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Throw grandma under the bus ( Barack Obama )
powerline ^ | March 18, 2008 | Scott

Posted on 03/18/2008 10:24:50 PM PDT by george76

When seeking to extricate himself from the tight spot in which he has been placed by his long association with the spiritual leadership of Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama hauled in his (living) maternal grandmother, Madelyn Dunham. Obama has previously characterized Mrs. Dunham as a "trailblazer of sorts, the first woman vice-president of a local bank." She had a direct hand in his upbringing when Obama chose to live with his maternal grandparents rather than his mother, who was then in Indonesia.

Today Obama brought Mrs. Dunham into his speech for a cameo appearance as a white counterpart to the fulsome Reverend Wright:

" I can no more disown [Jeremiah Wright] than I can my white grandmother – a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe. "

Even amid the false equivalencies and obvious evasions of his speech today, Obama's misuse of his grandmother seems to me a striking sign of poor character.


TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: 2008election; barack; barackhusseinobama; barackobama; dunham; ihaveanexcusespeech; jeremiahwright; liberalracism; madelyn; madelyndunham; marxist; nobama; noobama; obama; obamafamily; racepimp
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1 posted on 03/18/2008 10:24:51 PM PDT by george76
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To: george76

Thanks for putting this up in its own post.


2 posted on 03/18/2008 10:28:32 PM PDT by Uriah_lost (This space reserved for a decent candidate,,,lemme know when we get one.)
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To: george76; PhilDragoo; devolve; potlatch; Fiddlstix; y'all

bump !!


3 posted on 03/18/2008 10:33:34 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (McRINO makes me wanna reach across the aisle, too. And SLAP some sense into the fools !!)
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To: george76
but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street

But in his first book, he describes this incident differently - and we need to get this to HANNITY and all, this is another glaring example of his forked tongue.-

In the book, he describes this incident as his grandmother coming home one day upset.

His grandfather asks what's wrong and she say while she was waiting for the bus, a large man, a panhandler, accosted her asked for "a dollar" - she said he kept getting more insistent and she was frightened - but the bus came just in time - she said she was afraid if the bus hadn't come, the man might have hit her.

Upon asking for a description of the man, she related that he was black.

That makes her a racist on a par with Rev. Bullfrog?

What woman wouldn't be frightened, no matter the color?

4 posted on 03/18/2008 10:35:11 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (",,,but you can't fool all of the people all the time" LINCOLN)
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To: george76

Obama is a shameless Marixst. If his white relatives were so racist then why are they the only members of his family who raised him? I am sure it was their ambition to spend their 50s and 60s raising and supporting a young child.


5 posted on 03/18/2008 10:36:45 PM PDT by John Robie
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To: george76
Of course we can look at it another way - for the first time in his campaign, he acknowledges he HAS a white grandmother! (He is beneath contempt)
6 posted on 03/18/2008 10:37:39 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (",,,but you can't fool all of the people all the time" LINCOLN)
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To: george76

How dare he do this to his grandmother! I didn’t think I had any more respect to lose for this man.


7 posted on 03/18/2008 10:38:19 PM PDT by moonpie57 (Fred Howell McMurray, Jr. The man on my POW bracelet.)
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To: george76
Barack's maternal grandparents, the Dunhams:

The Dunhams (Barack's mother as a child):


8 posted on 03/18/2008 10:38:48 PM PDT by LibFreeOrDie
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To: george76

How nice how the subject of his white grandmother who raised him is barely brought up until now, when it’s to call her a racist.


9 posted on 03/18/2008 10:38:49 PM PDT by forkinsocket
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To: george76
B Hussein Obama will not wear a flag lapel pin or salute
the American flag during the National Anthem but today this lying sack
of excrement was standing in from of four American Flags.

10 posted on 03/18/2008 10:40:44 PM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (you shall know that I, YHvH, your Savior, and your Redeemer, am the Elohim of Ya'aqob. Isaiah 60:16)
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To: george76
The grandma was bothered before by bums on the street who happened to be black and developed a fear from all the aggressiveness.
Jesse Jackson said the same thing about the same suspicious black men on streets around HIM.

He had NO reason to grab grandma into the story, he was grasping for straws to divert attention from the real issue.

YOU CAN'T PICK YOUR GRANDMA, BUT YOU CAN PICK YOUR PASTOR OF 20 YEARS.

Obama is a closet radical and racist.
Reverend Wright is a non-closeted black separatist and racist.

11 posted on 03/18/2008 10:41:10 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: george76

Oh Obama! What a phony, shallow, empty suited soulless ^$#^%#$.

Drawing a parallel between the white woman who raised him and saw that he got a fine education — and the racist rabble rousers of the “Black Liberation Theology” mob....AFTER his drunken, black, Muslim, bigamist father abandoned him - as they routinely do....

I wonder how many times Obama and his wife have uttered racist slurs that would cause his white grandmother to cringe???


12 posted on 03/18/2008 10:41:19 PM PDT by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: maine-iac7

Any idea if his grandmother is still alive?


13 posted on 03/18/2008 10:41:59 PM PDT by warsaw44
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To: george76

What a good grandson!!


14 posted on 03/18/2008 10:43:52 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (I'm here for a purpose. I know what my purpose is.)
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To: warsaw44

his white grandmother is still alive in Hawaii


15 posted on 03/18/2008 10:43:57 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: warsaw44

Yes she is.
My heart breaks for this woman :(


16 posted on 03/18/2008 10:44:20 PM PDT by MaggieM (Tanti galli a cantar non fa mai giorno ( Too many chiefs, not enough warriors))
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To: george76

Madelyn Dunham, Obama's Grandmother

Would Obama say that she's holding her purse a little to tight?

17 posted on 03/18/2008 10:44:49 PM PDT by MaxMax (I need a life after politics)
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To: maine-iac7

Obama has no class.


18 posted on 03/18/2008 10:47:06 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: A CA Guy
YOU CAN'T PICK YOUR GRANDMA, BUT YOU CAN PICK YOUR PASTOR OF 20 YEARS.

You can't pick your grandma, but you can pick your nose. Can you pick your Pastor's nose?

19 posted on 03/18/2008 10:47:51 PM PDT by OeOeO
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To: John Robie
His white grandparents fed him, put clothes on his back, roof over his head, paid for his education ...

Otherwise he might have been raised in a Muslim orphanage ?

20 posted on 03/18/2008 10:49:22 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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