Posted on 10/24/2008 5:13:38 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
HONOLULU, Hawaii (AFP) – Barack Obama Friday grabbed a few precious hours with his gravely ill grandmother in Hawaii, after saying the woman he calls a "rock" of his life may not live until the election in 11 days.
The Democratic presidential nominee headed back to the apartment block where his grandmother Madelyn Dunham, 85, who raised him for much of his childhood, lives, for a second visit after arriving in his native state late Thursday.
At one stage, a somber looking Obama emerged from the building for a solitary walk around his boyhood haunts, trailed by a lone Secret Service agent, before catching sight of some reporters and heading back in an SUV.
Obama's decision to quit the White House trail so close to the election raised some eyebrows, but his wife Michelle and vice presidential nominee Joseph Biden picked up the pace before he returns to action on Saturday.
"I'm still not sure whether she makes it to election day," Obama told ABC News of his grandmother, who he knows affectionately as "Toot," in an interview recorded before the election front-runner left the mainland.
"We're all praying, and we hope she does ... she's still alert, and she's still got all her faculties and I want to make sure that I don't miss that opportunity right now."
Michelle Obama said in the key swing state of Ohio that Obama told her he got his "'toughness from Toot.'"
"She taught him with her quiet confidence and that love and support that he could do anything," she said.
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“At one stage, a somber looking Obama emerged from the building for a solitary walk around his boyhood haunts”
Must not have been able to find that birth certificate...
“Native state” (snicker)
Prayers for Granny ‘Toot’!
Somber Obama - preview of election night.
Pfffft..... give me a break, lady!
Apparently, Michelle could care less about Toot given that she didn't even see her at all during the 9-day Hawaii trip back in August. And I think Obama saw her for only a handful of hours combined?
Got his hour of quality time in with granny. Just like his August visit.
In/out
Horse poop
This is a hitler style of the burdens of the leader show.
In addition he is playing the messiah role to the hilt.
the messiah left his disciples to go to the garden of Hawaii to contemplate death. (death of his grandmother granted)
it is so fraudulent it palpable.
remember the scam with huckabee’s gamed cross in the commercial?
Lol.
That sentence sounded like something from a novel or something.
VERY BIZARRE INDEED that Obama has not let his daughters see great grandma on his last visit or this one. VERY BIZARRE INDEED!
messiah in his garden of gisemini (sorry spelling)
Prob took her an early ballot.
From what I hear this clown spent one hour on two days with his granny who wants nothing to do with him. No visit by his daughters to see his precious granny
What a farce
I am telling you this is about their internals with women and/or elderly voters. A presidential candidate can’t just go walking around the block of apartments (high rises i’m sure) with one ss agent.
This is Obama’s “Bill Clinton arranging the stones” moment. Prays for grandma, scorn for grandson.
... said the presidential hopeful, dispassionately.
Sorry he has to have granny knocked off. Dead people don’t talk.
Excuse me? The photogs were taking pictures the whole time. BIGGEST PHONY EVER!
Who is taking care of this lady if she is that ill? Why is she not in a hospital or long term care facility if death is so near? At the very least I would think she would have a live in care giver.
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