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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama arrived in Hawaii on Thursday to visit his ailing grandmother, ceding a day of campaigning to Republican rival John McCain less than two weeks before the election. Obama will spend private time in Honolulu on Friday visiting Madelyn Dunham, the woman who helped raise him and who he affectionately calls "Toot" -- short for "tutu," the Hawaiian word for grandmother. But before he left, he criticized McCain's proposal, at a rally in Indianapolis that drew an estimated 35,000 people, to cut the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 25 percent.

Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) prepares to board his campaign plane October 24, 2008 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Obama will return to the campaign trail in Reno, Nevada tomorrow after visiting his ailing grandmother.