Obama to Visit Ill Grandmother in Hawaii

Barack Obama will be suspending his campaign activities for at least a day in order to visit his sick grandmother (known previously as a "typical white person"):

Democrat Barack Obama is cancelling nearly all his campaign events Thursday and Friday to fly to Hawaii to visit his suddenly ill 86-year-old grandmother.

Campaign spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters Monday that Obama's grandmother, Madelyn Payne Dunham, who helped raise him, was released from the hospital late last week. But he says her health has deteriorated to the point where her situation is very serious.

Gibbs said Obama would return to the campaign trail on Saturday, though he was unsure where.

I wish her a speedy recovery and hope the Obama campaign staff hasn't focus-grouped whether her sudden demise would benefit the campaign (I wouldn't put it past them).