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Why Isn't Obama Going or Taking His Family to Grandmother's Funeral?

Posted on 11/06/2008 8:54:27 AM PST by BlueStateBlues

If Obama loved his grandmother so much, why isn't he going to her funeral? And taking his children to see her off?


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: bho2008; obamafamily; obamatransitionfile
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Have I missed something, is he going? If not, that's despicable.
1 posted on 11/06/2008 8:54:29 AM PST by BlueStateBlues
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To: BlueStateBlues

Because he won the election. He doesn’t have to worry about doing decent things like that again until 2012.


2 posted on 11/06/2008 8:55:30 AM PST by frankiep (Every socialist is a disguised dictator - Ludwig von Mises)
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To: BlueStateBlues

I wondered when the funeral was, heard nothing about it since the day she died.


3 posted on 11/06/2008 8:55:51 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat
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To: BlueStateBlues

Zeros fault!!!


4 posted on 11/06/2008 8:55:55 AM PST by blf1776 (Compassionate Conservatism Is Dead - It is time to fight, fight, FIGHT!!!!)
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To: BlueStateBlues

If I had to guess, I’d say he has probably been estranged from her for years. The back and forth was a dog and pony show.


5 posted on 11/06/2008 8:56:33 AM PST by jersey117
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To: BlueStateBlues

The King is going to hold his first press conference tomorrow in Chicago...


6 posted on 11/06/2008 8:56:46 AM PST by katiekins1
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To: BlueStateBlues

Granny’s on ice until the post election partying is over.
Or maybe she’s going to be quietly cremated with his original birth certficiate in her pocket.


7 posted on 11/06/2008 8:56:51 AM PST by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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To: frankiep

Do Muslims do funerals?


8 posted on 11/06/2008 8:57:25 AM PST by fullchroma
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To: BlueStateBlues

Because she had outlived her usefullness.


9 posted on 11/06/2008 8:57:29 AM PST by Joiseydude (Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel,)
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To: BlueStateBlues

It only takes one person to drive the bus over the grave.


10 posted on 11/06/2008 8:57:32 AM PST by Reagan79 (Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys)
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To: BlueStateBlues

If it’s true, it really is sad. I guess Grandma Dunham has served her purpose.


11 posted on 11/06/2008 8:58:02 AM PST by Savagemom (Educational Maverick (at least while homeschooling is still legal))
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To: BlueStateBlues

He didn’t even mention her in the acceptance speech & she had just died the nite before!


12 posted on 11/06/2008 8:58:04 AM PST by vidbizz
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To: BlueStateBlues
She's dead to him now.



Thank you, thank you very much. I'll be here all week.

13 posted on 11/06/2008 8:58:13 AM PST by TonyInOhio (The people have spoken, the bastards.)
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To: BlueStateBlues

GRANNY AINT WORTH PAYING NO RESPECT TOO HER!!
AFTER ALL! LIKE OBIE SAID, SHE IS JUST WHITE LADY RAISED TO BE FRAID OF BLACK MEN!


14 posted on 11/06/2008 8:58:14 AM PST by NOBAMA in 08 ( OBIE HUSSEIN is a Pathetic Puppet of Bill Ayers and Associates!)
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To: BlueStateBlues

Did he even have a grandmother in Hawaii? I mean really, Obama is a fraud from top to bottom.


15 posted on 11/06/2008 8:58:37 AM PST by avacado
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To: BlueStateBlues

And why were her last words, “Did someone add almond flavoring to my coffee?”


16 posted on 11/06/2008 8:58:57 AM PST by Buggman (HebrewRoot.com - Baruch haBa b'Shem ADONAI!)
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To: BlueStateBlues

His grandmother raised him but having seen how he chose a life of Black activism has wanted nothing to do with O for years and refused to be photographed with O for 25 years

So Obama is getting even now


17 posted on 11/06/2008 8:59:33 AM PST by dennisw (Never bet on Islam! ::::: Never bet on a false prophet!)
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To: BlueStateBlues

Because the campaign is over?


