Obama Camp: Senator Knew Nothing About Aunt’s Illegal Immigration Status

Jake, I sincerely think you should be ashamed for following this non-story about some distant relative.
2008 appears to have become the year in which the MSM has embraced all the gossip and rumor that folks used to check the Drudge report for.
Sad.
Why wouldn’t you leave this old woman alone?
What’s her relevance for a presidential campaign??

All of this is so irrelevant to which candidate can turn the economy around.
Obama was not involved in looking into Joe’s records and McCain and Bush, I hope, were not involved in getting this story out.

Jake, the information was uncovered by journalists using the Freedom of Information Act. Try journalism sometime.

Jake
WHERE ARE PALINS MEDICAL RECORDS

“Just as, Republicans would no doubt counter, some Ohio state government resources were devoted to finding out more information about Samuel Joe Wurzelbacher, aka “Joe the Plumber.”
EXCUSE ME?
What kind of argument is that, Jake? Joe the Plumber had become a central figure in McCain’s campaign, and a national celebrity, after he devoted a whole presidential debate to him.
This half-aunt was and is a “nobody” with no relevance whatsoever for the election. I don’t think she’s gonna have her own agent soon.
Don’t get lost in dead alleys, Jake, please keep focused!

This is not the Auntie Zeituni I know.

Palin, Please show us your medical records…
Why are you hiding it?
You promised to show us in the middle of week…. and still no sign of it.
Now i’m really suspicious about the fake pregnancy rumor…. .

Obama’s brother lives in a slum in Kenya.
Obama’s Aunt living in the U.S. illegally.
Obama can’t even care enough to look out for his own family.
How could he possibly do it for millions of Americans?

This is how the press is so un patriotic.
Three days away from one of the most important elections in our american history. and the press is working on throwing it with these non-issues.
what shall we do?
it is so sad,
and to bad.
instead of working trying to give us some real news we can use. they give us this drivel.
i have not seen on tv yet. but i can imagine how the press must be camped out in her housing project yard right now.
so the only thing to do now is give her a bill for the years she has lived here
put her out of the house she has lived in, and deport her back to her home country.

Boy, of all the pathetic things I imagined McPalin would try at the last minute, something like this takes the cake.
Complete and pure slime politics that I think will backfire on those who raised it.
And people still think the corporate media has a liberal bias. That is one of the biggest lies perpetuated by the Right…the “liberal media bias.”
A responsible media would be more concerned about serious issues than splashing this nonsense on the front page 3 days before an election. His half-aunt’s behavior is somehow Obama’s problem?
Shame on ABC.

To Jake Tapper:
The source said he wasn’t a supporter for either candidate.
Obama doesn’t disclose donations allowing illegal contributions.
She donated money illegally to Obama.

james,
you mean like someone whining because they haven’t able to drool over palin’s medical records? wanting to find something hopefully damning right before the day?

This is the same Aunt Obama Hussien mentions in his book, where he talks about how much he loves her..how he is “my brothers keeper”.and yet, she lives in a slum in his home state and is an illegal in this country. His brother lives in a hut with a dirt floor… this is the man you trust to take care of you and America? I think not. Any man that has millions of dollars and ignores his own family like NObama does…. do you really think he cares about yours???

dee,
well, she was important enough for him to refer to her in his memoir…i use that word loosely. not important enough now, huh?

Jake I am Kenyan from a polygamous family with many step sisters and brothers.All my uncles are polygamous as well. I can tell you that I have brothers and sisters in different states in US I have never met 15 years since coming to US. From my experience I dont even know some of my step brothers and sisters back home.
Now you want to tell me Obama should be held responsible for the father’s half sister living somewhere in Boston?. The father he met once when he was 10? People he probably met once when he visited Kenya? People get serious, stop this spinning nonesense and look for real stories. It must be a slow day.

then he shouldn’t have used her as a prop in his book, peeps!

I already heard about the Aunt. But it wasn’t picking up traction in the media so they had to find another angle and yipee! she’s here illegally! We’ve got our October/November surprise!
But will it work? Have all of the innumerable smears against Obama worked thus far? Are Americans past this kind of low-road politics? I sure hope so.

“Niekamp is a Republican; Jones-Kelley a Democrat.”
Why is this relevant? Niekamp is also a regular state government employee while Jones-Kelley is high-up political appointee.
Many of career civil servants who were critical of the actions of Bush administration are Democrats. But I rarely see that mentioned.

Why should Obama be held responsible for anyone’s actions but his own? My grown children have half siblings that they hardly know and have no desire to know. I’m sure there are times when John McCain doesn’t want to admit he’s related to a few of his relatives either!

Clearly the result of her immigration hearing is public record.
I understand that the Obama campaign visited the aunt, instructing her to not talk to the press. It seems inconceivable that they did not know her illegal status.

OBAMA DID NOT KNOW ABOUT AUNT HERE ILLEGALLY for 25 years
OBAMA DID NOT KNOW ABOUT WRIGHT after listening for 25 years
OBAMA DID NOT KNOW ABOUT AYERS after sitting in the board and friend for 15 years
OBAMA DID NOT KNOW ABOUT ACORN after training and sending $800,000 from campaign and knowing for 15 years
Welcome to the denial world.
Americans are idiots still trusting

Obama “didn’t know” about a lot A LOT. Why on earth are you voting for him? He’s seems to be very uninformed.

Democrats and Republicans are rushing out to buy guns in case Obama gets elected.
Democrats don’t even trust Obama/Biden to keep their word on gun control.
They don’t trust Obama’s word yet they are dumb enough to go out and vote for him.

Hey you Stenographer Jake,
Are you responsible for the actions of all your relatives- immediate and distant?

