One of the things that has struck me over the coverage of Obama's visit to his cancer stricken, 85 year old Grandmother in Hawaii are the images (after the jump) of the place where he lived from the age of 10 till he went to college in NYC: they are graphic refutations of the McCain campaign's elitist, celebrity charges against him.
To paraphrase the joke, if George Bush was born on third base thinking he hit a triple, Obama clearly started in the bleachers yet is now halfway between third and home.
Madelyn Dunham has rented an apartment on the 10th floor of this building for 40 years:
Here are the streets the teenage Obama grew up on ... any chance they'd be mistaken for Greenwich or Beverly Hills?
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