Count me among those who wondered if the grandmother who worried about black men she passed on the street were still living. Answer: yes.
Here’s John Fund:
Mr. Obama’s campaign has made clear that his 84-year old grandmother, who has asked to be left alone, should be considered off-limits to political reporters. But yesterday, it was Mr. Obama who didn’t leave her alone when he used her for one of the central themes of his speech.
O. said he can’t disown Rev. Wright, who spoke from a pulpit to a crowded church that sold CD’s with his sermons recorded, any more than his grandmother, who raised him and along the way made “stereotypical” remarks in private that made him “cringe.”
Don’t they teach logic at Harvard? Or gratitude in church? Did Wright make him cringe?
Read More of The Grandmother Issue off-site...Anon says:
"Hurray for Obama for saying, I don't agree, I won't support that train of thought, but I will still"........use you as campaign fodder to serve my selfish intetersts.
Let's Be Fair says:
The Reverend Jesse "Keep Hope Alive" Jackson, himself, publicly admitted to feeling intimidated when being followed by unidentified black men. Perhaps, Mrs. Dunham is no less a bigot than Jackson.
Margaret says:
Apparently they "do" teach loyalty at Harvard... teach people that just because someone you love does something you don't like, it doesn't mean that you completely turn your back on them and disengage them from your life. Loyalty means that you speak up to your loved one and say, "no, I don't agree with you, but I still love you." Maybe in a world of fast food and images blaring by so fast it seems we can cut off people so quickly, but it isn't right. Hurray for Obama for saying, I don't agree, I won't support that train of thought, but I will still love you.