Posted on 11/03/2008 1:55:58 PM PST by Phemone
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's grandmother died of cancer, he said in a statement on Monday, a little more than a week after Obama interrupted the White House race to say goodbye to her in Hawaii.
"It is with great sadness that we announce that our grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, has died peacefully after a battle with cancer," Obama said in a joint statement with his sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng. "She was the cornerstone of our family, and a woman of extraordinary accomplishment, strength, and humility."
Dunham helped raise Obama from the age of 10 while his mother was working in Indonesia, and Obama took an emotional 22-hour trip to Hawaii to visit her on October 23 and 24.
(Reporting by John Whitesides; editing by David Alexander
If he has truly known only since 8 AM, I don't put much significance on that. He made a joint statement with his sister, and it may have taken time to get them in the same place.
If it happened earlier, I think we will hear about it soon. You can't keep a secret like this for very long -- especially once he announced it today. If I were in a position to know otherwise, I would respect his decision to keep it private until after the election. But, I would not stand by and let any candidate do this for political gain.
Just in time for the evening news
And here we all thought it would be Uncle Teddy.
When Obama went to visit her the end of Oct. “The Honolulu Bulletin” announced she had broken her hip the 6th or 7th of October but she also had cancer which had metastisized(sp)
I think you give Barry Soeroto too much credit. His mom raised him and seems to have given him some of his red diaper doper baby background. Even grandma may have brought her daughter up on the Left side of life.
He is a creep for turning against the family that raised him, however. He needs psychoanalysis about his parental abandonment issues, not the presidency.
Cynic!
;)
My condolences go out to Barack Obama. Barack’s grandmother most definitely loved Barack.
Too late for the Wellstone treatment on this one. I doubt this will sway people one way or another, simply because there is not adequate time for the Dhimmies to properly exploit it.
And here we all thought it would be Uncle Teddy.
I’s not saying.............. I’m just saying with the 3 thing.
So, a broken hip can turn into cancer? I need to visit webmd and ck that out. I love grandmothers but this grandson will never get a pass from me.
>>They don’t know his Grandmother- they imagine their own Gramdmother. Aren’t there any statistics on this?
Reminds me of a line from "Wild At Heart", "Before I've even told you what kind of dog I have, you've pictured it in your head, perhaps you've even pictured TO-TO from the Wizard of Oz..."
May God rest her soul... Having said that... She’s on this earth for 31,390 days or so, and she passes the last news cycle before the election, an hour before? Something smells really fishy...
I hope the poor dear didn't suffer too badly.
I don’t know how a broken hip turns into cancer but I do know that her grandson wants to bankrupt America.
Barack Hussein Obama is an abject marxist and the epitomy of the internal enemy in this nation.
I do give credit to his grandmom for clearly loving him, taking him in, and giving him a chance in life. It's what loving parents do...even if their children go astray. She had what appears most likely to be an illegitimate grandchild that her daughter no longer wanted to raise, to raise in her middle years
Sure as heck didn’t work with Wellstone, did it?
Oh, please! BTW, you misspelled idiocy, genius.
Has the poor woman been cremated already?
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