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The Other Side! Obama's Grandmother Decries Tricks

Last Edited: Wednesday, 05 Mar 2008, 10:04 AM CST

Created: Wednesday, 05 Mar 2008, 10:04 AM CST

Sarah Obama, 86, grandmother of US Sen. Barack Obama sits while she talks with journalists in the courtyard of a school named after her grandson in her home town of Kolengo, western Kenya on Wednesday, March 5, 2008. (AP Photo/Riccardo Gangale) By KATHARINE HOURELD Associated Press Writer KOGELO, Kenya  --  American shock jocks, dirty tricks masterminds and political bloggers: Beware the wrath of an 86-year-old Kenyan villager. A frown replaces the dimpled beam of Sarah Hussein Obama, grandmother of Barack Obama, when asked on Wednesday about recent attacks on her grandson that include the spreading of rumors that he is secretly a Muslim and the repeated use of his middle name -- Hussein -- by a radio host at a rally for presumptive Republican nominee John McCain. "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." Hillary Rodham Clinton won primaries Tuesday in Texas, Ohio and Rhode Island, halting Obama's winning streak. Obama won in Vermont.

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