This just in: Madelyn Dunham, the woman who raised Barack Obama, has died of cancer on the eve of his election as president of the United States. How impossibly tragic. It's utterly, utterly heartbreaking. Only one more day, and she would have lived, most likely, to see her grandson make history.
This is something you wouldn't believe if Hollywood made it up.
"A big chunk of what I've achieved is because of her," Obama told CNN the other day.
God bless her soul, and be with the Obama and Dunham families in this moment of loss. If you seek Mrs. Dunham's monument, turn on your TV tomorrow night around 10; he'll be speaking to the nation he will just have been elected to lead.
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Socrates: Maybe god is testing the haters - to see if they can behave like decent human beings, just for one day or so, during a Presidential campaign.
That, I take it, is an example of how we're being brought together? Glad we got that clarified early.
If she was suffering in her final days, I'm glad that struggle is over. What a great woman, surely she'll be proud tonight no matter the outcome.
Rod writes: "I don't think there can be a clear answer this side of heaven, but the circumstances of Madelyn Dunham's passing certainly do seem to be fraught with providential mystery."
Everything is fraught with 'providential' mystery. You'd do just as well to read tea leaves or a Rorschach inkblot.
In any case, it often seems that as adults, the accomplishments that mean the most to us are always bittersweet.
At first I was shocked and agreed with you all, how tragic not to see her grandson achieve the presidency. Then, I thought about my faith, and thought how much better to be pain free and enjoying Barack's (or Barry as she called him) victory with her husband and Barack's mom together up above. Sweet.
Wow--Obama lied--and his grandma died. He said he was born in the US--grandma sayas he was born in Africa. And now she's dead.kjmqcw
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