Apparently she ignored a judge’s 2004 order to leave the country. I can only assume she also plans to illegally vote for him, if she hasn’t already.Â
 As someone at Ace’s puts it, this really sums up his whole campaign nicely, doesn’t it?
UPDATE: It occurs to me the illegal gov’t assistance is probably what the illegal alien aunt is illegally donating to Obama. It’s a poetically felonious little socialist circle of life, isn’t it?
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It occurs to me the illegal gov’t assistance is probably what the illegal alien aunt is illegally donating to Obama. It’s a poetically felonious little socialist circle of life, isn’t it?
Or she laundered money to the campaign from a rich guy who had already donated the max to Obama for a piece of the action.
Another desperate last minute smear attempt.
Notice that the information about Obama’s half-Aunt’s immigration status was leaked to reporters. Officially, the Immigration service will not confirm or deny the information, so we are not sure how accurate the information is.
But the big question is who decided to leak this information, perhaps illegally, certainly in violation of Immigration regulations, just days before the election?
It’s fine to jump on Senator Obama. He’s running for President. But why pursue this story about his aunt who hasn’t had any part in his campaign? Fine, she’s here illegally. Then she, like the other 20+ million need to be dealt with as the law sees fit (unfortunately Bush, McCain, or Obama aren’t leading the charge for tougher immigration laws).
This freakin’ smells. What’s the point? To embarrass Obama? Show that he’s "uncaring"? WTF? Now if she was out there like Joe The Plumber (and he’s even got attacked too hard) I could see some relevance. But not this.
I hope some ambitious reporter (read Boston Herald, not the in-the-tank Globe) takes a look at voter registration. Maybe even check to see if the aunt voted, either through early voting or absentee ballot.
That’d be a hoot!
I mean, it’s not as though an extra vote for Obama in MA is going to make much difference, but the tap dancing would be a wonder to behold!
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Why should he have been attacked at all? Obama came to him. He wasn’t on any GOP payroll, wasn’t a plant of the McCain campaign. Obama visited his neighborhood and brought cameras with him.
Attacked too hard? Joe shouldn’t have been attacked at all.
Kevin D said: "Attacked too hard? Joe shouldn’t have been attacked at all."
And you know, I can agree with that. The media and those Obama supporters who championed the "Joe the Plumber vetting" (yuck!) should be slapped with anvils. You get the point.Â
So now we come to Obama’s aunt? Why all the extra scrutiny on her? But if this simple tit for tat because of the Joe the Plumber stuff, I don’t like it one bit but… this is a heated campaign and I guess this is the way it goes. It still smells.
It smells to me. In all fairness to her, I don’t think she asked him to run for President. On the other hand, she did contribute to him.
Curiously, the Bush administration has moved to ensure that she isn’t deported.
Dave: the country is falling apart and you are writing about this????
THIS IS PATHETIC
He’s running for President. But why pursue this story about his aunt who hasn’t had any part in his campaign?
She’s in his book. She’s part of the Obama narrative that he’s campaigning on.
andrea,
The country is hardly falling apart, but to the extent that we have problems they are often being caused by exactly this kind of illegal behavior.
The left can whine all they like about this (and they will, because it hurts Obama), but the fact is this is a totally legitimate campaign issue, and anyone else (especially a Republican) would have been vetted for this months or years ago, but the media haven’t been doing their job.
We had weeks of hearing about Bristol and Trig Palin. That was pathetic; they hadn’t done anything wrong. Obama’s aunt has committed multiple illegal acts, some to his benefit.
In the last two elections, we had a 30-year-old DUI released on the eve of the election, and forged memos claiming Bush shirked his duty promulgated by the MSM. The whining about this is just ridiculous.
Dave,
Please let this one die. It suddenly stinks beyond words.
The word "narrative" just gets thrown around too much to justify many "vets" of a presidential candidate. My simple rule is this:
If you are actively campaigning for a candidate, you are a target fair and square.
So that means the following people should not have gotten any flak:
Bristol and Trig Palin
Joe the Plumber
Zeituni Onyango (Obama’s half-aunt)
Madelyn Dunham (Obama’s grandmother, the whole "thrown under the bus meme" when obviously she doesn’t feel thrown).
Spouses are always fair game since the majority of them actively campaign for their husband or wife. My 2 cents…
Dave…what are you talking about? even if she robs a bank, is her half-nephew responsible?
According to your desperate reasoning, if I write a book and mention my brother and then he’s caught with a joint, I can not run for public office because he donated without me knowing that he smokes… greatÂ
Put yourself together!!! you guys are grasping straws…
This is a trap.
Axelrod knew about it already, and chose the timing.
I can’t prove it, but I’m pretty sure the Obama campaign decided to burn Zeituni Onyango.
