Posted on 10/23/2008 4:29:51 PM PDT by Shermy
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana (AFP) Barack Obama on Thursday quit the White House trail for Hawaii and an emotional reunion with his gravely ill 85-year-old grandmother, 12 days before the US presidential election.
Madelyn Dunham, who raised the 47-year-old Obama for much of his childhood, is his sole remaining link with his tight-knit family after his mother died of cancer more than a decade ago.
The Democratic nominee's compassionate leave comes with Republican John McCain searching for a sudden lurch in momentum and new polls showing Obama well positioned in the vital battleground states set to decide the November 4 election.
Obama told CBS television that he decided to make the exhausting journey half-way across the Pacific to see Dunham -- nicknamed "Toot" -- despite the crush of campaign events as he "got there too late" when his mother Ann Dunham died.
"We knew that she wasn't doing well but, you know, the diagnosis was such where we thought we had a little more time and we didn't. And so I want to make sure that I don't -- I don't make the same mistake twice," Obama said.
"My grandmother's the last one left. She has really been the rock of the family, the foundation of the family. Whatever strength, discipline that I have, it comes from her."
Dunham is reportedly suffering from a broken hip and generally failing health.
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DITTO!
Part of the proof of this are the articles about BO’s “emotional reunion” with his “tight knit family”.
A real man would keep this whole thing quiet.
This trip came up urgently Monday afternoon after the Judge in the Berg Law Suit read HUSSEIN the Riot Act! Obama HUSSEIN iis running to Hawaii with his tail wrapped between his legs trying to salvage is candidacy with his screwed up BIRTH HISTORIES!!Just Who the HELL is this GHOST who has Hidden All of His Past Records? Obama HUSSEIN is the Illegitimate Son of Momar Quaddaffi and still Maintains His Libyan Citizenship and is the Secret heir to the Throne of LIBYA!! This, while possibly not true, is Most Likely much Closer to the TRUTH than anything Obama HUSSEIN has told the American Public to date!!
Pardon me, but the crumb crunhers were not with The Messiah when he met with His Racist Granny for slightly less than ! hour during his Hawaiian vacation this summer which was allegedly taken to rest and viist with his “Beloved Granny” to proe that he really Loved her and didn’t “REALLY CALL HER RACIST!” and throw her under the bus like a dead RAT!!
What about the half sister - the one his mother had with Indonesian??
I I thought BO Senior had a few more kids with his, what three, four wives too.
Ditto - as awful as it is, I really think that's what desperation has brought him to!
“This trip came up urgently Monday afternoon after the Judge in the Berg Law Suit read HUSSEIN the Riot Act!”
Do tell!! What did the judge say? I must have missed it.
Good News. Jerome Corsi is also heading to Hawaii. Hope he beats the Obamaskis to the courthouse.
Since the McCain campaign claims it didn’t know about Ifill’s book, I hope Corsi, Martin and the National Enquirer are on top of Barry’s every move.
See if you can keep yawning after you check out Youtube for footage of Obama campaigning all over Kenya with Commie-trained Cousin Odinga. Check out the $1Million campaign contribution from Obama to Odinga.
Check out the BBC footage of the massacres and wave of terror urged by Odinga after he lost the election, which he used to get himself named Prime Minister.
It's very likely that some of Obama's money paid for the gasoline and matches used to torch churches in the Kikuyu tribe's areas.
In other words, Obama financially supported and campaigned for a guy who burned Christians alive in their churches ... and whose platform promised Sharia Law to Kenya's Muslims.
A mysterious child-molesting black communist poet,
a ranting black liberation theologian who begs God to damn America,
a domestic terrorist bomber,
a foreign communist advocate of Sharia who burns Christians alive and ethnically cleanses rival tribespeople.
And their friend, their supporter, their ideological ally, their cousin becomes POTUS? WTF is wrong with this picture and how come supposedly 50%+ of polled Americans think that all of this is OK?
BTW, in re Michelle and the children not going to see Grandma? The book on Michelle is that she very rarely shows up for work and will not speak with white people unless absolutely necessary. One angry person! I would love to know if she invited Granny to the wedding.
You could be right on this one. I still don’t quite understand why in the homestretch he would be doing this unless the campaign sees so much trouble with the white vote that this was the best way they could try to pick it up.
Very strange. There is always a motive of Obama doing things so there definitely is a story I just don’t think anyone has nailed it yet.
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