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Amazing timing.

R.I.P. and awful timing. Condolences all around.

May her soul RIP.
A brilliant nan by all accounts.

RIP. Although, I am deeply wary of opening this thread with the way some commenters are feeling just now.

Nice family photo of Madelyn, Ann and Stanley here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ann,_Madelyn,_and_Stanley_Dunham.jpg

It is a nice tribute to a wonderful person.

I can remember in Ohio in the 1970s, interracial couples, especially those with children, would be starred out as if they and their kids were from another planet.

I am deeply wary of opening this thread with the way some commenters are feeling just now.

You shouldn’t be, Alec. But we’ll see.

R.I.P.

Needless to say, the Fox News threads are infested with sick fucks:

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/11/03/obamas-grandmother-dies-eve-election/comments/

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RIP. Although, I am deeply wary of opening this thread with the way some commenters are feeling just now.

Why?

R.I.P. is all I can add.

P. – if McCain’s mother had died, the “Screw Them” Kossites would have been laughing their heads off.

My she RIP.

Even when it is expected it’s doesn’t hit you until it happen.

Michelle Obama at Jay Leno just when Barak come back from Hawaii talks a bit about grandma.

And the foot in the mouth campaign chose this day to attack Obama for flying with the campaign plane to Hawaii to visit his dying grandma. It’s like they are virtually incapacitated to do anything right.

The Hitch on McCain and Rashid Khalidi:

http://www.slate.com/id/2203619/

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Needless to say, the Fox News threads are infested with sick fucks

I’ll point out this comment from Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs on his similar post:

I wish I didn’t even have to issue this warning, but there’s a lot of craziness going on.

Anyone who posts a nasty comment in this thread will lose their account instantly.

How sad because she is one of the brave people that have made a better world by taking the hand they have been dealt and making the best they can of it with love and dedication and personal commitment.

Thanks Paul Moloney for linking to The Hitch’s fine piece about the McCarthyite antics of the Senator from Arizona and his nasty low-grade verson of Nixon-like running mate.

Folks, please don’t turn this into another partisan thread– even if it’s partisanship I agree with. Thanks.

Please take the partisan stuff here:
http://www.hurryupharry.org/2008/11/03/are-you-next/

RIP Madelyn Dunham.

Pity she couldn’t hang on to see her grandson elected POTUS.

She would have known that he was going to win, and that’s probably enough. She seems to have been a remarkable woman.

Chris Patten came back to Hong Kong and endorsed Obama in very clear terms, strongly denouncing McCain for cosying up to the most right wing elements of the Reps, citing Palin. He also said Bush has been the worst US President in his lifetime.

“Lord Patten, a former minister under conservative British governments, said the Bush presidency was marked by “hapless unilateralism” which had led the United States and Britain into war with Iraq.

He blamed the Bush administration for feeding anti-Americanism and for what he called a fixation with taxation policies for the rich and mismanagement of the economy.” SCMP

Madelyn Dunham voted by absentee ballot before she died.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/11/obamas-grandm-1.html

Madelyn Dunham voted by absentee ballot before she died.

That’s an interesting point – can your vote still be counted if you’re dead? Is that constitutional? I suspect that the logistics involved in knowing whether the submitters of postal votes or early voters are alive or dead means their votes get counted regardless.

The Fox reports of Obama’s speech: “But he said he wanted people to know a little about her — that she lived through the Great Depression and two World Wars.”
The report also says she was 86. He was speaking at a time of great emotion, so one hopes it doesn’t reflect on his grasp of history at other times.

That’s an interesting point – can your vote still be counted if you’re dead? Is that constitutional?

Apparently yes, if you are alive when you put pen to paper, which I guess is an indication that the vote is genuine…

It’s very sad, but is this not the grandmother he described as a racist earlier in the campaign?

Indeed

mettaculture How sad because she is one of the brave people that have made a better world by taking the hand they have been dealt and making the best they can of it with love and dedication and personal commitment.

That’s very nice and very fitting.

Dave F – but is this not the grandmother he described as a racist earlier in the campaign?

Obviously yes. But she also surmounted her prejudicialness to participate in forming a highly intelligent multiracial person who will be President of the USA.

BUT

I still would have preferred McCain.

(The speller gave me ‘prejudicialness ‘)

She’s gone home.