Posted on 04/05/2009 9:04:15 AM PDT by SmithL
When Barack Obama first met his Auntie Zeituni at an airport in Kenya in 1988, his late father's sister told him, "Welcome home," and kissed him on both cheeks. Obama was on a pilgrimage to the land where his African father lived apart from Obama's American mother.
Zeituni Onyango then told Obama's older half-sister Auma, "Make sure he doesn't get lost again."
What does that mean? Obama asked. As he wrote in his compelling memoir, "Dreams from my Father," Onyango answered, "Don't get lost" is a common expression: "Sometimes it has a more serious meaning. Let's say a son or husband moves to the city, or to the West, like our Uncle Omar, in Boston. They promise to return after completing school. They say they'll send for the family once they get settled. At first they write once a week. Then it's just once a month. Then they stop writing completely. No one sees them again. They've been lost, you see. Even if people know where they are."
Twenty years later, a week before Obama was elected president, the London Times - not an American news organization, perhaps U.S. journalists were too busy scrounging for dirt on GOP running mate Sarah Palin's family - found Onyango living in Boston public housing in violation of a 2004 deportation order. At the time, Obama announced that he was unaware that his aunt, whose bid for political asylum was rejected, was living in America. And: "If she is violating laws, those laws have to be obeyed."
In a move perceived as preventing Onyango's deportation, the Bush administration ordered a stop to any deportations before the election without White House approval.
On Wednesday, Onyango appeared before an immigration judge ... As I read the Washington Post story, I had to ask: Who got lost?
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
oooeee
she looks like Flip Wilson’s “geraldine” in a blonde wig
Aunt Zeituni , living in public housing,
managed to buy jewelry and a red wig for her court appearance.
Was that provided for in the Stimulus bill ?
The experts expect someone in Congress to introduce a bill allowing Auntie to stay.
Which we know doormat Republicans will support.
And she’ll get to stay.
“ A favorite saying among immigration lawyers,”
one expert joked...is “it ain’t over until the alien wins.”
"You better cut that out!"
That was absolutely hilarious- I’m actually crying it was so funny. That is the first time I’ve ever seen Muhammed Ali (in his heyday) so quiet. This was the 1971 and I can’t believe that comment about “swinging low”. It was kinda interesting to watch the usually cocksure Ali a bit confused as to how to react to Geraldine.
too bad she couldn’t convince him to stay home
the late 60’s and early 70’s were the high point of TV comedy for me- Flip Wilson, Carol Burnett, Laugh In ....
still crack me up
Do you remember Carol Burnett? “Went with the Wind”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Nt0yi4wbro&feature=related
No wonder he's so screwed up.
LOL. That is one of her most famous bits. “Scarlett, that gown is gorgeous.”, “Thank you. I saw it in the window and I couldn’t resist it” or later, “For $300 I’ll show him anything he wants”
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