From Andrew Sullivan's blog:
If you have read Obama's memoir, you will immediately understand why he would suspend a national campaign for the most powerful job on earth to be with his grandmother right now.
One gets the impression from Robert Gibbs and from this decision that this might indeed be one of the last chances he gets. "Toot" was a formative figure - she brought him up with her husband during some critical years. Her death would be the death of his last parent. Reading about her again tonight, you can see where Obama's personal social conservatism comes from. There's a lot more Kansas in Obama than most people on the right seem to think.
Prayers for her, her family and the man who now has to deal with this emotional burden at this exposed and intense time. They are all still human, you know. It never hurts to remember that. And we all forget it sometimes.
6 comments:
"If you have read Obama's memoir"
Didn’t, won’t, don’t want too, and never will.
Dear me,
That's how you stay uninformed.
You seem to enjoy it.
Shaw: There will be plenty of us that will include Senator Obama's grandmother in our prayers.
This goes beyond politics. I haven't read the memoirs either, but I know enough to know how important she was to giving him the drive to get where he is today.
I just hope she hangs onto life long enough to see her grandson become president.
Did you know that on his mother's side of the family, he is distantly related to Harry Truman, Dick Cheney AND George W. Bush?????
To see someone you raised become president would be great. That was something I thought about when I heard the sad news.
Did you know that...he is distantly related to Harry Truman, Dick Cheney AND George W. Bush?????
Heard about that. And you still want to vote for him? :)
Heard about that. And you still want to vote for him? :)
Well, on his father's side of the family he's apparently related to Adam (of Adam and Eve).
We all came out of Africa@
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