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The Family Lies of Obama

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According to the AP News Obama's Aunt Zeituni Onyango (zay-TUHN on-YANG-oh) is in the United States illegally. Of course Obama denies knowledge of this. In a statement given to the AP Senator Obama's Campaign said, "Senator Obama has no knowledge of her status but obviously believes that any and all appropriate laws be followed."

Onyango is Obama's late father's half sister, and Obama's claims to barely know her. Obama first met her as an adult when he traveled to Africa. Yet he knew her well enough to mention her as "Auntie Zeituni" in his memoir. Senator Obama invited her to come and visit him 9 yrs ago on a Tourist Visa. During her stay, she also visited family on the east coast. There have been visits on both sides since that first meeting in Africa. Both Michelle and Barack visited Onyango 4 yrs. after Obama's first trip to Africa.

Onyango herself was present at Obama's swearing-in to the 2004 Senate. Although she was invited and present, the campaign did not help her receive a tourist visa. Coincidentally, at about the same time, 4 yrs ago, an Immigration Judge asked her to leave the country when he denied her request for asylum from her homeland of Kenya. She refused to leave.

Obama last heard from Onyango 2 yrs. ago telling him that she was living in Boston. Apparently Obama's "Auntie Zeituni" is currently living in public housing, which is believed to be provided by the Boston Housing Authority.

On top of this, AP is reporting that Onyango has contributed a total of $260 to the Obama/Biden Campaign, in small amounts, with her most recent donation of $5 on Sept 19. Unfortunately for Obama/Biden, only U.S. Citizens or legal Green Card holders can, under federal election law, give donations to a campaign, and clearly his "Auntie" is not legal in any way. When donating funds to the Obama/Biden campaign Onyango listed her employment as the Boston Housing Authority.

According to the AP all of the above is true. However, I am left with a nagging question. How did a lawyer and then Senator not know that his "Auntie" was an illegal alien? If I was related to a lawyer who was well known in the Chicago area, and now a Senator, he would have been the first call I made to try to get this illegal alien status straightened out. After all, Obama is a Senator and a lawyer, so he should be able to get this fixed. Yet, Senator Obama denies any knowledge of this. How can this be?

When she contacted him 2 yrs ago, didn't that raise an eyebrow on Obama's head? He didn't wonder or ask if she got her status straightened out? Or did he not care? Maybe he didn't want to know. How can he claim that he didn't know?

But I think the MOST important question is......CAN WE, AS AMERICANS, TRUST SENATOR BARACK OBAMA WITH THE PRESIDENCY? IF HE IS WILLING TO LIE FOR FAMILY, WHAT ELSE IS HE LYING ABOUT, OR IS WILLING TO LIE ABOUT DURING THE PRESIDENCY? WMD? A WAR? OR HOW WE'RE DOING IN A WAR?

In these last few days, these things must be seriously considered.

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{"commentId":3828123,"authorDomain":"mlocktx"}

is his aunt running for president ? this is BS, not worth mentioning

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Reply#1 - Sat Nov 1, 2008 10:13 PM EDT
{"commentId":3828262,"authorDomain":"debmark"}

Go ahead and vote for McCain.  These attacks are ridiculous and show a lack of maturity.  I am an Obama supporter but I do not feel the need to post McCain attacks.  OMG...get over it.

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Reply#2 - Sat Nov 1, 2008 10:22 PM EDT
{"commentId":3828547,"authorDomain":"adventurebooks"}

What do WMD and war have to do with Barack Obama's aunt anyway?

Your article states Obama hadn't even heard from this aunt in two years. In any event, this is a civil matter, not the type of immigration violation that has the INS crashing in your door and deporting you back to country-of-origin.

Republicans are desperate...and scrabbling for any bit of dirt they can lay their paws on in an effort to discredit Obama at the last minute. Face facts. The Republicans had their chance for eight years and they blew it.

Sorry...you'll have to do better than that. People are more concerned about things like their jobs, their homes, their 401K's vanishing, whether they will be able to afford food, the war in Iraq.

You know. Issues that matter.

