Posted on 10/20/2008 8:18:17 PM PDT by Libloather
HEALTH CRISIS
OBAMA LEAVING CAMPAIGN TRAIL TO VISIT ILL GRANDMOTHER MADELYN PAYNE DUNHAM
Posted: 10:24 pm
October 20, 2008
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is canceling nearly all his campaign events Thursday and Friday to fly to Hawaii to visit his suddenly gravely ill 85-year-old grandmother, a spokesman said.
Robert Gibbs told reporters aboard Obama's plane that Madelyn Payne Dunham, who helped raise Obama, 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.
"Sen. 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."
**SNIP**
She's also the "white grandmother" he referred to in a speech on race.
Obama last visited Hawaii in August, when he spent a week on vacation after he had clinched the Democratic presidential nomination.
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Actually I think she lives in a apartment.
It's just not the kind of thing you usually say of someone who's still alive.
That was exactly my thought. Need to take care of some family paperwork before someone else gets to it.
"Now Barry, I told you once not so long ago that the most important thing on this Earth is the truth. There are some letters, already addressed, in a safety deposit box. My attorney has the key."
Gov. Lingle is very close with Gov. Palin. They talk often.
Either that or he just doesn't give a ..... Any normal family, they'd have all packed up and left at ONCE if Grandma was gravel ill. Senator Government has to keep with the politics for days before he can go.
KENYAN BORN! www.usafricaonline.com/news.html
We'll know soon.
I think I have a cold comming on. Does this mean I was born in Hawaii or not?
In fact, the conspiracy would need to be even deeper than our colleagues realized. In late July, a researcher looking to dig up dirt on Obama instead found a birth announcement that had been published in the Honolulu Advertiser on Sunday, Aug. 13, 1961:
Obama's birth announcement Born in the U.S.A.
Seems to me, if his father was still married to his wife in Africa, he could not legally be married to Ann. I don't guess it matters.
Blessings for Mrs Dunham. God Bless her, Ms. Soetoro and Grandson Barack.
A hip injury at her age can be life threatening, the bodily systems can be overtaxed and start to shut down.
How unfortunate for Senator Obama if his blessed Mother should expire one week before the election? In 2000, Mel Carnahan running for US Senate for Missouri died in a plane crash, incumbent John Ashcroft suspended his campaign, and the sympathy was so overwhelming that his widow was elected a week later.
I suppose the Hawaii Supreme Court might also not act out of sympathy on the birth certicate issue out of sympathy, just as the Missouri courts dubiously allowed Mel Carnahan ballot votes to go to Senator Jean Carnahan.
It would be so tragic if Grandma Dunham might expire like Marilyn Monroe in 1962 by a prescription enema applied after she was so friendly and close to those nice Kennedy brothers.
Ms. Dunham needs Secret Service protection immediately- she could be assassinated by someone related to her.
I hope there is someone in Honolulu or Washington DC like Daniel Patrick Moynihan the weekend of Nov 22-24, 1963, who warned at the highest decibels that Lee Harvey Oswald needed immediate Federal protection because he knew someone might pierce the Dallas police.
God Save Ms. Dunham and the Republic. Call Oliver Stone, film the conspiracy live!
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