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Obama Doesn't Shy From Hard Truths: Sister

Posted Apr 7, 08 9:58 AM CDT in Politics 

(Newser) – Barack Obama's diverse family has remained silent since the flare-up over his former pastor's sermons. But in her first public comments since Obama's speech on race in America, half-sister Maya Soetoro-Ng told the Telegraph their "typical white" grandmother, whose opinions on blacks sometimes made the candidate "cringe," was "entirely supportive" of Obama and his descriptions.

Obama faced criticism in the conservative press for his depiction of Madelyne Dunham in the Philadelphia speech, but Soetoro-Ng dismissed such comments. "I know that I have only ever known him to tell the truth," she said, "even when it wasn't convenient or when it would generate discomfort with family, friends, or co-workers."

Source Daily Telegraph (UK)

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Maya Soetoro-Ng of Honolulu, half sister Barack Obama, speaks at Kawananakoa Middle School in Honolulu in this May 12, 2007 file photo.   (AP Photo/Lucy Pemoni, File)
Maya Soetoro-Ng of Honolulu, half sister of Barack Obama, listens to reporters' questions after speaking to supporters of her brother at Kawananakoa Middle School in Honolulu, Saturday, May 12, 2007.   (AP Photo/Lucy Pemoni)
Barack Obama speaks at the Mansfield-Metcalf Dinner at the Civic Center in Butte, Mont., Saturday, April 5, 2008.   (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Barack Obama speaks at a rally at the Adams Center at the University of Montana in Missoula, Mont., Saturday, April 5, 2008.   (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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