Obama leaving campaign trail to visit gravely ill grandmother
Obama leaving campaign trail to visit gravely ill grandmother
Obama leaving campaign trail to visit gravely ill grandmother#1
Posted: 10/20/08 at 11:19pm
Obama leaving campaign trail to visit grandmother
By JENNIFER LOVEN – 1 hour ago
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — 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, his communications director said.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g3m4YaeYwDHXS6hHdZJi8pm6cZdAD93UJ2200
re: Obama leaving campaign trail to visit gravely ill grandmother#2
Posted: 10/20/08 at 11:31pmKind of like McCain said he was going to do when the economy cratered except he didn't really do it.
re: Obama leaving campaign trail to visit gravely ill grandmother#2
Posted: 10/20/08 at 11:35pm
They say he's returning to the campaign on Saturday.
Meanwhile, here's wishing Mrs. Dunham a refuah schleimah, a complete healing, so that she can watch and kvell and shep nachas on Election Night as her grandson is elected president.
re: Obama leaving campaign trail to visit gravely ill grandmother#3
Posted: 10/20/08 at 11:42pm^^^ What he said. I love his punim.
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re: Obama leaving campaign trail to visit gravely ill grandmother#4
Posted: 10/20/08 at 11:44pmYes, just the antithesis of that ferbissenah punim of McCain's.
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re: Obama leaving campaign trail to visit gravely ill grandmother#5
Posted: 10/21/08 at 3:01pmI thought his grandmother was in Hawaii. He's in Florida. Huh?
re: Obama leaving campaign trail to visit gravely ill grandmother#6
Posted: 10/21/08 at 3:11pmI guess you missed where it said he was going to Hawaii on Thursday/Friday.
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re: Obama leaving campaign trail to visit gravely ill grandmother#7
Posted: 10/21/08 at 3:13pmYes, it specifically says he's flying to Hawaii.
re: Obama leaving campaign trail to visit gravely ill grandmother#8
Posted: 10/21/08 at 3:16pmFlorida, huh? Socialistterroristpalarounderwith.
re: Obama leaving campaign trail to visit gravely ill grandmother#9
Posted: 10/21/08 at 3:17pmI believe he's making a stop in Indiana tomorrow, then taking two days off to go to Hawaii. However, some news sites are incorrectly stating that he's suspending his campaign. To the best of my knowledge, no one from the Obama camp has said that. Biden, Michelle Obama, and other surrogates will continue to appear at events, ads will still run, and the ground game will continue.
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re: Obama leaving campaign trail to visit gravely ill grandmother#10
Posted: 10/21/08 at 3:34pmI did miss the Thursday/Friday statement. I remember when my grandmother got "gravely ill", I went immediately. I figured he'd do the same. So, when you all expressed faux outrage at my saying I was glad he didn't say "call me if you need me", I guess he did.
re: Obama leaving campaign trail to visit gravely ill grandmother#11
Posted: 10/21/08 at 3:34pmYou were there?
re: Obama leaving campaign trail to visit gravely ill grandmother#12
Posted: 10/21/08 at 3:36pmYou may call my outrage misplaced, if you like, but you don't get to decide it was faux.
re: Obama leaving campaign trail to visit gravely ill grandmother#13
Posted: 10/21/08 at 3:38pmI hear she broke her hip....
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re: Obama leaving campaign trail to visit gravely ill grandmother#14
Posted: 10/21/08 at 3:40pm
You were there?
No, but I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt that he didn't say, "don't call me if you need me". But, who knows? I wasn't there.
re: Obama leaving campaign trail to visit gravely ill grandmother#15
Posted: 10/21/08 at 4:13pm
Regardless, he failed The JB2 Nana Test.
The shame!
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re: Obama leaving campaign trail to visit gravely ill grandmother#16
Posted: 10/21/08 at 4:24pm
Once you start campaigning, you can't do anything that isn't analyzed to death. So now the Democrats will applaud his heroism and the Republicans will say he's trying for sympathy votes.
Sigh....
re: Obama leaving campaign trail to visit gravely ill grandmother#17
Posted: 10/21/08 at 4:26pm
Only Republicans are declared heroes for doing the right/human thing. Giuliani was mayor of New York on 9-11-01 and he acted like a leader. HERO.
Obama is not a hero for visiting his ill grandmother. He's a human being.
re: Obama leaving campaign trail to visit gravely ill grandmother#18
Posted: 10/21/08 at 4:28pmI haven't seen anyone applauding his heroism. Merely extending their sympathy.
obama leaving campaign trail to visit gravely ill grandmother#19
Posted: 10/21/08 at 4:32pmactually i have not seen decisive proof that he is not in fact a death machine creature grown from alien seed pods harvested and tended in the deepest recesses of the old soviet union by enslaved muslim tajikis, namo. so unless you have dna results that you are willing to publish here, you best just retract that whole "human being" allegation. the things some people will just assume that everyone believes. sheesh.
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obama leaving campaign trail to visit gravely ill grandmother#20
Posted: 10/21/08 at 4:40pmThat's why I'm voting for Lyndon LaRouche!
obama leaving campaign trail to visit gravely ill grandmother#21
Posted: 10/21/08 at 4:44pm
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