Found in a rundown Boston estate: Barack Obama?s aunt

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shira

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Originally posted by: Duwelon
He wants to run a country but he can't even keep his family safe. The truth is he doesn't care 2 shits about his aunt or his brother, what makes you think he cares about the average citizen? He's just not the type of character that the US needs. You have to admit it reflects badly on him.
Since both the aunt and half-brother have expressed affection for Obama and neither has voiced any criticism whatsoever about his behavior toward them, where do YOU come off concluding that "he doesn't care 2 shits about his aunt and brother?" Their stated attidtudes about Obama are a hell of a lot better indicators of his relationship with them than your half-baked theories.

 

DealMonkey

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Originally posted by: shira
Originally posted by: Duwelon
He wants to run a country but he can't even keep his family safe. The truth is he doesn't care 2 shits about his aunt or his brother, what makes you think he cares about the average citizen? He's just not the type of character that the US needs. You have to admit it reflects badly on him.
Since both the aunt and half-brother have expressed affection for Obama and neither has voiced any criticism whatsoever about his behavior toward them, where do YOU come off concluding that "he doesn't care 2 shits about his aunt and brother?" Their stated attidtudes about Obama are a hell of a lot better indicators of his relationship with them than your half-baked theories.
Duwelon ASSumes a great deal about Obama that he very clearly has no clue about. In reality though, any mud he can sling that manages to stick is a successful operation. I wonder if the McCain campaign pays him by the thread or by the post?
 

sciwizam

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Update: AP: Obama aunt from Kenya living in US illegally

AP: Obama aunt from Kenya living in US illegally

By EILEEN SULLIVAN and ELLIOT SPAGAT ? 30 minutes ago WASHINGTON (AP) ?

Barack Obama's aunt, a Kenyan woman who has been quietly living in public housing in Boston, is in the United States illegally after an immigration judge rejected her request for asylum four years ago, The Associated Press has learned.

Zeituni Onyango, 56, referred to as "Aunti Zeituni" in Obama's memoir, was instructed to leave the United States by a U.S. immigration judge who denied her asylum request, a person familiar with the matter told the AP late Friday. This person spoke on condition of anonymity because no one was authorized to discuss Onyango's case.

Information about the deportation case was disclosed and confirmed by two separate sources, one of them a federal law enforcment official. The information they made available is known to officials in the federal government, but the AP could not establish whether anyone at a political level in the Bush administration or in the McCain campaign had been involved in its release.

Onyango's refusal to leave the country would represent an administrative, non-criminal violation of U.S. immigration law, meaning such cases are handled outside the criminal court system. Estimates vary, but many experts believe there are more than 10 million such immigrants in the United States.

The AP could not reach Onyango immediately for comment. No one answered the telephone number listed in her name late Friday. It was unclear why her request for asylum was rejected in 2004.

Onyango is not a relative whom Obama has discussed in campaign appearances and, unlike Obama's father and grandmother, is not someone who has been part of the public discussion about his personal life. A spokeswoman for U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, Kelly Nantel, said the government does not comment on an individual's citizenship status or immigration case.

Onyango's case ? coming to light just days before the presidential election ? led to an unusual nationwide directive within Immigrations and Customs Enforcement requiring any deportations prior to Tuesday's election to be approved at least at the level of ICE regional directors, the U.S. law enforcement official told the AP.

The unusual directive suggests that the Bush administration is sensitive to the political implications of Onyango's case coming to light so close to the election.

Kenya is in eastern Africa between Somalia and Tanzania. The country has been fractured in violence in recent years, including a period of two months of bloodshed after December 2007 that killed 1,500 people.

The disclosure about Onyango came just one day after Obama's presidential campaign confirmed to the Times of London that Onyango, who has lived quietly in public housing in South Boston for five years, was Obama's half aunt on his father's side.

It was not immediately clear how Onyango might have qualified for public housing with a standing deportation order. Spagat reported from New York.
 

sandorski

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Well, that's an unexpected turn of events. Maybe Bush will be forced to give her a Pardon or something. :laugh:

Kinda answers the question of Obama's knowledge about the Aunt.
 

sciwizam

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Fortunately Obama's fundraising has been spectacular, probably have to return her $260 contribution.
 

idiotekniQues

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breaking news, barack obama feeds one of the family cats one can of food daily and the other gets two cans.

he is redistributing something, and its probably bad!
 

Capt Caveman

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She's living here illegally and on public assistance though she has a deportation order? How?

Be funny if they deport her on Election day.
 

shira

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Originally posted by: sandorski
Well, that's an unexpected turn of events. Maybe Bush will be forced to give her a Pardon or something. :laugh:

Kinda answers the question of Obama's knowledge about the Aunt.

And let me guess: If it had turned out that Obama had been giving financial support to his Aunt. which Duwelon has been insisting is the truest sign that Obama cares, then Duwelon would instead be all over Obama for supporting a law-breaker.

In other words:

If he doesn't give her financial support ==> He doesn't give two sh!ts about anybody.

