You pissed off Grandma.
Obama's grandmother: No more dirty tricks
"Untruths are told that don't have anything to do with what Barack is about," she said in the local Luo language, her gray hair smoothed neatly under a headwrap. "I am very against it."
Obama's grandfather had converted to Islam from Roman Catholicism and taken the name Hussein, Sarah Obama said, but his children had inherited only the name, not the religion. Each person should be able to choose how they worshipped, she said.
"Bringing such pictures that are trying to imply that not only is he a foreigner, he is a Muslim is wrong, because that is not what he is," scolded Sarah Obama.
Well, Sen. Clinton, now you've really stepped in it. You pissed off Grandma. And when Grandma's mad, nobody's happy.
C.J, let me tell you something. Don't ever, EVER underestimate the will of a grand[mother]. We're mad [wo]men. We don't give a damn. We got here before you and they'll be here after. We'll make enemies, we'll break laws, we'll break bones. But you will not mess with the grandchildren.
Jed Bartlet, "The Stackhouse Filibuster," with a modification or three
The media has been running the occasional story on Barack Obama's family back home in Kenya, and it's been great to see. After all, what epitomizes the American Dream better than this? The son of an immigrant, abandoned by his father at the age of two and raised by his mother and grandparents, works hard, gets opportunities, and makes something of himself - and now is in a good position to be the first African-American president in the nation's history.
So... who wants to chip in to get Sarah Obama a flight to the States to stump for her grandson? Even through a translator, I'd imagine she's a formidable force.