Does family come before a national campaign due to end in 30 days?
Should Com. on Presidential Debates postpone the Tuesday debate / town hall meeting?
here’s the notice in Sunday evening version (online) of NY TIMES
October 5, 2008, 5:05 pm
Biden’s Mother-in-Law Dies
By John M. Broder
Bonny Jean Jacobs, 78, the mother-in-law of Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Democratic vice presidential nominee, died this afternoon after a long illness, according to a spokesman for the Biden campaign.
Mr. Biden has canceled all campaign appearances Monday and Tuesday to be with his wife, Jill Jacobs Biden, and their families.
Mrs. Jacobs had been in hospice care in the Philadelphia suburbs, not far from the Bidens’ home in Wilmington, Del.
Mrs. Jacobs was the widow of Donald C. Jacobs, 72, a savings and loan executive from Willow Grove, Pa., who died in 1999. Mrs. Jacobs stayed home to raise Jill and her four younger sisters. The couple was married for 50 years.
Mr. Biden’s spokesman, David Wade, said that a memorial service would be held on Tuesday in Abington, Pa.
Mr. Biden has not appeared in public since Friday, when he spoke briefly at the deployment ceremony for his son, Beau, a member of the Delaware National Guard who is preparing for a year-long tour in Iraq. Beau Biden, 39, is the attorney general of Delaware.
Mr. Biden was to have appeared at a Human Rights Campaign dinner and a fundraiser in Washington on Saturday and at campaign rallies in Virginia on Sunday. No events had been planned for the coming week because of uncertainty about Mrs. Jacobs’ health.
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Yes, I believe family does come before the campaign. Mr. Biden is doing the right thing by supporting his wife at this time. Life is about more than politics. Campaigns come and go. Presidents come and go. But your family is your family for a lifetime.