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And While We're At It, Here's That Ugly Sweater You Gave Me for Christmas in 1994

November 01, 2008 2:53 PM

As we reported early this morning,  Sen. Barack Obama's long-lost half-aunt Zeituni Onyango had given $265 in small increments, likely illegal given her immigration status.

In light of her newly-discovered illegal status, the Obama campaign is returning the money.

-- jpt

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woman citizen,

If Obama didn't know his Aunt's illegal status, obviously he did not know her request for asylum had been rejected- thus why he did not know he could have helped her immigration status. We don't know what she told him when they last spoke.

His aunt sounds like an independent woman, she may not have wanted to receive charity or to depend on her nephew. I myself have family members who are not so well off, but are determined to support themselves.

Posted by: Grey Matter | Nov 2, 2008 5:26:53 AM

Mara,
Sure....
Obama's throwing everyone under the bus.
Spends money on Obama network and jets, but leaves his relatives in absolute poverty.

Many of the same reasons Obama's speech writer Wendy Button is voting McCain.

That is why I won't vote for Obama the con man

Posted by: woman citizen | Nov 2, 2008 1:34:30 AM

woman citizen: welcome! i love all these new postera who just happen to show up right before the election with names that make them sound like ex-hillary supporters. my own personal favorite was "ms american citizen."

none of them ever, ever, ever mention what they like about john mccain's policies - but they do tend to spread the manure around about obama.

so what DO you like? his support of women in his 26 years in washington? which bill that john mccain wrote, endorsed, or supported did you like best? because there are none. not one. he did not even vote for the violence against women act - which built domestic abuse shelters and put 100,000 police officers on the street. did you like his support for children and education? which bill? because in 26 years, i couldn't find one - and in calls to mccain staffers around the country, they couldn't find one, either. he voted against head start - which is one of the most successful programs in history. he voted against SCHIPS - which was a bipartisan bill to cover children of working parents without health care. he voted AGAINST it. so the reason you support him can't be women, or education, or children. is it vets? because he has a D rating with iraqi/afghan vets. he voted against the gi bill. he has voted against care for veterans. is it his health care plan? is it his grasp of economics? this is a man whose campaign manager told us that the economic problems were "mental." is it his war plan? the one that may last 100 years or 50 or... who knows? and how much will it cost? how much more money we will have to borrow from the chinese? how many more lives? how long will our children have to pay to build an islamic government in iraq - just like the government in iran?

i don't want to hear anymore baloney and lies and rumors about obama. i want to hear why you support john mccain.

Posted by: Mara | Nov 1, 2008 10:52:35 PM

I kind of feel bad for the aunt, but geez so many relatives popping up. Obama better do a quick family tree and find all if nothing more than not wanting Malia or Sasha to end up marrying their 2nd cousin some day.

Posted by: rachel | Nov 1, 2008 8:41:46 PM

wow.. this is big news. of course obama is responsible for everything his relatives do just like sarah palin is responsible for her teenage daughter getting knocked up by a high school dropout and john mccain is responsible for cindy mccain stealing from her charity to feed her drug habit. yup.. cindy is a crackhead. and what about todd palin hanging around at the office threatening gov't workers? Who is this barely high school educated shadow governor? And what about Palin's parents? What kind of teachers are they if their own daughter doesn't know anything about the consitution? How could teachers let their daughter be so stupid? John McCain's brother called 911 two weeks ago to complain about traffic and then cussed out the dispatcher. I demand that John McCain have his brother arrested for tying up emergency lines for his frivolous calls. I am outraged!

Posted by: birdy | Nov 1, 2008 8:30:21 PM

Sarah Palin abused her power as governor to try to get her ex-brother-in-law fired. Senator Obama believes that, even when his family is concerned, the law should be followed. Says it all about the candidates, and makes my choice easy.

Posted by: Not So Grand Old Party | Nov 1, 2008 8:25:47 PM

Some of you out there are down right scary!

Posted by: joe | Nov 1, 2008 8:19:15 PM

I didn't know Auntie was an illegal.
I didn't know Rashid Khalidi said anything bad about Jews.
I didn't know that Rev. Wright disavowed "middleclassedness," damned America, espoused black liberation theology.
I didn't know that William Ayers was a domestic terrorist on par with Tim Mc Veigh.
I didn't know that my online donations were not being vetted and the credit card processing and automatic screening matching the name on the credit card with the name of the donor was turned off.
I didn't know Tony Rezko's help with buying my property included a restricted covenant.
I didn't know his wife was going to qualify to buy the lot next to mine with a salary of $36,000.
I didn't know that taking online donations from foreigners was wrong, especially those guys from Gaza.
I am not quite sure who helped me pay my law school tuition.
I don't know where the vault typewritten copy of my birth certificate is.

I am getting tired of typing. There is plenty more. I can just hear his state of the union address....I didn't know.....

Posted by: Jo CHGO | Nov 1, 2008 7:24:08 PM

Hey, Jock,
Hate to burst your bubble, but Obama may not have even written Dreams From My Father. There is a lot of speculation that it is a doctored book. I will let you do the search to see who experts feel doctored it. When that comes out, it will be another Bama lie that comes out. Do you know the story of how he took an advance for that book, produced nothing, fired his agent, got another advance, and then miraculously, the book came out. And if you compare the two books, there are stylistic differences. The man is a poser. He is going to reinstate the draft---that is what Biden was talking about!

