Obama is suspending his campaign to visit his ailing Grandmother. More specifically, Obama is suspending his campaign to visit his supposed ailing grandmother.

Does that sound unfair? Does that sound cynical and mean-spirited? Awful? Terrible? Truly and disgracefully out-of-bounds? Unfortunately, with someone of Obama’s history the answer can only be “maybe”. Let’s take a quick look at the facts:

1. There appears so far to be no independent medical confirmation that she’s all that sick. She may be, but when a man has the driving ambition to become the most powerful man in the world we not only have a right but an obligation to our fellows and all our children yet to be born to question his motives. Always. Hurting the feelings of a man with that degree of ambition for power is never a cause for concern for those who would put him into power ever. Let’s not be cute about this: not ever.
   

2. McCain was chided for suspending his campaign to try to save the financial future of America which means everything from the cost of milk to the probable delivery of life and death medical assistance and supplies to those holding on by a thread. He didn’t do this for personal reasons, he did it for his country. Obama didn’t suspend his campaign for his country, but now claims to being doing it – for several days, mind you – because his grandmother is sick. Not “gravely ill or dying” from what we understand –just, you know, sick. I was sick recently, too. I stubbed my toe on the edge of a bed leg the other night and it hurt like hell for two days, but I didn’t suspend my activities because of it.
   

3. And here’s where we get to the meat of it, I think: a few days ago Obama was walking down main street USA glad-handing like a man of the people and what happened? He got broadsided by one common sense American named Joe the Plumber out of 300 million and suddenly McCain is ahead (albeit within the margin of error) in the life-or-death battleground states of Florida and Ohio. And so it appears Obama – literally - flies home to hide behind his Grandma’s skirts.
   

Maybe Barack’s grandmother is truly ill. Maybe it’s serious insomuch as her illness is serious. And maybe I’m being cynical in a world in which we are expected to be extra nice to a black man and give him a pass on a past replete with a nonstop stream of Marxist associations, some of which are very tight indeed.

But one thing is absolutely for sure: if his Grandmother is indeed gravely ill enough for someone as personally ambitious enough as Obama to suspend his campaign, then indeed God may be at his side, because just when Obama needs an attack-proof rationalization to get the hell out of the public square so as to run out the clock without any more run-ins with Joe the Plumbers, suddenly he has one – and he can hide and escape having to intermingle with average Americans without looking like he’s hiding from average Americans.

I worry for Obama’s grandmother greatly, to be perfectly frank. Not only do Obama’s posters hearken back to communist Russia of the 40’s and 50’s, but his suddenly ill Grandmother at a time when avoiding the public is critical does also.

If she’s terribly ill we wish his grandmother Godspeed, and do so sincerely, as is the wont of true conservatives who love human beings so much that we love them before they’re even born. But while we’re at it, let’s be extra generous and all chip in and pay for dozens of average working Joes to fly out and give Obama the opportunity to keep speaking about his socialist policies while he’s nursing his grandmother back to health.