Obama's grandmother dies of cancer in Hawaii

Ruetershttp://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE4A26GV20081103 | 3 Nov 2008 | John Whitesides

[justlurking]

Listening to Foxnews they just announced that Obama has known since 8 am.

If he has truly known only since 8 AM, I don't put much significance on that. He made a joint statement with his sister, and it may have taken time to get them in the same place.

If it happened earlier, I think we will hear about it soon. You can't keep a secret like this for very long -- especially once he announced it today. If I were in a position to know otherwise, I would respect his decision to keep it private until after the election. But, I would not stand by and let any candidate do this for political gain.

[fso301]

Just in time for the evening news

[mass55th]

"Nice timing. That’ll pick up a few sympathy votes for sure."

And here we all thought it would be Uncle Teddy.

[Chief Engineer]

When Obama went to visit her the end of Oct. “The Honolulu Bulletin” announced she had broken her hip the 6th or 7th of October but she also had cancer which had metastisized(sp)

[weegee]

I think you give Barry Soeroto too much credit. His mom raised him and seems to have given him some of his red diaper doper baby background. Even grandma may have brought her daughter up on the Left side of life.

He is a creep for turning against the family that raised him, however. He needs psychoanalysis about his parental abandonment issues, not the presidency.

[Palladin]

Cynic!

;)

[Doug4McCain]

My condolences go out to Barack Obama. Barack’s grandmother most definitely loved Barack.

[Bean Counter]

Too late for the Wellstone treatment on this one. I doubt this will sway people one way or another, simply because there is not adequate time for the Dhimmies to properly exploit it.

[JFC]

And here we all thought it would be Uncle Teddy.

I’s not saying.............. I’m just saying with the 3 thing.

[floriduh voter]

So, a broken hip can turn into cancer? I need to visit webmd and ck that out. I love grandmothers but this grandson will never get a pass from me.

[ßuddaßudd]

I feel more sorrow for the infant that drowned in Oakland over ther weekend. ╚ ╔ ╩ ╦

[weegee]

OK, but people have no connection to his grandmother -- no recent photos, no public appearances, she barely existed.

>>They don’t know his Grandmother- they imagine their own Gramdmother. Aren’t there any statistics on this?

Reminds me of a line from "Wild At Heart", "Before I've even told you what kind of dog I have, you've pictured it in your head, perhaps you've even pictured TO-TO from the Wizard of Oz..."

[NYC Republican]

May God rest her soul... Having said that... She’s on this earth for 31,390 days or so, and she passes the last news cycle before the election, an hour before? Something smells really fishy...

[Texas_shutterbug]

She was ill before she supposedly broke her hip. Frail and elderly, it's not unusual to see a two-fer like that late in life.

I hope the poor dear didn't suffer too badly.

[floriduh voter]

I don’t know how a broken hip turns into cancer but I do know that her grandson wants to bankrupt America.

[Jeff Head]

I gave the Obamanation NO credit in that post. Read the last paragraph, which was about him, and go to the link I provided.

Barack Hussein Obama is an abject marxist and the epitomy of the internal enemy in this nation.

I do give credit to his grandmom for clearly loving him, taking him in, and giving him a chance in life. It's what loving parents do...even if their children go astray. She had what appears most likely to be an illegitimate grandchild that her daughter no longer wanted to raise, to raise in her middle years

[top 2 toe red]

Sure as heck didn’t work with Wellstone, did it?

[mplsconservative]

A weak McCain will cease campaigning as a gesture of respect and his own idiotcy.

Oh, please! BTW, you misspelled idiocy, genius.

[Beckwith]

Has the poor woman been cremated already?

[jwalsh07]

Prayers for the family.