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  1. 11-03-2008, 01:39 PM #1
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    RIP Madelyn Dunham.

    Thanks for raising Barack Obama right.

    I cannot imagine what is going through the Senator's mind right now.
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  2. 11-03-2008, 01:43 PM #2
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    How heartbreaking...
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  3. 11-03-2008, 01:50 PM #3
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    Holy crap, that is tough news. R.I.P.
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    Such tragic timing, it's a shame she couldn't make it just a few more days.

    On the coldly political note:
    John McCain must feel like he's cursed, the news the day before the election is now going to be filled with reports about Obama and his poor late (white) grandmother who raised him.
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    Quote Originally Posted by malphigian View Post
    Such tragic timing, it's a shame she couldn't make it just a few more days.

    On the coldly political note:
    John McCain must feel like he's cursed, the news the day before the election is now going to be filled with reports about Obama and his poor late (white) grandmother who raised him.
    And the right-wing blogs will be insinuating (or maybe just saying) that he had her killed to capture the last news cycle before the election...

    Bet'ya.

    It is actually kind of ironic to me: the wingnuts yakked for years that the Clintons had had people killed, and yet the only person that I KNOW in political life actually ever shot anyone was Dick Cheney.
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  6. 11-03-2008, 01:57 PM #6
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    If this were a TV movie, Obama would be guaranteed to win now, because it's the next step in the formula.
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  7. 11-03-2008, 01:58 PM #7
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    Quote Originally Posted by BennyProfane View Post
    And the right-wing blogs will be insinuating (or maybe just saying) that he had her killed to capture the last news cycle before the election...

    Bet'ya.
    As awful as that sounds, I expect something like that also.

    RIP Madelyn Dunham.
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  8. 11-03-2008, 02:00 PM #8
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    Quote Originally Posted by Charles View Post
    If this were a TV movie, Obama would be guaranteed to win now, because it's the next step in the formula.
    But, its not. It's more of a "Terrible Disney Movie" where the hockey mom ends up vice president somehow :(
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  9. 11-03-2008, 02:03 PM #9
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    Quote Originally Posted by Charles View Post
    If this were a TV movie, Obama would be guaranteed to win now, because it's the next step in the formula.
    I've been waiting for a nuclear power plant in Arizona to melt down, as this campaign seemed oddly familiar.
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  10. 11-03-2008, 02:04 PM #10
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    Wow, that's really a shame.
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  11. 11-03-2008, 02:10 PM #11
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    Quote Originally Posted by BennyProfane View Post
    And the right-wing blogs will be insinuating (or maybe just saying) that he had her killed to capture the last news cycle before the election...

    Bet'ya.

    It is actually kind of ironic to me: the wingnuts yakked for years that the Clintons had had people killed, and yet the only person that I KNOW in political life actually ever shot anyone was Dick Cheney.
    Little Green Footballs is being very good, very respectful. Free Republic, on the other hand...although the mods are apparently deleting some of the worst of it.
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  12. 11-03-2008, 02:14 PM #12
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    Fox news BB...

    http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/11...tPaginationTop

    "No she didn't! She died back in August. The Obama team said, put her on ice, we can use this to benifit the election later. So in October, they said, "well its time to make grandma sick" so Obama goes to visit her, She broke her hip! Now the day before the election, she dies. Of a long battle with cancer? When did the cancer pop up? All to get last minute pitty votes! Think I'm cold and calous? No just honest, and will not let the wool be pulled over my eyes. I predicted her death the day before the election right after they said she broke her hip!"
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  13. 11-03-2008, 02:25 PM #13
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    So now, no one who raised him, is with him to see what a great position he can assume tommorow :(
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    Favorite Wacky nutjob comment....

    Quote Originally Posted by Supersport View Post
    To: dragnet2
    She is reported as having died of cancer.
    People rarely die from cancer, because the suffering is far too great to go until the end.
    They almost always die from assisted suicide/terminal sedation. Dehydration or lethal injection.