18 posted on 11/06/2008 8:59:37 AM PST by Obadiah
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To: vidbizz

I did notice he didn’t mention her in his speech! Maybe because he already had her vote.

Maybe one of the reporters at the press conference can ask him about her funeral.


19 posted on 11/06/2008 8:59:40 AM PST by BlueStateBlues (Blue State for business, Red State at heart..)
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To: blf1776
Zeros fault!!!

LOL!

20 posted on 11/06/2008 9:00:08 AM PST by syriacus (There would not be so many undecided voters, if Obama's plans were less confusing.)
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To: BlueStateBlues

I think it extremely odd that he did not take his children to visit their great-grandmother before she died. Extremely odd.


21 posted on 11/06/2008 9:00:51 AM PST by twigs
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To: BlueStateBlues

Because Zero is a big shot now! He does not have to bother shedding croc tears anymore...not until 2012.


22 posted on 11/06/2008 9:00:57 AM PST by ajay_kumar (President elect Obama, we will be watching you!)
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To: BlueStateBlues

The election’s over. He won. He doesn’t care.


23 posted on 11/06/2008 9:01:04 AM PST by pgkdan ("White folks greed runs a world in need," Jeremiah Wright as quoted by Barack Obama)
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To: BlueStateBlues

What proof do you have that he’s NOT going to her funeral? Searching Google News, I find only vague references that he will be going.

Do you have a source?


24 posted on 11/06/2008 9:01:20 AM PST by Corin Stormhands (Nanowrimo Word Count: 2093)
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To: BlueStateBlues

Because Michelle hates whitey.


25 posted on 11/06/2008 9:01:27 AM PST by BigBobber
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To: BlueStateBlues

I read somewhere that they were going to have a private memorial service later. She was most likely cremated


26 posted on 11/06/2008 9:01:49 AM PST by RnMomof7 ("Sola Scriptura,Sola Christus,Sola Gratia,Sola Fide,Soli Deo Gloria)
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To: BlueStateBlues

I even emailed Fox news to see what they knew about the burial of Grandma Dunham. THIS IS REALLY WEIRD FOLKS.

Obama needs to address this issue. His lies are breathtaking.


27 posted on 11/06/2008 9:01:55 AM PST by indylindy (Is there any good idea out there that Obama doesn't lay claim to anymore?)
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To: BlueStateBlues

Did Michelle and/or the kids ever visit her? I doubt if it suits Michelle’s angry black woman agenda for her kids to realize they are not black but biracial.

It would be fun to take a peek into their photo albums - there are probably a few empty spaces right now.


28 posted on 11/06/2008 9:02:16 AM PST by SusaninOhio
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To: BlueStateBlues

The pics I’ve seen of him and his grandmother doesn’t promote fuzzy familial emotion.


29 posted on 11/06/2008 9:02:21 AM PST by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: BlueStateBlues

What a hateful racist question.

Shame on you! Shame!!

/kidding


30 posted on 11/06/2008 9:02:32 AM PST by InsensitiveConservative
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To: BlueStateBlues
Would you attend the funeral of a typical dead white person?
31 posted on 11/06/2008 9:02:42 AM PST by SparkyBass
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To: avacado

That what I wonder. I think if he did, they were on bad terms. Why are there no family photos of her with him and his family? The only photo of granny that I’ve seen goes back to his Columbia days.


32 posted on 11/06/2008 9:02:46 AM PST by jersey117
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To: BlueStateBlues

Because she was White.

Because he’s attending OUR funeral.


33 posted on 11/06/2008 9:02:52 AM PST by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - IT'S ISLAM, STUPID! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth)
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To: BlueStateBlues
Was there even one scheduled?

My wife's grandfather, a dedicated unbeliever, specifically willed that he be cremated and not buried and that there be no wake, no funeral, no headstone, no memorial service and that his second wife should - unaccompanied by any other family members - quickly dump his ashes in the ocean.

Given the general attitude of the Dunham family to normal social customs, a lapsed Unitarian Universalist like Obama's grandmother may well have left similar instructions.

