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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: Walkers

She is the daughters Great Grandmother and not MO’s mother-in-law.


421 posted on 10/21/2008 1:56:46 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Gondring
even to the point of pretending not to have interacted with a guy who shared his address for 3 years.

Can you spare me a link on this? I must have missed this. Thanks.
422 posted on 10/21/2008 2:19:36 AM PDT by VA40
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To: Red_Devil 232
Exactly - if Great Grandma is dying, why wouldn't the great granddaughters be at her side? Unless they have zero relationship with her. And if it's true as Obama’s spokesperson stated on the plane that she is like a Mother to Obama, why wouldn't Michelle be their at his side during such a difficult time?

Maybe he'll get support from those he has received support from for the last 20 years, Rev Wright and Bill Ayers via phone.

And Gibb's LIED on the plane yesterday. “Along with his mother and his grandfather, she raised him in Hawaii from the time he was born until the moment he left for college.”

He wasn't raised in Hawaii. He was raised in Hawaii AND INDONESIA by his Grandparents, his Mother and his Step Father Soetero. His campaign lies like it's going out of style.

But don't worry, Reggie Love will be there to support Obama. Michelle will be in Ohio, turning off more voters. Obama’s trip is about the lawsuit while using his Grandmother's poor health as cover. Why didn't he visit her when she was in the hospital? Maybe she told him she didn't want him there, but he could have left his St Louis event, arrived in HI in less than 8 hours, and returned. He could have slept on the flights.

Obama’s the most secret conniving politician in our nation's history and it is strange that Michelle is never with her husband. She may never see his Grandmother again, and why wouldn't she want to be there to comfort Obama during such a difficult time? The Obama’s are just plain weird.

423 posted on 10/21/2008 2:22:23 AM PDT by Walkers
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To: suzy02

Sounds like his campaign got the heads up to get back to HI on last Saturday.

They then planned to visit HI on Thursday and Friday, while using his ailing Grandmother as cover. Decided to fake appearances at IA and WI - hoping to throw McCain off in the interim and make their HI trip appear as a last minute decision late Monday. When in reality, they made the decision on Saturday due to the lawsuit.


424 posted on 10/21/2008 2:36:56 AM PDT by Walkers
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To: Lexinom
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.

I hear ya buddy!
425 posted on 10/21/2008 2:40:38 AM PDT by hiredhand (Understand the CRA and why we're facing economic collapse - see my about page.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

“If she dies, he wins.”

Grandma, let me show you this new pillow I brought you from Chicago. Now, now; quit squirming.”


426 posted on 10/21/2008 2:48:54 AM PDT by ExiledChicagoan (I see a red door and I want it painted black. But that's just me.)
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To: VA40

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2109106/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2109504/posts
http://community.cnhi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/862107671/m/5411084061


427 posted on 10/21/2008 3:15:45 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: Lexinom

//Is his campaign jet ETOPS-certified//

I would think most likely it is


428 posted on 10/21/2008 3:26:59 AM PDT by valkyry1 (McCain/Palin 2008)
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To: Gondring

Wow, thanks. Have not seen this in “the news”. Can’t see how anyone still believes their association is no big deal. Community organizing sure is profitable.


429 posted on 10/21/2008 3:29:34 AM PDT by VA40
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To: Mr Fuji

Ditto on the civility.

Prayers for the GrandMother.


430 posted on 10/21/2008 4:24:23 AM PDT by Tainan (Talk is cheap. Silence is golden. All I got is brass...lotsa brass.)
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To: Gemsbok

I can’t...work. I believe the rally is at Bicentennial Park, which if it is, should attract all the dregs of South Florida. Downtown Miami is pretty trashy.


431 posted on 10/21/2008 4:38:34 AM PDT by Boiling Pots (Wright, Ayers, Alinsky, ACORN and Odinga - Attack!!)
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1) So, if Obama’s grandma was hospitalized last week, why didn’t we hear Barack say so during his debate with McCain or on the campaign trail [”I want to send a big kiss and a hug to my grandma Madelyn, who is hospitalized in Honolulu today”]?

2) Grandma Dunham is out of the hospital now, and Obama is waiting three more days (until Thurs. 10/24) to go fly over 8 hours to get to Honolulu to see her?

3) Why couldn’t Michelle fly to Hawaii last week and stay with or keep company to the most influential woman in her husband’s life? Is it because she’s a ‘typical white person’?

4) This story reeks.

PRAYERS UP, GRANDMA DUNHAM! DON’T DRINK THE TEA!


432 posted on 10/21/2008 4:40:58 AM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD (Airlines can take their $15-per-checked-bag surcharge and shove it!)
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To: JennysCool

Out to lunch has been put out to pasture.


433 posted on 10/21/2008 6:03:11 AM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: Blue Turtle
But he says her health has deteriorated to the point where her situation is very serious.

If she is in such a serious situation, why is bHo waiting FOUR days to rush to her side? Is hoping to wrap up the funeral, while appearing to do the right thing all at the same time?

434 posted on 10/21/2008 6:21:57 AM PDT by Just A Nobody (PISSANT for President '08 - NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

It sure does reek and somebody in Hawaii needs to be posted, watching the door to the courthouse.


435 posted on 10/21/2008 6:25:00 AM PDT by Hanna548
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To: Myynnxx
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.

Threads like this are what keep me from recommending FR to other people.

436 posted on 10/21/2008 6:34:58 AM PDT by jmc813
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To: Blue Turtle

Biden to leave the campaign trail to have his mouth stapled shut.


437 posted on 10/21/2008 6:35:56 AM PDT by Puddleglum
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To: Blue Turtle

Wonder if Grandma has the same symptoms Corsi had upon return from Kenya.


438 posted on 10/21/2008 6:39:19 AM PDT by austinaero
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To: Brown Deer

“Citing the family’s desire for privacy,”

I say we give this family the same amount of privacy that the DNC and media have given Sarah Palin and her family, esp. her little baby Trig.


439 posted on 10/21/2008 6:41:59 AM PDT by austinaero
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To: austinaero

I would just like to add for the moral monitors out there, no one on this thread is wishing ill toward the Grandma. From what I read not one person is wishing any harm to her. What I am seeing and concur with is the perception that Obama will exploit any situation or anyone for his personal gain. He simply is not believable. I don’t think I, or others, need to “grow up” for expressing that sentiment.


440 posted on 10/21/2008 6:55:15 AM PDT by austinaero
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