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FILE – In this Feb. 6, 2008 file photo, Sarah Obama, step-grandmother of U.S. President Barack Obama, sits in the backyard of her house in the village of Kogelo, near the shores of Lake Victoria, in Kenya. President Barack Obama’s 91-year-old step-grandmother suffered bruises and shock after a car she was traveling in rolled over, a relative and a hospital official said Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

FILE – In this Feb. 6, 2008 file photo, Sarah Obama, step-grandmother of U.S. President Barack Obama, sits in the backyard of her house in the village of Kogelo, near the shores of Lake Victoria, in Kenya. President Barack Obama’s 91-year-old step-grandmother suffered bruises and shock after a car she was traveling in rolled over, a relative and a hospital official said Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Sarah Obama, second from right, step-grandmother of U.S. President Barack Obama, receives a courtesy call from local police officers following a car accident in which she suffered minor injuries, at her home in Kogelo, western Kenya, Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. President Barack Obama’s 91-year-old step-grandmother suffered bruises and shock after the car she was traveling in rolled over, a relative and a hospital official said Monday. (AP Photo)

FILE – In this Feb. 5, 2008 file photo, Sarah Obama, step-grandmother of U.S. President Barack Obama, holds a photograph of her and her grandson, as she speaks to the media in the living room of her house in the village of Kogelo, near the shores of Lake Victoria, in Kenya. President Barack Obama’s 91-year-old step-grandmother suffered bruises and shock after a car she was traveling in rolled over, a relative and a hospital official said Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) ? President Barack Obama’s 91-year-old step-grandmother suffered bruises and shock after a car she was traveling in rolled over, a relative and a hospital official said Monday.

The relative said Sarah Obama was traveling to her home in the village of Kogelo, in western Kenya, when the accident happened Saturday night.

He said the vehicle lost control and rolled as the driver attempted to overtake a truck near the Kisumu airport. The relative asked not to be named because he is not authorized to speak for the family.

Najim Mawji, the chief operating officer of the Agha Khan hospital in Kisumu, said doctors discharged her Saturday night after she had gone through several tests.

Mawji said she coped well with the shock that came from the accident.

Sarah Obama is the second wife of Obama’s paternal grandfather. Obama referred to her as “Granny” in his memoir, “Dreams from My Father,” and described meeting her during his 1988 trip to his father’s homeland and their awkwardness as they struggled to communicate.

Barack Obama has visited his Kenyan relatives three times in Kogelo, and his step-grandmother has gone to the U.S. at least three times. In a 2008 interview she said they are close, although they have to speak through an interpreter.

Kenya has a special regard for President Obama, the son of a Kenyan economist and an American anthropologist. Children, shops and dozens of minibuses ? which carry names in Kenya ? are named after the president.

Associated Press

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ATLANTA ? A judge has ordered President Barack Obama to appear in court in Atlanta for a hearing on a complaint that says Obama isn’t a natural-born citizen and can’t be president.

It’s one of many such lawsuits that have been filed across the country, so far without success. A Georgia resident made the complaint, which is intended to keep Obama’s name off the state’s ballot in the March presidential primary.

An Obama campaign aide says any attempt to involve the president personally will fail and such complaints around the country have no merit.

The hearing is set for Thursday before an administrative judge. Deputy Chief Judge Michael Malihi on Friday denied a motion by the president’s lawyer to quash a subpoena that requires Obama to show up.

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) ? Presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich faced tough questions Saturday about his past statements on race and class, making a rare appearance by a Republican primary candidate before a black church ? an audience unlikely to vote in South Carolina’s Jan. 21 contest.

Standing behind the lectern at Jones Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church, Gingrich was peppered with questions about his assertion that poor children lack work ethic and his criticism of President Barack Obama as a “food-stamp president.”

Gingrich may get credit for spending nearly an hour in front of a largely unsupportive crowd. But the event is unlikely to help him win many votes in South Carolina’s primary, a contest Gingrich himself has said will be make-or-break for his campaign.

Blacks made up just 2 percent of those who voted in South Carolina’s 2008 Republican primary, according to exit polls.

While the give and take between Gingrich and more than 50 people in the audience was largely respectful, some in the crowd had sharp questions for the former House Speaker. Many centered on Gingrich’s remark last month that poor children as young as nine should work at least part time cleaning their schools in order to learn about work.

Gingrich said his comments were misconstrued.

“What I was saying was, in the poorest neighborhoods, if we can find a way to help young people earn some money, we might actually be able to keep the dropout rate down and give people an incentive to come to school,” he said.

The explanation little satisfied some in the crowd, including a woman who said Gingrich’s words came across “so negatively, like we’re not doing everything for our young people.”

Gingrich was also asked if he stood by his assertion that Obama is a “food stamp president”, a line the Georgia Republican uses often during stump speeches. He responded with a simple, “Yes.”

Gingrich is grasping for campaign life in South Carolina after disappointing fourth place finishes in Iowa and New Hampshire. Success for Gingrich in the South’s first primary will depend largely on his ability to draw support from the state’s conservative and evangelical voters.

That made Saturday’s appearance at a black church all the more head-scratching, particularly because it was Gingrich’s only public appearance of the day in South Carolina.

But Gingrich spokesman R.C. Hammond said the appearance was a good use of the candidate’s time.

“If you’re going to lead America, you have to be willing to lead all of America,” he said.

