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Aunt Zeituni: 'The System Took Advantage Of Me' (Obama's Aunt speaks out)
wbztv.com ^ | Sept. 20, 2010 | Jonathon Elias

Posted on 09/20/2010 4:54:24 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

Reporting Jonathan Elias BOSTON (WBZ) ― "If I come as an immigrant, you have the obligation to make me a citizen." Those are the words from 58-year-old Zeituni Onyango of Kenya in a recent exclusive interview with WBZ-TV.

Onyango is the aunt of President Barack Obama. She has been living in the United States illegally for years, receiving public assistance in Boston.

Aunt Zeituni, as she has come to be known, first surfaced in the public light in 2008, in the final days of the Presidential election. Then-candidate Obama said that he was not against the possible deportation of his aunt. "If she has violated laws, then those laws have to be obeyed," he told CBS's Katie Couric. "We are a nation of laws."

Onyango had violated the law, and she knew it.

"I knew I had overstayed" she told WBZ-TV's Jonathan Elias when the two sat down one-on-one.

Zeituni Onyango said she came to the United States in 2000 and had every intention of leaving. Then, however, she says she got deathly ill and was hospitalized. When she recovered, she said she was broke and couldn't afford to leave.

For two years Onyango said she lived in a homeless shelter, before she was moved into public housing. "I didn't take advantage of the system. The system took advantage of me."

"I didn't ask for it; they gave it to me. Ask your system. I didn't create it or vote for it. Go and ask your system," she said unapologetically.

And she's right. The system provided her assistance despite her status as an illegal immigrant.

(Excerpt) Read more at wbztv.com ...


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To: MamaDearest
Democrats did do it, and are planning a massive amount more of it tomorrow. Every American taxpayer has paid a lot for the ones illegally here and will be paying a lot more when democrats make them legal at our expense. True!
21 posted on 09/20/2010 5:22:31 PM PDT by ColdOne (November and Beyond! Do not vote for Obama Republicans! :^)))
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I’ll bet Aunt Zeituni dabbled in witchcraft...


22 posted on 09/20/2010 5:45:22 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Washington, we Texans want a divorce!)
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To: tommyboy

+1


23 posted on 09/20/2010 6:16:40 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

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24 posted on 09/20/2010 6:30:39 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: tropical

Give me a dollar!


25 posted on 09/20/2010 6:33:47 PM PDT by Kozak (USA 7/4/1776 to 1/20/2009 Reqiescat in Pace)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Wasn’t she granted either asylum or a green card about 2 months ago?


26 posted on 09/20/2010 6:34:34 PM PDT by Vinnie (You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Jihads You)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Go back to AFrica and quit sucking off us, the TAXPAYERS, you welfare queen.


27 posted on 09/20/2010 6:36:35 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy

This is an amazing story. It needs to be featured in media throughout the United States. Think you will see it anywhere but on Free Republic?


28 posted on 09/20/2010 6:40:34 PM PDT by pushforbush
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To: Free ThinkerNY

She appears to be a walking, talking plea for legal immigration—and for tossing out anyone who comes in illegally.

So arrogant. And SHE’S the victim?


29 posted on 09/20/2010 6:41:27 PM PDT by Nepeta
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To: pushforbush

NO....just like Carter saying that he was SUPERIOR to the other living Presidents!!!!!


30 posted on 09/20/2010 6:42:11 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

This is just one more example of the capitalist system exploiting the huddled masses - ripping off that - cof cof - ‘surplus value’ one reads about in the textbooks.

Enjoy your socialism while you can, Yanks!


31 posted on 09/20/2010 6:43:23 PM PDT by headsonpikes (Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism - "Who-whom?")
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To: Free ThinkerNY
All true. However the question remains: Why did Mr Obama not help his aunt? I mean hes got millions and he leaves his aunt to the system? Real compassion from a far left radical who cares ........
32 posted on 09/20/2010 7:26:11 PM PDT by Snuph
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To: Snuph

She was just another client of the welfare state. The welfare state needs clients to justify their expenses and employment..the more clients..the more they get to take care of them.


33 posted on 09/20/2010 10:11:36 PM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Ah, the victim card. I was wondering when that would be played. You have learned your lesson well, Grasshopp...er, I mean Aunt Zeituni.


34 posted on 09/20/2010 11:16:01 PM PDT by Roy Tucker ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality."--Ayn Rand)
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