    I have no doubt this is the actual cause of death.
    This may very well be the first politically timed terminal sedation ever.



    66 posted on Monday, November 03, 2008 12:09:42 PM by counterpunch (It's the SOCIALISM, Stupid!)

    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-...=1&;page=94#94

    So..they bitch about him visiting his grandmother in October as "wasteful" and now they are bitching how he didn't spend enough time visiting her.

    Man, there really are some crazy nutjobs over there.
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  16. 11-03-2008, 02:36 PM #16
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    There is no "hivemind" here, and there is no "hivemind" there

    Quote Originally Posted by Supersport View Post
    So..they bitch about him visiting his grandmother in October as "wasteful" and now they are bitching how he didn't spend enough time visiting her.
    "They" aren't some monolithic force that bashes Obama. There are some right bastards over there, but just as importantly there are a ton of people objecting to the bastards.
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  17. 11-03-2008, 02:43 PM #17
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    Quote Originally Posted by Anaxagoras View Post
    "They" aren't some monolithic force that bashes Obama. There are some right bastards over there, but just as importantly there are a ton of people objecting to the bastards.
    Fair enough. Sorry for the mislabeling.
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  18. 11-03-2008, 02:48 PM #18
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    Quote Originally Posted by triggercut View Post
    Thanks for raising Barack Obama right.

    I cannot imagine what is going through the Senator's mind right now.
    I'm sure that what's going thru his mind right now is sadness. :(.

    My mom passed away two days before I got my Ph. D. I would have given anything to have her there to share my joy. I'm sure Barack Obama feels the same way, or will tomorrow, God willing.
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  19. 11-03-2008, 03:05 PM #19
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    The office manager here just said, "I bet they kept her on ice just to trot her out close to the election" and mentioned that politicians will do anything to get elected.

    She doesn't strike me as a coarse human being but maybe I should just stop all non-work related communications now, just in case.
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  20. 11-03-2008, 03:19 PM #20
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    For a number of reasons this strikes really close to home for me.

    It makes me terribly sad that she couldn't live long enough to see him win the election. But you've got to know she tried as hard as she could.
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  21. 11-03-2008, 03:35 PM #21
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    My great grandmother fell and broke her hip at when she was 88. She died a month later of lymphoma (cancer). I would assume that Madelyn Dunham's death was similar.
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  22. 11-03-2008, 04:22 PM #22
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    Quote Originally Posted by Anaxagoras View Post
    "They" aren't some monolithic force that bashes Obama. There are some right bastards over there, but just as importantly there are a ton of people objecting to the bastards.
    Some moderator had to go through that thread and remove the 40-50% of comments that explicitly accused Obama of murdering his grandmother.

    So, yeah, fuck the other half, too.
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  23. 11-03-2008, 04:44 PM #23
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    Very sad that she didn't get to see Barack win. She raised him right.
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  24. 11-03-2008, 05:20 PM #24
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    How sad.
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  25. 11-03-2008, 06:52 PM #25
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    Quote Originally Posted by snowcrash22 View Post
    The office manager here just said, "I bet they kept her on ice just to trot her out close to the election" and mentioned that politicians will do anything to get elected.

    She doesn't strike me as a coarse human being but maybe I should just stop all non-work related communications now, just in case.
    Man, the thought processes which lead to such silly statements just to back your ideology are fascinating. And saddening. There's no evidence at all for such a claim, it's just truthiness. I hate to Godwin this up, but it's the kind of logic the Nazis used about the Jews, and it's just as ugly IMHO.
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  26. 11-04-2008, 12:32 AM #26
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    Quote Originally Posted by Supersport View Post
    Man, there really are some crazy nutjobs over there.
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  27. 11-04-2008, 01:04 AM #27
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    Fool me once, shame on you
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  28. 11-04-2008, 01:27 AM #28
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jeff Fries View Post
    Fool me once, shame on you
    what
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  29. 11-04-2008, 06:16 AM #29
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fox news BB View Post
    All to get last minute pitty votes!
    Good thing they locked up the pitty votes!
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