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The campaign made no formal announcement on the exact status of her condition, but [Barack Obama]'s senior aide Robert Gibbs said that the senator's decision "underscores the seriousness of the situation."
Charles Payne, Obama's great uncle and Dunham's sister, told the Associated Press Tuesday that in addition to "not being well for a long time," Durham had recently suffered a broken hip in a recent accident.This photo provided by the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., shows Obama in 1979 during his high school graduation in Hawaii with his grandmother Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham.The campaign made no formal announcement on the exact status of her condition, but Obama's senior aide Robert Gibbs said that the senator's decision "underscores the seriousness of the situation."See the full content of this document
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Obama Puts Family First
With his 85-year-old maternal grandmother in gravely ill condition, Senator Barack Obama has suspended his presidential campaign today and Friday to be w...
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