Posted on 11/09/2008 8:18:31 PM PST by hecht
Maybe she didn’t really die...
Just a ploy so that Obama would get more sympathy, and maybe more voters. Seeing as how it was just two days before the “ultimate showdown”... 0_o
Q: Did Barack Obama attend his grandmother’s funeral?
ANNE COLLIER, Jonesboro
A: Neither the president-elect nor his sister, Maya Soetero-Ng, were present for the ceremony Nov. 14 for their beloved “Toot,” Madelyn Payne Dunham, 86. She died of cancer Nov. 2.
Obama and Soetero-Ng both were involved in planning the ceremony and contributed a letter that was read aloud at the service. An Obama spokesman described the event as a public goodbye from her co-workers at the Bank of Hawaii, not a family memorial or funeral.
The Obama family plans to visit Hawaii in December, and a private memorial service will be held then.
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