All Posts Tagged With: "grandmother"
To The Mountaintop
By Joe Klein Word comes that Barack Obama’s grandmother has died. The timing is ridiculous. But think, for a moment, if you will of Madelyn Dunham, a white woman from Kansas, strolling the aisle of a supermarket, or having lunch in a coffee shop, with her grandson–way back at the turn of the 1970s, when […]
3Nov2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | Comments Off on To The Mountaintop | Continued
The Saturday Word: Back on the Trail
Today, both presidential candidates will spend time in New Mexico. With Senator Barack Obama returning to the mainland late last night from his visit with his gravely ill grandmother in Hawaii, his campaign has released a two-minute advertisement in which he speaks directly to voters. In it, he says: “At this defining moment in our […]
25Oct2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | Comments Off on The Saturday Word: Back on the Trail | Continued