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Reply#3 - Sat Nov 1, 2008 10:41 PM EDT
{"commentId":3830633,"authorDomain":"anonemus1"}

What do WMD and war have to do with Barack Obama's aunt anyway?

Exactly! Even if we were playing 6 degrees of separation, I don't think we would find the link from Obama's aunt to WMD. That was a HUGE stretch.

Regarding her status, if someone doesn't tell you about it, you wouldn't know. Only the judge, the INS agents working on the case would know.

After all, Obama is a Senator and a lawyer, so he should be able to get this fixed. Yet, Senator Obama denies any knowledge of this. How can this be?

I can tell you from experience how THIS can be: most immigrants (illegal aliens if you will) don't talk about their status (some because they're ashamed and others because of fear of being ratted out).

Obama is not an immigration lawyer, so I don't think there's much he could do for her besides paying for one in order to get her a stay of deportation and an adjustment of status.

Then again, if he had tried to get her the help that you criticizing him of not giving her, you would blame him for that too. Damned if he does, damned if he doesn't.

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#3.1 - Sun Nov 2, 2008 1:09 AM EST
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{"commentId":3828749,"authorDomain":"seward"}

Paper Talk....."Tittle Tattle", and you believe it?????

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Reply#4 - Sat Nov 1, 2008 10:56 PM EDT
{"commentId":3830374,"authorDomain":"zennhead"}

   The travesty is that by now, Obamistas are blocking their minds to any open minded and rational discussion of these things, other than to chorus: isn't this odd timing, that Auntie Zaituni's problems should come up now!! As if, as you state, Obama's own "vetting team" hadn't warned him: by the way, when we reviewed your history, we note that you reference Auntie Zaituni. We found out that your Auntie, had NOT left, as told to do, by an immigration judge who ruled on her case ... that she was not a political asylum case.

    By the way: what parts of the Comprehensive Immigration Bill did Obama object to? Were any of his objections based on the definition of a "political asylum request?" Oh, my, wouldn't that imply there HAS BEEN a conversation between Auntie Zaituni and Barack, the lawyer and senator, over her case? He recently said, to Katie Couric: there is no reason to lie to the American people. I hope and pray to God that he has now lied on this one. I hope that there is evidence that he has spoken to her about this matter, as suggested. How many of US would have spoken to Barack, if he were OUR cousin and senator, lawyer, friend of the family?? And how little does he know about her, in spite of being invited to his inaugeration ceremony only 2 years ago.

   When are the American people going to say, at some point: this man has a long, long line of dirty associations which he claims are all someone else's fault! And when are they going to recognize that this is a narcissistic personality, who says whatever the hell he can get away with. He is, without a doubt: the greatest, slickest, glibbest hustler to ever come onto the American political stage.

    People said this about another huckster from another country, who promised to redistribute the wealth around to conform with a political and ethnic and economic agenda which isn't about merit, but about a political philosophy that purports to equalize all things. This man is the Socialist Democrat Party leader, and people who feel they are mere Centrist Democrats should bail this week, and vote for McCain. This man is a terrible threat to America.

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    Reply#5 - Sun Nov 2, 2008 1:32 AM EDT
    {"commentId":3830541,"authorDomain":"maggiemayadkins"}

    Is everyone so willing to put this guy in office because we need a change?Yes we do need change,but not the kind of change that will come with Obama. What if anything has he ever told the truth about. This isn't about who he knows or even associates with. This is about his lack of judgement,and how he has lied about all of it. He is to old to say he is naive,and if he is we sure don't want a naive president in office. If you want to overlook everything about this mans past. Then don't be surprised when he,and the country fall flat on their faces.

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      Reply#6 - Sun Nov 2, 2008 1:56 AM EDT
      {"commentId":3832855,"authorDomain":"dreamrequest"}

      This is the real story folks - I want to know who was behind the decision to put the interests of foriegn nationals above those of US Citizens -

      The Boston Housing Authority, which oversees subsidized housing developments in the city, said yesterday that residents who apply for federally funded housing must prove their legal citizenship or residency, but those applying for state-funded public housing do not.