I’m sure Obama is shocked.
Not by his poor illegal “favorite aunt”
but shocked that the MSM reported it.
How dare the MSM report a negative story about Obama.

Palin’s teenaged pregant daughter is off limits, and so is Barack Obama’s father’s half-sister.

So what you Republicans are telling us is that you would know everything about let’s say your 3rd cousin and would would also know everything that your 3rd cousin not only was doing but what they were up to. Right. You’re also telling us that John McCain knows everything about all his relatives no matter how far removed. Right. Hopefully, McCain has no one in his family that has had a run in with the law or a brother who calls 911 to complain about traffic. Oh that’s right his brother did do that. Hmmm… wonder if anyone was having a heart attack and couldn’t get thru to 911 because McCain’s brother thought himself so important that he could use 911 as a compaint department.
As to Obama’s birth certificate.. he’s been in the public forum for over 12 years serving in the Illinois State house since 1996 and you want us to believe that no one ever thought of this before. John McCain was born in Pananma. Can he be president?
All the references to Kenya is just to remind everyone that Obama is half black. Admit it, that is why all the references to Kenya since you won’t come right out and say that America should not elect a black man to the highest office. What a bunch of bigots. You Republicans should be ashamed of yourselves. Christian – yeah right.
All I know is that I’m voting for the smartest people to lead our government and that would be Barack Obama and Joe Biden. I want my leaders to be smart and preferably smarter that every other countries leaders.

More auntie digging…
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McCain’s 96-year-old Aunt Rowena talks to The Daily Beast about press bias and why she gets a kick out of Bill Clinton.
“He’s losing,” Rowena Willis, John McCain’s 96-year old aunt said.
Her stark assessment, in an interview with The Daily Beast, echoes that of her identical twin sister Roberta, McCain’s mother, who told a crowd at a campaign rally in Virginia this week to “pray for a miracle.”
———
Obama/Biden 08!

Make room under the bus for Obama’s favorite aunt!

Knows enough to write about her in a book, yet doesn’t seem to know she’s here in violation of an immigration Judges removal order? Doesn’t know she’s living in “public housing” and tax payers are picking up the tab? Wonder if she’s got a Mass drivers license and insurance? Wonder why she spends most weekends away from home? And this is the guy that that we think should run our nation? Democrat Puhhhlease!
George Bernard Shaw was prescient when he wrote “the government that robs Peter to pay Pail, can allways count on Paul’s support”.

Leave the Family out of it like we leave out the pregnant teenager!

No “cheer up smile”…
People are not buying guns to fight and start a war.
They are buying guns because Obama’s record in the Senate shows he voted for a ban on guns and a very high tax on ammo.
Democrats and Repubs. are buying guns now because Obama, Pelosi, Reid may try to ban guns.
My point was why would Dems worry if they trusted BO.
Sorry if I scared you.

He knows enough to write about her in his book, yet doesn’t know a thing about her legal status? Doesn’t know she’s living in public housing on the tax payers dime? Wonder if she’s got a Mass drivers license and insurance? Wonder why she’s never at home on weekends? Nobody in the Obama Campaign, or at the publishing house bothered to vet his family? New title “The Audacity of a dope”.
Seriously, this is the candidate that we should be voting for? Democrat Puhhlease! To bad early voters can’t take back their vote!

and if i may go a little further with the
ain’ts
john mccain ain’t gonna be president.

If Obama’s lets his aunt stay even though a judge has ordered her deported, then what about the others?
I want to know what McCain thinks should be done with Obama’s aunt.

Economic crisis? What economic crisis? Quck, look over there….

Why is this a story?
Who cares. Just last minute digging that changes NOTHING.

Obama has no respect for the rule of law, his own Aunt does not respect that a federal judge told her to leave this country. Obama’s will only worsen our immigration problem that is costing Americans their jobs.

Why is The Gop hiding Palins Medical records? Didnt they say they would be released last week

Alan Tagle: Obama’s aunt is a grown woman. Obama cannot tell her what to do.

Of course our next Greatest Leader, of the Free and Not-Free World, knows nothing.
He never heard of Rev. Wright’s rants, never knew about it.
He never knew Rezko was buy the land to help him to purchase his house, and to transmit part of the land to him.
He never knew he launched his political career and financed by a domestic terrorist.
He never knew he would have voted to give Bush the power to spy on you to take your cherished constitutional right of privacy away before he promised you he would vote against and filabuster the FISA bill when he needed you.
He never knew he would get so much non-tractable donations to finance his campaign before he breaks his promise to use non-special interest, public funds.
He never knew his $600 cash giveaways would tank the economy and stockmarked before he ridiculed Hillary Clinton’s correct, intelligent, targeted judgment to rescue the finance crisis one year ago.
He never knew he has an aunt living in the US illegally, before he described her vividly to sell you his inspiration Dreams of his Father, and have his campaign telling her aunt keep shut up.
He never knew he willingly and illegally accepts donations from illegal immigrants, including his aunt.
What doe he know?
Do you want another know-nothing President?

Bob
Thats because Obama/Biden have Respect something Mccain lacks and Dont blame Palin although I dont like her Mccains Judgement is the one that picked her after one Interview

sam,
i am sure he will do just that.
and pay back all the money she has leached off the us.

For a Harvard educated lawyer, he sure doesn’t know much. Didn’t know about his aunt, Didn’t know about Rezko, Didn’t know about the sermons of his pastor of 20 years, Didn’t know about his buddy Kahlidi being a terrorist spokesmen, Didn’t know about his buddy Bill Ayers and his wife still hated America and were proud that their group killed Police Officers. He sure doesn’t know much indeed.

He he he he… This week is going to get better….

Hey Samiguchi,
I guess you will now be held accountable for all your adult relatives actions.

