Comments on Obama's Grandmother Dies
R.I.P Madelyn Dunham.
One of the singularly most unfair moments I've seen life throw at anyone in the last year or two. A shame...
There is no god.
It's very sad.
It's also sublime fucking timing.
I hope she left knowing her grandson would win.
Totally sad.
Truly tragic that she couldn't hold out just a couple of days long :(
Wasn't there some article recently linked by Slog, in which a very sensitive pundit (a punditess if I remember) lambasted Obama for taking time out to see his Grandma, and said that a "real" grandma would have told Obama to come see her after he the election is over? I'm paraphrasing of course.
I bet that pundit feels like a tool now. Actually, I bet she doesn't.
I almost burst into tears at work.
It's not fair and it's not right and I can't believe it. Winning, I'm sure, will be bittersweet for his entire family now.
That's very sad, but makes me wonder: Did she vote? If so, does her vote still count?
Poor guy.
At least he tried to take time from the campaign to go see her before she died.
For some reason I'm reminded of the end of No Country For Old Men.
I just hope McCain isn't Javier Bardem.
She's from Mercer Island, where her daughter - Barack's mom - graduated from high school. Or so the SWeakly tells me anyway.
Very sad but people focus
SYMPATHY VOTE!!!! I expect a 5 point bump for Obama going into Tuesday. Expect McCain to kill his mother tonight in an effort to catch up.
Life/Karma IS a bitch.
As someone who also had a tough ass Kansas Grandma, my sympathies to our President-elect, (knock wood).
I got the news walking down the street with KUOW on my headphones, and I actually exclaimed "OH FUCK" out loud. This is just so sad for everyone involved.
Man.. that sucks :(
CA republican party is suing Obama for using public funds to go see her.
That poor man.
I can't believe I gasped when I read the news.
The comments on the site you linked this story to are disgusting.
REPOST THE ARTICLES that Republican pundits/bloggers wrote that asserted Obama was making it all up to go to Hawaii to get a real birth certificate.
Those heartless, horrible, Republicans (ahem RUSH LIMBAUGH LIMBAUGH LIMBAUGH LIMBAUGH LIMBAUGH LIMBAUGH)
@ 20: I know. I am definitely not proud of THAT part of my country. Just to share some of the choice ones:
I believe she was ill and I pray for her soul. I just find it rather suspicious the “day before” an election. Sympathy vote maybe? Obama’s October suprise!
Sick to use an elderly lady. Could he not have waited until after the election?
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WELL, I GUESS HE CANT THROW HER UNDER THE BUS ANYMORE!
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My condolences, but if she was not a born-again Christian, which Barack Hussein Obama is not, then I have no sympathy.
Oh, that is so sad. What awful timing. Both because it will make it very hard for Obama to campaign effectively for the rest of the day, and because she didn't get to actually see her grandson win.
I hope she passed peacefully, confident that Obama will win tomorrow.
my god ... the comments on the AP site are absolutely disgusting.
prepare for the "he killed his own grandmother" theories from the crazies. very sad.
** My condolences, but if she was not a born-again Christian, which Barack Hussein Obama is not, then I have no sympathy. **
Comments like this caused me to be 'unborn'.
The God I know loves ALL of us.
So very sad. I only hope she left knowing how proud we all are of her grandson and how proud he'll make us!
NOW LET'S VOTE HIM IN! YAY!
Seriously, I wish I hadn't looked at those comments. Wow, what assholes. Serious assholes.
It's so frustrating because isn't the whole point of Jesus the fact that he was NOT an asshole. But some people think that because they claim to believe in Christianity, they can then be horrible, horrible people to everyone else.
I don't believe in religion, but I will speak their language for a moment: there is a special place in hell for them - I think it festers inside themselves as they walk the earth.
wow...i almost burst into tears at my desk. i hoped she would get to see him win.
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If she did I'm sure the GOP is drawing up a suit to have her vote discounted.
It's terrible that she lived just long enough to almost see him elected. It's too bad she couldn't be with us and lucid to witness her grandson become the President elect. On the other hand, I'm 28 and all 4 of my grandparents have been dead for like, 14 years, so for her to see her grandson become a 47 year-old senator and respected public servant is pretty lucky.
what a heavy loss the day before the election
Poor guy. I'm sure it will break his heart to know that she didn't get to see him win.
I mean, I wonder sometimes if my parents will live to see me graduate from med school and get all sad thinking about how it'll feel if they don't. He's about to be elected PRESIDENT of the UNITED FREAKIN' STATES. It has to be so rough knowing that his mom and grandma are both gonna miss it. :(
How do you cope with this kind of loss and the huge amount of pressure and stress? I know I couldn't function without shutting down a little. I hope that after tonight, which should be FULL OF VICTORY, DAMMIT, Barack gets to take some time to be with his family and grieve. Experiencing loss in public must be incredibly difficult--you have to fit "expected" displays of emotion and coping skills.
And bite me, California Republicans. Don't make me stab you in the clavicle.