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Posted on 03/05/2008 7:35:12 PM PST by Roy Tucker
Obama's Grandmother Decries Tricks
Associated Press Writer
KOGELO, Kenya -- American shock jocks, dirty tricks masterminds and political bloggers: Beware the wrath of an 86-year-old Kenyan villager.
A frown replaces the dimpled beam of Sarah Hussein Obama, grandmother of Barack Obama, when asked on Wednesday about recent attacks on her grandson that include the spreading of rumors that he is secretly a Muslim and the repeated use of his middle name -- Hussein -- by a radio host at a rally for presumptive Republican nominee John McCain.
"Untruths are told that don't have anything to do with what Barack is about," she said in the local Luo language, her gray hair smoothed neatly under a headwrap. "I am very against it."
Hillary Rodham Clinton won primaries Tuesday in Texas, Ohio and Rhode Island, halting Obama's winning streak. Obama won in Vermont.
Each twist and turn of the race is closely scrutinized, said Barack Obama's half-sister, Auma Obama. The family gathered in his grandmother's house on Tuesday night to watch the results come in on a television donated by a family friend, she said -- the grandmother's own simple house does not have one of its own.
"Barack's done extremely well and we're very proud of him," Auma Obama said when asked for a reaction to the losses on Tuesday. "This is like a football match. The game continues."
In recent weeks, two Clinton volunteers in Iowa resigned after forwarding false e-mails falsely saying he was a Muslim and a threat to national security. Matt Drudge, said his Web site, The Drudge Report, that he was e-mailed a picture of Obama in a turban and robe by the Clinton campaign.
"Bringing such pictures that are trying to imply that not only is he a foreigner, he is a Muslim, is wrong, because that is not what he is," scolded Sarah Obama.
The photo was taken when Barack Obama was presented with the outfit while on a visit to his late father's native Kenya. Clinton campaign officials have said they did not condone any such dirty tricks.
Obama's grandfather had converted to Islam from Roman Catholicism and taken the name Hussein, Sarah Obama said, but his children had inherited only the name, not the religion. Each person should be able to choose how they worshipped, she said.
"In the world of today, children have different religions from their parents," she said. She, too, is a Christian.
Barack Obama has visited his Kenyan relatives three times in Kogelo, and his grandmother has gone to the U.S. twice. She says they are close, although they have to speak through an interpreter.
Sarah Obama was the second wife of the candidate's late grandfather, so she is not his biological grandmother. But Auma Obama said: "By our definition, in our culture, she is his grandmother," she said.
But no, they interview a step-grandmother who is not biologically related to him, while his maternal grandmother who is white is alive and well in Hawaii. What's up with that? How much of his past does this guy need to bury?
Me too, Roy. Why doesn’t the MSM seek out Obama’s maternal Grandmother? Hillary brings out her elderly mother. McCain, his 95 year old mother. Why can they go to Kenya and get this interview and not get one with the woman living here who brought up Barry?
Don’t have a cow, Sarah.
yeah yeah he’s not a muslim. He just belongs to a racist church instead. Better?
Hussein
Did Grandma teach Hussein’s daddy to knock up mommy and dump her for two other wives?
Gosh, I wonder how Auntie Hillary feels about her brother not paying child support after all the hard work and concern for the children she has had for the last 35 years.
It would be hard though for John McCain to bring his grandmother, and Hillary's as well. Gee, we must have a fair playing field, maybe a seance?
Hey! Barack H. Obama!
Are you so cheap that you don’t even buy your grand-ma a B/W TV set?? She has to walk to the next hut to see you on TV?
Even Bryant Scumball was forced to buy his momma a new set of teeth!
The MSM is unreal. This woman is NOT “Obama’s Grandmother”. She is the 2nd wife of Obama’s grandfather. Obama’s actual paternal grandmother is DEAD. His granfather and father are also dead. This woman is not related to him in any way whatsoever. Is is so hard for the media to get this right? Moreover, both Obama’s father and grandfather were BIGAMISTS. But of course the MSM would NEVER report such a thing. Even though they suggested that Mitt Romney must support bigamy since he was a Mormon.
And the interview with Obama’s biological grandmother doesn’t necessitate international travel. The black out must be total if there isn’t a single report who has been able ot exersize this great excuse to go to Hawaii on business.
Secondly: I realize she is his stepgrandmother, but can't he fork over a few bucks so she can have a tv? He lives in a million dollar mansion! I don't live in a mansion but I damn sure would buy my Grandmother a TV if she didn't have one.
...and they make Romney deplore racism (in his church’s past) when his family had actual racist(s) in it. Insane.
Auma Obama.
Sounds like “The Name Game” just calling this family to dinner.
It’s sad when a grandma disapproves of the vocation of her grandson’s wife........
Obamamammy
Would Hillary’s calves be enough compensation?
She’s a handsome woman.
LOL
Yes, she is saving the fatted calf for Obama.
Well, looks like they found someone who likes the limelight.
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