More Obama Relatives Found in the U.S.
Barack Obama has an aunt in Boston:
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.
And there’s Uncle Omar, also in Boston:
Aunt Zeituni and Uncle Omar are the children of Mr. Obama’s grandfather Hussein Onyango Obama, by his third wife – the woman Mr. Obama calls “Granny” because she raised his father. Mr. Obama’s father, Barack Sr, was Onyango Obama’s son by his second wife, Akumu. That makes Zeituni and Omar a half-sister and half-brother of Mr. Obama’s father, or Mr. Obama’s half-aunt and half-uncle.
Despite living in a public housing project, and not being registered to vote, Aunt Zeituni has made a $260 contribution to the Obama campaign. This leads the Times to conclude she must be a U.S. citizen, but given Obama’s willingness to circumvent campaign finance law, that is not something that can be simply assumed.
And this shouldn’t be a surprise:
The Obama campaign was repeatedly approached for comment yesterday but had not responded at the time of going to press. It is not clear whether Mr. Obama has been in touch with his African relatives living in the US, or even whether he is aware that they are on US soil.
African relatives are great to give color to a memoir, but that seems to exhaust their purpose for Obama. Even if they live in America.
And why is it a British newspaper that discovered this story? Is Sarah Palin’s wardrobe so large that it keeps the U.S. press from working on anything else?
(Via Memeorandum.)
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