Republican Senate leaders — terrified by the prospect of losing five or more seats in November — have freed their members to vote however they need to vote to get reelected, even if that means bucking the president or the party’s leadership.

On at least four votes over the past month — Medicare, housing, the GI Bill and the Farm Bill — Republican leaders haven’t even bothered whipping members to toe the party line or back President Bush’s veto threats. Instead, a GOP leadership aide says leaders have told vulnerable senators that it’s all right to ‘get well’ with voters by siding with Democrats on anything but energy and national security….[MORE >>]

Barack Obama’s maternal grandfather, Stanley Dunham, grew up in El Dorado, Kansas. Obama was raised by his mother and his grandparents in Hawaii; his father left the family when Obama was just 2 years old and then returned to his native Kenya.

Stanley Dunham served in World War II and was educated on the GI Bill, while his grandmother stayed in Wichita with their baby — Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham — and worked on a bomber assembly line. The family eventually moved to Hawaii, where Obama was born and raised.

Obama’s upbringing in a white household contributed to some questioning early in his campaign about whether he is “black enough” to win over black voters. That is no longer the case, as he now draws support from blacks at a 90+% clip — The ‘Clinton Goons’ helped that come about….when they unleased blatant Racial Politics in South Carolina.

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Stanley Dunham died in 1992 and Obama’s mother, Ann died in 1995. Obama’s grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, follows the campaign closely, even though severe osteoporosis keeps her from traveling out of Hawaii.

More from Wikipedia: Madelyn and Stanley Dunham

Who is Barack Obama — Part 1

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In his book: ‘Dreams From My Father,’ Obama pays tribute to his mother Ann

The “skinny kid with a funny name” is now a political ‘Rock’ star, the golden child of the Democratic party — Who has systematically clobbered the Clinton THUGS into “Racist ‘We Hope You Are Assassinated’ Submission,” and is on the verge of grabbing the highest office in the world…..from the ‘Hyena Jaws‘ of McSame and McDumb Bush — the dumbest and the most unqualified man ever, to lead the United States of America.

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