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To: meg88
Well lookee what I found. The Chicago Sun Times has a picture of the so-called black step-grandmother in Africa and identified her as Dunham who is white.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/32510,obama-main081706.fullimage

I'd sure love to find out if it was a mistake, or if the paper was mislead.

13 posted on 03/29/2007 7:05:09 AM PDT by ElkGroveDan (When toilet paper is a luxury, you have achieved communism.)
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To: ElkGroveDan

Good question, I think we need to race this off to newsbusters.org. Was this a media slip-up, or did the Chicago Sun-Times get purposely misled by the Obama campaign.


18 posted on 03/29/2007 7:12:39 AM PDT by trappedinnj
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To: ElkGroveDan

The beeb managed to figure it out.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3977739.stm


30 posted on 03/29/2007 7:22:16 AM PDT by Sols
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To: ElkGroveDan

LOL...they probably identified the woman as his "grandmother," and the Sun-Times didn't bother to double-check before printing the erroneous name.


35 posted on 03/29/2007 7:27:42 AM PDT by B Knotts (Newt '08! FReepmail me to get on the Newt '08 Ping List)
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To: ElkGroveDan

Fascinating..... innocent mistake or part of the propaganda campaign? I still don’t quite get what the big concern of Obama’s campaign is about suppressing info on the white grandparents who truly raised him..??? Is it that he thinks Black America will not fully embrace him if he is not seen as “black enough”?? But surely everyone who knows anything about him knows he is bi-racial?? But he’s trying to pass more specifically as “first black president” material so he doesn’t want to be thought of as bi-racial?? I really don’t get it since it makes no difference at all to me, I truly think of people in terms of their ideas and character, not in terms of their skin color.... so I just “don’t get it” why there should be any concern from within his campaign to hide his white grandparents and practically erase them from his past????


136 posted on 02/17/2008 4:03:18 PM PST by Enchante (Democrats: we'll send Brezinski to Damascus, that's our foreign policy!!)
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To: ElkGroveDan

Interesting, as that woman is Obama’s step-grandmother, Sarah Hussein Onyango Obama.


143 posted on 02/29/2008 5:11:02 AM PST by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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