Admin Hero1 Posted November 4, 2008 Admin Report Share Posted November 4, 2008 why couldn't she have lasted one more day? :shrug: ............................................ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissAshley Posted November 4, 2008 Report Share Posted November 4, 2008 my thoughts exactly Tim. so sad. I'm glad he at least got to see her again before she passed. Obama On Grandmother And Campaign: "Bittersweet" In what was clearly a very difficult portion of his address Monday night in North Carolina, Barack Obama spoke for several minutes on this grandmother's death from cancer Sunday night. At one point, it seemed, he was moved to tears. Calling it a "bittersweet time" in his life, there were moments when one could detect the sadness in his voice and face. The crowd in Charlotte did its best to pull him along, screaming out words of support as he detailed Madelyn Dunham's life and drew from it threads that weaved into his candidacy and message. It was a poignant moment: the woman who helped raise him passing away just hours before the election. No matter what happens tomorrow, I'm going to feel good about how it has turned out because all of you have created this remarkable campaign. She is gone home. And she died peacefully in her sleep, with my sister at her side. And so, there is great joy as well as tears. I'm not going to talk about it too long because it is hard, a little, to talk about. I want everybody to know though a little bit about her. Her name was Madelyn Dunham. And she was born in Kansas in a small town in 1922. Which means she lived through the Great Depression, she lived through two world wars, she watched her husband go off to war, while she looked after her baby and worked on a bomber assembly line. When her husband came back they benefited from the GI bill, they moved west and eventually ended up in Hawaii. She was somebody who was a very humble person, a very plainspoken person. She is one of those quiet heroes we have all across America, who are not famous, their names are not in the newspapers, but each and every day they work hard. They look after their families. They sacrifice for their children, and their grandchildren. They aren't seeking the limelight. All they try to do is do the right thing. And in this crowd, there are a lot of quiet heroes like that, people like that, mothers and fathers and grandparents who have worked hard and sacrificed all their lives and the satisfaction that they get is in seeing their children or maybe their grandchildren or their great-grandchildren live a better life than they did. That is what America is about. That is what we are fighting for. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/03/o...d_n_140698.html there's a video at the link, I didn't watch b/c I don't wanna cry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Hero1 Posted November 4, 2008 Author Admin Report Share Posted November 4, 2008 Well I actually saw him say that live on CNN and I did cry..he had to wipe tears away from his face.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver Tiger Posted November 4, 2008 Report Share Posted November 4, 2008 It's really too bad. Just one more day would have been good. Same thing happened with Charles Schultz (the creator of the comic Peanuts). He died the night before the last comic ran. That's kind of a cool way to go out though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxFly Posted November 4, 2008 Report Share Posted November 4, 2008 Yes, this was pretty sad. One day... just one more day... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
analogue Posted November 4, 2008 Report Share Posted November 4, 2008 R.I.P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigted Posted November 6, 2008 Report Share Posted November 6, 2008 She's smiling down from heaven right now along with his parents Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver Tiger Posted November 6, 2008 Report Share Posted November 6, 2008 Well his dad was an atheist.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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