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Obama's grandmother dies of cancer in Hawaii
Ruetershttp://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE4A26GV20081103 | 3 Nov 2008 | John Whitesides

Posted on 11/03/2008 1:55:58 PM PST by Phemone

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's grandmother died of cancer, he said in a statement on Monday, a little more than a week after Obama interrupted the White House race to say goodbye to her in Hawaii.

"It is with great sadness that we announce that our grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, has died peacefully after a battle with cancer," Obama said in a joint statement with his sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng. "She was the cornerstone of our family, and a woman of extraordinary accomplishment, strength, and humility."

Dunham helped raise Obama from the age of 10 while his mother was working in Indonesia, and Obama took an emotional 22-hour trip to Hawaii to visit her on October 23 and 24.

(Reporting by John Whitesides; editing by David Alexander


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: dunham; elections; hawaii; mccain; obama; obamafamily; obituary; smilingfromheaven
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To: Phemone

Prayers for his family.

I am still not voting for him. My mother died of cancer in 1978. She was only 41. At least Mrs. Dunham seemed to have lived a very full life.


81 posted on 11/03/2008 2:17:17 PM PST by austinaero
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To: steve0

I’m with ya!!! I hope that the man loses tomorrow...PRAY, really, but should he win it would be tragic that she died the day before her grandson became the first Black president of the US. Really sad.


82 posted on 11/03/2008 2:17:37 PM PST by mpackard (Read my Lip-Stick)
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To: HungarianGypsy

The Messiah said she would die before the election. He would no longer be Messiah if she didn’t. Simple confirmation to his followers that he is indeed “The One”.


83 posted on 11/03/2008 2:17:50 PM PST by Murp
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To: MDformerDem

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


84 posted on 11/03/2008 2:17:50 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Phemone

LET’S HOPE OUR REPUBLIC SURVIVES TUESDAY


85 posted on 11/03/2008 2:18:02 PM PST by midway
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To: Phemone
Was that the one Obama was highlighting as the average white racist in comparison to Rev. Wright?
86 posted on 11/03/2008 2:18:23 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper (The Obama Nation)
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To: DouglasKC

[Absent is exactly WHEN she died. Today? Yesterday? Two days ago? A week?]

Yep, I noticed that too.


87 posted on 11/03/2008 2:18:45 PM PST by KansasGirl (READ MY LIPSTICK, OBAMA IS JUST CREEPY!)
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To: Phemone

RIP.


88 posted on 11/03/2008 2:18:55 PM PST by neither-nor
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To: Phemone

So sad that her great-granddaughters where robbed of the privilege of seeing her before she passed. And I’m sure she would have loved seeing her beautiful great-granddaughters. How strange that Senator’s Obama’s family didn’t accompany him for that one last 1-hour visit.

Lots of dysfunction in this family.


89 posted on 11/03/2008 2:19:01 PM PST by i_dont_chat (The elephant is dancing for the lady from Alaska)
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To: Thanks RR Rest Well

The grandparents were noted (by Barry’s half-sister) as being non-observant Christians (of Methodist and Baptist backgrounds). She also said her mom was more agnostic than atheist, although Barry has said that she held a “healthy skepticism” of organized religion (one that he also claims to possess) and she reportedly brought text from all of the world’s religions into the home.

I guess an atheist can pray for his grandmother. She’ll need redemption, and if it also gives an atheist just a glimmer of possibility that there may be something greater than himself, I find that to be a positive change.


90 posted on 11/03/2008 2:19:23 PM PST by weegee (Fight Global Socialist CHANGE. vote NO on Obama-Biden. Say NO to Sen. Government)
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To: PeterFinn

RIP, grandma.

It does however, make one wonder if she died a couple weeks ago. Pull this out on election eve.


91 posted on 11/03/2008 2:20:53 PM PST by JFC
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To: counterpunch

Cancer patients usually pass away from a planned terminal sedation.
This may be the first politically timed terminal sedation ever, though.

first thought to cross my mind....


92 posted on 11/03/2008 2:20:58 PM PST by FreedomProtector
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To: MDformerDem

Or fly to Hawaii for the funeral at least...


93 posted on 11/03/2008 2:21:09 PM PST by usmcobra (There are 665,000,000 reasons why Obama should show his eligibility to be president!)
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To: justlurking
The statement did not say when Madelyn Dunham died or who was with her. Her 86th birthday was Oct. 26.

Prayers up for the family.

Did she make it to her birthday? Anyone know?

94 posted on 11/03/2008 2:21:35 PM PST by Yaelle (McCain chose torture over selling out his country. Obama would have lasted one minute.)
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To: Phemone
I express my own sorrow at this woman's passing.

However liberal she may, or may not have been, she was private, and she performed her parental role twice...once for her own, and then for her grandchild when her own daughter was either incapable or unwilling to do so. She clearly loved her grandson and gave him all the opportunity she could.

She cannot be blamed or slighted for this. May she rest in peace and may God in Heaven rest her soul.

Now, what Obama has done with that upbringing and opportunity himself, in wandering in the druh culture, in becoming an abject marxist, and in rubbing shoulders with and hobkbobbing radical and terroristic relationships to a political career is another matter entirely.

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

95 posted on 11/03/2008 2:21:47 PM PST by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: Phemone

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


96 posted on 11/03/2008 2:22:02 PM PST by School of Rational Thought (Sarah Palin - High ideals on high heels)
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To: Frantzie

Hmmmmmm...it’s possible.

I wonder what will happen with the birth certificate now.

Will they slip it into Granny’s casket, to be buried forever?


97 posted on 11/03/2008 2:22:20 PM PST by Palladin (Obama on Ayers: "He's just a guy in my neighborhood." LIAR!!!)
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To: Fred

I used to be skeptical about the “deaths come in threes” saying. As I’ve reached middle age I’ve watched it happen again and again here in the town where I live. I first heard of it when my Mom and two others in my community died during the same week. Superstition? Maybe, but I’m just saying it happens...


98 posted on 11/03/2008 2:22:33 PM PST by TerrisFriend
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To: Chuzzlewit
prayers.. folks, let’s keep it respectful.

Prayers for her .... HE is a freaking GHOUL.

99 posted on 11/03/2008 2:23:20 PM PST by Centurion2000 (To protect and defend ... against all enemies, foreign and domestic .... by any means necessary.)
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To: Phemone
Well. RIP Grandma. Death can certainly happen when you're thrown under a bus.

And how fortuitious that you were able to take the grandkids out there for one last little special moment with Grandma, Barry. Those kids will probably remember that heart-felt meeting for the rest of their lives.

100 posted on 11/03/2008 2:23:50 PM PST by willgolfforfood
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