Remember Barack Obama’s half-brother, the one who lives on something like $12 a month? Well, it seems that yet another relative of The One has been found, his aunt Zeituni Onyango, who was mentioned in his book:
- Found in a rundown Boston estate: Barack Obama’s aunt Zeituni Onyango
James Bone in Boston, Rob Crilly in Kogelo and Ben Macintyre
Barack Obama has lived one version of the American Dream that has taken him to the steps of the White House. But a few miles from where the Democratic presidential candidate studied at Harvard, his Kenyan aunt and uncle, immigrants living in modest circumstances in Boston, have a contrasting American story.
Zeituni Onyango, the aunt so affectionately described in Mr Obama’s best-selling memoir Dreams from My Father, lives in a disabled-access flat on a rundown public housing estate in South Boston.
A second relative believed to be the long-lost “Uncle Omar” described in the book was beaten by armed robbers with a “sawed-off rifle” while working in a corner shop in the Dorchester area of the city. He was later evicted from his one-bedroom flat for failing to pay $2,324.20 (£1,488) arrears, according to the Boston Housing Court.
Obama wants to “spread the wealth,” he told Joe the Plumber. Obama makes millions, but doesn’t spread his own wealth, not even to his family.
Oh, please. You want to talk about family generosity? Cindy McCain, who commonly refers to herself as an only child, stiffed her two half-sisters after her immensely wealthy father died. She even had her niece’s credit card cut off.
She married McCain after he dumped his first wife, who had become horribly injured in a car accident while he was a POW.
The only reason this race is so close is because of race. If Obama had only a tiny fraction of McCain’s negatives, he’d never come close to winning. McCain has been getting a pass from the media since the get-go.
Oh, please. You want to talk about family generosity? Cindy McCain, who regularly describes herself as an only child, stiffed her two half-sisters after the death of her immensely wealthy father. She even cut off her niece’s credit card.
And let’s not forget the circumstances under which those two got together in the first place. When McCain met Cindy, he was still married to his first wife, whom he dumped shortly thereafter. She had become severely injured and disfigured in a car accident while he was a POW.
This race is as close as it is because of race. If Obama had a tiny fraction of McCain’s negatives, he’d never have gotten nominated. The media has given McCain outrageous breaks from the get-go.
Ah, but guess who she’s supporting…
Besides, isn’t it you people who want poor people to make do without handouts? I kinda figured you’d be cheering, here.
If you want to talk about family generosity, why not say something about Cindy McCain, who regularly describes herself as an only child, stiffing her two half-sisters after her immensely wealthy father died? She even cut off her niece’s credit card.
And let’s not forget her addiction to prescription medication, which she has somehow managed to spin into a tale of sin and redemption (like George W. Bush’s alcoholism). And the circumstances of her marriage to McCain, who was still married to his first wife when they met, and shortly thereafter dumped her (she had been disfigured in a car accident while he was a POW)?
You people can obsess all day long over Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers, but you treat these as matters of no consequence. And you categorized this post under “liberal hypocrisy”? Hypocrisy is the lifeblood, nerve system and musculature of the Republican Party, and has been for at least seven decades.
But why is the Aunt under a gag order?
Funny – I don’t seem to recall a single instance in which Cindy McCain was found roaming the country, preaching about spreading the wealth.
It would seem that if that were one’s central message, he would at provide some leadership by example.
Ohhhhh – I get it now! He was talking about spreading everyone else’s wealth, not his. Well then…I guess that might explain it.
Arbitrary schemes to promote ‘economic justice’ through mandatory ‘transfer payments’ may have paid some political dividends by creating political dependencies but have they ever truly created the desired utopia?
None of the ‘workers’ paradises’ of Eastern Europe ever lived up to the name and those who could vote with their feet ran one way (in spite of barbed wire, mines, and guns).
Yet there are still some losers who will not get it.
One can envy the wealth of Cindy McCain but the business was built by her father and distributed a product that people wanted. She could well have joined the ranks of the (allegedly) beautiful people and flitted from one resort to another. Instead, she spent a bit of her life teaching impaired children.
Yet what of those whose ‘liberalism’ is handing out money extracted from others? How generous are they with their own money? Senator Biden has perfected the art of money laundering as funds move from one family entity to another but his niggardly charitable contributions are a true measure of the man.
Biden and Obama would burden the taxpayers with a ‘global poverty tax’ that would allegedly flow to the people through a variety of tin-horn despots and thieving third-world bureaucrats. This type defines half of the Obama ancestry and may explain his admiration for third world scum.
Apologies for the multiple posts. I thought WordPress, or whatever it is, kept eating my comment.
