Comments on: RIP Madelyn Dunham

By: Sue R

Sue R — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:05:01 +0000

She’s gone home.

By: Clap Hammer

Clap Hammer — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:59:04 +0000

mettaculture How sad because she is one of the brave people that have made a better world by taking the hand they have been dealt and making the best they can of it with love and dedication and personal commitment.

That’s very nice and very fitting.

Dave F – but is this not the grandmother he described as a racist earlier in the campaign?

Obviously yes. But she also surmounted her prejudicialness to participate in forming a highly intelligent multiracial person who will be President of the USA.

BUT

I still would have preferred McCain.

(The speller gave me ‘prejudicialness ‘)

By: M o r g o t h

M o r g o t h — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:38:04 +0000

Indeed

By: Dave F

Dave F — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:09:43 +0000

It’s very sad, but is this not the grandmother he described as a racist earlier in the campaign?

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:43:33 +0000

That’s an interesting point – can your vote still be counted if you’re dead? Is that constitutional?

Apparently yes, if you are alive when you put pen to paper, which I guess is an indication that the vote is genuine…

By: ami

ami — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:19:00 +0000

The Fox reports of Obama’s speech: “But he said he wanted people to know a little about her — that she lived through the Great Depression and two World Wars.”
The report also says she was 86. He was speaking at a time of great emotion, so one hopes it doesn’t reflect on his grasp of history at other times.

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:49:52 +0000

Madelyn Dunham voted by absentee ballot before she died.

That’s an interesting point – can your vote still be counted if you’re dead? Is that constitutional? I suspect that the logistics involved in knowing whether the submitters of postal votes or early voters are alive or dead means their votes get counted regardless.

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:20:50 +0000

Madelyn Dunham voted by absentee ballot before she died.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/11/obamas-grandm-1.html

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:16:26 +0000

Chris Patten came back to Hong Kong and endorsed Obama in very clear terms, strongly denouncing McCain for cosying up to the most right wing elements of the Reps, citing Palin. He also said Bush has been the worst US President in his lifetime.

“Lord Patten, a former minister under conservative British governments, said the Bush presidency was marked by “hapless unilateralism” which had led the United States and Britain into war with Iraq.

He blamed the Bush administration for feeding anti-Americanism and for what he called a fixation with taxation policies for the rich and mismanagement of the economy.” SCMP

By: Mine's a Newt

Mine's a Newt — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 05:37:10 +0000

She would have known that he was going to win, and that’s probably enough. She seems to have been a remarkable woman.