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| Why Obama won't miss being with gra |
| White House hopeful Barack Obama spoke about the heart-wrenching mistake he made in not rushing to his mother's side before she died,
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 24-October-2008
5:35:20 AM |
| White House hopeful Barack Obama spoke about the heart-wrenching mistake he made in not rushing to his mother's side before she died, and how he won't make the same mistake again with his grandmother.
In an unprecedented move 12 days before election day, the Democrat left the campaign trail on Thursday to be at the bedside of his ailing grandmother in Hawaii, who he described in his convention speech in August as one of his "heroes."
When Obama's Kansas-born mother, Ann Dunham, passed away, I "got there too late," he told CBS television.
"We knew that she wasn't doing well but, you know, the diagnosis was such where we thought we had a little more time and we didn't. And so I want to make sure that I don't - I don't make the same mistake twice," Obama said.
After a campaign stop in Indiana, Obama -- whose Kenyan father met Obama's mother at the University of Hawaii -- travelled to Hawaii, where he was raised as a teenager largely by his American grandparents who had resettled there.
Obama told ABC television, in his last interview before flying to the Pacific state, that his grandmother Madelyn Dunham, 85, has been "inundated with phone calls and emails and flowers from total strangers."
In his autobiographies "Dreams of my Father" and "Audacity of Hope," Obama wrote how his grandmother was instrumental in his upbringing.
In the ABC interview, to be aired on the "Good Morning America" program on Friday, Obama said the flood of support meant perhaps that his grandmother "is getting a sense of, of long-deserved recognition towards the end of her life".
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