R.I.P. Madelyn Dunham
November 3rd, 2008 by Evil Beet
Barack Obama’s grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, lost her battle with cancer early this morning.
Obama reportedly cried at a speech in North Carolina today when talking about her, calling her a “quiet hero.” I’m trying to find video.
R.I.P., Madelyn Dunham, and welcome to the Presidency of the United States of America, Barack Obama.
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Aww .. that’s sad.
When I looked at the picture…for a second there… I thought Wendie was posting that they are no longer shooting episodes of ‘Different Strokes’.
is it just me, or is everyone dying lately?
NC RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
don’t worry, her legacy will live on. i’m guessing that her name will be used in voting booths in at least 15 different states.
GO OBAMA!!
Remember when Obama referred to his grandmother as a “typical white person” in a radio interview because he said she had a ” fear of black men who passed her by on the street.”
Can you imagine the uproar if McCain had referred to someone as a “typical black person”?
It’s sad that Obama is so comfortable stereotyping a whole group of people based on the actions of his grandmother. Isn’t that called racism?
re; bossy
the definition of racism is when any non black person makes a single comment that can be perceived as negative about a black candidate that is running for president of the united states. obama gets a free pass while riding on the backs of the scared white folk that will vote him into office for fear of seeming racially intolerant. pathetic.
censorthis and bossy…..would you leave his political career out of this and express your condolences! its pathetic that it the midst of his time of need you rehash “questionable” quotes.
its sad to see people base all their decisions on race without acknowledging what they stand for…its safe to say that most people voting for mcCain don’t know his position instead they are consumed with his whiteness.
if a white guy was running for the democratic party, would anyone be voting for mcCain?
Is she his biological grandmother? Or is he adopted? Whats the story?
Why is she white lol
“Omg Karen, you cant just ask people why they’re white!”
Definitely thought of that line once I asked that question lol
He is Biracial, thats why she’s white. She looks just like my grandma:(, im mixed too…
@ lola
My. God. You. Are. An. Idiot.
Here’s a tip…try to refrain from speaking on behalf of “most people”.
Okay? THANKS.
I’m sorry to hear his Grand ma died, that’s always sad. Especially if you are close to them.
@ Lola
You raise a good point, but the question you should be asking is:
If a black man were running for the Republican party and a white man for the Democratic party… would black people still vote Democrat? The answer is NO.
I am not voting…so I am unbiased, but I truly believe, after researching the fact, that 90% of individuals voting for Sen. Obama are doing so because they TRULY believe he is the better candidate.
And ‘no’ I am not contradicting myself by making those two statements.
wow it must be so sad for him and his family at this time, she was so close to practicly see him as President. my dad was watching the rally on t.v. and i saw him cry and it was such a sad moment and i have no idea how he is dealing with all this, but im glad he went to go see her last week? and may she rest in peace forever.
Ok so i kindof understand where he(obama) is coming from. My father is biracial and his parents were married in Paris (1930 people!) because there was nowhere in the US for them to be legally married. When they came back to the US( south carolina) they were publicly made a sectacle of, rejected for jobs they were more than qualified for, and their house was burned down killing their first child. My father said when he was young he despised his mother(who was white) because the kids at his school (black kids) tortured him and called him half breed. He was beaten up almost everyday.He thought that since it was normal to be “black” he wanted nothing to do with his white mother. He just wante to be normal. As he got older he realised he didnt hate her, he was just too cowardly to be proud of his heritage.His grandmother however was no where near as kind as Obama’s ( the only time he met her she shouted “get you ni&&er children outof my house”). I think it is terrible that he call her a normal white woman, when she raised him and cared for him. If she did that in the sixties she obviously wasnt an “average white woman”….whatever that means? So thats my long drawn out 2 cents worth :). Fire at will
bossy and censorship,
Firstly Obama is just as white as he is black, which would make it fairly hard for him to be racist against white people.
Also, I’m not sure if you’re going to understand/care, but his comment, although it sounded racist, wasn’t exactly meant to be taken like that. I’m biracial, and its happened that I say something stupid and unfortunate. Not because I’m racist, but because I consider myself “white enough” to say some things and “black enough” to say others things, which might if spoken by someone else seem racist.
Now, if you want to find out if elderly white females are more prone to fear black men, which is what Obama was talking about, there are loads of interesting statistics out there. But do also look at the Ashley Todd tale for example. The young white innocent girl violated by what she described as a “big black man,” and how fast the media and people reacted.
Anyways, sorry for the long post, and my condolences to the Obamas.
Yay Bossy and Censor – very well said, even though that is an obvious truth that no one in any position in the drive by (main stream) media have the balls or courage to have a truthful conversation about.
awe. she won’t get to see him become president. so close too. that’s sad.
