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Obama plans sudden campaign break to visit ailing grandmother
Oct 21, 2008, 2:22 GMT
Supporters of Democratic Presidential Nominee Senator Barack Obama listen as he addresses them at a rally outside Amway Arena in Orlando, Florida, USA on 20 October 2008. Senator Obama was joined on stage by Senator Hillary Clinton. EPA/CHRIS LIVINGSTON
Washington - Democratic Party presidential nominee Barack Obama has decided to drop campaigning for two days later this week for a previously unplanned visit to his ailing grandmother in Hawaii, campaign officials announced late Monday.
Obama, who lead rallies Monday in Florida, will continue his scheduled events through Thursday afternoon, when he will fly to Hawaii to visit Madelyn Dunham, 85.
Obama, 47, a US senator from Illinois, was partly raised by his maternal grandmother. He has spoken often during the campaign of her influence on him and his respect for the sacrifices that his mother and grandparents made for him.
In Florida, Obama communications director Robert Gibbs said that the candidate will scuttle political events in Iowa and Wisconsin to visit Dunham, who has been ill and suffered deteriorating health in recent weeks. Obama plans to resume campaigning on Saturday.
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Before someone poisons this thread with their neocon rancidness, let me offer Mr Obama my best wishes for a safe trip. Given the apparent serious nature of this, I hope that all turns out well.
Isn't this the grandmother that he called 'racist' and could no more abandon her then he could abandon his racist pastor? (Whom he then abandoned...)
Guess granny didn't do too well after Obama tossed her under the bus.
Still, best wishes for a recovery. (Even though you loosed an America hating socialist on us.)
BY the way M&C, there are 2 candidates in this race.
yup, there are 2 candidates - Obama and Biden.
'yup, there are 2 candidates - Obama and Biden.'
See what happens when morons only read Monsters and Critics?
At least this so-called racist (if still is) grandmother loves her mixed race grandson, and the feeling is mutual. Get over it, conquer your Obama fears and raise this country up again.
and my money is on Obama.
all written by the same hand.
Got to be working for McCain .
please don't make up your mind until you talk this over with the great sp4.
McCain political scriptwriter probably working from some election office.
You can always tell by the length of each repeated post which has only a slightly different format.
angry, hateful Republicans spewing!
angry Republican!!
Our black hope for universal salvation has buggered off to Hawaii.
Makes no odds how long he stays there, come back at Christmas, it does not matter. By the luck of the Devil, this guy has won the election already. Reason ;-
McCain is all washed up. He looks over 100, he looks frail, he is a VERY OLD man, he does not look as if he has the energy to fart without having heart failure. The guy has ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE. God, he looks bad, like something the cat has brought in.
If I looked like that, I would book my funeral up quick, dump all those long playing tapes and discs and make damned sure that I drank all my beautiful whisky and brandy before I flaked out. Every second counts John-boy.
On top of being an old physical wreck, that cretin from Alaska has really pissed on his boots. With a VP like her, who needs enemies ? The whole Republican circus is in tatters. A real pile of political shit.
So, Saint Sambo , take your time and nurse your dear old Granny back to life, unfortunately for all of us - YOU`VE GOT NOTHING TO BEAT BACK HERE.
McCain is more of a Zombie than ever you will find in the Black Magic, cockerel-killing population of Hawaii.
this is the work of that Smiley D, pudnocker, headcase, as one poster calls him. This SPAMMER should be banned. What have his posts got to do with the story? NOTHING.
You deplorable piece of crap ! What the hell do you think you`re saying ?
Don`t you READ the news, or even this lead article ?
EVERY single word in the poster you criticize is factual and relevant.
IT HAS EVERYTHING TO DO WITH THE NEWS ITEM.
Either put your glasses on and read it again, or make sure you understand what is actually going on today. THERE IS A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN PROGRESS !
SPAMMER ! There is NO spam in that poster - IT IS ALL FACTUAL.
Sorry it hurt, but you are the problem, not me buddy.
See what happens when GOP morons only read Monsters and Critics? They think that McClame and Putrid Palin have a hope.
Boy, the Obamatard can't stand to read what it doesn't want to read.
It amazes me that anyone will vote for such a demonstrable liar. It amazes me that anyone will vote for someone even though, in the back of their heads they know Obama will be a lousy president.
As if there were any facts to challenge. Spam is spam, not facts.
'Obamatard?' Again, not a good way to influence anybody, son.
And precisely what does your SPAM have to do with the story, son?
Definition of SPAM ;-
The term 'spam' is Internet slang that refers to unsolicited commercial email (UCE) or unsolicited bulk email (UBE). Some people refer to this kind of communication as junk email to equate it with the paper junk mail that comes through the US Mail. Unsolicited email most often contains advertisements for services or products, but very few reputable marketers use UCE to advertise.
