Monday, November 3, 2008

Obama's gradmother dies of Cancer

Barack Obama's grandmother Madelyn Payne Dunham dies 2 days before election, losing her battle with cancer at the age of 86 on Sunday morning in honolulu. Obama referred to his grandmother alot in the beginning of his campaign, sharing how her strength, and her hard work taught him about hard work, and made him the man he is today. "She's the one who put off buying a new car or a new dress for herself so that I could have a better life. She poured everything she had into me."After losing his mother to Ovarian cancer in 1995 at the age of 53. Obama decision to go to Hawaii was easy to make saying he "got there too late" when his mother died and wanted to make sure that he "didn't make the same mistake twice". Losing his grandmother is difficult for him right now but Obama knows what he has to do, he knows it's what his grandmother would want says his half sister. Still, much of who Obama is comes from his grandmother, says his half sister "From our grandmother, he gets his pragmatism, his levelheadedness, his ability to stay centered in the eye of the story," she told The Associated Press. "His sensible, no-nonsense side is inherited from her." Tomorrow is election will this sway peoples votes because of the death of his grandmother? Will Obama try to use the sympathetic move? People are wondering, we'll see tomorrow at elections.

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