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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]

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To: WellyP
I don’t think his plane has that much range.

Well obviously the whole idea that Obama might somehow make an unnoticed trip to Indonesia (in a very unique plane full of reporters) is totally nutty. Of course that's not the most bizarre conspiracy theory on this thread.

401 posted on 10/20/2008 10:42:45 PM PDT by wideminded
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To: Blue Turtle

Like hell .... he’s scrambling to get ANY certified birth certificate.


402 posted on 10/20/2008 10:46:22 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (I will support and defend the Constitution of the USA, against all enemies, foreign and domestic.)
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To: ConservativeMind

The Obama campaign has been trafficking in his grandparents with glossy mailings here in Pennsylvania by the Pensylvania State Education Association.

Voters in general, not just union members, are getting the mailings extolling his grandparents and the grandfather’s service in World War II.

They promote Obama with the phase “patriotism runs in his blood” citing the family history of the grandfather.


403 posted on 10/20/2008 11:16:24 PM PDT by Nextrush (Sarah Palin is the new Ronald Reagan.)
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To: Blue Turtle
wait a dern minute hea-ah !

is that the grandma who snitched him off about being born in Kenya who's sick ?

If so I doubt she'll make it !

404 posted on 10/20/2008 11:22:28 PM PDT by KTM rider (It's the supreme court appointments stupid)
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To: Out to lunch

Toodle-loo Noob Number Two.....


405 posted on 10/20/2008 11:30:40 PM PDT by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42 - 12/17/45, d. 11/1/85)
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To: LucyT

Bump Dat...


406 posted on 10/20/2008 11:33:01 PM PDT by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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To: jmc813

Sometimes a sick grandmother is just a sick grandmother. Just sayin’.

I can honestly say I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more retarded FR thread than this one. A lot of people need to grow up.

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I have to agree. No wonder we’re losing. This thread sounds like the DU wackos from 2000 who were whining about Bush & Cheney both living in TX. They were looking for ANY reason to get them out of the race....

Prayers for Gran and the family. Losing those closest to you is never easy. I lost both my parents in their 70’s and I could never visit longer than an hour, because they just couldn’t entertain longer than that - (Dad had AZ so Mom was a bit overburdened....)

Those of you with grandparents who are still living, please realize what a gift you have. I only knew my paternal grandfather, (Mom’s parents died before I was born) and not very well, as he lived across the country, close to my grandmother who was in a home with AZ (long before they knew what it was, or how to care for the patients) - so it was more of an asylum than a “home for the aging.”

Please, please, please.... do NOT take your grandparents or your parents for granted - or for that matter, ANYONE YOU LOVE. They can be gone in the blink of an eye.

Sorry for the pathos, I’m close to the Red Tent I guess.


407 posted on 10/20/2008 11:37:26 PM PDT by Myynnxx
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To: All; holdonnow; ETL; rightwingintelligentsia; Clint N. Suhks; SoCalPol; HonestConservative; ...

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/

Shhh, on the first post there, the second is on his grandma.

I read the statement. She was released late last week, but her health has deteriorated, and he’ll see her when?

Oh, and this doesn’t help either btw...

http://rogersparkbench.blogspot.com/2008/10/obama-connected-to-sunrise-equities.html

Back to my original subject rant:

I remember when Obama ‘left’ Trinity or ‘threw’ Wright under... he was vacationing with him for Easter with the family, no stop for grandma (I wondered why isn’t he preaching somewhere and why isn’t the one in church somewhere. Grandma was sick then as well). Then later he went without the wife and kids going up (I said WTH is going on with that family). Maybe his grandmother needs not only prayers but SS protection from him. Reporters, stake out the birth records spot. You would think with friends like his, he could get a credible document. Oh well. Again, prayers up for grandma.


408 posted on 10/20/2008 11:43:32 PM PDT by AliVeritas
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To: Arizona Carolyn

There may be some subterfuge here. Perhaps he’s already on a plane for Hawaii, and didn’t want people to know for some reason.


409 posted on 10/20/2008 11:44:01 PM PDT by AZLiberty (Obama can act presidential. McCain should be President.)
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To: Wild Irish Rogue

Are you sure this is the right statement you put up?

“He ( Obama ) said, “The biggest mistake I made was not being at my mother’s bedside when she died.”
He went on to say, “She was in Hawaii in a hospital, and we didn’t know how fast it was going to take,
and I didn’t get there in time.”

How fast it was going to take? You changed that right?


410 posted on 10/20/2008 11:53:53 PM PDT by AliVeritas
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To: Wild Irish Rogue

I thought someone said he was writing his book about his father at the time and couldn’t be bothered.


411 posted on 10/20/2008 11:56:57 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Blue Turtle
I would keep my ears to the ground about a sudden large charity donation in Hawaii, money can buy silence as we all know. This is the breaker of the election, we need to start plugging in more toasters until it trips. Sarah should harp on about "Americans" and start playing "Born in the USA" over and over.
412 posted on 10/20/2008 11:58:07 PM PDT by Daniel Ramsey (Live from Wasilla, Alaska and saying NO to Barack HUSSEIN Obama)
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To: AZLiberty

If there is subterfuge it has to do with Andy Martin being in Hawaii right now and requesting a court order to release his birth certificate. I hope is grandmother is fine, I also wonder why he didn’t go see her last week while in hospital and why, if she is so ill he is waiting till Thursday and only staying Friday. 2 + 2 never equals 4 with Obama.


413 posted on 10/21/2008 12:00:41 AM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Gondring

I don’t believe DU doesn’t have anything, maybe it cycled already. But they do have McCain linked to Iran-Contra on top.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/

Sigh, guess it’s time to bring out the Iraq contracts and the sharia bank scandal.


414 posted on 10/21/2008 12:07:06 AM PDT by AliVeritas
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To: mnehrling
I pray she is OK, I hope he doesn’t turn this into a publicity stunt.

I pray she is OK too, but I strongly suspect this is a publicity stunt.

415 posted on 10/21/2008 12:07:35 AM PDT by Allegra (NO giving up, NO quitting, NO doom and gloom, NO drama queens...Keep up the faith)
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To: hiredhand
Ailing Grandmother in this context is the analogue to a pre-1960s young high school girl going off for several months to visit her sick aunt.
416 posted on 10/21/2008 12:35:32 AM PDT by Lexinom
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To: LibertyRocks

What this allows Obama to do is to claim sympathy from all the harmful ads that will be run against him this week by the 527 groups and prevents the McCain campaign from attacking him will full force. Of course he will be backed up by the MSM. Why is he waiting till Thursday to travel on learning about it on Monday?


417 posted on 10/21/2008 12:40:17 AM PDT by techno
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To: techno

How is he traveling? Is his campaign jet ETOPS-certified, or does he need to travel on a commercial airliner?


418 posted on 10/21/2008 12:48:08 AM PDT by Lexinom
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To: cdga5for4
She said, “We have to do all of this and he doesn’t to run for president?”

Evidently, the American people are presumed to be more careful to check qualifications than bureaucrats.

The Founding Fathers knew better than that, and established a republic. This is a sign that the republic is desd.

419 posted on 10/21/2008 12:56:48 AM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: BCrago66
Obama’s visit to Hawaii does solve the little problem of getting personal jurisdiction via service of process :-)

BHO is not a named defendant.

420 posted on 10/21/2008 1:31:11 AM PDT by mn-bush-man
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