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Monday, October 20, 2008

Obama headed to Hawaii

Barack Obama will miss several campaign events Thursday and Friday to visit his ailing grandmother in Hawaii, his campaign says.


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(CNN) -- Sen. Barack Obama will take a break from campaigning Thursday so he can visit his ailing grandmother in Hawaii, an Obama spokesman said Monday.


Sen. Barack Obama will take a break from campaigning so he can visit his ailing grandmother.

Sen. Barack Obama will take a break from campaigning so he can visit his ailing grandmother.


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"Sen. Obama's grandmother Madeleine Dunham has always been one of the most important people in his life," spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters.


"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," Gibbs said.


The interruption will cause Obama to cancel Thursday events in Madison, Wisconsin and Des Moines, Iowa. He will do an event in Indianapolis, Indiana, Thursday morning before leaving and will return to the campaign Saturday, Gibbs said.


Michelle Obama will fill in for her husband on Friday at previously scheduled events in Columbus and Akron, Ohio, his campaign said.


Obama has said his 86-year-old grandmother, who helped raise him, "poured everything she had" into him. She became sick in recent weeks







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