The Obama campaign has announced that his grandmother has passed away after a long battle with cancer. She missed the election of her grandson by one day. That’s unspeakably sad, both for her and for Barack. My greatest sympathies are with the Obama family. I wish Obama had a parent or grandparent alive to see the election returns come in tomorrow night.
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At least he has his half-sister and half-brother. And of course, his current family. But there’s nothing like having your parents see you succeed beyond their wildest dreams. That really is sad. But if anything bad happens, she’ll have died at a point of maximum hope.
A picture being worth so much more than words – this is Obama at the NC rally, talking about his grandmother.
Oh Lisa its so not fair.
i’ll always love this picture of him.
i’ve been working on a collection of pics called big boys dont cry, and this is going in it.
May her soul find love and peace.
A woman of worth who can find, for her price is far above rubies.
Madelyn Dunham will smile tomorrow. She has transited but her spirit lingers in her offspring.
This is just so very sad. I’m very glad he took the opportunity to be with her one more time when he did. I know that in heart, she departed this life with joy in her heart because she left such a wonderful legacy. And I don’t mean just Barack. I mean her entire family.
Stil–how I wish she could have had one more day!
Check this out.
Republicans sure are big-hearted folks….
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/11/3/141032/949/825/651082
Over at No Quarter, people are saying things like “how convenient” and “she probably died two weeks ago.”
I’m not sure they are human at this point.
jesus.
Oh, they’re human alright. They just represent the darkest, most base impulses in human behavior. When you are as cynical of your fellow man as some of us are, you fully expect them to react this way.
Arghhhhh! Those people are sick. Why waste your time going over there?
There is always a group of individuals who, after they have bought into the demonization of the person they have chosen to hate, lack the ability to separate those negative feelings from any empathy they would normally feel. There is a smaller % of people who just take delight in the suffering of others. Unfortunately, the internet allows such people to express their hatred all out of proportion to their actual numbers.
I would ignore them right now.
i’m just wondering did LJ take this campaign personally, did he have a personal stake in Hillary becoming president.
Hey Sirocco. Welcome back.
NQ has been given too much ink…all they do is puke. and they enjoy the stench of their puke that what drives their traffic just as the Dregs Report..
So very sad. Just one more day. Well, maybe God already knows the results of tomorrow and knew he’d be fine without her.
to me this is some kind of synchronicity, and has spiritual significance – she exits this life and he enter a very new phase in his life.
i’m very glad he went to see her in hawaii, very wise and heartfelt move
I am hope and trust she now has a much better vantage point from which to view the beautiful change of the universe that will unfold for all of us tomorrow.
Yes, hopefully talking head free.
Change of the universe?! Come on! Her grandson is a politician, not Christ about to return, or the Mehdi about to appear.
For god’s sake, can we keep this thing in just a little bit of perspective?!
Its way more important then magic or storybooks. It is tough to keep this in perspective….if he wins.
Expectations of “beautiful changes of the universe” if Obama wins set up grossly urealistic expectations, and that amounts to setting the man up for failure.
He is a human being, and no more. Let’s all keep that in mind.
Damn I was really hoping he would get to share this with her. Provided justice is served and he is elected. Freaking sucks.
Andrew Sullivan posted this endorsement hours ago and he has kept it live.
It’s the case for an Obama vote but really it’s a tribute that I wish his grandmother could have read.
Amen
First Studs Terkel, now Obama’s grandmother — two people who would have found great joy in his victory and missed it by days. But they were both wise people who knew that even an electoral upset would not much diminish the victory that was his brilliant campaign against all odds. Maybe the two of them will somehow get together in some parallel universe or something. It sounds like they’d make quite the pair.