I hope even more now he wins tomorrow! He can’t lose two of the most important things to him in a course of 2 days! My heart goes out to him!
@ Lola.. do YOU even bother listening to the candidates? If you were blind and noone told you their color, you’d be an idiot to vote for McCain. I know many white peope voting for him. You knwo why? Becuase hes GOOD for the presidency. Sure some will vote for him for his color, and many more will NOT vote for him because of his color. But most of the people voting for him is because of his principles.
“If a black man were running for the Republican party and a white man for the Democratic party… would black people still vote Democrat? The answer is NO.”
at the same time though tss, would white people( way to generalize:/) still vote republican?
jessica
do me a favor and re-read what you just wrote..
you totally contradicted yourself.
Evil Beet…NOTICE:
Election Day has actually, not yet happened. So, declaring that Obama is the secured new President of The United States, is not remotely accurate, since the facts and results aren’t in.
Election Day is tomorrow, November 4th…VOTE McCAIN!!!! **BECAUSE I DON’T NEED RAISED TAXES TO HELP MY OWN MIDDLE CLASS**
Kristin, I don’t care what you need, and Beet doesn’t need your notice. She is hopeful for change, like the MAJORITY of Americans are.
and here’s a little notice for you:
“Both McCain and Obama will have to raise taxes to pay for programs for which the public is clamoring, whether those programs are universal health insurance, expanding the military, trying to retire the national debt, or simply trying to balance the budget.(I didn’t write that this dude did: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephen-herrington/mccain-will-raise-your-ta_b_131935.html)”
Anyway, My heart goes out to Obama for his loss. His Grandmother was clearly a positive influence in his life and he has a lot on his plate right now! I’m hopeful/nervous about tomorrow!! OBAMA ‘08!
OKAY first, kristin, that’s a great reason to vote for McCain. idiot. something tells me beet is aware that the election hasn’t happened. oh hey, check it out, you are actually not on a news site. it’s a fucking personal blog.
show some fucking respect. god. when McCain dies I won’t be writing shithead comments all over blogs. what is wrong with you people?
I hope you are right Beet! OBAMA 08!
Even though I am voting for McCain, I think it is unlikely he’s going to win. Because I live in a BLUE STATE, my vote is essentially a throw away anyway, but I will still exercise my constitutional right and VOTE.
That said, tomorrow morning, while disappointed, I will support my President / my new commander in chief, who in all liklihood, will be Barack Obama. I will be happy for him, on many levels. I will be proud of this historic moment in my country’s history. I will pray for him to exercise wise judgement, and that he is “not tested” in any way that could hurt this country, or him and his family. In sharp contrast, I might add, to the many many unpatriotic people (and many, “celebrities”) who make the hollow vow to move to another country (BUH BYE ASSHOLES!).
I feel very sad for him that his grandmother did not live just one more day to see his accomplishement, though she surely knew he’d win it already. I feel sad for him that his heart must be broken, at such an awesome time in his life, otherwise.
That said, I’m going to vote now!!!!! I really really really hope tomorrow John McCain will be my President. But if it is Barack, I will support him and wish him the very best. GOD BLESS AMERICA
isn’t this a pic of the racist grandmother from his books, the one he was embarrassed for, who made him realize he had to be fake being a softspoken, sincere person so he wouldn’t be thought of as “uppity”? Cry the tears now but he should apologize for how he treated her.
Hmmm…. I predict pity votes…. (yep, people are that dumb)
yes lets all vote for the guy that couldnt become an fbi agent or gaurd himself as a secret service agent because of his affiliation with known terrorists only in america are people this dumb
Not an Obama Lover:
Thank you!! That’s why I think you should have to take an IQ test before you:
1. drive
2. have children
OR
3. vote for the freakin’ leader of the free world!!!
Unfortunately, any moron can do any of the above.
But shoot Jen… then Palin wouldn’t be able to vote.
TSS, if what you said was true, Alan Keyes would be president. Or at least he would be more than just some crazy guy who pops up every now and then.
At least Sarah can answer a question without looking at a teleprompter for the answer.
Yikes Alan Keyes! What a fucking lunatic. I remember him debating Barack by breaking into song. Put him up for any office against Bill Clinton and see who gets a whopping majority of the AA vote.
(Clinton. Just in case you didn’t know)
It’s the same mindset that convinced McCain that us women would vote for a twit because she and I happen to share the same anatomical makeup.
And plus, don’t you remember when Obama was having a hard time getting the AA vote against Hillary Clinton?
Sure she can answer a question on her own. It’s just that her answer is usually wrong.
