This may be a bit uncomfortable but it warrants pointing out. Obama made this brief video appearance to talk about his Grandmother, spinning it somewhat into a character/judgment issue: "I didn't want to make the same mistake twice." That's because he said his Mother died before he was able to get back to see her.

Also keep in mind Obama used his Mother's illness for a commercial on health care:

My mother died of cancer at 53. In those last painful months, she was more worried about paying her medical bills than getting well.

- and has invoked her name repeatedly with regard to his book.

"I think sometimes that had I known she would not survive her illness, I might have written a different book - less a meditation on the absent parent, more a celebration of the one who was the single constant in my life," he wrote in the preface to his memoir, "Dreams From My Father."

Now Obama's Mother was diagnosed with both ovarian and uterine cancer in 1994.

In 1994, Ann Durham returned to Hawaii to be near her widowed mother after being diagnosed with ovarian cancer and uterine cancer. A year later, while son Barack Obama was making his first run for political office, Ann Durham died.

She didn't pass until November of 1995.

Ann died on November 7, 1995 at age 52.

Obama wasn't running for anything the whole time she was dying. He wasn't elected until 1996 a full year after her death.

Obama was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1996

Obama didn't "launch" anything until 1995 at the home of Bill Ayers.

The prognosis for ovarian cancer remains poor to this day.

Obama paints himself as this empathic figure. Yet, we know he has a step-brother living in a hut in Kenya, or wherever. And his Mother lay dying for almost if not a full year without a visit from her son - and now he trots her out in commercial because she was fighting with insurance companies?

Doesn't that bother anyone? It doesn't add up to someone who cares about anyone but himself if you ask me.

My mother died of cancer at 53. In those last painful months, she was more worried about paying her medical bills than getting well.

And this man is the guy who is supposed to care about health care issues for everyone else? You're kidding me right? A Harvard grad and a lawyer and he lets his Mother lay dying in pain and worry for a year without so much as a visit?