Presidential candidate Barack Obama surprised political observers yesterday by suddenly withdrawing from the campaign trail to spend some time with his elderly rival John McCain. McCain who is 97 years old and very frail is said to be fading fast and Obama wanted to see him one last time before he was gone forever. ‘Barack knows that he could never have got this far if it hadn’t have been for old man McCain. He owes everything to him.’

Obama reportedly sat at the bedside of the dying Republican nominee trying to make sense of the confused ramblings coming from the old man’s mouth, according to an assistant to the Illinois senator. ‘Grandpa McCain’s mind had gone unfortunately, he just kept claiming everyone was a terrorist and then he’d go off on some incomprehensible rant about dividing up a pie or making a bigger pie or something. He’s completely lost it.’ Doctors give Obama’s opponent another couple of weeks or so, but don’t expect him to be around after the first week of November.

Seeing the positive press reaction to Obama’s humanitarian gesture, Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin today announced that she was withdrawing from the campaign to spend some time with a dying polar bear in her home state of Alaska. However one local observer commented ‘It’s a touching gesture, but it doesn’t count when she’s the one who shot it.’

See also Fox News declare John McCain president

The Paper Ostrich