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  • April 2008

    • Obama Doesn't Shy From Hard Truths: Sister

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Apr 7, 08 9:58 AM CDT

      Obama Doesn't Shy From Hard Truths: Sister

      (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. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Election 2008  • Jeremiah Wright  • Maya Soetoro-Ng

  • February 2008

    • Hawaii Expects Record Turnout

      Honolulu Advertiser  |  Feb 19, 08 8:51 AM CST

      Hawaii Expects Record Turnout

      (Newser) - It's caucus day in the Aloha state, and Hawaiian election officials are expecting a record turnout, writes the Honolulu Advertiser —due in part to interest in native son Barack Obama, as well as the competitiveness of the race for the nomination. Neither candidate left wintry Wisconsin, which also votes today, but Obama's sister and Chelsea Clinton made the rounds in their steads. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • Democratic nomination  • Hawaii  • Chelsea Clinton  • Daniel Inouye  • Maya Soetoro-Ng  • Hawaii caucus

    • Obama Draws on the Audacity of Mom

      Bloomberg  |  Feb 11, 08 4:15 PM CST

      Obama Draws on the Audacity of Mom

      (Newser) - Barack Obama’s mother is sometimes described just as “a white woman from Kansas,” but Ann Dunham possessed an indomitable spirit and fierce open-mindedness that profoundly shaped her son. Dunham was a single mom and social activist who worked in Indonesia and Pakistan, and consulted for the World Bank and USAID. Bloomberg looks at one of the women behind the man who would be president. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Indonesia  • Maya Soetoro-Ng  • Stanley Ann Dunham Seotoro

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