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HONOLULU - Democratic presidential candidate Barack
Obama<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16438329/>says he's not sure his
gravely ill grandmother will live to see Election
Day.
Obama flew to Hawaii to visit Madelyn Dunham, 85, who helped raise Obama.
The Illinois senator said he left the campaign trail with less than two
weeks remaining before the election because his grandmother is ill but
alert. Her brother has said she recently fell and broke a hip.
"Without going through the details too much, she's gravely ill. We weren't
sure and I'm still not sure whether she makes it to Election Day," Obama
told ABC's "Good Morning America" in an interview broadcast Friday.
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"We're all praying and we hope she does, but one of the things I want to
make sure of is I had a chance to sit down with her and to talk to her.
She's still alert and she's still got all her faculties. And I want to make
sure that I don't miss that opportunity," he said.
Obama has said he missed a chance to visit his mother just before she died
of ovarian cancer ― she was 53 when she died in 1995 ― and didn't want to
repeat that mistake. Dunham, whose birthday is Sunday, was staying at her
Honolulu apartment.
At a rally Thursday in Indianapolis, a minister asked the crowd to pray for
Dunham as a "source of comfort, healing and courage." Obama said his
grandmother has been inundated with phone calls, e-mails and flowers from
strangers.
"And so maybe she is getting a sense of, of long-deserved recognition at ―
toward the end of her life," Obama told ABC.
*Recalling 'Toot'
*Obama was born in Hawaii. His Kansas-born mother and Kenyan father met as
college students there, but Dunham and her husband, Stanley, raised Obama
for extended periods when his mother lived overseas.
In his memoir "Dreams from My Father," Obama described his grandfather as
something of a dreamer. It was his grandmother who was practical enough to
support the family by working her way up in the ranks at a local bank.
Obama has often mentioned "Toot" ― his version of the Hawaiian word "tutu,"
or grandparent ― as an example of a strong woman succeeding through
intelligence and determination. Many of his speeches describe her working on
a bomber assembly line during World War II.
"She's really been one of the cornerstones of my life. She's a remarkable
woman," he said.
Obama planned to visit his grandmother Thursday night and Friday and return
to campaigning in Nevada on Saturday.
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"Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over
their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change."
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