Reply #319: Wiping away tears, Obama lauded his late grandmother at speech in Charlotte

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Barack Obama sheds tears as he talks about his grandmother, Madelyn Payne Dunham, at a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina. Photo: AP

Wiping away tears, Democrat Barack Obama lauded his late grandmother today as one of America's "quiet heroes'' and delivered an impassioned vow to work for all such heroes if elected to the White House.

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“She was one of those quiet heroes that we have all across America,” Mr. Obama said. “They’re not famous. Their names are not in the newspapers, but each and every day they work hard.

“They aren’t seeking the limelight. All they try to do is just do the right thing. In this crowd there are a lot of quiet heroes like that.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/04/us/politics/04grandmother.html?ref=politics



And earlier photo of OBAMA with TOOT and his grandfather:



Toot did a magnificent job. She has changed the world.