Mamma Sarah has high hopes for Barack

AS PRESIDENTS’ grandmothers go, she would certainly have some unique and sound words of advice for White House staff.

Sarah Obama sat pensively beside her radio yesterday while across the globe millions of Americans were deciding whether to back her grandson, US presidential hopeful Barack Obama.

Speaking to visitors in her native Luo tongue in her tin-roof home in west Kenya, the 85-year-old, who does not speak English, smiled occasionally as her grandson’s name came over the airwaves.