"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."I recall losing my own grandmother in May, and my heart goes out to the man. No matter what America decides tomorrow, I know how he feels.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.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. -- Benjamin Franklin
Monday, November 3, 2008
Obama's Grandmother Passes Away
The woman who helped raise Obama has, sadly, herself succumbed to cancer.
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