Posted on 11/01/2008 5:24:01 PM PDT by AuntB
Barack Obama's campaign to become the first black American President was rocked yesterday, only 72 hours before election day, by the revelation that his aunt is an illegal immigrant in the US.
News about Obama's relative is a chance for the McCain campaign to generate some last-minute negative headlines about Obama. Four years ago Zeituni Onyango, 56, who is mentioned in Obama's personal memoir, was instructed by a court to leave the country after being denied political asylum. However, she now lives in local authority housing in Boston.
Illegal immigration is a political minefield in US politics and the story could be a vote-losing headache for Obama. Her refusal to leave the country does not make her unusual in America - there are an estimated 10 million 'illegals' - but the issue is a hot button one, especially with the white working-class voters courted by both Obama and John McCain.
Illegal immigrants are often accused of taking jobs and government services from US citizens and legal residents. Onyango, Obama's half-aunt on his father's side, has donated to his campaign, with five small gifts totalling $260.
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Is the MSM even reporting this story? We heard about Mitt’s illegal gardener for a couple of months.
Is this really being talked about though? Fox seemed too busy reporting that Georgia and Arizona are now toss-ups and talking about the military vote going Obama to bring this up.
Would Auntie do better under Obama or McCains’s immigration program?
How did Obama’s aunt, an illegal alien, get into public housing in Boston when the waiting list is years long? How did she get a little side-job with the Boston Housing Authority? Did Obama ask his close friend and fellow Axelrod client Gov. Deval Patrick to get her in and help her out?
Baraq al-Hussein Obama’s illegal aunt lives in a slum and all you hear from the so-called MSM is silence. Disgraceful.
I wish they would do the same thing when they describe Obama as a "Christian" - because he isn't one.
First to say “This is not the aunt I used to know”.
It’s getting out there. The CBS news will be on in a bit, we’ll see.
Well, you know, with the slow economy and all, I guess we get our ‘October Surprise’ in November. ;)
I don’t think it’ll matter one whit to the brainwashed, and waaaaaay to much credit is given to the ‘undecideds’ in this election, so it won’t sway them either. (IMHO ‘undecideds’ are no brain trust.)
You’re either ON the horse, or you’re NOT.
You really have to admire the stones on these mutts. The woman is in the country illegally. She defies a deportation order and it’s a Republican dirty trick. Is this a great country or what?
MWOAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH !!!!!!!
Yes, preferably a debilitating migraine.
I ask again, and this issue here in itself should highlight this question, how does someone who has been ordered to leave the country still get to live here for free for YEARS now?
All I hear is crickets.
Hussein has been on the defensive for the last 2 weeks especially this last one. The reports (Telegraph, Guardian, AP and FOX) covering this is not helping him try to get traction the last 72-hours. Good news for McCain and Palin as they keep hammering away.
Obama picked a bad week to have a bad week.
the MSM is in the tank for obama, there are more of us than there are reporters and we can email it virally so that more people see it than would see it even if it was on the news or in the papers
email it to everyone you know, obama calls us selfish for wanting to keep our tax money while he live in a six bedroom six bathroom house and his aunt lives in the slums in boston and his brother lives on a dollar a month in a hut in africa
obama sure talks the talk but he does not walk the walk
OBAMA: It is that fundamental belief — I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper — that makes this country work.
OBAMA: If Jane or Zeituni ever felt ill, if their companies ever closed or laid them off, there was no government safety net. There was only family, next of kin, people burdened by similar hardship. Now I was family, I reminded myself. Now I had responsibilities.
“I ask again, and this issue here in itself should highlight this question, how does someone who has been ordered to leave the country still get to live here for free for YEARS now?”
Because the government won’t stop them from coming in and won’t kick them out when they stay here. Social services can’t ask if they are illegal in most states. Once they get one freebie, they’re in line for all of them.
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