If this was Palin or McCain’s aunt–or even Joe the plumber’s aunt all of her personal information would be in the MSM media already.
The liberals pride themselves in being so open-minded but they have turned into the party of thugs and intimidation.
I can’t quite call myself a Republican yet but I absolutely want no part of what the Democrats have become.

We would suggest that Obama helps his family, his aunt and his brother in the slum first, then would he be allowed to talk about helping strangers. Obama is the BS candidate.

Has Obama ever conceded knowledge of anything? Wright, Ayers, Khalidi? Why can’t he tell the American people what is on the tape? He is the one running for president, right?

Why is it Obama supporters keep wanting to see Palin’s medical records when Obama who is running for president has had over two years to release his? He got the birth certificate problem “fixed” so maybe he can move on to releasing his medical records.

ZOGBY SATURDAY: Republican John McCain has pulled back within the margin of error… The three-day average holds steady, but McCain outpolled Obama 48% to 47% in Friday, one day, polling. He is beginning to cut into Obama’s lead among independents, is now leading among blue collar voters, has strengthened his lead among investors and among men, and is walloping Obama among NASCAR voters. Joe the Plumber may get his license after all…

Where are Sarah Palin’s medical records that we were promised over a week ago???

The only research you need on Obama is to look at how he voted in the Senate.
And look at how many times he has broken his word during this campaign.
He promised to take public finance, promised to vote against FISA.
He broke both of those promises.
Obama may not ban guns but the three stooges Obama, Pelosi, Reid can make it very hard and very expersive to buy one.
Again I say–why are Democrats rushing out to buy guns if they trust Obama’s word. And why are they dumb enough to vote for someone they can’t trust?

Re: “that he’s required by us code to put his hand on his heart during the national anthem(as a govt employee)”
That’s NOT true. lolol

THis is almost as bad as John McCains brother, Joe, calling half of Virginia Communistic country.
And of the rest of his campaing, including Sarah Palin shouting that if we aren’t supporting their tickets, then we are mindless, Godless and anti-AMerican.
Or of Cindy and John McCain claiming that Cindy is an only child so they don’t have to share their inheritance with the destitute half sister and neices and nephews.

young_voter
Good point.
I expect Obama would rather the gov’t take care of his aunt than part with his own money.
The Obama’s do not appear to be very charitable with their own money.
I guess they are selfish.

Isn’t it a coincidence that this comes out 3 days before the election???
Think people… If there are any Republicans out there who honestly think there is true concern for this matter as anything other than political opportunity I got a really nice bridge to sell you in Alaska. The fact that nobody will go on record officially tells me the full story has NOT been reported. There are extenuating circumstances in many cases & this lady did not enter the Country illegally. The fact that she recieves assistance should be your first clue that she’s NOT hiding…

meggie,
once again, why is anyone running out and buying guns?
if mccain becomes president, many of you who want to run out and buy guns will not have to, because mccain is going to give you one, and send you to iraq to win the war for him.
especially if you are between the age of 18-25.
and for those staying at home, there will be no jobs, and no food, so what do you need a gun for?
many are losing their houses, so where will you keep all the guns you are running out and buying?
running out and buying guns?
I still don’t see the need?
someone said the guns were a bargain.
the economy must be great in your part of the country, if the only bargains you need to go out and get, are guns?

It’s not of any significance whatsoever that the McCains own a house for every one of the kids they have. And they have many.. including one who was adopted from another country.
Especially when Mr. Obama is squandering $600++ MILLION dollars (at least 7 times that of Mr. McCain’s funding), which he signed a paper and said twice in debates he wouldn’t do. Don’t you think a lot better stuff could be done with $600 Million dollars than pushing LIES onto Americans? At least $200 MILLION of it is not even traced for legality.
Also, John McCain made $400K last year, this is only 1/10th of the $4000000+ dollars that Mr. Obama made on his books last year(books whom some question were even written by him).
Seriously, how deep can the stuff get?

Obama knew nothing about his aunt’s illegal status??? This from the Obama camp itself?? Did he know she was in Boston? In public housing? Is there any way this doesn’t make Obama look very bad indeed?

if mccain becomes president, many of you who want to run out and buy guns will not have to, because mccain is going to give you one, and send you to iraq to win the war for him.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Obama’s already brought up, that he’d draft both men, and women! And??????

If this woman had been the aunt of a sitting US senator who was a Republican, you’d be telling us all about the immigration officials’ obligation to all those people waiting in line to come to this country, lecturing about the public’s right to know, and expressing doubt that this senator (who was close enough to this woman that she was at his swearing in) could really know nothing about her immigration status.
Journalism is dead.

Re: “I think I’ll trust McCain with my tax dollars.”
Republican Voo Doo economucs resulted in a 700 billion handout to Wall St.
No thanks. Democrats handle the economy better than Republicans.

3 days before the election…
Of course all the effective arguments are going to come out now.
It’s called politics.
But facts are facts and lies are lies.
Just because we’re 3 days out doesn’t mean you should clap your ears in ignorance. That’s a nonsensical argument.
A candidate can only be judged by their history. Here we have one candidate that has a history that you can research and see what all he has done for his country. On the other hand we have a candidate who has been in the senate for less time than the other candidate represented America in an enemy POW camp.
On election day, think about this:
The Presidency: It’s all about Leadership. So if you were in a POW camp and your life was in danger, who would you want to be there with you? The “eloquent” one, or the one with COURAGE that will pull you through so you make it out alive!!

concerned in ohio,
cindy mccain will be glad you did.
the way she looks at the people and stands her distance when going along the rope line, cindy mccain would not shake any of our hands.
she looks at the people on the rope line as if she is afraid of them.
that is what the reps. have wanted the poor to do for ever.
vote against your economic interest.

