Today is voting day in America. Today the new president of the United States will be elected. It will either be John McCain or Barack Obama. Both are very good candidates but the one i voted for was Barack Obama. Good luck today.
On the eve of one of the biggest days of his life, Senator Barack Obama received some very sad news. His grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, passed away in the early hours of yesterday morning after a long battle with cancer.
Senator Obama suspended his campaign last month to visit his grandmother in Hawaii after she took a turn for the worse. He often spoke about her on the campaign trail, how she challenged him to take risks and how she gave of herself to give him a better life. Mrs. Dunham helped raise Senator Obama and his sister.
At a rally yesterday, Senator Obama spoke of his grandmother, saying she was:
"one of those great quiet heros we have across America, who aren't famous ... but each and every day they work hard. They look after their families. They look after their children and grandchildren. And in this crowd, there are a lot of quiet heroes like that, people like that, mothers and fathers and grandparents who have worked hard and sacrificed all their lives and the satisfaction that they get is in seeing their children or maybe their grandchildren or their great-grandchildren live a better life than they did. That is what America is about. That is what we are fighting for." --B.O.
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