CONGRATS TO OBAMA OUR NEW PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES


t1wideobama01cnnHISTORY HAS BEEN MADE TONIGHT YALL, WE HAVE OVER COME THOSE HURDLES. THANK YOU TO ALL WHO VOTED THIS WAS SO IMPORTANT TO VOTE THIS YEAR, THEN ANY YEAR IN HISTORY. THIS IS A CRYING MOMENT BUT I AM SO HAPPY TO CRY RIGHT NOW, WHEN I VOTED I FELT JOY. THIS IS NOT MY FIRST TIME VOTING, BUT ON THIS TIME I REALLY FELT GOOD. EVEN THO TEXAS IS A RED STATE, WE DO HAVE DEMORCRATE IN OUR BLOODS HERE. I WISH HIS GRANDMA WAS HERE, MY GRANDMA ALL THE PEOPLE WHO HAD LEFT US, AND GONE TO A BETTER PLACE TO SEE THIS MOMENT IN HISTORY. MAN YOU HAVE NO IDEA AS A BLACK WOMAN WHAT THIS MEANS TO ME, MY TWO BOYS THEY WENT WITH ME AND THERE FATHER WHEN WE VOTED.NOW I CAN TELL THEM THEY CAN BE WHO THEY WANT TO BE.

BARACK HAS CAST HIS VOTE


cpl_100c2 1104_barack_obama_voting1_gettyI HOPE HE IS VOTING FOR TOP 10 QUEEN(JUST JOKING). WELL YOU GUYS IF YOU HAVEN’T CAST YOUR VOTE THEN DO SO TODAY, THERE HAVE BEEN RECORD NUMBERS OF PEOPLE TURNING OUT TO VOTE. SO GET OUT THERE TO YOUR LOCAL POLL & VOTE. WE NEED A CHANGE, WE CAN’T MAKE A CHANGE WITH YOU SITTING ON YOUR BUTTS. I AM WRITING EARLY BECAUSE I HAVE TO TAKE A FEW PEOPLE TO THE POLLS AND VOTE TODAY, SO THAT’S WHY I AM EARLY WITH MY TOP 10 LIST. AS YOU CAN SEE MY TOP 10 LIST IS DIFFERENT NOW, I LIKE IT THIS AWAY.

Barack Obama’s grandmother dies after battle with cancer


Sen. Barack Obama’s grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, has died following a bout with cancer, Obama and his sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, said Monday.

She was 86.

“She was the cornerstone of our family, and a woman of extraordinary accomplishment, strength, and humility,” their statement said.

“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.”

Obama and Soetoro-Ng asked that donations be made for the search for a cure for cancer in lieu of flowers. A small private ceremony will be held “at a later date.”

Dunham passed away peacefully at her home shortly before midnight Sunday night (5 a.m. ET), campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki told CNN. She said Obama learned of her death around 8 a.m.

The Democratic presidential candidate left the campaign trail on October 23 and flew to Honolulu, Hawaii, to spend the day with Dunham, whose health deteriorated after she suffered a broken hip.

His wife, Michelle Obama, filled in for him at events in Columbus and Akron, Ohio, on October 24.

Obama said in an interview taped for that day’s “Good Morning America” that Dunham had been “inundated” with flowers and messages from strangers who read about her in Obama’s 1995 book, “Dreams From My Father.”

“Maybe she is getting a sense of long-deserved recognition toward the end of her life,” he said.

The candidate resumed his campaign on October 25.

Obama has spoken about his grandmother often on the stump, talking about what an integral figure she was in his youth and how she struggled against the glass ceiling in her career. He and his family traveled to Hawaii in August to visit her.

“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,” he said in his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention. “She poured everything she had into me. And although she can no longer travel, I know that she’s watching tonight, and that tonight is her night as well.” Our hearts & Prayers goes out to Barack Obama & his family.