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Barack Obama will suspend his campaign this Thursday and Friday to be with his ill grandmother in Hawaii:
Madelyn Dunham, 85, was released from a hospital late last week and returned to her home in Honolulu with a health condition the aide described as “very serious.”
Obama’s decision to cancel campaign events “underscores the seriousness of the situation,” senior aide Robert Gibbs told reporters during an evening flight after a campaign event in Orlando.
As the Illinois Democrat recounted in his memoirs, Dunham, his maternal grandmother, acted in many ways as a surrogate parent.
Thoughts and prayers go out to Ms. Dunham, Sen. Obama and their families.
