WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Democrat Barack Obama is cancelling nearly all his campaign events Thursday and Friday to fly to Hawaii to visit his suddenly ill 86-year-old grandmother.
Campaign spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters Monday that Obama's grandmother, Madelyn Payne Dunham, who helped raise him, was released from the hospital late last week. But he says her health has deteriorated to the point where her situation is very serious.
Gibbs said Obama would return to the campaign trail on Saturday, though he was unsure where.
Obama events originally planned for Madison, Wis., and Des Moines, Iowa, on Thursday will be replaced with one in Indianapolis before he makes the long flight to Hawaii.
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Just saw on tv they said it could be up to four days, which would be roughly 1/3 of the time remaining before election.
McCain could show some integrity by stopping the smears while Obama is with his ailing grandmother with his back turned.
Anyways, hope she improves.
I hope he does that as well, I thought that the GOP side did well when Biden had the death in his family, they stopped attacking him and at least centered their attacks on Obama for a bit.
What we've got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach, so you get what we had here last week which is the way he wants it. Well, he gets it.
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