burnt said:I wonder - would this be the one who said she witnessed his birth in Kenya?
Larrry said:alice I think you should cool it out of respect to his grandmother after all she died. Why have some partisan remark when someone asks which grandmother it was. A plain non partisan answer would be best considering his grandmother died. May she rest in peace/
badaxemoo said:Larrry said:alice I think you should cool it out of respect to his grandmother after all she died. Why have some partisan remark when someone asks which grandmother it was. A plain non partisan answer would be best considering his grandmother died. May she rest in peace/
If you didn't detect the partisan edge in Burnt's reply, you're not very perceptive.
Larrry said:Don't think this post should stay nonpartisan in respect for the lady.
To The Mountaintop
Posted by Joe Klein
Word comes that Barack Obama's grandmother has died. The timing is ridiculous. But think, for a moment, if you will of Madelyn Dunham, a white woman from Kansas, strolling the aisle of a supermarket, or having lunch in a coffee shop, with her grandson--way back at the turn of the 1970s, when such sights were uncommon, even in Hawaii. Think about what her friends might have thought, or said, about her...situation. Think about what she poured into the child during the years when her daughter was in Indonesia and she was the closest thing to a mother that Obama had; think about the impact that she and her husband had on creating the man we've come to know, and the satisfaction she must have felt in her dying days.
Some politicians simply are larger than life. Their stories are the stuff of high drama. Over the past few days, I've been hearing about the high emotions out in the field, as volunteers flood Obama offices to help canvass--and, in some places, find they have to wait on line for a spot on a phone bank. It is almost banal at this point to say that this has been the most remarkable election I've ever seen. It's been a privilege to be a small part of it, to have had a ringside seat. And now, there is a sense that tomorrow will be the sort of day none of us ever forgets, one way or another--a day of reckoning, in the purest sense, when we will suddenly see ourselves and our country differently, for good or ill.
It will also be the first day that Barack Obama lives without the presence of the woman who was his surrogate mother. How sad for him, how remarkable that it would happen this way.
http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2008/11/03/to-the-mountaintop/
VanC said:My sympathies go out to Obama and his family. Anyone who would use something like this to score political points should be ashamed of themselves.
alice said:VanC said:My sympathies go out to Obama and his family. Anyone who would use something like this to score political points should be ashamed of themselves.
Know what Van? That's what I thought when I heard the neocons were tryin' to make hay while the sun shone...when his precious grandmother was still alive.
I wish with all my heart that Obama's grandmother could have known how far her grandson had come. I think she did before he took off time from the campaign to visit her...period! Can you imagine back then what it took to help raise a biracial child? That was one hell of a woman!
Yes, may she rest in peace...and she will know what her efforts have brought...I know she will...and anyone who attached anything more than what was there...SHAME ON THEM!
Alice
In a September 10, 2008 interview with the Late Show with David Letterman, Obama described his grandmother as follows:
Eighty-seven years old. She can't travel. She has terrible osteoporosis so she can't fly, but, you know, she has been the rock of our family and she is sharp as a tack. I mean, she's just - she follows everything, but she has a very subdued, sort of Midwestern attitude about these things. So when I got nominated, she called and said, ‘That's nice, Barry, that's nice.'
VanC said:alice said:VanC said:My sympathies go out to Obama and his family. Anyone who would use something like this to score political points should be ashamed of themselves.
Know what Van? That's what I thought when I heard the neocons were tryin' to make hay while the sun shone...when his precious grandmother was still alive.
I wish with all my heart that Obama's grandmother could have known how far her grandson had come. I think she did before he took off time from the campaign to visit her...period! Can you imagine back then what it took to help raise a biracial child? That was one hell of a woman!
Yes, may she rest in peace...and she will know what her efforts have brought...I know she will...and anyone who attached anything more than what was there...SHAME ON THEM!
Alice
I'm disappointed in you, Alice. Obama has lost the most important person in his life, except for his wife and children, on the eve of what may be the greatest moment of his life, and you're using it to point fingers at Rush Limbaugh and those horrible neocons. I would expect that from some, but not you.