      The authority .... does not track immigration status on its own, McGonagle said.

      Because West Broadway is state-funded ... immigration status may not matter. .... "I don't believe it is the housing authority's responsibility to enforce federal immigration laws."

      A spokesman for state Department of Housing and Community Development said last night that as a result of 1977 federal consent decree, the state cannot deny state-subsidized public housing to illegal immigrants.

      We have to cut back on teachers, police, firefighters... US Citizens applying for housing are on a wait list for months and years... Citizens with kids are living on the streets... and yet illegal immigrants are allowed to live in housing funded by our tax dollars while thumbing their noses at our laws and judicial decisions.....

      That, my friends, is the real story... and yes, I'm voting for Obama

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      Reply#7 - Sun Nov 2, 2008 9:36 AM EST
      {"commentId":3834584,"authorDomain":"bulletlora"}

      A lie from Obama for certain. He had to know She was ellealy living in the USA. His father's half sister would be contacted regularly. This should have been checked out before nomination.

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        Reply#8 - Sun Nov 2, 2008 12:14 PM EST
        {"commentId":3975911,"authorDomain":"BoondogsNews"}

        There is much about Obama that none of us will know unless we do our best to find out the truth of all of his connections, lying about accepting PUBLIC funding, not listing all of his donations, sending out email after email from one supportor or another,  to everyone on his "list" and asking for any new donations from EVERYONE who got those emails, including me. Want to know how many I got from McCain asking for funding or help in other ways, (ie, making phone calls, blogging, etc)? I can count them on one hand! Compare that to the daily, sometimes twice daily emails from Obama's camp. I for one am glad that this campaign is over. It has been one infomercial after another, even interrupting the world series. Give me a break. Barack Obama lied. He took funding from people with many different backgrounds, including lobbyists, etc.

        Apparently though,  there are many people out there that cannot understand a joke. It's truly sad but true.

        Of course, Obama had nothing to do with WMD, War, or how we're doing at that war...that was not the point. My point is simple. Everyone lies, Period.

        Will Obama lie? Has he? Yes. They do during the entire campaign. Yet, Obama-ites may not really have an understanding of that fact, however, I do hope that they do. Did you realize how quickly the story about his illegal family members in the USA disappeared? Now why is that? Then during election night, how many family members showed up?

        Then suddenly there was that homeland security member that suddenly resigned. Boy wasn't that convenient? Turns out that if you are a "Mutt like me" as Obama stated during a Presidential Elect televised interview seen on CNN on 11/7/08. So if you are "a Mutt" you are an untouchable. Or maybe its all your unlikely friends that have charges dropped against them. Never to be charged with acts of treason. Aunties and other family members showing up on election night. Will they get a pardon or stay of deportation from our soon to be new President?

        Sadly all these factors have come into play in Obama's life. He is to be respected. He is our President Elect. He is going to be our President. However, because of each and every one of those things, we have the right, the obligation, to look into his past. Just as others have looked into the past of George W Bush, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, just to name a few.

        One last thing. If we can't laugh at the lies of a President on the way out, when discussing them in an open forum, then sadly, for all of us, no one is willing to look into the future of a Historical President...isn't anyone wanting to know what lays in his past, and if he, his choices, his judgments, his relationships are all on the up and up??? I thought that was the theory behind blogging including sites like Drudge Report, Factcheck, and many others do? Are we not the new generation of Reporters? If not that itself is sad. But sadder still is people who are so into themselves and their candidate that they refuse to look past that, and at the BUTT of the JOKE...George W. Bush, President.

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          Reply#9 - Sat Nov 8, 2008 5:25 AM EST
          {"commentId":5245649,"authorDomain":"jimoer"}

           Ombama has won the election though still if he lied.. he lied..  & he says is is an upholder oif the law, there is somewhere online a lady reporter who had researched & founded an entire page or three of Obamas ill doings & histories from his beginning to the days in school up until now..just have not been able to find again, probably has been cut & destroyed, it was interesting information including photos of him lunching or coffeeing with a person with terrorist ties..

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            Reply#10 - Sun Feb 8, 2009 8:23 AM EST
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