[mckenzie7]

What I can't understand is why Barack hasn't gone back to Hawaii for his white granny's funeral. She raised him and paid his way to a very expensive middle school(grades 5 through 12). Now I would find it hard to believe that he got scholarships starting in the 5th grade, so she had to have paid all the bills. Of course, she also was a bank president, so she could well afford it.
When he got back from Hawaii the last time, when he paid his dying granny a one hour visit, he didn't appear to be very grieved. I'm sure that he would have had a photo op if he would have been very torn up at her death.

WHAT GIVES?

[jetson]

I bet Gov Lingle of Hawaii could answer alot of question but she is hiding somewhere under a rock.

[Verginius Rufus]

It's a tradition. No President-elect in our history has ever attended his grandmother's funeral.

If Obama's grandmother had survived until next Jan. 20, he would have become the first President ever to have a living grandparent.

Obama says he was born in Hawaii. End of story. We are not allowed to doubt his word, even if it is something he only knows because he was told later.

Madison Hemings, son of Sally Hemings, told the census taker in 1870 that he was the son of Thomas Jefferson (the census taker wrote a note to that effect on the census record). He later made the same claim to a newspaper man. The idea that Jefferson had one or more children by Sally Hemings is now accepted, essentially because of Madison Hemings' statement, even though he was at best repeating something his mother told him, since the DNA evidence is inconclusive (his father could have been Jefferson's brother or one of Jefferson's nephews or cousins). If white Americans question a black person's word, the only explanation is racism.