Obama Leaving Campaign Trail To Visit Ill Grandmother... Madelyn Payne Dunham!!!!!!!

by **J The Kidd** Tue Oct 21, 2008 11:00 pm

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."

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." Dunham turns 86 on Sunday.

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 Hawaii in August, when he spent a week on vacation
after he had clinched the Democratic presidential nomination

Here his other Grandmother and shes doing good....

Obama Leaving Campaign Trail To Visit Ill Grandmother... Madelyn Payne Dunham!!!!!!! FUCKUPAYMEUNDERRATEDOVERWORKEDUNDERPAID