Posted on 04/23/2014 12:21:40 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
After Zeituni Onyango, the woman President Obama once called Auntie, died in a South Boston nursing home this month, her closest relatives gathered her belongings at her nearby apartment. There, framed photographs of her with the president covered the wall.
Weeping before a polished wood coffin at her wake this past Saturday, they described Ms. Onyango, the half sister of the presidents father, as the spirit of the Obama family and talked about raising money to send her body back to Kenya. Mr. Obama helped pay funeral expenses and sent a condolence note, Ms. Onyangos family members said, but the president did not attend, as he was golfing.
Every complicated family is complicated in its own way. The Obamas, in that sense, are ordinary. But the natural drift that has occurred within the family already separated by oceans and languages is exacerbated by politics.
He leads his life, and I lead my life, said Mr. Obamas half brother Malik Obama, who flew in for the wake and spoke emotionally about Ms. Onyango, his aunt, who was 61. He said he wouldnt say he and the president had stayed close. Because even my other brothers and sisters, they are all over the place, Malik Obama added. Right now, I would say that things have changed.
As president, Mr. Obama has kept his distance from, and even failed to acknowledge, members of this eclectic clan. In the time-honored tradition of eccentric presidential relatives, the assorted Obamas have faced deportation and drunken-driving charges, started Obama-branded foundations and written memoirs.
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Exactly....Boo friggin’ Hoo
Were SS taxes paid?...Relatives don’t get paid, it is assumed, so no SS payments needed to be made. But she DID get free housing, free medical and SS payments so I guess it all came out square. For HER, not the taxpayer. Don’t forget, Progs don’t pay for anything EVER. They get other people to make it square.
If you’re not of use to him, you might as well be dead.
Is Malik the half brother in Kenya who livves on .50 a day? He flew in for the wake?
There is not a more dysfunctional family on earth, and they made him President. Not just dysfunctional I life, but now also in matters of death.
Bozo’s mom and grandma were cremated. Why wasn’t the aunt cremated?
Is cremation reserved only to obama’s white side family members?
I think it’s George in Africa.
Isn’t Malik the one in China?
Heck, there’s an obama in every corner of the world.
I kept reading Oingo-Boingo in this article.....
Assuming they are actually his relatives. He might have just co-opted the family name to create his current persona.
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