You and your buddy morons do not even know the meaning of SPAM.
My poster may offend you, but that does not make it spam. We live in a world of continuous likes and dislikes. All you do is use an Internet meaningless term to describe anything you don`t like.
NOW THAT IS BEING A CHILD - SON !
You patronising turd-ball, stop calling everybody 'child' and 'son', it shows you are some kind of elderly freak.
Are you a modern day HOWARD HUGHES ! Kind of live in a sterilized bubble away from all that disgusting activity, foul language and stink of ordinary people ?
You and your pathetic SPAM and puritanical approach to life make me want to puke. By YOUR standards the whole bloody Presidential election is SPAM, together with all the newspapers and TV media. OK ! say after me - THE WHOLE WORLD`S SPAM !
Go and play with yourself and let real people debate a subject in real everyday language. Life is not one big Church parade lead by angels, where all is perfect and heavenly adorable. I pity people like you.
STAY IN YOUR BUBBLE, providing it hasn't got a PC in it so you can pollute the M&C pages, we`ll all be happy.
'Go and play with yourself and let real people debate a subject in real everyday language. Life is not one big Church parade lead by angels, where all is perfect and heavenly adorable. I pity people like you.
STAY IN YOUR BUBBLE, providing it hasn't got a PC in it so you can pollute the M&C pages, we`ll all be happy.'
LOL!
What a petulant little rant from the Smiley D a-hole. But what else could be expected from a GOP Spambot? Don't expect anything intelligent or on topic from him. Hey. PAL, give it up. Go back to Bellevue, headcase.
'You and your pathetic SPAM and puritanical approach to life make me want to puke.'
Go ahead and puke, son. But an interesting choice of words: ' ...make me...'
I MAKE you do something? You've given up control of your life to me? I MAKE you? LOLOLOL ROFLMAO. How about you CHOOSE to be a sick little mewling, puking, lapdog.
'You patronising turd-ball'
That really goes to show your level of maturity. Or more properly, your level of immaturity, son.
There isn't any other way to call an inexperienced candidate inexperienced except to say, Yes, Obama is severely underprepared to become President. Oh, yes, he is a gifted speaker. But 2-3 years in the senate and being linked so much to ACORN and the 'Any and everybody gets a house' concept is poisonous to our country. This independent voter has campaigned to get 10 votes more from my own for Senator/Veteran John McCain. Those Americans concerned about Ms. Palin should remember, she is not running for President. It's Vice President.... Vote for experience in a dangerous world. This is no time for Amateurs to be doing On-The-Job training for the American Presidency. Vote fo McCain. Send Obama back to the Senate where we can use his bright mind for domestic solutions other than fraudulent voter registration.
YOU SAY: 'she is not running for President. It's Vice President'
You conveniently forget that the VP is the President-in-waiting. Given McLames poor health and mental faculties, Sleazy Sarah would be president. Now that is scarey.
Mr. McCain has excellent 'faculties' and IS running for President.
Ms. Palin is still running for Vice President not President. Oh, ye of little faith who expect that an elected John McCain would not finish out his term are nothing more than dreamers and certainly not well-informed citizens.
Faith? Now you bring religion into the secular? There is a separation of Church and State, for very valid reasons. I have no faith in your faith. I am not a deluded 'eyes unto Heaven' heathen.
'ABC News' Matthew Jaffe Reports: Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., on Sunday guaranteed that if elected, Sen. Barack Obama., D-Ill., will be tested by an international crisis within his first six months in power and he will need supporters to stand by him as he makes tough, and possibly unpopular, decisions.
'Mark my words,' the Democratic vice presidential nominee warned at the second of his two Seattle fundraisers Sunday. 'It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.' '
They know better then to test McCains Mettle.
'They know better then to test McCains Mettle.'
LOLOLOLOL ROFLMAO. How deluded can a republican get.
'Not a rebuttal, idiot.'
I'm not a republican't like you, sweet cheeks. I don't do Butts let alone re-Butt. Pal.
So Biden says Obama will be tested within the first six months .the GOP understands something different:the USA will be attacked !!!
What a paranoia ....
No wonder the world is fed up with the neocon cabal running the GOP .
Even the most simple statements are ripped out of context,twisted beyond recognition.And those are the guys that want to rule your country ?
'And those are the guys that want to rule your country'
An interesting and very accurate choice of words. RULE. Not govern. There is a fundamental difference between the two.
Now Pathetic Palin wants to start attacking Obama's connection to his pastor! Good lord, don't they have anything regarding their own issues to talk about. How about Palin's pastor? It also sounds like she's going off on her own agenda and stating differences to McCain's policies. She is either looking to her future, or is an out-of-Republican-control freak. Betcha they wished they'd never heard of her!!!! Obama is putting his family first right now, something Palin has put way in the background unless dragging her poor baby around for the effect in a rally is considered putting her family first!
