[cnn-photo-caption image= http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/images/10/05/art.bidenslean1005.gi.jpg caption="Jill Biden's mother died Sunday. Sen. Biden has canceled his campaign events planned for Monday and Tuesday."]
WILMINGTON, Delaware (CNN) - Joe Biden's spokesman said the Delaware senator would be canceling campaign events Monday and Tuesday in the wake of his mother-in-law's death Sunday.
"Other details will follow, but we appreciate everyone's respect for the family's privacy during this difficult time," wrote Biden spokesman David Wade.
Bonny Jacobs, Jill Biden's mother, had been sick for a long time and was living in a hospice.
Wade announced Saturday that Sunday and Monday's events were canceled after doctors told the family to stay close by. He said the family is now together at home in Wilmington.
The death comes the same day Biden's son Beau deploys with his National Guard unit to a mobilization station in Texas before a tour in Iraq.
[cnn-photo-caption image= http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/images/10/05/rolls2.jpg caption="Amy Yeager hopes whoever wins the election will hire the loser."]
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Missouri (CNN)– “Are we really in such great shape as a country that we can afford to throw any of these people out?”
Amy Yeager, 35, was talking. Yesterday we wrote about her two-and-a-half hour drive across Missouri so she could visit the restaurant that calls itself “The Only Home of Throwed Rolls”; the throwed-rolls experience, she told us, was fulfilling enough that several times a year she does it: drives a total of five hours round-trip for a meal that lasts considerably less than 90 minutes.
When the conversation turned to the presidential election, though, it became serious, and she brought up an idea that many political professionals might consider lunacy.
Which is why the idea is so good.
“Think of all the candidates from both parties that we saw on those debate stages during the primaries," she said.
There are days when it’s a little hard to remember all those names, but you can certainly envision the crowded stages back when the snow was on the ground in Iowa.
“It just seems wrong to have so many really smart people, who care about our country, and then get rid of all of them but one or two and not take advantage of the others’ talents and willingness to serve," she said.
[cnn-photo-caption image= http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/images/10/04/art.bidenlookon1004.ap.jpg caption="Sen. Biden looked on as his wife, Jill, introduced him recently in Wisconsin."]
(CNN) - Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Joe Biden is cancelling his campaign events for Saturday and Sunday as his mother-in-law battles a serious illness.
The Senator from Delaware's campaign spokesman, David Wade, put out a statement saying "the campaign has cancelled Sen. Biden's schedule today and tomorrow because of a serious illness in Jill Biden's family. Hospice has advised the Bidens to remain close by, and we appreciate everyone's respect for the family's privacy."
Wade is referring to Biden's wife's mother, Bonny Jacobs, who is in a hospice in Pennsylvania.
Biden was scheduled to speak in Washington D.C. and then attend a fund-raiser in the nation's capitol Saturday night. Sunday he was expected to campaign in Virginia.
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