I think it’s important to keep in mind that his father’s side of the family is distant — Obama was not raised by his father, and met him for the first time when he was 10. He later travelled to Kenya, as an adult, and met some of his father’s relatives. To imply that he has any obligation to those people is like saying that you are obligated to a cousin you met once 10 years ago for 10 minutes. His father abandoned him — his paternal relatives played no role in his life. What sort of allegiance should he be expected to exhibit to that side of the family when there is NO indication that they ever cared about him before he became a leading political figure? On what basis does he have an obligation to follow the lives of those people and bail them out of their financial hardships? My own father comes from a large family, and he has brothers & sisters, nieces & nephews, that I’ve never met. Do I have obligations to them or a responsibility to know who they are, where they live, etc? Of course not. And neither does Obama have any such obligation. This is a ridiculous issue to bring up and smacks of one more desperate attempt at character assassination by the McCain campaign. Lucky for them, Obama does not participate in such smears — I’m sure one could ask why Cindy McCain pretends to be an “only child” when she has (I believe) 2 half-sisters right here in the US whom she completely ignores? Talk about hypocrisy.

Mr. America community organizer´s acquaintances and relatives:
- Tony Reszko?: ´I know nothing about him´.
- Rev. Wright?: ´I know nothing about him´.
- Bill Ayers?: ´I know nothing about him´.
- Jim Johnson?: ´I know nothing about him´.
- Franklin Raines?: ´I know nothing about him´.
- Aunt and brother?: ´I know nothing about them´.
Nobama, the man who knows nothing about the people that surround him.

I thought stories about families were “off-limits?”
This plays worse for Republicans than Obama. They have a “leak” that is willing to release immigration information (illegal), they don’t have enough oversight over public housing to stop someone with a deportation notice from enrolling, and this is the only “zinger” they could pull out at the last minute.
Obama, on the other hand, got the chance to once again show who he is. He heard the facts, said the laws should be followed and is following them. Next!

Hey, Jeanie: Cindy McSame also had legal problems when she was a drug addict. She stole the drugs from her charity.
And her husband had legal problems with the Keating 5 Scandal.

meggie: “I don’t think BO is the Mr Nice Guy he pretends to be.”
I wouldn’t support him if he were. Carter was a nice guy. I want a smart guy who plays by the rules but plays hard. Someone who doesn’t look into Putin’s eyes and sees his soul, but rather sees his economic weak points and perimeter border issue weakspots. The Presidency isn’t a flag football match where you encourage the guy who dropped the ball with a hearty, “heckuva job, Brownie!”

d0: “I don’t need to know the answer, but ask yourself how many sisters and brother your father has? Do you know where they are, even you do not like them and do not talk to them?”
A perfectly reasonable comparison – if your father left your mother as an infant, had 2 more wives, you never met him until you were 10, and you’re including how many half-sisters and half-brothers your father has.
My father has 4 sisters, my mother 1 sister and 1 brother. I think I know what country they’re all in, but have to go to the Christmas card list to get addresses. And I certainly have absolutely no clue what their immigration status is (I think I have a cousin who may be emigrating to Canada, but I haven’t spoken to him for years, so that may no longer be the case).

Jake, I’m not saying that this isn’t news, but why does it matter?
Please explain.
Thanks.

The only faint hope the Republicans think they have is to demonize Senator Obama and the Democrats as – communists, socialists, terrorists, racist, white haters, america haters, family haters, media darlings, etc.
It’s such a transparent and pathetic strategy, and it is the worst of American politics.
My advice to the Republican right wing is – you deserve to lose after the last 8 disastrous years in power – try to lose with a little dignity.

Many on this blog remind me of people who believe everyone they are told or read with doing any investigated work themselves. Obama is not a saint or your savior, he is just a human like all of us.I believe that many of you see Obama as a cult leader. Really scares me. Also before any of you shoot me I am not voting for McCain. After 65 years I can still make my own decisions and do my own investigations without having to just sit, attacking the opposition just because the liberal group tells you to jump out the window you still have a choice.

Ok so now finally someone finds out that $200 worth of donations to the $600,000,000 that Barack has received is ILLEGAL…
Just another $1,999,800 dollars to go….
Get this fraud out of American politics!!