Ask her what the VP does. Just for fun. Ask her. I promise it’ll be funny…
It’s so hilarious because that’s the job she’s running for!
I believe she knows the answer better than Joe Biden did, and he’s got MANY years on her. BTW, did you know that Sarah’s got more security clearances than any of the candidates, and that Alaska’s National Guard is always on call? Wow, I guess that dumb girl really got lucky!
Obama: “I’ve been to all… 57 states now” – And HE’s running for the big boy job!
Hey, did you know Sarah also abused her powers as governor and violated her state ethics laws? Yeah, a bipartisan panel of mostly Republicans said so. And that’s awesome because she is running as a reformer- she’s gongi to clean up Washignton.
Hey, did you know Sarah Palin can’t name a Supreme Court Case other than Roe v. Wade even though the Exxon Mobile case was in Alaska?
Did you know Sarah thinks a VP’s job was goin’ into the Senate and makin’ some new policies, stirin’ things up, although that’s not at all the job of the VP?
She also couldn’t name any of McCain’s achievements in his long Senate career (not only is he her running mate but the man has actually gotten some big things done).
She said in a speech she would work to make new laws that would put government spending online. Someone didn’t tell her transparency laws already exist.
She didn’t know what the heck the Bush Doctrine is.
There are just a couple of examples of how she is ignorant about all three branches of the US government. Oh, and also she is a big, fat liar (Bridge to Nowhere). And her husband was part of a secessionist group (but they TOTALLY love America, they just don’t want to be a part of it anymore).
You can talk about verbal gaffes all you want, my fellow prisoner. But Sarah is actually a complete political amateur, caught on tape, who is dangerous being a heartbeat away from the presidency. That’s why in the polls, she is a bigger liability than George W. Bush. This thing would probably be a lot closer today if it weren’t for her.
Pardon my typos. I sliced my knuckle off yesterday doing dishes. But now I’ve learned my lesson and I’ll never do dishes again.
Dinosaurs you are my hero!
If you are referring to Troopergate, Ms. Palin was just cleared in all those charges:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081104/D9480AK83.html
As for your other assertions about her inexperience, many of them have been debunked. Obviously, she’s doesn’t really think her job would really just consist of going in there and “makin’ some new policies, stirrin’ stuff up” – she’s trying to appeal to the average person, which the Obamassiah claims to care about, but really feels he is above. Since we’re talking inexperience, Obama only served 144 days in the Senate – John McCain was in a prison camp longer than that. Also, most of Obama’s time was spent working on his presidental campain, not actually being Senatorial. Both Obama and Palin are green, granted, but she is not running for the presidency, he is!
By the way, just heard on a local talk show that Barack’s senior advisors are already working on a plan to “lower voter expectations” after the election. Uh-oh! Think people are going to be pissed when he can’t walk on water?
Dinosaurs, this report is from the Times Online today…
“Sarah Palin has been cleared of abusing her office in the “Troopergate” case by a state personnel board, which over-turned the findings of an earlier probe by the state legislator.”
I’d much rather have a “political amateur” in office who has lived and worked in the real world most of her adult life than a lifelong professional politician like Biden who practically went from law school to the “ruling class” in much the same way Obama has. Our government is supposed to be “of the people, for the people, by the people”…not “by career politicians”.
And I would love to see Alan Keyes get the Republican nomination sometime. He is a great speaker and thinker and a true conservative…way more conservative than McCain.
If he had been the nominee this year, an added bonus would have been the Democrats would have had to focus on the issues instead of calling people “racists” if they don’t agree with Obama’s ideas about the role of government.
PS – Why are you washing dishes, anyway? The way I see it, you have three choices:
1. paper plates
2. dishwasher
3. the popular college choice – take your dishes into the shower with you.
Just trying to help.
If I was ever found to have abused my power, I too would have a separate commission of people that I personally had hired and not an independent bipartisan panel. Then my buddies on the new commission could, shockingly, say the other one was wrong! That said, I think after she loses tonight Troopergate will continue in Alaska.
Nothing I’ve said has been debunked since there is video of her saying each of these things. That was her answer to an 8 year old asking what the VP does. She said the VP is in charge of the Senate and can go in and work with the folks there. Maybe that’s her trying to appeal to the average American, but she is wrong. And her husband was part of a secessionist group. And she wasn’t able to name a Supreme Court case. And she wasn’t able to name McCain’s contributions in the Senate. And she wasn’t aware of pre-existing laws. And she supported the Bridge to Nowhere in her bid for governor, then lied for months about it. She supported Sen. Stevens who has just been found guilty. She couldn’t name a news publication! But strognest to me is the fact that she doesn’t know what a VP does and expects the country to accept that and vote her in. Why don’t you give the country some credit and do your fucking homework! This is all fact. This is not me saying she’s a bitch, blah blah blah.
