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So That Was Obama’s Uncle

So the Onyango Obama arrested last week for drunk driving and held as an illegal alien really is the president’s uncle. Now he has two illegal-alien relatives. Are there more? If he were a Republican, wouldn’t the MSM be interested?

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   08/29/11 12:19

Are there more? Well, there's his mother played by Angela Lansbury and then later by Meryl Streep.

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   08/29/11 13:05

"In 2008, The Times mounted a search for Uncle Omar. Instead of finding him, we discovered his sister, President Obama's Auntie Zeituni, who was living as an illegal immigrant on a Boston housing estate."

The AUSTRALIAN Times, that is. Apparently another job Americans won't do?
And there's the captcha, answering my question: "cold feet."

Now, somebody really needs to look into the question of when BHO found out that Uncle Omar was here.
I could have believed that Auntie Z didn't know where Omar was, if Omar had turned up in another state. But he's in the same city. So that's really not credible.
And since BHO was in touch with Auntie Z all along -- she gave money illegally to his campaign, after all, and was (according to reports) invited to his senatorial inauguration -- and since BHO is also apparently in communication with the mother of both Auntie Z and Uncle Omar (with whom the US press also communicates, incidentally) it is MOST unlikely that BHO didn't know about both of them and their outstanding deportation orders.
Which does shine a funny-coloured light on his administration's recent actions regarding deportations.
Like I said, somebody really needs to look into this. Are we going to sit around and wait for the Australians to do it, or is this finally a story America's big news organizations can notice?

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   08/29/11 13:08

clarification: I said "BHO is also apparently in communication with the mother of both Auntie Z and Uncle Omar (with whom the US press also communicates, incidentally)"
by which I meant the US press also communicates with "Granny Sarah" -- the MOTHER.

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 Dave
   08/29/11 13:16

When I saw the story that it WAS a relation of the President's, I knew immediately that Krikorian would be smiling with the well-deserved joy of schadenfreude.

TWO illegal alien relatives in America... you can't make this stuff up.

And the Left still makes fun of people for wondering about Obama's empty past. Even all these years later, NOBODY knows who this guy is.

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   08/29/11 15:28

actuallt the biggest aspect of this story isn't that he has a second illegal relative in the U.S., or that both those relatives are as profligately irresponsible as their nephew, but that it's news at just the time that Obama is effectively instituting for all but the worst illegal alien criminals.

Oh - and that he gave over $50,000 to Rev. Wright's church but couldn't be relied upon to send a few Benjamins over to Aunt Zeituni to keep her off the dole.

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jprev40
   08/29/11 13:16

So Obama is responsible.

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   08/29/11 15:08

Responsible? For his sorry immigration policies? Yes. That this man who claims to want to help the poor won't help his own family? Yes. That he cares absolutely nothing for his family? Yes.
That he wants the taxpayers to pick up the tab for his assorted relatives? Yes.
You learn what a phony this guy is just by paying attention a little.

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tessa108
   08/29/11 21:42

Hey!! Doesn't Barrack have a mansion in Chicago that has been empty for 4 years? How dare he ask for shared sacrifice. He lets the hard working people of MA support HIS relatives. Liberals sharing stops at their doorstep.

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   08/29/11 13:19

The big question is whether he will be deported because he broke the law, or he gets the special Obama regulatory DREAM Act amnesty. My guess is he isn't going anywhere like his Aunt.

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   08/29/11 15:14

Actually if Barack Obama's own book is to be believed, Uncle Onyango/Omar came to this country illegally in the 60s or 70s, raising the question of why he didn't qualify for the '86 amnesty. Criminal record, perhaps?

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NickFFF
   08/29/11 17:24

"If he were a Republican, wouldn’t the MSM be interested?"

I refer you to the Boston Herald:

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Currently leading with "Breaking: Obama’s uncle arrested in Framingham on drunken driving charge" written in giant red letters at the top of the home page. That count?

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   08/29/11 20:26

The Boston Herald is not of the MSM.
I wish it were, but it isn't.

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   08/29/11 20:25

Obama has two (at least) illegal immigrant relatives in America, and out of all 50 states in which to set up squatters' quarters, they chose Massachusetts.
Coincidence?

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   08/29/11 20:56

It must be difficult, logistically, for the Australian journalists to find these people in Massachusetts. Maybe they haven't had the chance to look further.
Perhaps if the New Zealanders, British, South Africans, Indians, etc., start looking around the other 49 states they might find more.
Or maybe if AMERICAN journalists were to start searching ... ?

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MD. II
   08/30/11 01:09

No one knows the details of the contact that these people have with each other. Most Americans disassociate themselves from unsavory friends and family when they gain money, fame or, power be they black or white Democrat or Republican.

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wmc76
   09/09/11 11:14

Really? Do you really think the president of the United States wasn't aware he not one but two illegal immigrant relatives? Is there no end to the Obama apologists? Short of killing someone, Obama will always get a complete pass by the MSM. It is sickening.

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   08/30/11 10:57

Honk if you're a deadbeat illegal Kenyan Obama relative!

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