Mad about The One
The US media have been captivated by Obama, at the expense of their curiosity and scepticism
It’s fitting that the cynicism “vote early and vote often” is commonly attributed to Chicago’s Democratic boss, mayor Richard Daley, who famously voted the graveyards in 1960 to help put John Kennedy in the White House. In this 2008 race, it’s the American media that have voted very early and often. They long ago elected the star graduate of Chicago’s Democratic machine, Barack Obama.
I am not talking of editorials in newspapers, though Obama has the preponderance of the endorsements over John McCain. Obama certainly deserves the credit for recruiting impressive advisers and running a more efficient campaign machine than any one in the US’s political history.
What’s troubling to anyone old-fashioned enough to care about standards in journalism is the news coverage in mainstream media. Forget the old notions of objectivity, fairness, thoroughness, and so on. The nastiest rumours on both sides haven’t been published, but the coverage has been slavishly on the side of “the one”.
It has not just been anti-Republican. It goes without saying that after eight years of George Bush’s macho blunders, the disenchantment of even the conservative outlets was bound to show. Researchers at the Project for Excellence in Journalism report that in the six weeks since the Republican convention, McCain, once the darling of the media, got four times as many negative stories as positive ones. Meanwhile, Obama got twice as many positive stories as McCain. The website Politico has also acknowledged that it had loaded the dice against McCain: 100 stories were more favourable to Obama than McCain; 69 were the opposite.
But the press bias towards Obama doesn’t represent a simple revulsion for the Republican party. It was on display in the Democratic primaries with the persecution of Hillary Clinton. Worst of all, in the primaries, the press let the Obama campaign get away with continuous insinuations below the radar that the Clintons were race-baiters. Instead of exposing that absurd defamation for what it was – a nasty smear – the media sedulously propagated it.
Clinton made the historically correct and uncontroversial remark that civil rights legislation came about from a fusion of the dreams of Dr Martin Luther King and the legislative follow-through by President Lyndon Johnson. The New York Times misrepresented that as a disparagement of King, twisting her remarks to imply that “a black man needed the help of a white man to effect change”. This was one of a number of manipulations on race by the Obama campaign, amply documented by the leading Democratic historian, Princeton’s Sean Wilentz. Clinton came close to tears in a coffee shop in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, which many thought helped her to win an upset victory there. MSNBC television gave a platform to the Chicago congressmen, Jesse Jackson Jr, where he questioned her tears and claimed that she’d not shed any tears for the black victims of Katrina, and that she’d pay for that in the South Carolina primary, where 45% of the electorate would be African-Americans.
In fact, MSNBC ran a non-stop campaign for Obama propelled by the misogyny of its anchors, Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann and David Shuster. Chelsea Clinton joining Clinton’s campaign prompted Shuster to report she was “pimping” for her mother.
Obamania has not been deflated one bit by the non-stop talkers on rightwing radio. They offer vituperation in place of enlightenment; paranoia in place of policies, and as such have little influence with the crucial independents.
On the web, the rightwing Drudge Report highlights anything that favours McCain, the Huffington Post does the same for Obama, and the more independent Slate has said only one of its staff intends to vote for McCain, the other 55 for Obama. Fox News has the vehement Sean Hannity paired with the mildly liberal Alan Colmes, not a fair match, but it has been more willing to investigate than CNN. In the Democratic primaries, there was a pattern on CNN where the short news videos of Clinton rarely let you hear what she was saying, but the short news videos of Obama let his words come through. I mentioned this to a CNN editor who said, “Oh, that’s our young video editors, they just find Obama more exciting.”
The young and affluent liberals have been captivated by Obama’s charisma, the unstated notion that electing a black man will be absolution for the years of discrimination and prejudice, and the expectation that Obama’s undoubted appeal to the outside world will repair America’s image. All understandable, but these emotions have been allowed to swamp the commonplace imperatives of journalism: curiosity and scepticism.
All the mainstream national outlets were extraordinarily slow to check Obama’s background. And until it became inescapable because of a video rant, they wouldn’t investigate the Reverend Jeremiah Wright connection for fear of being accused of racism. They wouldn’t explore Obama’s dealing with the corrupt, now convicted, Chicago businessman Tony Rezko. They haven’t investigated Obama’s pledge to get rid of the secret ballot in trade union affairs. After years of inveighing against “money in politics”, they’ve tolerated his breach of the pledge to restrict himself to public financing as McCain has done (to his cost). Now the LA Times refuses to release a possibly compromising video, which shows Obama praising Palestinian activist Rashid Khalidi at a 2003 banquet, saying its promises to its source prevent it from doing so.
The British press is notorious for political distortions, which more or less balance out. But the American press likes to think of itself as more superior and detached than it actually is. In 2000, the mainstream media did a great deal to elect George Bush by portraying Al Gore as a boastful liar.
Let’s hope the consequences of electing “the one” will be as wondrous as the press has led the voters to believe.
• Harold Evans is former editor of the Times and the Sunday Times, and author of The American Century

Hey DO: If you apply that standard then John and Cindy McCain have failed terribly at this. John left his injured wife to hook up with a rich younger woman. Cindy McCain was a slut who had no compunctions about breaking up a family. She even cut her half-sister out of her father’s wealth. Now, can you see how great John and Cindy McCain are.

God Bless President Obama and his lovely family.

If Obama is to be demonised by associations let us start McCain’s demonissation:
1) Links to Bush who started a war based on lies which killed 4000 soldiers and maimed 30,000.
2) Hearts Gordon Liddy.
3) Was involved in the Keating 5.
4) Has an advisor who lobbied for Saddam Hussein.
5) Involved with Rev Hagee.
6) Chose Sara Palin wgo has ties to AIP.

1 word describes Obamas thoughts on his aunt not being here legally…LIAR!!!

Isn’t interestding how Obama lovingly takes care of his “white” grandmother, but completely ignores the “black’ side of his family. His aunt in Boston, his brother and GM in Kenya, living in squalor. I guess he’ll get more white votes that way. Not sure why he has such a large black voter following, the way he tries to ignore his black roots, except when that gets him black votes.
just as Obama himself says, if you can’t take care of your family, how can you be expected to take care of the country? Well, look at the condition of his aunt, his brother, his GM in kenya. That, my friends, is how Obama will leave the country.
Meanwhile, is Obama, yet again, taking the “I didn’t know about it” route? This man, who says he is dedciated to family, didn’t even know about his aunt’s asylum status?
what a incredible, slimy, sad liar. Obama will use, abuse, and throw under the bus anyone and anything, to get himself what he wants.

We’re spending $10 billion per month in Iraq and you people are gossipping about an aunt?
Get real.

Of course, you can not expect Obama to take care of his aunt, his kenyan Grandmother and brother.
He expects the rest of us to do that.
redistribute the wealth, you know.
And you thought that your 401k was intended for YOUR family? LOL! Foolish soul.

Obamas proven record: 4 times voting yes, that if a mother choses to have an abortion and the baby survives the abortion.. KILL THE BABY EVEN THOUGH IT IS A LIVING BREATHING HUMAN

Well, one thing is for certain, whether Barack knows his aunt was here or not… when it comes to taking care of your relatives or running them over with the bus for politics.. it’s very clear what Mr. Obama will do.
Perhaps she’ll see Mr. Wrihgt on the way out.

