35:16 AM PDT by bray (He's a Divider not a Uniter)
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Obama’s grandmother dying has nothing to do with teh health care debate. All Obama is saying is “Hey, I had a grandmother and she died”. It doesn’t mean he will make sure everyone else has the best health care.

My grandmothers died too. I was very close to them. One lived to be 100. Never would have happened under a government system.


17 posted on 08/16/2009 6:40:58 AM PDT by Williams (It's The Policies, Stupid.)
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As always, Obama's actions speak far louder than his words. If you watch what he actually does, then you will understand him far better.

For example, he placed Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel as his advisor on health care, and the DNC leadership made hoim a policy advisor to the congress. Ezekiel's own words about older people line much more up with Obama's actions than OBama's campaign style words.


OBAMA HEALTH CARE BY THE NUMBERS


EZEKIEL EMANUEL AND OBAMA HEALTH CARE

(Must Read - Shocking, cited quotes by Emanuel)

20 posted on 08/16/2009 6:50:01 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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Obama uses his grandmother to support health care reform and gets caught in a whopper of a lie!

http://bit.ly/uBm1B

You need to read this to understand how shamless this man is. Don’t hold your breath waiting for the MSM to pick up on this.


21 posted on 08/16/2009 6:50:04 AM PDT by rhetorica
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Obama is a hypocrite; didn't he sell his Grandmother down the river during the campaign, by saying she is a “typical white person” or something to that effect. Now he's uses her illness/death to sell his Obamacare, how low will this guy go?
23 posted on 08/16/2009 6:57:53 AM PDT by Irishhighlander
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To: Askwhy5times

Her illness also came at an inconvenient time for him.


24 posted on 08/16/2009 7:04:08 AM PDT by tiki (True Christians will not deliberately slander or misrepresent others or their beliefs)
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26 posted on 08/16/2009 7:14:57 AM PDT by Always Right
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lol they cant even manage cash for clunkers ......and they want control of healthcare.....


35 posted on 08/16/2009 8:01:47 AM PDT by dalebert
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Euthanasia is a hate crime.

Abortion is a hate crime.

Impeach 0bama for hate crimes.


36 posted on 08/16/2009 8:22:06 AM PDT by HighlyOpinionated (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell)
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"Typical White Person".


41 posted on 08/16/2009 9:05:01 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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