Obama's Grandmother Raised Him After His Mother's Death?

[Lord Undies]

I heard two "on the hour" national news segments on the radio this morning.  Both reported Obama leaving for Hawaii on Thursday to visit his ailing grandmother.  Both reports added the information that Obama's grandmother raised Obama after his mother died from cancer at 53.  Neither reported Obama was 35 years old when his mother died. 

They must think we are all idiots.

[Chris_]

They must think we are all idiots.

Yes.  They do.

[TheSarge]

Is this the "typical white woman" grandmother?

[thundley4]

  Both reports added the information that Obama's grandmother raised Obama after his mother died from cancer at 53.  Neither reported Obama was 35 years old when his mother died. 

Is it strange that a Lib was still being supported by a "parent" at age 35?

[Lord Undies]

Is this the "typical white woman" grandmother?

Yep.  Being ran over by that bus has almosted killed her.

[TheSarge]

Yep.  Being ran over by that bus has almosted killed her.

That explains her broken hip.

[thundley4]

That explains her broken hip.

Wait, what?  Nancy Reagan is Obama's grandmother? When did she move to Hawaii?

[Wretched Excess]

I think the press has it garbled.  his mother sent him to hawaii to live with her mother when she was living with her second husband in indonesia, IIRC.  his grandmother did basically raise him, but because his mother was absent, though very much alive, during his formative years.

[Lord Undies]

I think the press has it garbled.  his mother sent him to hawaii to live with her mother when she was living with her second husband in indonesia, IIRC.  his grandmother did basically raise him, but because his mother was absent, though very much alive, during his formative years.

I thought that was common knowledge and that's the point I was trying to make.  It's more fraud.

[Wretched Excess]

I thought that was common knowledge and that's the point I was trying to make.  It's more fraud.

the MSM is definitely swooning over the entire trip . . . try to choke your way through this one:

Glimmer of Obama's Character as He Visits Grandma

Sen. Barack Obama has made the very personal decision to leave the campaign trail for two days to visit his ailing 85-year-old grandmother in Hawaii. But with 14 days left in the campaign, observers say, even the personal becomes political.

Although a candidate has never before stopped campaigning this close to Election Day, Obama's running mate and surrogates will remain on the trail, and more important, his ads will continue to run. Obama decided Monday night to cancel campaign stops on Thursday and Friday and fly to Hawaii to see his grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, the woman he affectionately calls "Toot," short for the Hawaiian word "tutu" for grandparent. Dunham, who pretty much raised Obama, has been ailing lately and her brother, Charles Payne, told The Associated Press, she recently fell and broke her hip.

Obama will skip scheduled rallies in Wisconsin and Iowa. His weekend rallies have been monster events. Last weekend Obama drew 75,000 at a Kansas City rally and 100,000 at St. Louis rally later on the same day. Obama returns to the campaign trail Saturday.

Those crowds will have to wait, however, as Obama flies to see the woman that he has suggested in speeches and books was the most influential person in his life as he grew up.

"That part of me that's hardheaded, I get from her. She's tough as nails," Obama recently told ABC News' Diane Sawyer.

Leaving the campaign with only two weeks to go would appear to leave the field to his rival, Sen. John McCain, during the crucial homestretch of the presidential race. But it also has the potential of showing Obama's family side at a time when both candidates are under constant attack by their opponents.

Presidential historian Richard Norton Smith, the former director of the Lincoln, Hoover, Eisenhower, Reagan and Ford presidential libraries, said, "Never in the modern era has a candidate done anything like this," referring to Obama's decision to stop campaigning during the last stretch.

"For a lot of people, this will be a defining moment," Smith said

"This can only help Obama," said Torie Clarke, an ABC News political consultant. "Everyone can understand the need to visit a sick relative. There is no doubt that this was a decision made for personal reasons, but it gives his campaign the opportunity to remind voters of his unique past and heritage."

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[Lord Undies]

the MSM is definitely swooning over the entire trip . . . try to choke your way through this one:

I just puked a toenail.

[LadyLiberty]

This article says that he will leave his running mate out to campaign, when I thought he'd been put in time-out for his foreboding warning about being attacked under an Obama presidency?   

[Wretched Excess]

This article says that he will leave his running mate out to campaign, when I thought he'd been put in time-out for his foreboding warning about being attacked under an Obama presidency?   

he was in colorado today.  but I assume he has been told to stick to the script.

[Chris_]

This article says that he will leave his running mate out to campaign, when I thought he'd been put in time-out for his foreboding warning about being attacked under an Obama presidency?  

he was in colorado today.  but I assume he has been told to stick to the script teleprompter.

Fixed.  We have to go with what Obama knows, after all.

[DixieBelle]

oh puke....I bet the media outlets have pictures of the Dear Leader already framed.