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
This is Free Republic, not Kos. Granted with the number of registered posters there’s likely to be a “bad apple” or two in the bunch. But I would hope that members of the media would consider that fact, but then again....what am I saying....the media actually thinks they now have the right to select our President, even illegally gain access to or publish citizens’ private information.
I wonder if he now regrets not having seen her enough over his adult life to have even one photos of them together that isn’t 25 years old?
Well, in my neighbor's case, he was begging to not be overdosed to death. The day chosen as the appointed time was decided because it was the last day before his "had gotten one extension" hospice benefit through medicare ran out.
As for O's Granny, may she RIP. I would not disagree with your opinion as to the decision of the when of her passing.
No, just a dumb thing some FReepers and Drudge are running with. Pathetic. He was scratching his nose with his middle finger, while talking about JM... Pathetic
RIP, Mrs. Dunham. Sympathies to her family and friends.
By the way, I hope her grandson gets his arse kicked tomorrow.
Yep...it's on Drudge. Top of the right column, with another link right under it referring to Bambi's doing the same thing to Hillary. It had been posted as the lead story earlier today.
Thoughts and prayers for the family and friends. Thank you, Mrs. Dunham, for doing what you could to raise your son and, as he said, love him very much.
Really not a cool statement at this juncture.
Just what "juncture" is it?
Yes, it figures that the MSM is covering this story so as to distract attention from B Hussein. If McCain’s mother or other family member died, would you hear a peep out of the MSM? NO! The media brats were surely paid a lot of money by the Obama campaign to cover this the way they did.
I will pray that this woman goes to heaven, but I’m also glad that she didn’t live to see her grandson screw up the country, if he happens to win.
Are you the free speech police? I’m boycotting NBC and with good reason. The mainstream media is propaganda. You might not like it but that’s how it shakes out.
The Honolulu medical examiner's office said it did not handle the case, suggesting that Dunham's death was an "attended death" monitored by a physician.
I’m curious about your defintion of “juncture”.
I suspect that “juncture” means “at this time”, or “at this particular point in time”.
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