No vetting allowed
We mentioned Barack Obama’s “Aunt Zeituni” the other day, when a London newspaper found her living in a “rundown public housing estate” in Boston. Mark Steyn raised the question about whether she had made an illegal campaign contribution to her nephew, because it was unclear if she is an US citizen. It turns out that the answer to that question appears to be yes, and there’s even more to the story. Aunt Zeituni is apparently in the United States illegally. 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…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.
It should be noted that Aunt Zeituni is hardly an insignificant person in Senator Obama’s life. She appears by name almost 70 times in his memoir Dreams from My Father. She attended his swearing-in at the US Senate in 2004.
A few points: (a) what are the chances that the media would have run John McCain out of town on a rail if this story was about him? (b) isn’t it just a tad creepy that Senator Obama sermonizes endlessly about how Americans should pay higher taxes to be their “brother’s keeper,” when he has these skeletons in his closet? (c) what on earth have the media been doing for the last two years when they should have been vetting this guy? (Not looking into any of this, apparently — HT: Maggies Farm)
November 1st, 2008 at 8:04 pm
As I read somewhere on another blogg, and paraphrasing a bit – Obama said we should be our brother and sisters’ keeper. He did not say we should be our aunts, step-brothers or step-sisters, or any of our other relative’s keeper. At least, Obama’s most recent statements only referred to brothers and sisters. He is the candidate of change, however, so he may restate his position at any time.
Can you imagine what Biden would say about this? HAH!
If this story about Obama’s aunt applied to McCain, the media would crucify him, endlessly and gleefully. The media would do the same If McCain’s fund raising was as corrupt as Obama’s.
November 3rd, 2008 at 2:18 pm
How can anyone vote for that selfish fake? We have a millionaire expecting to tax working class people to pay for his relatives care. Relatives who are not even here legally.