Since smear based on surrealistic logics now rule the elections,I'd love you to read this .If Mickey Moue is voting Obama thanks to ACORN ,at least Putin is voting for McCAin
www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1008/McCain_camp_hits_up_Russian_ambass ador.html
Both statements are of course ridiculous .Just a joke ,but why not spin this into a claim that McCain has been caught selling your country to the Russians .Would be fun;we already know how the GOP spins a flea into an elephant .Here is a taste of your own medicine.
At least Obama has a living grandmother - imagine how old a grandmother for McCain would be !
At least McCain knew who his father was...
Indeed, at least McCains father wasn't a Muslim polygamist.
Technically that makes Barack a bastard.
''So Biden says Obama will be tested within the first six months .the GOP understands something different:the USA will be attacked !!!
What a paranoia ....'
No, biden said as much.
So... as you wish, Biden is paranoid and shouldn't be elected.
'Yup, she would be old, but...Oct 21st, 2008 - 20:38:28
At least McCain knew who his father was...
Indeed, at least McCains father wasn't a Muslim polygamist.
Technically that makes Barack a bastard.'
Technically, or by any other standard, you are an a-hole, Pal.
I just don't trust the American Liber-o-bammy media. It seems that the media is running for President and 'they' insist that the tabloid approach to electing our President is the very best way! Damn, are we Americans that stupid that we are going to read only the pundits and on Tuesday afternoon on November 4th, feel that the election has already been determined by the pollsters and not the voters, and just go to bed without voting ourselves????? What a mistake!
My independent voter status may be the only valuable thing I still can call my own!!! My independence is at risk here and I don't swallow any of Mr. Obama's 'Slick-Willie-style politicking, snake oil sales pitches.' I'm voting for McCain. He may be older, but he's been around the block and he won't tax Americans to death.
Your anal fixation again.
Yup, you Repubs just love being Back Door Johnny's.
I await your snide, snarky re-butt-al, PAL
'Hello, immature SON or should I say infantile CHILD. What exactly are you ? Do you know ? Perhaps a mentally retarded adult ? Some kind of humanoid mutation with a turnip for a brain ?'
She is a liberal fascist... she is too stupid to come up with a rebuttal so she tries to get the post yanked.
The only thing that is tightening is McLame's sphincter, as he realises that he is going down faster than one of those 5 jets he bailed out of, Yes, 'Ace' McCain's campaign is a smoking hole in the ground.
Obama has you believing exactly what he wants you to believe and McCain doesn't know what he believes. That's the race.
Thanks for letting me know what I believe! I don't know how I've been able to survive so far without your help!
By all means let's focus on ridiculoud accusations and divert the elections from reality.
Here is a taste of reality for the GOP.the latest OECD report about the world economy sys:
quote
In a 20-year study of its member countries, the OECD found inequality had increased in 27 of its 30 members as top earners' incomes soared while others' stagnated.
The United States has the highest inequality and poverty rates in the OECD after Mexico and Turkey, and the gap has increased rapidly since 2000, the report said. France, meanwhile, has seen inequalities fall in the past 20 years as poorer workers are better paid.
unquote
Now you now why you are bombarded with ridiculous posts about Bill Ayers,Tony Rezko,ACORN.
Somheow reality is the last issue the GOP wants to debate.
wikileaks.org/wiki/Russian_mission_On_Fundraising_Letter_from_John_McCain_E lection_Campaign%2C_20_Oct_2008
Summary
20 Oct 2008 statement from the Russian Federation to the United states in relation to an alleged letter from the McCain campaign requesting a financial contrbution from Russia:
'We have received a letter from Senator John McCain requesting financial contribution to his Presidential campaign.
In this connection we would like to reiterate that Russian officials, the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations or the Russian Government do not finance political activity in foreign countries.
'At least McCain knew who his father was...'
Barak knew his father, but if not so what?
'Indeed, at least McCains father wasn't a Muslim polygamist.'
And again idiot, so what?
'Technically that makes Barack a bastard.'
'Technically that makes you an even bigger idiot, idiot! So what?
Please go vote early so we don't have to listen you whine on this site.
