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Obama's grandmother dies of cancer in Hawaii
Ruetershttp://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE4A26GV20081103 | 3 Nov 2008 | John Whitesides

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: dunham; elections; hawaii; mccain; obama; obamafamily; obituary; smilingfromheaven
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To: Chief Engineer
Listening to Foxnews they just announced that Obama has known since 8 am.

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.

101 posted on 11/03/2008 2:23:50 PM PST by justlurking (The only remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.)
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To: Phemone

Just in time for the evening news


102 posted on 11/03/2008 2:23:50 PM PST by fso301
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To: PeterFinn
"Nice timing. That’ll pick up a few sympathy votes for sure."

And here we all thought it would be Uncle Teddy.

103 posted on 11/03/2008 2:24:29 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: DDLL

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)


104 posted on 11/03/2008 2:24:46 PM PST by Chief Engineer
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To: Jeff Head

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.


105 posted on 11/03/2008 2:24:52 PM PST by weegee (Fight Global Socialist CHANGE. vote NO on Obama-Biden. Say NO to Sen. Government)
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To: fso301

Cynic!

;)


106 posted on 11/03/2008 2:25:10 PM PST by Palladin (Obama on Ayers: "He's just a guy in my neighborhood." LIAR!!!)
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To: Phemone

My condolences go out to Barack Obama. Barack’s grandmother most definitely loved Barack.


107 posted on 11/03/2008 2:25:25 PM PST by Doug4McCain (McCain/Palin 2008)
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To: Phemone

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.


108 posted on 11/03/2008 2:26:58 PM PST by Bean Counter (Stout Hearts.....)
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To: mass55th

And here we all thought it would be Uncle Teddy.

I’s not saying.............. I’m just saying with the 3 thing.


109 posted on 11/03/2008 2:27:45 PM PST by JFC
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To: Deo volente

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.


110 posted on 11/03/2008 2:28:18 PM PST by floriduh voter (AYERS' BOOK PRAIRIE FIRE dedicated to sirhan sirhan, Robert Kennedy's killer)
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To: Phemone
I feel more sorrow for the infant that drowned in Oakland over ther weekend. ╚ ╔ ╩ ╦
111 posted on 11/03/2008 2:28:44 PM PST by ßuddaßudd (7 days - 7 ways Guero >>> with a floating, shifting, ever changing persona....)
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To: nickcarraway
OK, but people have no connection to his grandmother -- no recent photos, no public appearances, she barely existed.

>>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..."

112 posted on 11/03/2008 2:29:34 PM PST by weegee (Fight Global Socialist CHANGE. vote NO on Obama-Biden. Say NO to Sen. Government)
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To: Phemone

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...


113 posted on 11/03/2008 2:29:54 PM PST by NYC Republican (PLENTY of time for analysis/I-told-you-so in 2 days. Now, Infuriate the MSM--- Support McCain/Palin)
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To: DDLL
She was ill before she supposedly broke her hip. Frail and elderly, it's not unusual to see a two-fer like that late in life.

I hope the poor dear didn't suffer too badly.

114 posted on 11/03/2008 2:30:21 PM PST by Texas_shutterbug
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To: wolfcreek

I don’t know how a broken hip turns into cancer but I do know that her grandson wants to bankrupt America.


115 posted on 11/03/2008 2:30:46 PM PST by floriduh voter (AYERS' BOOK PRAIRIE FIRE dedicated to sirhan sirhan, Robert Kennedy's killer)
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To: weegee
I gave the Obamanation NO credit in that post. Read the last paragraph, which was about him, and go to the link I provided.

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

116 posted on 11/03/2008 2:30:57 PM PST by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: nickcarraway

Sure as heck didn’t work with Wellstone, did it?


117 posted on 11/03/2008 2:31:26 PM PST by top 2 toe red ("The 'Women' of the View"___Elizabeth, three lipstick wearing Pigs & one swiveled up old Buzzard!)
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To: School of Rational Thought
A weak McCain will cease campaigning as a gesture of respect and his own idiotcy.

Oh, please! BTW, you misspelled idiocy, genius.

118 posted on 11/03/2008 2:31:48 PM PST by mplsconservative
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To: Phemone

Has the poor woman been cremated already?


119 posted on 11/03/2008 2:32:06 PM PST by Beckwith (Typical white person)
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To: Phemone
Prayers for the family.
120 posted on 11/03/2008 2:32:15 PM PST by jwalsh07 (It's the Marxism Stupid!)
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