Obama enjoys private time with grandmother

HONOLULU, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., spent time Saturday alone with his 85-year-old grandmother in Hawaii, The Honolulu Star Bulletin says.

The Hawaiian publication said the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate spent an hour alone with Madelyn Dunham at her Honolulu home, while his wife and two daughters began their Hawaiian vacation.

Dunham helped raise the White House hopeful after he was born in Hawaii and still lives in the same apartment where Obama spent a portion of his youth.

Outside of the former Bank of Hawaii vice-president, Obama's only other relative in Hawaii is his half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng.

Obama arrived in Hawaii on Friday and his accompanying Secret Service agents attempted to keep his visit with his grandmother low-key despite the precautionary presence of a helicopter overhead prior to his arrival.