Actually, throw grandmomma from the train.  Then under a bus.  Then back up over her.

Barack Obama on Jeremiah Wright:

“I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community.  I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother – a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.  These people are a part of me.  And they are a part of America, this country that I love.”

For a kinder, gentler view of a candidate’s grandparent, here’s Hillary Clinton last week:

“Some of you know that my grandfather came to Scranton when he was 3 years old,” she said, recalling that he went to work in a local lace mill when he was 11 years old, spending his entire lifetime working in the mill. She remembered that before winning a football scholarship to Penn State, her grandfather played in the “Dream Game,” an annual all-star contest that pits players from Scranton high schools against those from surrounding communities.

For the final adjudicatory word on grandparents, let’s consult Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter:

National Grandparents Day

By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation

As we seek to strengthen the enduring values of the family, it is appropriate that we honor our grandparents.

Grandparents are our continuing tie to the near past, to the events and beliefs and experiences that so strongly affect our lives and the world around us. Whether they are our own or surrogate grandparents who fill some of the gaps in our mobile society, our senior generation also provides our society a link to our national heritage and traditions.

We all know grandparents whose values transcend passing fads and pressures, and who possess the wisdom of distilled pain and joy. Because they are usually free to love and guide and befriend the young without having to take daily responsibility for them, they can often reach out past pride and fear of failure and close the space between generations.

The Congress, by joint resolution (H.J. Res. 244) has authorized and requested the President to designate the first Sunday of September following Labor Day each year as National Grandparents Day.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, JIMMY CARTER, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate Sunday, September 9, 1979 and the first Sunday following Labor Day in each succeeding year as “National Grandparents Day”.

I urge officials of Government at the national, State, and local levels and of voluntary organizations to plan appropriate activities that recognize the importance and the worth of the 17 million grandparents in our nation. I urge all Americans to take the time to honor their own grandparents or those in their community.