You can make whatever false claims about your feelings for Obama- that he doesn’t care or whatever nonsense because he eats arugula or whatever. I just hope you are aware that those are your subjective feelings, not based in fact. He has never said he feels above anyone. Not you nor I.
Or you can debate his policies. Perhaps you don’t like the fact that he will be cutting taxes for the middle class and taxes will go back up to Clinton levels for the very wealthy. OK, fine. That is all fact. But don’t give me that garbage about what some candidate “feels” about Americans. I can make a lot of guesses about how Sarah Palin “feels” about Americans since she mentioned how there are pro-America parts of the country (meaning there are anti-America parts). I guess she assumes here in Chicago we are anti-American since we’ll be voted for Obama. I should remind my friends in the marines that they are sposed ta be anti-American! I suppose I can assume how Palin feels about women when she charges rape victims for evidence to prosecute their attackers in a state with a sexual abuse epidemic. But, that’s all my opinion and not fact. What is fact is what she has said, or been unable to say, in recorded interviews.
And I am not talking about experience. I am talking about ignorance of American poltics and the three branches of American government. I fully recognize that John McCain has way more experience in the Senate. There is no comparison. I guess experience is not a top priority to me- ability and knowledge are my top priorities. Obama has had the task of proving himself knowledgable and safe to Americans. Tonight will show if he has made his case.
I do use paper plates sometimes. But we like to drink wine out of glasses. And the damn glass broke in my hand.
Someday I would like to afford a dishwasher, but it’s not happening any time soon.
And that third option is just yucky.
Bossy- she appointed the Personnel board that just cleared her. It’s smart. I would like to do the same when I’m in trouble. The main problem, if you read the reports, is how much of an amateaur she is. Her husband was involved in meetings he should not have been. She should have backed out of pressuring Monegan to get that bad trooper fired when she became governor, if only to cover her tracks. People in her cabinet were giving out confidential information. In my opinion, she wasn’t malicious or trying to steal, she was just ignorant of what the rules are and where her boundaries should have been.
If I hear someone disagree with Obama because of idealogical or policy issues, I do not jump to call them racists. Nor do my friends and family who also support Obama. Now, when someone talks about his heritage and his middle name in a negative way- that is racist. When Rush Limbaugh says Colin Powell only supports Obama because is black- that is racist. Because it plays into the assumption that all black people are so simple that it only takes skin color to get their vote. Where was Rush Limbaugh when it came to William Buckley Jr.’s endorsement? Or other prominent conservatives?
And Alan Keyes… frightening…
Don’t worry, if Obamassiah gets elected, he’ll buy you a dishwasher. He’s also going to fill your gas tank and take care of your mortgage for you. I know this because he told me so, and he never lies… (chortle, chortle)
Nothing wrong with drinking wine straight out of the bottle… I plan on doing a lot of that over the next four years, depending on the outcome of today.
You’re obviously very knowledgeable about politics, but methinks you’re only reading what mainstream media is feeding you. You have half the story – you need to do a little digging. You sound too smart to believe Obama. Mark my words, he will push this country into a serious depression (just like FDR) with all of his so called tax breaks. He’s already proposing billions in social programs (where’s that money coming from?), he wants to sit down and “talk” to Iran, because everyone knows you can just reason with terrorists, he is proposing a National Civilian Guard (can you say Hitler Youth and the SS?) and has openly said he plans on bankrupting the coal industry. Despite what the liberal media reports, the economy under Bush was the best in American history until about 2 years ago, when Democrats gained control of the House and the Senate. Since then, thanks to the whole mortgage crisis and the failure of Fannie Mae due to sub-prime mortgage rates (a democrat proposal), our stock market has dropped over 4000 points! What I don’t understand is that the democrats think the way to fix this problem is to spend more money on more social programs. If you honestly think you will be better off financially after Obama “spreads around the wealth”, then I really am concerned about you. Better learn how to make your own wine, because you won’t be able to afford it. Read ANYTHING on Chinese or Russian history – what Barack is proposing NEVER works!
By the way, these are all facts, including the point that Joe Biden stated “mark my words, Obama will be tested within the first six months of his presidency” – how, exactly, does that make you feel safer, especially living in a large city like Chicago?
Bossy – by the way, I guess I am a racist because I disagree with Barack Hussein (his given middle name – a fact) Obama’s policies. I also happen to be from PA, so I’m just a redneck, clinging to my guns and religion. Can’t believe I actually figured out how to use this here fancy com-puter thingy!