Rather, I believe that’s a picture of the Obamas dumping his grandmother’s ashes at the oceanside. . . i don’t know where his mother’s remains are.
He threw his mother’s ashes into the sea, too.
Re: Obama’s mother
“She died in November 1995, as Mr. Obama was starting his first campaign for public office. After a memorial service at the University of Hawaii, one friend said, a small group of friends drove to the South Shore in Oahu. With the wind whipping the waves onto the rocks, Mr. Obama and Ms. Soetoro-Ng placed their mother’s ashes in the Pacific, sending them off in the direction of Indonesia.”
(the last paragraph in this article. . .)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/14/us/politics/14obama.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0