Monday, November 3, 2008

Barack Obama's grandmother dies

This just in: Madelyn Dunham, the woman who raised Barack Obama, has died of cancer on the eve of his election as president of the United States. How impossibly tragic. It's utterly, utterly heartbreaking. Only one more day, and she would have lived, most likely, to see her grandson make history.

This is something you wouldn't believe if Hollywood made it up.

God bless her soul, and be with the Obama and Dunham families in this moment of loss. There's really nothing else to say. If you seek Madelyn Dunham's monument, turn on your TV around 10 o'clock tomorrow night. He'll be speaking to the nation.

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