Ax Suggests Something Fishy About Breaking Story About Obama Aunt

abcNews ^ | November 01, 2008 | Jake Tapper and Sunlen Miller

[maggief]

HENDERSON, NEV. -- David Axelrod, the senior campaign strategist for Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., today suggested there was something fishy about the story of Obama's long-last half-aunt living in the U.S. illegally breaking now, with three days left in the presidential race.

"The campaign issued a statement on that, you know, and I don't have anything more to add to it," Axelrod told reporters, "other than I think people are suspicious about stories that surface in the last 72 hours of a national campaign. And I think that they're going to take that - they're going to put it in that context."

[realcleanguy]

The only thing fishy is BO will not release his birth certificate

[exist]

If it hadn’t been left up to a British newspaper, if our papers were doing their jobs, it would’ve come out a long time ago.

So in the words of Mark Levin, get off the phone you big jerk!

[capydick]

But George Bush’s DUI was not fishy, huh Axey?

[GnL]

It’s hard not to wonder how many of Obama’s relatives are illegally in this country or living in 3rd world huts while he struts around like he is king of the world. What a walking disaster.

[jennyjenny]

And what “context” would that be? She is here illegally and living with the assistance of tax payer dollars and illegally contributed to his campaign. Facts is facts.

[RegulatorCountry]

They’re going to try to spin this for Hispanic support. Just watch the Spanish language ads in areas with large Hispanic populations. I don’t think they’d dare to be overt in English, though.

[VU4G10]

[Hanna548]

Long lost half aunt?

He wrote about her in his book, she has pictures of him in her apartment, and she donated to his campaign.

[jcon40]

“Is Auntie Z registered to Vote is the next question ?”

From an earlier post I saw this AM on FP

[Jagman]

Translation: How dare the media even mention the fact that millionaire Obama lets his auntie live in squalor in a Boston ghetto. Next thing you know, they'll be ax’ing why O don't share no mojo with his half-bro in the hut in Kenya!

[Keith in Iowa]

Hey Ax, the reason a story like this is breaking now, is some of the media is starting to pull their heads out of your arse, and seeing things they should have seen months and months ago you freakin’ putz.

[ErnBatavia]

Hey Axelrod...how about having someone go into a Boston databank to find out if the illegal aunt is a registered voter.....we know you guys can accomplish this. Can you say “Joe Wurzelbacher”?

[boomop1]

Maybe most of Hussein’s attack adds stink, like his airplane.

[AuntB]

“It’s hard not to wonder how many of Obama’s relatives are illegally in this country or living in 3rd world huts while he struts around like he is king of the world. What a walking disaster.”

I’m stunned the ol’ woman didn’t have one of those sub prime mortgages on a million dollar house.

[maggief]

If there’s a child on the south side of Chicago who can’t read, that matters to me, even if it’s not my child. If there’s a senior citizen somewhere who can’t pay for her prescription and has to choose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer, even if it’s not my grandmother. If there’s an Arab American family being rounded up without benefit of an attorney or due process, that threatens my civil liberties. It’s that fundamental belief — I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper — that makes this country work. It’s what allows us to pursue our individual dreams, yet still come together as a single American family. “E pluribus unum.” Out of many, one.

-—BARACK OBAMA, July 27, 2004

“That’s the promise of America — the idea that we are responsible for ourselves, but that we also rise or fall as one nation; the fundamental belief that I am my brother’s keeper; I am my sister’s keeper.

That’s the promise we need to keep. That’s the change we need right now.”

-—BARACK OBAMA, August 28, 2008

“Yeah, well - the - yeah, I think most people understand - that if you’re not - caring for your family - then - you’re probably not - the kind of person who’s gonna be caring for other people.”

-—BARACK OBAMA
http://cbs5.com/national/barack.obama.john.2.846954.html

[madison10]

The only thing fishy is BO will not release his birth certificate

...about that birth certificate. Are we so sure that Obama's daddy was Obama senior and not Frank M. Davis? That may be why Obama is hiding the certificate...he isn't really African at all, and has been telling lies for more credibility among other countries. Sure helps with the Muslim and Middle East countries.

He won't be so cosmopolitan and a man of the planet if he is a full American who isn't sure who is dad is. The "auntie" may not be any relation at all, same holds true for the "half-brother."

[MichiganConservative]

Fishy, huh? The Clintons work in mysterious ways. Maybe someone wants to see Clinton vs. Palin in 2012.

[realcleanguy]

His book is total BS. After reading parts of it on line, I was enlightened to the fact he is a bald face liar

[Scarpetta]

This will turn off a lot of people.

He doesn’t put his money where his mouth is, at all.

I’m voting for the Mick and the Chick.