Apologies for the multiple posts. I thought WordPress, or whatever it is, kept eating my comment.
I think we all have done that one time or another. I didn’t have a problem.
This type defines half of the Obama ancestry and may explain his admiration for third world scum.
Would that be scum like Saddam Hussein, who was photographed shaking hands with Donald Rumsfeld in the ’80s?
Or scum like the leaders of Iran, to whom the Reagan Administration sold weapons in a deal that required elaborate concealment from Congress?
You are a proponent of a political party whose foreign policy was first defined by realpolitik–German for “we do whatever the hell we want”–and then neoconservatism, Rightspeak for “we do whatever the hell we want plus we’re morons.” For someone like you to be prating about Obama’s “ancestry” is beyond ludicrous.
Er… When Obama wants to spread the wealth around, he’s a socialist, but when he doesn’t give money to his family, he’s a liar? It seems with one breath you are calling the man a socialist, but in the next breath you’re saying he’s really a capitalist trying to sell himself to the public as a liberal. So which is it? Is the man an evil capitalist monster who lies about wanting to help others and then doesn’t follow through, or is he a a socialist for wanting to “spread the wealth around” in more ways than just with tax cuts?
No, when Mr Obama doesn’t give money to his own family, he’s a hypocrite.
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Obama can’t afford to help his aunt or brother (the one in the hut in Kenya). Maybe his cocaine habit sucks up his money. Or maybe his mistress, the one sent away, is eating up his funds.
See BS? You talk about Cindy McCain’s drug addiction, I’ll talk about Obama’s drug addiction. You bring up McCain’s infidelity, I”ll bring up Obama’s infidelity. Trouble is, your guy has way more baggage this way.
The slight difference, Sharon, is that the thing I said about the McCains are true, whereas the things you said about the Obamas are lies.
MY guy has way more baggage?!?! My dear, you are crossing the line into sheer delusion. If Obama had graduated the Naval Academy (which he got into through family connections) fifth from the bottom in his class, crashed several planes, taken money from a felon and in return tried to stop law enforcement from investigating said felon, was known to display a foul temper publicly and often, dumped his first wife after she was in a crash that left her disfigured, after first commencing an affair with his second wife, whose family made a lot of money with beer distribution and alleged association with mobsters…on and on.
Instead, Obama is a former president of the Harvard Law Review, a charismatic, elegant speaker who wrote (without help) two well-received memoirs, is still married to his first wife, and squeaky clean.
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: Given the vast differences in quality between the two candidates, the only reason the campaign is this close is because Obama is black.
The slight difference, Sharon, is that the thing I said about the McCains are true, whereas the things you said about the Obamas are lies.
So, Obama never did cocaine? And he never went to a hotel with Vera Baker? Really? I’m sure you have sources for this.
Yes, BS, I know. The truth isn’t fair to bring up when it’s Teh One.
MY guy has way more baggage?!?!
Yeah, you know. He did drugs. He studied, hung out with, accepted and endorsed radicals and their ideas. He’s distorted his biography, airbrushing out all the inconvenient parts. No medical records released, no papers (you can’t graduate from law school without writing at least one, you know), no grades released.
And that Harvard Law Review thing? Affirmative action. Even Harvard admitted this. So, please. I’m sure Obama was at least good enough to graduate. We have no idea how well he did, since he won’t release his grades.
We also know that he hung out with, accepted money from, gave money to, and generally clung to a whole host of unsavory characters as an adult in Chicago.
We know his policies–those he still admits to, anyway, and hasn’t erased from his website–are far left. We know he thinks if you work hard and earn your money, you must be a chump. You should just wait for the government come plant the money tree in your yard, instead.
We know Obama tells every person or group what he thinks they want to hear. A while back, Aphrael accurately described Obama as a mirror that everyone projects what they want to see on him. So, you see a family man; I see a guy who sat in the pews of a racist minister for 20 years who thinks people are stupid enough to believe he didn’t know what the minister thought. And maybe you are that stupid, BS. I’m nor really seeing any contradictory evidence here. But don’t try to argue that, somehow, Obama doesn’t have baggage.
Wait, neocons are now totally into the idea of access to medical/arrest/school records? When this this miraculous shift occur? Last I heard it was partisan witch-huntery to ask about GWB’s drug history.
Hey, you guys like digging through dumpsters. Dig through Obama’s.
I’d be willing to give him a pass on his hiding everything if you guys hadn’t spent the last eight years trying to cry about 30 year old DUIs.
And, dear Auntie is an illegal immigrant, and registered to vote. What a family.