Obama’s Grandmother Dies One Day Before Election Day

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has reported to media that his grandmother passed away Monday.

Madelyn Payne Dunham, 84, was incredibly inspirational to Barack and helped raise him as a young boy. He credits her with making him who he is today.

Dunham had been ill for quite some time and had recently broken a hip.

Obama described his grandmother as a woman who “taught me values straight from the Kansas heartland…accountability and self-reliance. Love of country. Working hard without making excuses. Treating your neighbor as you’d like to be treated.”

When he accepted the Democratic presidential nomination at the party’s convention in Denver he also made sure to credit his loving grandmother saying,

“She’s the one who taught me about hard work. She’s the one who put off buying a new car or a new dress for herself so that I could have a better life. She poured everything she had into me,” he said.

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