According to www.TMZ.com, these are the pictures of yesterdays family memorial ceremony for President elect Barack Obama's beloved Grandma "Toot," Madeline Dunham, in Oahu. In one of lifes ironic twists, Barack's grandmother passed away just days short of seeing her grandson acheive a historic election to the Presidency of the United States. I am still wrestling between what is such a magnificent and majestic landscape to be memorialized in, and TMZ's incredible violation of his family's privacy. It does however, give us a glimpse of the private Barack Obama, and his love and admiration for the woman who was instrumental in his childhood development.
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I would say it would have been worth it if the ashes had come back and blew in Obama's face like Donnie's ashes did in Dude face (The Big Lebowski). What did she "develop" in his childhood? A deep seated disdain for the white-man (mentioned explicitly in his book and explicitly in the choice of church he went to? She created a racist? There's an accomplishment to memorialize.
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Now, now...don't be that guy. Give him a chance. It seems to me, if anything, he is turning his back on the very race he espoused to love, in favor of the race he claimed to be against. I have been waiting for him to bring in his "home boys" into his inner circle...Duval Patrick, Jesse jr., etc. but he hasn't.
As for his grandma, I don't think she was the arbitter for his hatred, or illedged hatred and bigotry.
P.S. Happy holidays to you and yours. Thanks for the generous gift (Lydia picked it up for me...a serious mistake since she ended up getting hosed for $50 on a couple of cheeses, hummas, bread, etc.).
Kimba
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Ahh, see it. Hopefully the book made up for the loss of $ for good taste.
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