The other half of the trap is "is this all you guys have to talk about?"
the only reason why there was so much interest in Palin and her daughter was because republicans have been for the last 20 years talking with their mouth full about family values and now this republican ticket has thrown family values over the side…
has anyone heard about family values in this campaign? may be i missed it…
the only reason why there was so much interest in Palin and her daughter was because republicans have been for the last 20 years talking with their mouth full about family values and now this republican ticket has thrown family values over the side… has anyone heard about family values in this campaign? may be i missed it…I think the situation with the Palins demonstrates true family values. Sarah chose to have a Downs baby and Bristol chose to have her baby and marry the father. An abortion, in either situation, would have been very convenient and they could have swept it under the rug (I’m sure it would have been found out).The Palin family chose to do the right thing in both cases – protect the innocent, unborn child instead of covering their asses. I have no doubt what Barack "I don’t want them punished with a baby" Obama and his family would have done.
Who really shows family values and who is really looking out for the "little guy"? It seems all too obvious to me…
Hey, Andrea, I think the Palin’s family values are just fine, thank you.
It’s hardly as if a 16-y/o with raging hormones never got knocked up before, even from ‘good’ families (and I’ll let you define ‘good’). It happens; teenagers are teenagers.
What’s really ‘family value’ about this instance is what happened afterwards. No rush to the abortionist; no hiding the kid with relatives; no shunning the kid or turning her over to the state as a delinquent child.
The family value thing was standing by the kid and not making a bigger deal of it than it was.
The family value thing was abhorring the sin, not the sinner.
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You are absolutely right John B. but if it had been Obama’s daughter the one pregnant out of wedlock, the entire republican machine would be questioning his leadership because he could not even manage his own family.
But it is ridiculous. I particularly found all the attention on Palin’s daughter pathetic as well. We have an economy in severe distress, a national debt that makes me cringe, and two wars
how about leaving daughters and uncles and aunts out of this?
I agree with Andrea about leaving daughters, uncles and aunts out.
I should clarify my earlier opinion.
I don’t think Obama had any personal involvement in burning his aunt.
My criticism of him is that he’s so hesitant to judge character that he would hire someone who would burn his own family.
"Why should he have been attacked at all? Obama came to him. He wasn’t on any GOP payroll, wasn’t a plant of the McCain campaign."
I feel like I’m taking crazypills here.Â
It was the right wing media and the McCain campaign that made "Joe" a major talking point… but apparently one that it’s simply illegitimate for the Obama camp and Democrats to ever respond to, despite nearly EVERY element of "Joe’s" media bit being total hokum? Give me a break. If Joe didn’t want to become part of the campaign, maybe he should have asked McCain and Fox and friends not to make him part of it. And he probably shouldn’t have done so many press conferences and campaign appearances.
I just saw on NBC that the campaign has returned the aunt’s contribution. The aunt should have known her status would be uncovered as a result of the election furor, but apparently she has no political savvy. And it seems that if Obama had known, he would have tried to resolve the issue so it wouldn’t bite his butt later. I don’t blame either of them, but I do think it’s fair game to report this stuff. The liberal illuminati needs to expect this!!! I guess they don’t because they’ve gotten off so easy with the MSM.
< liberal, inclusive, tolerant, compassionate, militant,
and…illuminatii?
 well if that means reading everyday and avoiding trash TV, yes that too
And very proud of it
It seems to me that it’s highly likely that the Obama camp did "opposition research" on itself in order to be able to prepare responses for anything that might come up. That’s SOP for campaigns these days.
It’s highly likely that they already knew about the aunt.
We know now that the Palin smears originated with Axelrod. This appears to have the same pattern, and my little birds tell me it was Axelrod.
I’ll tie it all together:Wright the racistAyers the admitted communistRezko the ‘fixer’Bauer the censorJohnson the embezzlerAxelrod the Astroturfer, who would sacrifice members of his employer’s family under the heading of "the end justifies the means".
These are all Obama’s people.
Obama is a lousy judge of people if he’d hire someone (like Axelrod) who would screw Obama’s own family.
“It’s highly likely that they already knew about the aunt.”
This aspect of the conspiracy makes little sense. Why not simply return her donation proactively rather than risk a liability? It’s not like they’ve been hurting for money. It’s almost certain that no one on the campaign knew about her even being in the US and the whole point of the story is that no one (including “opposition research”) knew her immigration status before someone in the government leaked it. That’s the whole reason the leak is under investigation in the first place: it wasn’t public knowledge.
Wow a judge ordered her to leave the country and this has gone public before she was deported? We must have very terrible law enforcement. Why is it the media finds out these startling conspiracies before law enforcement does? Perhaps other people in this country are looking for facts.
Seriously, if this is what the McCain campaign has to go on it’s going to be sad for them in 2 days.
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