Monday, November 03, 2008

Barack Obama's Grandmother Died

"The day before the presidential election, Sen. Barack Obama's grandmother, a woman he called 'Toot' and someone who helped raised him, has died." Bad timing. The universe is cruel.

4 comments:

Megs said...

It's not only cruel, it's a horrible omen for us paranoid people.

But, one can only hope she said something like "in my eyes you're already President" to Barack before she passed away.

And, one more angel praying in heaven couldn't hurt the Dems, right?

The Dad said...

Agreed, though I'm not sure you can make that out to be a horrible omen. You thinking like, "she didn't want to see her lose"? Cuz, I wouldn't take it that way. I'd take it more as a good quote my mom once stole from somewhere. "I gave you roots, no I'm giving you wings". In other words, it's all up to Barack now.

Of course, there's likely a certain level of sympathy vote that's going to hit here. I'm almost surprised the Repub's haven't said this is all a plot to woo voters.

Anonymous said...

I think they actually did that on survivor. A fake grandmother death to get the sympathy vote.

Howard said...

Yes, one of the contestants did. Must have been long ago because I haven't watched in forever.