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Old 11-03-2008, 07:54 PM
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Charlotte, North Carolina—Sen. Barack Obama's grandmother died Sunday night, just hours before a presidential election in which her grandson could become the first African-American to win the nation's highest office.

"It is with great sadness that we announce that our grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, has died peacefully after a battle with cancer," Sen. Obama and his half-sister Maya Soetoro-Ng said in a joint statement Monday afternoon.

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This was his typical white grandmother. Apparently cancer killed her, not the bus Obama threw her under earlier this year.
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Old 11-03-2008, 11:02 PM
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All we should say in this case is some sentiment of condolence for the family's loss, not use it to further denigrate the candidate.
If your grandmother died, and an opponent of yours said anything untoward, you would not like it at all.
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Good idea. If you don't like it, report it.

In the meantime a moment of silence for a grandma that raised another's child and did the best she could. Yes, she was his "typical white grandmother", but his grandmother nevertheless. I wonder if Obama regrets what he said about her. The guilt must be terrible.
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I have said far worse things about people I loved. And they of me. Lets not belittle someones relationship based on the 4 seconds you know of it.

Sorely Obama will have to celebrate a bittersweet victory tomorrow, And I think the though weighing him down is that his grandmother left him before his moment of triumph.
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I have said far worse things about people I loved. And they of me. Lets not belittle someones relationship based on the 4 seconds you know of it.

Sorely Obama will have to celebrate a bittersweet victory tomorrow, And I think the though weighing him down is that his grandmother left him before his moment of triumph.
All good people deserve despect. That's how I was raised. Grandma was a good person for raising Barrack. She gets my respect.

Yes, it will be bittersweet for Obama if he is defeated as well. Either way, I hope made peace with her before she died.
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That's gotta be pretty terrible, my heart goes out to him.
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All good people deserve despect. That's how I was raised. Grandma was a good person for raising Barrack. She gets my respect.

Yes, it will be bittersweet for Obama if he is defeated as well. Either way, I hope made peace with her before she died.
I assume any conflict between the two of them is entirely in the imagination of the people with a political ax to grind.
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