Posted by: Jo CHGO | Nov 1, 2008 7:16:49 PM

Woman Citizen don't worry Obama is not going to win

Posted by: Hillary Supporter For McCain | Nov 1, 2008 7:06:28 PM

Rick,
The petitions are on the streets to block his inauguration. Angry early voters finding out about the Auntie he wrote about and speaks about on his Obama channel are only part of why.


The release of intel about a tape in a California newspaper, and Obama filing Federal court papers in several states that say American citizens do not have rights to ask him questions, put it over the top.
The Constitution apparently means more to the early voting people, than a race based vote.
A con man getting into power to remove their Constitution upset more than a few. Some have begun regurgitating the koolaide.

Wake up.
Your in history.

Posted by: woman citizen | Nov 1, 2008 7:00:57 PM

Furthermore, anyone who enters national politics, ought to have an education and some preparation. A candidate who cannot answer simple questions about policy has no business on the ticket. Newsflash: If you make stupid comments, people will call you stupid! That's not sexism. Just ask Dan Quayle and Dubya.


Posted by: Janet


Do you really want to go there?

I've been in 57 states with one more to go. We are not going to Hawaii or Alaska, sounds like a kid not well educated in an American school.
60 states is news to me.

The idealism of no hand on the heart flag salute solidifies the "out of step American" Obama.

Not mainstream for too many biases, is just part of what his speech writer had to cover.

She wrote great words and a Constitution buster mouthed them to get power to fracture the American Experiment.
What he said that you believed she wrote...what he said for himself is filled with uh's and mistakes.

Posted by: woman citizen | Nov 1, 2008 6:52:41 PM

McCain supporters: You are setting yourselves up for an easy Obama win in 2012 (should he win this year).

As soon as he proves not to be the devil during his first term, all of you will look like fools and your future attacks will look like crazy rantings.

My advice: come up with some actual policies that you can run on / be proud of. More than anything, McCain's weakness this election has been his inability to articulate policies that are attractive to voters. Whether you agree with Obama or not, a tax cut for 95% of working Americans is an attractive policy to the majority of the electorate.

Posted by: Rick | Nov 1, 2008 6:47:02 PM

I'm being serious when I say that it's a beautiful testimony of Obama's family love.

Consider the aunt of Obama. She's in poverty. She lives in public housing. It's like the famous "widow's mite" that out of her poverty in love and support for her nephew, she gave over several months in small increments out of her meager means... a total of $260. That sure looks like a person showing their heart... especially in love for family.

It's not such a great reflection on Obama. He has means. He has connections. I just would think he could help her with employment, housing, her immigration status,... something. In the larger scheme of him not giving to her out of his abundant and wealth... well, where is the compassion?? He didn't know about his aunt. (Like he didn't know Ayers was a US terrorist, etc.) Let's just add this to the "I didn't know" list. You know what I think the "I didn't know" list really stands for in "code words"?? "I don't care."

It's proven now that people who are not citizens of the US have their campaign contributions accepted by their systems. But the system was set up for that to happen. Obama says, "I didn't know." Obama didn't care that the law was being broken,

Posted by: Hillary Supporter For McCain | Nov 1, 2008 6:44:35 PM

woman citizen

all the Obama people are about are giving hushed gifts and just barely getting away with it

Posted by: JG
Do you really believe that?
His base are kids who have never tried to run a business with government over them.
They are too young to see what "we the people" do to our seated Presidents.

The worn old carcass we leave at the end, has to be tough enough not to hit the button and throw us under the bus along with the friends he did, to elevate himself to ride that rainbow.

They have to be ready to be in LBJ's shoes when all of the advisors run, leaving him holding their bad advice.
Thoughts of Powell and Bush are right up there.

Bush you can at least trust to love Americans and their nutty freedoms enough to leave the button alone, in his lonely last days in power.
Obama the magic candidate?
hmmm.
Look what he did to Auntie.
When hated and disempowered, how stable is he?

Posted by: woman citizen | Nov 1, 2008 6:37:58 PM

wow.. Obama's half aunt loves America more than Sarah and Todd Palin combined. She wants to become a citizen of America while Todd Palin just wants to leave America and make Alaska its own country. How unpatriotic. It is appalling that an African loves America more than a candidate running for office.

Posted by: bird | Nov 1, 2008 6:33:25 PM

obama supporter,

Susan B. Anthony "No self-respecting woman should work for vote for the success of a political party that ignores her sex!"

Posted by: woman citizen | Nov 1, 2008 6:28:57 PM

obama supporter,

Susan B. Anthony "No self-respecting woman should work for vote for the success of a political party that ignores her sex!"

Posted by: woman citizen | Nov 1, 2008 6:28:56 PM

Denise, you are correct about the Hillary supporters but my mother and I voted for Nader/Gonzalez.

Posted by: Tina From Florida | Nov 1, 2008 6:18:24 PM

Whoever thinks that there aren't many, many Hillary supporters for McCain, you are SO WRONG!!! Every one I know is a Dem and not one of them is voting for Obama the welfare giving king! All of us have taken so many polls and we always say we are voting for Obama, just so we can watch the rejection party being put on in Chicago!!!
As a lifelong Dem, I would never vote anyone like him! SOCIALIST!!!

Posted by: Denise | Nov 1, 2008 6:08:47 PM

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