Barack Obama's Grandmother Has Passed Away
Senator Obama with grandparents, Stanley and Madelyn Dunham.
This is incredibly sad news to report, but news outlets reported yesterday that Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama's beloved grandmother Madelyn Dunham had passed away at age 86, merely hours before the landmark election between her grandson and Senator John McCain.
Senator Obama has credited his grandparents, especially his grandmother Madelyn, for sacrificing and working hard to provide for Obama and make sure he had a quality education, including going without many personal luxuries in her own life so that he might succeed. Obama had left the campaign trail on Oct. 23 to visit with the ailing Dunham in Hawaii, after her health took a turn for the worse while recovering from a broken hip. Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, died of ovarian cancer at age 52 and Obama has said many times his greatest regret was not seeing her before she died. Clearly, even his bid for president wasn't going to let him make that mistake again with his grandmother.
Obama has spoken about his grandmother often on the stump, talking about what an integral figure she was in his youth and how she struggled against the glass ceiling in her career. He and his family traveled to Hawaii in August to visit her."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," he said in his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention. "She poured everything she had into me. And although she can no longer travel, I know that she's watching tonight, and that tonight is her night as well."
Our thoughts and prayers go out to him and his family. RIP.
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