Jeanie: “Obama just says….I didn’t know.
Speaks volumes about the character of these 2 men.”
Obama never left his wife, so he doesn’t have much to apologize about. Finding out that his half aunt on his father’s side who he didn’t meet until he went to Kenya as an adult has a lapsed visa – I would think less of him if he felt it necessary to waste time apologizing for it. What next, should he apologize when his half brother in Kenya litters?

Of course Obama knew nothing about his aunt’s status. He knows nothing about a lot of the people he consorts with. (i.e. Ayers, Khalidi, Wright, Rezko).
Hmmm, this MIGHT be a pattern…

yes, hot and spicy,
the black side did abandon him,
but now everyone expects him to care for and be responsible for all of these people.
the question is:
only the state dept. and immigrations would have know this,
how did this information get out?
if the bush white adm. has anything to do with this. i would not be suprised.
bush has sh on the people of this country every step of the way.

: “And, why didn’t you say they admitted these things.”
They didn’t admit these things. They got caught! Cindy McSame only admitted she was an addict because the press was about the break the story. And at the time, McSame said that he didn’t know his wife was an addict.
Same with the Keating 5 scandal. He got caught!
Posted by: hotandspicy | Nov 1, 2008 2:05:06 PM
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You are not worth answering. You liberals wouldn’t know the truth if it hit you in the face….just like it has for the past many, many months this bs has been going on.

I’m happy to hear that all you Republicans would be more than happy to pay any and all bills for your relatives no matter how far removed. From what I’m reading in these comments your saying you would do that and so should Obama. I’m I right? How many of you hypocrites would actually give money to lets say 4th or 5th cousin if they fell on hard times. I’ll bet not. You would probably use the old Republican standard that they need to be “accountable” for their own situations.
So before you go making absurd comments
of what others should do you need to examine if in fact you would do the same.

Nice try, Lilly, but I am old enough to remember these things. I remember the Keating 5 Scandal, and I remember when Cindy got caught with drugs.

The truth is that Obama has no extended family. He threw his African side of his family under the bus cause they are TOO BLACK and they pose a danger in his quest to get White votes..He flew to Hawaii to see his White grandmother cause she is useful foR him getting White voters..HE IS JUST A SELFISH AMERICAN.

Re: “Someone should help this old woman… cause Barack Obama won’t.”
What is he supposed to do? She was ordered deported by a judge. When that happens, it’s over. When you see those immigration raids in the news, they’re going after people who have been ordered to leave by a judge.

Pathetic the repeated attempts here to DEMONIZE the Democrats and Senator Obama.
We see through these Rove tactics this time. Sleazy right wing Republican smear and fear.
Sad.

Pathetic the repeated attempts here to DEMONIZE the Democrats and Senator Obama.
We see through these Rove tactics this time. Sleazy right wing Republican smear and fear.
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How is this story a smear, when most media is covering it? It’s documented. No smears here.

Nice try, Lilly, but I am old enough to remember these things. I remember the Keating 5 Scandal, and I remember when Cindy got caught with drugs.
Posted by: hotandspicy | Nov 1, 2008 2:17:20 PM
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Have an idea I am older than you, because I remember FDR and what a piece
of s*** he was and he was a Democrat.
Maybe the McCain’s did make mistakes, least you forget: they are human, like it or not. This Barack HUSSIEN Obama will be the ruin of America as we know it today. I have the right for the next few days to say what I want, since right now it is a FREE country. Enjoy it while it lasts, but from what I am gathering..it will still be free for you.

Hotandspicy wrote:
The BLACK side of the family abandoned Obama. That’s why his book is called “Dreams of My Father.” His father left him, so all he could do was dream about him.
Well, If he is good christian Why he didn’t forgive his father..CHARACTER MATTERS

McCain (and the right wing posters here) are using the same sleazy Rove tactics George W. Bush used. McCain has the same slimy ethics as Bush – under the influence of the right wing of his party.
No change there. No change at all.

One thing is clear..Obama is clueless..He never heard Rev. Wright speeches, he didn’t know his aunt was an illegal alien, he doesn’t know who paid for his tuition at Harvard, he forgot where Ayers lives in Chicago and he doesn’t remember who is Rashid Khalid?
CHARACTER MATTER, TRUST MATTERS

If Obama wants someone silenced all he has to do is ask. The media is at his beck and call. They might even proactively silence his critics.

hotandspicy – WWII saved capitalism in spite of FDR’s meddling policies.

Obama said that the last few days would be vicious and he was right.
It is so admirable that Obama’s campaign has been run with so few negative attacks.
Compared to McCain he has been saintly.
Bush and Rove have taught John well.
What will it profit him if he gains the presidency but loses what is left of his honor?
So little time left, I don’t think this will amount to anything. Perhaps it will gain a few more Hispanic votes via sympathy.
If Obama gains the presidency, and I think he will, he can hold his head high as he takes the oath.
McCain has forfeited that right.

The left-wing $600,000,000 dollar smear campaign is all over the tv, newspapers, on signs in front yards, literally EVERYWHERE!!!
Thank you Jake Tapper for allowing Americans to NOT BE SILENCED by BARACK-O-MANIA!! (and for far cheaper then Barack could ever fathom (what’s a comment cost on here, about .0008 of a cent?)
This is AMERICA, DON’T TREAD ON US!!
John McCain isn’t the most glamorous speaker we’ve ever seen, and he may not be the youngest presidential candidate ever, but in this country EXPERIENCE and SERVICE TO COUNTRY counts!! Barack Obama, come back after you’ve served our country for your whole life. Quit trying to fool us with dollar signs.

Why is Obama shipping in illegal aliens to steal American jobs and kill American citizens?
Obama should be prosecuted for trafficking in illegal aliens.

The right wing Fear and Smear campaign is in full operation as the posters here clearly prove.
Go at it boys. Fear and Smear.