If he gives her financial support ==> He's giving aid and comfort to - and associating with - law breakers.
 

sandorski

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Originally posted by: shira
Originally posted by: sandorski
Well, that's an unexpected turn of events. Maybe Bush will be forced to give her a Pardon or something. :laugh:

Kinda answers the question of Obama's knowledge about the Aunt.

And let me guess: If it had turned out that Obama had been giving financial support to his Aunt. which Duwelon has been insisting is the truest sign that Obama cares, then Duwelon would instead be all over Obama for supporting a law-breaker.

In other words:

If he doesn't give her financial support ==> He doesn't give two sh!ts about anybody.

If he gives her financial support ==> He's giving aid and comfort to - and associating with - law breakers.

hehe, could be.
 

aphex

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Originally posted by: T2T III
Originally posted by: retrospooty
Obama has more charachter than MCCain could ever hope to have.

I'd rather see loyalty to one's country than just their character alone.
You, as well as many others are led to believe anything and everything that Obama has said - thus, placing him on a pedestal of having good character. Now, what's the flavor of the Kool-Aid today?

Really? Interesting. How do you feel about Palin and her husband's involvement with the Alaska Independence Party? Doesn't seem very loyal if you ask me.
 

JulesMaximus

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Originally posted by: Duwelon
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/t...ons/article5042571.ece

I like Drudge's headline: SPREAD WEALTH AROUND: OBAMA AUNT FOUND IN BOSTON SLUM...

Obama is a fraud. Pure and simple. He has no character. He believes in spreading the wealth, supposedly, but not his own. If his selfishness and the total fraud underneith isn't evident already, just look at what the people biologically closest to him are like and the severe lack of relationships he has with them, even his own brother in Kenya.

WTF? Why would I concern myself with the financial well being of every sibling of my mother or father? :confused:

Hell, I have cousins and an aunt who I haven't spoken to in decades...I only have a vague idea of where they even live. This is a stupid fucking article.
 

whylaff

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Originally posted by: alphatarget1
Is there anyone who Obama wouldn't throw under the bus for his political ambitions?

Yes - how dare he indicate that immigration law should be appropriately applied in her situation.
 

Baked

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Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
WTF? Why would I concern myself with the financial well being of every sibling of my mother or father? :confused:

Hell, I have cousins and an aunt who I haven't spoken to in decades...I only have a vague idea of where they even live. This is a stupid fucking article.

That article and people who are pointing fingers at Obama are pissing me off to no end. How many of them have actually take money outta their own pocket to help a distance relative? Fucking hypocrites.
 

Capt Caveman

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Originally posted by: whylaff
Originally posted by: alphatarget1
Is there anyone who Obama wouldn't throw under the bus for his political ambitions?

Yes - how dare he indicate that immigration law should be appropriately applied in her situation.

Why has he indicated he has no issue with her deportation?
 

Capt Caveman

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Originally posted by: Baked
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
WTF? Why would I concern myself with the financial well being of every sibling of my mother or father? :confused:

Hell, I have cousins and an aunt who I haven't spoken to in decades...I only have a vague idea of where they even live. This is a stupid fucking article.

That article and people who are pointing fingers at Obama are pissing me off to no end. How many of them have actually take money outta their own pocket to help a distance relative? Fucking hypocrites.

Actually, it's very hypocritical of him to write in his book about this woman being one of the first to welcome him off the plane in Kenya but he couldn't do the same for her. And more than likely ignored her pleas for assistance when she was ordered to be deported. But he had no problem to give money to Rev Wright to build his mansion next door.
 

senseamp

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Originally posted by: Duwelon
Cue the intellectually devoid liberals on this forum to turn this into a "but Mccain!" and "but Bush!"... lets see how many diversionary tactics alone we can recognize.

You calling someone "intellectually devoid?"
10/10 for the sense of humor.
 

whistleclient

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Originally posted by: Capt Caveman


Actually, it's very hypocritical of him to write in his book about this woman being one of the first to welcome him off the plane in Kenya but he couldn't do the same for her. And more than likely ignored her pleas for assistance when she was ordered to be deported. But he had no problem to give money to Rev Wright to build his mansion next door.

that's a crap load of assumptions right there.

this is a non-story. Obama's aunt and McCain's 911-crazy brother have nothing to do with their policies or the issues of this election.

 

Dari

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Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
Originally posted by: JS80

Why would he either. My dad has 7 sisters living abroad and I don't even know any of their names. I'm disappointed drudge is making a big deal out of this.

B/c he knows her. Wrote about her in one of his books. Invited her to Chicago to visit him. Etc...

He would've been damned if he helped her, damned if he didn't. But I don't think he knew her condition. However, I doubt any of that matters. By the way, I wonder if somebody in the Department of Homeland Security leaked this to help McCain?
 

OrByte

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The fundies at freeper and townhall are peeling off their own skin in outrage!

It reminds me of the hellish scenes in that movie "Event Horizon" :)