Obama's campaign just announced that his grandmother has moved home from the hospital and is not doing well. So he will be suspending his campaign to fly to Hawaii to be by her side later this week.
I join with, I'm sure, the rest of the country in wishing Madelyn Dunham well and hope she can recover from her illness-- though it seems, her health may be waning.
xxx
Addendum:
Yesterday, when called on Palin's spending spree on clothes some spokesperson actually tried to make the issue about Obama's flight to Hawaii -- saying he should have gone by commercial flight to save taxpayer money.

The insensitivity of such a statement aside, Obama CAN'T fly by commercial carrier these days what with the Secret Service and accompanying entourage.

Can you believe these people? The levels they will stoop to. . . .
I had wondered what kind of political hay they would try to make of his trip. Well, now we know.