RCP Average 10/14 - 10/20 -- -- 50.2 43.0 Obama +7.2
NBC News/Wall St. Jrnl 10/17 - 10/20 1159 RV 2.9 52 42 Obama +10
Rasmussen Reports 10/18 - 10/20 3000 LV 2.0 50 46 Obama +4
Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby 10/18 - 10/20 1211 LV 2.9 50 42 Obama +8
Hotline/FD 10/18 - 10/20 791 LV 3.5 47 41 Obama +6
Gallup (Traditional)* 10/18 - 10/20 2384 LV 2.0 51 44 Obama +7
Gallup (Expanded)* 10/18 - 10/20 2299 LV 2.0 52 42 Obama +10
ABC News/Wash Post 10/17 - 10/20 1324 LV 2.5 53 44 Obama +9
CNN/Opinion Research 10/17 - 10/19 764 LV 3.5 51 46 Obama +5
Ipsos/McClatchy 10/16 - 10/20 773 LV 3.5 50 42 Obama +8
IBD/TIPP 10/16 - 10/20 1088 LV 3.0 47 41 Obama +6
Pew Research 10/16 - 10/19 2382 LV -- 53 39 Obama +14
GWU/Battleground 10/14 - 10/20 1000 LV 3.1 48 47 Obama +1
The average is up 1% from yesterday and 2% from Sunday---tightening alright. Propoganda by any other name is still propoganda.
The GWU/Battleground Poll, run by Republican strategist Ed Goeas of The Tarrance Group and Democrat Celinda Lake of Lake Research Partners, shows drastic gains for John McCain.
The most recent battleground poll shows Barack Obama leading McCain by only one point, compared to the 13 point lead Obama had until a few days ago.
'just don't trust the American Liber-o-bammy media. It seems that the media is running for President and 'they' insist that the tabloid approach to electing our President is the very best way! Damn, are we Americans that stupid that we are going to read only the pundits and on Tuesday afternoon on November 4th, feel that the election has already been determined by the pollsters and not the voters, and just go to bed without voting ourselves????? What a mistake!
My independent voter status may be the only valuable thing I still can call my own!!! My independence is at risk here and I don't swallow any of Mr. Obama's 'Slick-Willie-style politicking, snake oil sales pitches.' I'm voting for McCain. He may be older, but he's been around the block and he won't tax Americans to death.'
Testify Indie Bob!
'Barak[sic] knew his father, but if not so what?'
It shows a complete lack of loyalty and a fundamental selfishness in Barack Hussein Obama senior which might explain a thing about Jr.
'And again idiot, so what?'
If McCains father were 'married' to several women at a time don't you think that would make the news? It is downright barbaric.
''Technically that makes you an even bigger idiot, idiot!'
Idiot? Heh... At least I'm not a bastard.
'At least I'm not a bastard.'
That is a matter of opinion, sunshine.
is going over the top now saying a VP would be in charge of the Senate
and be involved in making rulings. She either needs to be muzzled or clued in on what a VP does!
Or she could go hunting with Dick Cheney.
'Pathetic Palin is going over the top now saying a VP would be in charge of the Senate'
Under the constitution the Vice president is the President of the Senate. If the senate is divided she gets a vote.
'If the senate is divided she gets a vote.'
Don't you mean if the Senate is tied?
scary prospect ,I'd rather not think about it.
is all the VP gets if the Senate is tied, they don't 'get in there' and work and change policies. McCain would be so much further ahead if they had just kept Palin in the back ground instead of having her be the front runner in his campaign. But she really thinks her role is more important when she had a slip (?) of the tongue at one rally,proclaiming, 'Palin/McCain' ticket - hilarious! Also they wouldn't have had to spend thousands on her wardrobe to meet Cindy's standards.
Us independents have heard enuff--- The T.V. news networks spending millions for 'their' man Obama have underestimated voter strength and are pushing the 'un'vote, or, Poll-taking as the true measure of electing a President in a general election. They are only guessing and, they are guessing with a 3 1/2 % margin of error every time they open their mouths.
November 4th and Nov 4th alone will reveal the full story and it wont be the story of 'professional guessing. '
We independents will have a major say in the election results next month and the liberal News media will be eating more crow than 1948's Tom Dewey in his 'victory celebration!!' over Truman.
Dream on - the fat lady has done sung her song and is back at the buffet table.......
'they don't 'get in there' and work and change policies'
They have and should.
'But she really thinks her role is more important when she had a slip (?) of the tongue at one rally,proclaiming, 'Palin/McCain' ticket - hilarious!'
And Obama declared Biden president... So what.
'Also they wouldn't have had to spend thousands on her wardrobe to meet Cindy's standards.'
Or lock her away like Michelle so she wont blurt something hateful about the USA out.
Palin is a disaster waiting to happen. If Mac had his way, she'd be on the next plane north. You can tell he's trying hard to grin and bear it, but it's not working for him. You almost have to feel sorry for him that she'll be one of the causes of him losing his dream. One cause, along with his lack of a good economics plan, constantly playing the negative game that takes up way too much of his time, etc.
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ParkerOct 21st, 2008 - 02:45:07
This schedule change should not be a problem to the effectiveness of his campaign whatsoever. He is to be commended for wanting to be with his grandmother at this important time in his life, and it definitely shows the compassion and value he places on family. Maybe in respect, McCain and Palin should suspend their hate tactics for awhile and stick to their issues.
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