It’s the Obama campaign that runs the fear-and-smear….
In fact, I’m surprised that instead of saying “I didn’t know” about his alien aunt being, that he didn’t say “It’s the same old Bush politics that she’s here”.
If you wanted to debate mr. bush, you should have ran 4 years ago.. oh but wait, Mr. Obama wasn’t even a Federal government worker yet at that time.
Mr. McCain is not BUSH. Never has been, Never will be. Do your research.. Those who actually think Mr. McCain is the same as Mr. Bush, are very dim indeed. But then again… these are the same people who think they believe all the LIES from Barack Obama(and are trying to push it on the rest of us).
Mr. McCain’s love of country and commitment to service has been tested and is proven. Do not let Barack Obama disrespect the service of his fellow Americans!!

OB invited this aunt 9 years ago to the US on a tourist Visa. So OB of course knows she was visiting US on tourist Visa. So… don’t you think he should have been curious why his Aunt is now living in the US years later on a toursit Visa. C’mon you yo’s yo’s, if OB doesn’t know what is going on in his own family, or is just turning a blind eye… imagine what he will turn a blind eye to, if he personally helps him out.

Like Obama’s camp did not send a freaking field army to Alaska trying to drum up smear on Palin..

OB invited this aunt 9 years ago to the US on a tourist Visa. So OB of course knows she was visiting US on tourist Visa. So… don’t you think he should have been curious why his Aunt is now living in the US years later on a toursit Visa. Obama is a lair, and this is just the beginning.

11/01/08
Half of Zogby’s current national poll average was taken after Obama’s infomercial … and here are his preliminary findings.
1. No evidence that Obama benefited from the infomercial.
2. Obama’s support dropped 1.1%, McCain’s gained 0.8%.
3. The last day of polling had McCain winning 48% to 47%. Zogby cautions us to wait until tomorrow to see if McCain really has traction.
Pollster John Zogby: “Is McCain making a move? The three-day average holds steady, but McCain outpolled Obama today, 48% to 47%. He is beginning to cut into Obama’s lead among independents, is now leading among blue collar voters, has strengthened his lead among investors and among men, and is walloping Obama among NASCAR voters. Joe the Plumber may get his license after all. “Obama’s lead among women declined, and it looks like it is occurring because McCain is solidifying the support of conservative women, which is something we saw last time McCain picked up in the polls. If McCain has a good day tomorrow, we will eliminate Obama’s good day three days ago, and we could really see some tightening in this rolling average. But for now, hold on.”

This is disappointing. I was for Obama but he said he was AGAINST illegal immigration!!!
I don’t want to vote Republican, but now I feel I have no choice to protect my job!

This contest isn’t about Democrat or Republican at all, so don’t frame it that way.
The fact is, when we elect John McCain as President we will have both Democrat and Republican in control. It’s a check and balance system. What’s more is that we will have MEN and WOMEN in the white house… more than ever before. It’s a check and balance system.
Don’t hate based on political party.. this is exactly the type of divisive and yes very negative tactics the Barack Obama campaign is LYING for you to believe.

It’s a cruel world that Mr. Barack Obama is creating.
I was out trick-or-treating with my kids last night and I saw a young girl dressed as Sarah Palin. She had a picture of Tom Cruise on her dress.
We then asked the little girl whether she was making fun of Sarah Palin, she said yes.
So what kind of place is American when a girl of 10 years old(maybe younger) is mocking a women who has lived an American life and that is a leader of her community. This is a tragedy.
Whether you like Sarah Palin or not, she is a symbol of America. Since when is working hard, living the American dream, and standing up to fight for your country such a bad thing?
Enter the world of Barack Obama…
Is this the type of America the Barack Obama campaign wants us to live in?
No thanks.
I have voted for service to country, will you join me?

Really now, put this into perspective. This is a 56-year-old woman related to the father who left Barack and his mother when Barack was a baby. He has met her a handful of times in his life, in his attempt to learn more about the family of the man he really never knew.
Is there some nefarious plot here? No. Let’s take a look at what is happening in Kenya, as of January this year: From CNN, “Gangs of young men armed with machetes are roaming the streets in Kenya as post-election violence threatens to engulf the country. Horrific attacks are being reported, including the torching of a church where people who had sought refuge were burned alive.”
This is a woman who is afraid to return to Kenya. Show some compassion! This is the story of many who are here in the US illegally.
Rather than condemning a woman who didn’t know what else to do with the red tape thrown at her, perhaps we should look at the root cause. Sending this woman back to a violent situation is not something the America of my childhood would have done.
And, trying to infer that Sen. Obama has something to do with her situation is simply ridiculous.
Is there any ethnicity or religious group left that hasn’t been offended by some of the strategies in this election? To take a phrase from the McCarthy hearings, have you no sense of decency?

Of course its an issue – BECAUSE she’s donating money to his campaign, ILLEGALLY!!!! Oh, but you want “Change”… here’s your change, more illegal immigrants taking American jobs!

Yes, lets put this into perspective:
This is for the leadership of our country and the most powerful job in the world. NO ROOM FOR ERROR. This man has WAY TOO many question marks on his very short career… You cannot say that about Johnny Mac!

This woman iilegally donated to Obama, Obama wrote about her in the book and she showed up at the Senate swearing in ceremony for him.
Obama kept this woman illegally in the US.
Obama broke the law and should be impeached and removed from the senate.

OBAMA THROWS ANOTHER RELATIVE UNDER THE BUS..A SO CALLED DISTANT AUNT THAT ATTENDED HIS INAUGURATION..SURE..LOTS OF BODIES OF FRIENDS LIKE REV. WRIGHT, AYERS, REZCO AND KHALID AND ALL HIS AFRICAN SIDE OF THE FAMILY UNDER OBAMAS’ BUS..WILL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE BE NEXT?

