One Choice: Obama

     It is with deepest sympathy that we note the passing of Sen. Barack Obama’s grandmother, Madelyn Dunham.
     Obama referred to her as the “cornerstone” of his life. The night that he clinched the Democratic Party nomination, Obama paused before a speech and said “Thank you to my grandmother who helped raise me, and is sitting in Hawaii somewhere right now because she can’t travel, but who poured everything she had into me, and who helped to make me the man I am today. … Tonight is for her.” 
     How sad it is that this woman who broke down barriers of her own passed away just shy of the eve of the most important day in her grandson’s life.
     According to an article in USA Today, Dunham “blazed a feminist trail in Hawaii banking circles in the late 1960s and early 1970s and rose to become one of the Bank of Hawaii’s first female vice presidents.”  

~ May she rest in peace ~