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...never felt more connected with Sen. Obama than when my grandfather, Richard Jones, or “Gaga” as he was called by his seven grandchildren, passed away from cancer the Saturday after the election...
...turned out, Dunham's koa (wood) urn arrived on Election Day, Soetoro-Ng wrote in her e-mail. Soetoro-Ng surrounded the urn with pictures of Dunham's late daughter Stanley Ann Dunham (the mother of Soetoro-Ng and the President-elect), Dunham's grandchildren and her great grandchildren - "all of us who benefited so much from her steady voice and hand," Soetoro-Ng wrote...
...Great Schlep—a movement started by the Jewish Council for Education and Research to encourage Jewish grandchildren to visit their grandparents in Florida and convince them to vote for Obama—Silverman asserts that the targeted demographic won’t vote for Obama for a number of reasons. These bubbes and zaides may think “his name sounds scary; it sounds Muslim,” among other superficial issues...
...statement released this afternoon by Obama and Soetoro-Ng said, "She was the cornerstone of our family and a woman of extraordinary accomplishment, strength and humility. She was the person who encouraged and allowed us to take chances. She was proud of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren and left this world with the knowledge that her impact on all of us was meaningful and enduring. Our debt to her is beyond measure...
...Dunham, Obama wrote in Dreams, was motivated by "the needs of her grandchildren and the stoicism of her ancestors." "So long as you kids do well, Bar," she would tell him, "that's all that really matters...