The often-combative Gingrich did try to strike a conciliatory tone at times, promising “a very serious outreach to Democrats” in Washington if he were elected president. And he said the forum was appropriately being held around the holiday honoring Martin Luther King, Jr.

“This would be what he would have liked,” Gingrich said of the late civil rights leader.

Following the question and answer session, church members prayed over Gingrich and his wife, Callista. The couple then joined the crowd in the church basement for dinner.

Associated Press

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WASHINGTON ? Immersed in an intense struggle to cut the national debt, President Barack Obama faces a dilemma that will stay with him even if he succeeds in striking a grand deal with Congress: convincing Americans that the entire effort will do anything to create desperately needed jobs.

Obama ties deficit reduction to jobs, on the basis that trying to balance the nation’s books will promote economic stability and give businesses more confidence to hire. But that’s a tough sell to the millions of Americans out of work right now. And the communications problem just got harder.

The latest snapshot of the economy, out Friday, was a body blow that showed employers added a meager 18,000 jobs in June. The leaders of the country, meanwhile, are consumed with negotiating a major debt-reduction deal built upon cutting spending and raising taxes. It is not directly aimed at boosting jobs.

Obama’s challenge is to link all this in meaningful terms and to get faster results. At stake are the country’s economic recovery and his re-election chances.

The debt is the urgent problem for Obama and a divided Congress because they have no choice. Reaching a deal has become the key to winning Republican support for raising the nation’s debt limit, a politically noxious vote that Congress must take by Aug. 2 to keep the nation from risking default for the first time ever.

“There’s no question that this is a complex, almost impenetrable issue,” said David Axelrod, a longtime Obama adviser and now a senior strategist to the president’s re-election campaign. “It’s not just the issue of the potential default, but it’s the larger issue of what he’s trying to get at, the opportunity of trying to do something big about the deficits and the debt. Big things are at stake, but they’re hard to penetrate, so the process of dealing with them is painstaking.”

Republicans, too, face the challenge of explaining and defending how cutting debt will create jobs in the short term. They won control of the House last year in large part because of voter anxiety about government spending and jobs. But it is Obama who bears the largest burden, as any president does.

In addressing the dismal jobs report, Obama made plain he knows what the country is thinking.

“The debate here in Washington’s been dominated by issues of debt limit,” Obama said. “But what matters most to Americans, and what matters to me most as president in the wake of the worst downturn in our lifetimes, is getting our economy on a sounder footing so the American people can have the security they deserve.”

As an imperative unto itself, deficit reduction is embraced by all parties as vital for stabilizing the nation and shrinking the debt passed on to the next generations. And a failure to extend the nation’s borrowing limit could cause a kind of enormous economic breakdown that would only worsen the employment picture.

Now under deadline pressure, Obama and congressional leaders of both parties were to hold a rare weekend negotiation session on Sunday on a debt-cutting package that remains far from certain. It could cut the deficit by roughly $4 trillion over 10 years or so, which even by Washington spending standards would be considered a big deal.

Yet it is joblessness itself that cuts to the heart of the American struggle. Obama said people “pour their guts out” when they write him letters about it.

So he is pushing jobs ideas distinct from the debt talks. The president is prodding Congress to pass three pending trade deals, create construction jobs by repairing the nation’s infrastructure, extend a payroll tax cut that could keep money in people’s pockets, and make it easier for entrepreneurs to get patents.

But the debt discussion is taking up Washington’s bandwidth. And not everyone is so sure it will help speed job creation.

“Washington seems tone deaf,” said Scott Paul, executive director of the Alliance for American Manufacturing, a sector of the economy Obama has been actively promoting. “The metric for President Obama and congressional leaders must now be the number of jobs we create, rather than the amount of deficit reduction we see.”

The White House says the priority is both the deficit and jobs and that people understand that.

A Pew Research Center poll in June found that more people favored cutting the deficit than spending to help the recovery. That mood varied widely, though, by political constituency. Independents, who will be key to Obama’s bid for a second term, favored deficit cutting over economic spending by 54 percent to 39 percent.

“The key is making sure that you’re communicating the importance to the future of the country of dealing with our deficit, without slipping into inside-the-Beltway lingo,” said Dan Pfeiffer, Obama’s communications director. “If communicated incorrectly, it can feel removed from day-to-day life. On the other hand, there’s an element of common sense to why this is important that I think people in the country get that sometimes eludes folks in this town.”

The debt limit remains an obscurity to people. An Associated Press-GfK poll in June found Americans divided on raising it or not.

Obama has tried to make the case that calamity awaits without action by Congress.

“I want everybody to understand that this is a jobs issue,” he pleaded in a news conference last week. “This is not an abstraction.”

The struggle has drawn Obama again into a reality of his job: time-eating negotiations with Congress on matters that resonate little with voters. After a bruising midterm election season last year, he conceded that meeting his White House responsibilities cost him some connection with the people.

The president has since made a point to get out of town more regularly. Not this month, though. He is expected to keep meeting with congressional leaders at the White House until a deal can be reached, just as he did, day after day and night after night, earlier this year on a budget deal that prevented a government shutdown.

Irrespective of the jobs element, Obama stands to gain if he emerges with a package that genuinely shrinks the debt in a way most Americans think is fair.

“What’s fundamentally at stake here are economic issues. And barring any surprises, that’s what the election will be about,” said Robert Shapiro, a Columbia University professor who studies public opinion. “Getting out in front is something that would play well publicly, if things fare well. Taking the lead on the economy is probably a very good use of his time.”

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