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Breaking News: Obama to Leave Campaign Trail for Two Days to Visit Sick Grandmother
AP via Fox News ^

Posted on 10/20/2008 6:00:34 PM PDT by Blue Turtle

Edited on 10/20/2008 6:24:45 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

That's all it says for now...

Related article, coincidence?
Hawai’i Supreme Court asked to issue emergency writ opening secret Obama birth files

Edited by Admin Moderator.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: 2008; andymartin; antichrist; birthcertificate; breaking; obama; obamafamily
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To: Blue Turtle

Prayers lifted up for her comfort, and the truth to be revealed.


161 posted on 10/20/2008 6:39:22 PM PDT by TexasNative2000 (Be bold. Be brave. You're an American.)
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To: Blue Turtle

Yeah right—trying to win the whitey vote by visiting his white grandma


162 posted on 10/20/2008 6:39:49 PM PDT by uncbob
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To: Sacajaweau

Actually, I think we agree.

Darn it.


163 posted on 10/20/2008 6:40:01 PM PDT by Cedric
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To: TexasNative2000

It says she is back at home, not at a hospice. How do you know she was released to hospice care?


164 posted on 10/20/2008 6:40:32 PM PDT by kabar
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To: papasmurf

DU is not even talking about this story yet.

Probably stunned to silence.


165 posted on 10/20/2008 6:40:55 PM PDT by library user
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To: Sacajaweau

I pray for her health and SAFETY.

But this is just such a “coincidence” — I pray for Andy Martin’s safety as well.


166 posted on 10/20/2008 6:41:11 PM PDT by kimmie7 (I'm voting for the woman. All the others PALIN comparison.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Obama returning to Hawaii to visit ill grandmother

By Associated Press

POSTED: 03:32 p.m. HST, Oct 20, 2008

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. >> Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is canceling nearly all his campaign events Thursday and Friday to fly to Honolulu to visit his suddenly gravely ill 85-year-old grandmother, his communications director said.

Robert Gibbs told reporters aboard Obama’s plane that Obama’s grandmother, Madelyn Payne Dunham, who helped raise him, was released from the hospital late last week. But he said her health had deteriorated “to the point where her situation is very serious.”

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. On Friday, Obama’s wife, Michelle, will sub for Obama at rallies in Akron and Columbus, in Ohio, said campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki. Obama was expected to resume campaigning on Saturday, at an undecided location in the West, she said.

“Senator Obama’s grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, has always been one of the most important people in his life, along with his mother and his grandfather,” Gibbs said. “Recently his grandmother has become ill and in the last few weeks her health has deteriorated to the point where her situation is very serious. It is for that reason that Sen. Obama has decided to change his schedule on Thursday and Friday so that he can see her and spend some time with her.”

Citing the family’s desire for privacy, Gibbs would not discuss the nature of Dunham’s illness. It seemed likely that she was close to death, as Gibbs said that “everyone understands the decision that Sen. Obama is making.”

It could be a momentous one in his bid for the White House against Republican John McCain, with Election Day just two weeks away on Nov. 4.

In a campaign ad this year, Obama described his Dunham as the daughter of a Midwest oil company clerk who “taught me values straight from the Kansas heartland” — things like “accountability and self-reliance. Love of country. Working hard without making excuses. Treating your neighbor as you’d like to be treated.”

She’s also the “white grandmother” he referred to in a speech on race.

Obama last visited Oahu in August, when he spent a week on vacation after he had clinched the Democratic presidential nomination.
167 posted on 10/20/2008 6:41:25 PM PDT by Brown Deer
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To: Blue Turtle; Calpernia; Kevmo; Fred Nerks; null and void; pissant; george76; Polarik; PhilDragoo; ..

Ping.


168 posted on 10/20/2008 6:41:58 PM PDT by LucyT (We lived in the best place, in the best of times, in all of human history.)
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To: kabar

You can have hospice come to the home.


169 posted on 10/20/2008 6:42:10 PM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: papasmurf
"Somebody better trail this SOB. They are going to fake a birth certificate."

His Secret Service detail had better stick close to him everywhere, everywhere he goes ...

Reality is though, if they are intent on faking a birth certificate, they don't need him to be there to do that. But the trip may be aimed at "... hey, while I'm here, I might as well go take a little side trip to the records dept and pull out my old BC. Well, lookie here, born in Hawai'i just as I have always said (pssst, boys, great job, looks just like a real one from that time) ..."

170 posted on 10/20/2008 6:42:25 PM PDT by SFConservative
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To: Palladin
Well...if I were a conspiracy nut, I would say that Her Heinousness Hillary has something up her sleeve.

Funny you should bring that up, because didn't she campaign with Nobama today?

Maybe she is warming up to take over in a week because she knows something BIG is about to drop on Nobama's head?

171 posted on 10/20/2008 6:42:28 PM PDT by bayliving (I too am Joe the Plumber!)
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To: kabar
How do you know she was released to hospice care?

I don't know.....that's why I said << if >>.

172 posted on 10/20/2008 6:42:37 PM PDT by TexasNative2000 (Be bold. Be brave. You're an American.)
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To: TexasNative2000

People can be sent to hospice with a few months left.

What’s odd is the timing. If she’s days away from passing, he should get his butt there now, not on Thursday. I speak from personal experience and regret on this.


173 posted on 10/20/2008 6:42:51 PM PDT by NinoFan
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To: Boiling Pots
I’ve put up about 200 around town

You rock! Did you hear on FNC that BHO is to meet in Orlando tomorrow with Eric Schmidt - Google CEO? hmmm.... tin foil hat in full extension

174 posted on 10/20/2008 6:42:54 PM PDT by AmericanGirlRising (Joe the Plumber is a Lesson for Every American! -- www.protestthemedia.com - Oct. 21)
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To: Smokin' Joe

“I thought his dog ate it... “

That Tillie, she gets around.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1881564/posts


175 posted on 10/20/2008 6:42:59 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights (Stand Up Chuck!)
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To: Blue Turtle

I pray that his gramndmother recovers and lives for many, many years, I also pray his campaign dies a very painful death!


176 posted on 10/20/2008 6:42:59 PM PDT by The Chief (I'm a Volunteer Fire Fighter and I VOTE!)
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To: library user

This late in the game to go visit for 2 days, a sick grandmother, not dying, but just sick?

It just doesn’t add up.


177 posted on 10/20/2008 6:43:25 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: Blue Turtle

Barack, why don't your pass the time by playing a little Solitaire?

178 posted on 10/20/2008 6:43:47 PM PDT by SlowBoat407 (Obama will give us enough hope to hang ourselves.)
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To: TornadoAlley3

That pic makes me sick! What a jerk Clinton is for smooching up with that slug! She never had any self respect before putting up with the crap BC dished out and it looks like she continues to trash her self respect with a public encounter such as that! Disgusting!


179 posted on 10/20/2008 6:44:32 PM PDT by nfldgirl (Tribe Member: 'Runs with Rush')
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To: LucyT

Thanks for the ping. The guy is obviously working on the birth certificate thing. But unless it breaks in the next couple of days, the world will not know.


180 posted on 10/20/2008 6:44:46 PM PDT by Kevmo (I love that sound and please let that baby keep on crying. ~Sarah Palin)
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