What could he accomplish in person in Hawaii that some surrogate could not get done for him, if necessary?
What would require his actual presence there?
I was watching CNBC today and even some of the lib commentators there were saying this was a brilliant PR move for Obama.
IOW, they seemed to think Grandma was sick, but that going to see her right now accomplished more than one thing for Obama.
Obtaining his sealed BC.
Barry and maybe his Granny are the only two people in the world who know the real story about Stanley Anne’s travels, lovers, and habits, his parentage and his birth place. There is some reason he hasn’t been photographed with Granny for 25 years, spent all of an hour with her during his family’s last summer’s vacation, and why his kids (and maybe Michelle, since Granny didn’t attend his wedding) seem to have never even met her.
Maybe he has to get in Granny’s face to work out who is going to say and do what to make this story go away. Maybe there are things even his attorneys in Hawaii do not know and he does not want to tell them.