34 posted on 11/06/2008 9:03:34 AM PST by wideawake (Why is it that those who like to be called Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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To: BlueStateBlues

I was thinking that this morning. Strange, indeed. Poor woman. Hope she’s found peace. :-/


35 posted on 11/06/2008 9:03:43 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: Corin Stormhands

hes holding his first news conference tomorrow in chicago. Obama is gonna blather to the media about his economic policies.


36 posted on 11/06/2008 9:03:57 AM PST by katiekins1
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To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide

LOL


37 posted on 11/06/2008 9:04:27 AM PST by jersey117
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To: Joiseydude

She also knows the truth.


38 posted on 11/06/2008 9:04:38 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: Buggman

ROTFL!


39 posted on 11/06/2008 9:05:26 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (Obama, you are NOT my President!)
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To: jersey117
If I had to guess, I’d say he has probably been estranged from her for years. The back and forth was a dog and pony show.

Granny wasn't exactly overjoyed to find out she raised a community organizer and black activist

She allowed no photos of herself and Obama for the last 25 years. This shows estrangement

Obama will win points with lots of blacks if he skips granny's funeral thus disrespecting the white side of the family

40 posted on 11/06/2008 9:06:12 AM PST by dennisw (Never bet on Islam! ::::: Never bet on a false prophet!)
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To: BlueStateBlues

The only thing I can say and not in his defense but actual fact...funerals in Hawaii are backed up...takes weeks.


41 posted on 11/06/2008 9:06:18 AM PST by lilycicero
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To: BlueStateBlues

Because hes a cold hearted piece of crap.


42 posted on 11/06/2008 9:06:56 AM PST by ladyvet (WOLVERINES!!!!!)
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To: BlueStateBlues

many muslims celebrate death by sacrificing domestic animals - wasn’t there recent news about them getting a dog?


43 posted on 11/06/2008 9:07:18 AM PST by Eric Esot
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To: fullchroma

Only mass cremations- a-la 9-11.


44 posted on 11/06/2008 9:07:33 AM PST by ClearBlueSky (Whenever someone says it's not about Islam-it's about Islam. Jesus loves you, Allah wants you dead!)
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Don’t they just throw them into an active volcano? That would solve the back-up problem.


45 posted on 11/06/2008 9:07:46 AM PST by BlueStateBlues (Blue State for business, Red State at heart..)
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To: BlueStateBlues
Grammy’s not necessary any more, and by 2012 no one will remember, especially the MSM.
46 posted on 11/06/2008 9:08:03 AM PST by Navy Patriot (The beauty of conservatism, Sarah Palin.)
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To: BlueStateBlues

I think that his grandparents were not religious people in any way. What is the term for parents of red diaper babies? I imagine if there is a service, it would be a memorial and nothing religious so there would not be any time frame in which to hold a memorial.
He comes from a background that does not honor life in the traditional Judeo-Christain sense. It is one reason that he is able to take the stands that he does on abortion. There is an emotional and spiritual detachment with him that I find very disturbing.


47 posted on 11/06/2008 9:08:49 AM PST by madinmadtown (BO stinks..)
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To: dennisw

Also, I found it odd that a man who just made history showed no emotion during his victory speech. Didn’t shed a tear. Read a prepared speech from the teleprompter right up until the end. People in the crowds showed more emotion than he did. It seems to me that someone who supposedly achieved such a milstone would be be able to speak a few words from the heart.


48 posted on 11/06/2008 9:10:14 AM PST by jersey117
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He didn’t even mention her in the acceptance speech & she had just died the nite before!

Yep, real class has arrived at the WH. too bad it's all LOW.

49 posted on 11/06/2008 9:10:20 AM PST by Centurion2000 (To protect and defend ... against all enemies, foreign and domestic .... by any means necessary.)
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To: BlueStateBlues

Maybe she is just being creamated?


50 posted on 11/06/2008 9:10:27 AM PST by Fawn (0bama is so high up on a pedestal - there is no where to go but DOWN!)
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