Breaking News: Obama leaving campaign to visit "sick Grandma" in Hawaii

Fox News Channel | October 20.2008 | Fox News Alert

[The Doctor]

Fox News Alert on Hannity and Colmes

Barack Obama leaving campaign trail for a few days to visit sick grandmother in Hawaii. She has just been released from the hospital. Barack Obama and his grandmother have been close through the years.

[jwalsh07]

I wish his Grandma well.

Perhaps when he's done in Hawaii he can visit his brothers shack in Kenya for a couple of weeks.

[TaxRelief]

I suspect he wants to play the heavy, in person, to prevent his “birth information” and “adoption information” from being released.

[April Lexington]

“I hope someone follows him to see if he tries to destroy the real record of his Kenyan birth.
Me, too. Like Larry Sinclair, I thought the birth certificate issue was originally idle gossip...but not anymore.”

Obama: “Oh, man, I got to get to that safe deposit box before the subpoena shows up!”

[moonpie57]

I’m curious as to how long she was in the hospital and how serious it is. If it is serious, why wait until she went home? My first thought too was that the timing is suspicious.

[mabelkitty]

His canceling debates with Jewish organizations are starting to make national news, as is his review of Ayers’ book.

Sick or not, there is no way this can be verified. It gives him a convenient out. How nice for him.

[Dallas59]

Will he pay someone to get rid of the BC or do it himself?

[tirednvirginia]

Yes, I sincerely hope his grandmother will be okay, too.

[woofie]

wild conjecture :

It is time for Hillary to hit him with something devastating

[WOSG]

They’d only print it that way if he was a Republican.

[newnhdad]

Then he’ll return about twenty pounds heavier and with a beard and he’ll go back to “teaching” while writing a book on how to transform America.

[bricklayer]

“He has a team (Hawaii Five-o?) getting the data on the birth.”

Hawaii Five 0-bama.

[mabelkitty]

Not at all.
How many executives take time off when granny is sick?
Exactly.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

Prayers up for his g-ma, but this is an excuse "in case" he loses. His campaign must be scared of something and he wants political viability, after watching what J F'ing Kerry became.

Or, is he moving for cover with the API/FEC deadline due tomm (both items?)

[Gil4]

“...to give Biden’s gaffe some time to die out.”

I’m sure the gaffe machine will crank out a few more by then

[Danae]

I imagine that Andy Martin is trying just that.

[The Doctor]

Yes— that’s the one he “threw under the bus” by calling her a racist, even though he forgave her for her prejudice.

[Army Air Corps]

Maybe he is off to score some Maui Wowie from the source?

[Dallas59]

I wonder how much money Barry will shuck out to keep her quiet...plus the record keeper at the Hospital?

[CanadianMusherinMI]

you know if this was mccain we would know which hospital his grandma had been in, what her illness was and when she was released. mccain would have been criticized for not being there earlier. then they would have called it a political stunt. yet we are to take bo’s word for it that his grandma is ill. no press. when mccain went back to washington to take care of business obama slammed him harder, but betcha if mccain dare say one word about obama the msm will scream to high heaven. i hate those peeps.

[Red Steel]

working on BC is more like it...

That's seems to be the ten thousand pound gorilla in the room.