Barack Obama has left the campaign trail with two weeks remaining before the General Election to visit his ailing Grandmother in Hawaii. Madelyn Payne Dunham, the candidate’s 85 year old grandmother who helped raise him, was released last week from a Honolulu hospital after being treated for an undisclosed illness, however the Obama campaign said her health had deteriorated “to the point where her situation is very serious.”

This is very troubling news. Throughout this campaign it always seemed a truly wonderful situation that Mrs. Dunham could watch the ascendancy of the grandson she helped raise to possibly even as high as the Presidency of this country, after hailing from circumstances where nobody would have imagined such a thing possible. Let us all hope for the speedy recovery of Mrs. Madelyn Dunham, a woman who obviously did a wonderful job in raising her grandson.

You can takepart by sending wishes for Mrs. Dunham to get better to the Obama campaign.

LINKS:

BBC News: Profile: Madelyn Dunham

Chicago Tribune: Barack Obama to visit ill grandmother Madelyn Dunham

Kenya Broadcasting Corporation: Obama to break off from campaign