Obama pays visit to grandmother in Makiki (ALONE!)

Star Bulletin ^ | August 9 | Leila Fujimori

[PghBaldy]

After delivering a campaign speech, Sen. Barack Obama's first stop on his Hawaii vacation was a visit to his grandmother's Makiki apartment, where he also lived during his youth. Obama -- escorted by Secret Service and accompanied by a few campaign staff and a pool of reporters and camera crews -- arrived at about 4:10 p.m. yesterday and spent an hour with his 85-year-old maternal grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, who helped raise him. He was not accompanied by his wife, Michelle, and two daughters.

[PghBaldy]

...One woman who lives in the building had two books authored by Obama in hand and watched as the elevator doors closed. She waited patiently outside the elevator...But a man identified as the building owner said the Secret Service did not allow her to present Obama with the leis. The woman with the books did not get Obama's autograph, either...

[2nd Bn, 11th Mar]

Is this the “TYPICAL WHITE PERSON”, or am I confusing people who’ve been thrown under the bus?

[Oldexpat]

Different families different values. Why aren’t the Grandkids crawling all over Grandma? Michelle doesn’t like her? Kids have never met her? What is the real story.
Maybe NE will tell us.

[vladimir998]

I’m not a conspiracy kind of guy, but this is suspicious. What grandmother wouldn’t want to see her grandchildren? So far I have thought the Birth Certificate stuff was much ado about nothing. But for some reason this “alone” visit makes me suspicious.

[jennyjenny]

Wow, he visited with her for a whole hour after not seeing her for 19 months. What a guy.

[Always Right]

Is this the 58th or the 59th state Obama has visited.

[uvular]

Now, didn’t Obama say the trip to Hawaii was in part that his entire family needed some ‘lovin’’ from their grandma??

[Melinda]

It is not just A typical white person, but THE typical white person. And he spent a whole hour with her. Wow.

[PghBaldy]

Here’s a quote I found: “I’m going to see my grandma, who I haven’t seen in 18-19 months,” Obama told reporters Thursday. “She’s getting to the age where I want to make sure that I’m spending time with her on a consistent basis and so that she can see her great-grandchildren. I want to spend some time with those children as well.”

[dubie]

**Barry Soetoro’s Birth Certificate in Republican Hands**

http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/2008/08/10/breaking-barry-soetoros-birth-certificate-in-republican-hands/

[usmcobra]

Did he bring the Bus?

[isrul]

Granny is a cracker and the white hating Michelle won't let the kids near her.

[PhilDragoo]

He delivered his Godfather speech regarding speaking of the family in the presence of outsiders.

[ryan71]

The last thing Michelle wants her kids to see is their white grandmother.

[Rider on the Rain]

This is one strange dude, and strange things are happening with his family. Something is rotten in Denmark, I mean Hawaii. The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, needs to come out, and when it does our country will be saved from this manchurian candidate dude.

[COUNTrecount]

Democratic presidential hopeful Illinois Sen. Barack Obama waited yesterday afternoon for the doors to close in the elevator that would take him up to visit his grandmother in a Punahou-area apartment.

[mrs. a]

Imagine how the story would read if this was a Republican candiate!

“Mr. Republican put off visiting his aged granny until after he had delivered a self-serving campaign speech. His wife and children, in a shocking display of mean-spiritedness, entirely neglected to visit the opressed senior citizen.”

[BARLF]

spent an hour with his 85-year-old maternal grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, who helped raised him.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Visit ole grandma, but not the troops.

[Zhang Fei]

I am gonna guess that his wife and daugthers wanted nothing to do with his grandmother, who represented - in their eyes - a typical white person.