Presidential hopeful Barack Obama will take time off from the campaign so he can fly to Hawaii to see his maternal grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, who has become seriously ill.
Campaign spokesman Robert Gibbs said Dunham’s “one of the most important people” in the senator’s life. His Kansas-bred grandmother helped raise him along with her World War II-veteran husband Stanley and her daughter, Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham.
“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,” the source said. “It is for that reason that Senator Obama has decided to change his schedule on Thursday and Friday so that he can see her and spend some time with her. He will be returning the the campaign trail on Saturday.”
Obama visited his grandmother while vacationing in Hawaii in August. She was recently discharged from the hospital and is currently resting at her Honolulu home, according to media reports.
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