Obama's White Grandmother: Say What?

Barack Obama poses at Columbia University in New York City during a visit by his grandparents Stanley and Madelyn Dunham. (Click for full size image. Original image posted here.)
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I came across the story, Free Obama's White Grandmother, written by Andy Martin at NewsMax.com.

If anyone else running for president locked his granny away and refused to allow her to be seen, would the media complain? You betcha.

But America's media have supinely allowed Barry Obama to pretend he has no white relatives. He has paraded his step-grandmother in Kenya, who never saw him until the 1980s, as his "granny," and locked the grandmother who actually raised him away in a closet.

Now, the Chicago Tribune reports "the Obama campaign declined to make [his white grandmother] available."

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And like whimpering puppies the media do not protest, complain or demand access.

Free Granny Madelyn Dunham [Obama]!

Read it.

Being the curious fool that I am, I went looking on the Web just to see if I could find granny's picture through image searches.

The results of the searches floored me.

When I searched for Madelyn Dunham in Yahoo, AltaVista, et al., I received absolutely NO hits. When I searched Google, at first, I received pages of hits. Then, as I narrowed the search, the only image that popped up is the one below:

Barack Obama with his grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, in Africa in 2004. Courtesy of the Obama family. (Click for full size image. Original image posted here. NOTE: Image has been removed by host.)
The picture at the top of this post is of the real, 'white' granny. I looked long and hard to find it.

Who cares about the color of Obama's parents, much less the color of his grandparents? Is Obama half-black or half-white? Unless you are trying to be someone other than who you really are, the little details shouldn't matter.

If you ask me, all of this seems a bit lame and bogus.

Then again, liberals seldom exhibit a sense of humor.

I'll repeat it: Free Granny Madelyn Dunham [Obama]!

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