Does Barack not know about laws that Rezko gave him a lot of money????????/

Makes me think,
Sat in a Church for 20 years but didn’t know Wright was a racist, Did business with Ayers for 15 years but didn’t know he was a terrioist. Bought property from Resko but didn’t know he was shady. Didn’t know Dr. Khalid Abdullah was anti Semite. Didn’n know Auntie Zeituni is here illegally (living in Public Housing and contributing to his campaign illegally). Sent a Director from his campaign to a meeting with Islamic Terriost but didn’t know. Seems to me he doesn’t know some very important things….or did he and is not being honest! Obama is a dangerous man!
1. Occidental College records –Not released
2. Columbia College records – Not released
3. Columbia Thesis Paper – “not available”
4. Harvard College records – Not released
5. Selective Service Registration – Not released
6. Medical records – Not released
7. Illinois State Senate schedule – “not available”
8. Law practice client list – Not released
9. Certified Copy of original Birth certificate – Not released
10. Embossed, signed paper Certification of Live Birth – Not released
11. Harvard Law Review articles published – None
12. University of Chicago scholarly articles – None
13. Your Record of baptism – Not released or “not available”
14. Your Illinois State Senate records– “not available”

It’s all bullcrap! If Obama was terrorist, wouldn’t the big CIA know? Or the NSA so ignorant. They can even violate our rights by tapping us any time they want without warrants. They can even see the ants moving on the ground of Iraq. If Obama really was a terrorist, he wouldn’t even be a senator in the very first place. Don’t be so foolish to get fooled by low-road tactics and fallacy-filled cheap attacks of the republicans.

Joe the plumber is fair game becasue the presidential candidates brought him up in the debate as an example of how people would be affected by Obama’s tax plan. It turned out “Joe” the plumber lied about his name, he lied about how much money the business made, he lied about his plans to buy the business (he has no money to buy a business). He also doesn’t pay his taxes. All this is relevant since McCain is holding him up as an example. Interestingly, they have yet to produce someone that wull actually get a tax increase under Obama’s plan. Obama’s aunt, on the other hand, is a relative he has only seen a few times in his life, he hasn’t seen her in years and Obama knows nothin of her affairs. It’s pretty irrelevant.

The Great nixon moniker
Tricky Dicky
The Great Obama 2008 moniker is the Great line from Schultzy on Hogan’s Heros… Barrack Hussein “I know nothing!” Obama.
Ayers
Khalidi
Odinga
Wright
Faracon
‘Auntie Zeituni’
Next we will hear that “he knew nothing” about dressing the “hopeful first lady of the USA” in a cheap Harlequin clown yellow puppet outfit, to appear on National tv,
which makes him appear to abusively hoard money from the wife too.
The list we know about who and what he didn’t know at this tip might be only the tip of an iceberg big enough to sink the unsinkable Titanic.

Chris, Chris, Chris,
Wendy Button (Obama’s speech writer) put the nix on your comment over 2 days ago now.
Type in her name, I found her statement on monkey crash dot com.
She quit and is going to vote Mcain /Palin
“The party I believed in wouldn’t look down on working people under any circumstance. And Joe the Plumber is right. This is the absolutely worst time to raise taxes on anyone: the rich, the middle class, the poor, small businesses and corporations.
Our economy is in the tank for many complicated reasons, especially because people don’t have enough money. So let them keep it. Let businesses keep it so they can create jobs and stay here and weather this storm. And yet, the Democratic ideology remains the same. Our approach to problems—big government solutions paid for by taxing the rich and big and smaller companies—is just as tired and out of date as trickle down economics. How about a novel approach that simply finds a sane way to stop the bleeding?
That’s not exactly the philosophy of a Democrat. Not only has this party belittled working people in this campaign from Joe the Plumber to the bitter comments, it has also been part of tearing down two female candidates.”

Regarding Barack Hussein Obama’s Illegal Resident Auntie living on Public Housing in Boston: Why delay deportation? Is Illegal, Illegal…or not Illegal when Barack Hussein Obama is running for President.
Why would a candidate for President “disable controls?”
Regarding Barack Hussein Obama’s Auntie residing in Public Housing in Boston as an Illegal Immigrant, sucking support from our fellow tax payers (does she get FREE HEALTH CARE as an Illegal Immigrant?)
It was stated that “The ‘AP just reported that the campaign donations of $260 was being returned because it was against the law for her to donate to a political campaign. Where are the campaign controls to prevent illegal donations? The fact that her donations were accepted without being flagged suggests to me that a significant portion of Obama’s warchest is questionable. Several stories earlier the week mentioned that the Obama folks had disabled some of their controls and were accepting donations on untraceable ‘cash cards’. ‘ Gosh…wasn’t she personally invited by Barack Hussein Obama via the address at the Public Housing Authority? Does Barack Hussein Obama invite all the illegal immigrants to vote or just the Auntie’s in Public Housing?…
The only reason he returned the $260 was because he got caught by the AP with his hand in an ILLEGAL kettle.
I believe it is time to review ALL of Obama’s contributions/warchest revenue (DONATIONS), to see how many more illegal aliens have contributed and have hopes of “spreading the wealth” or “spreading our money around to them” to support them.
This, AFTER OBAMA agreed with McCain to accept Public Funding (after McCain KEPT his work and signed the paper) and then Barack Hussein Obama began to ‘bang the public’ for $$$$ to support (his Campaign to CHANGE America) him, via “spreading the wealth around”. I was on the fence, but as an independent, but I’m finished with this BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA….I’M VOTING FOR A TRUE AMERICAN…I’M VOTING FOR MCCAIN.

First things first. Obama had to fill out forms for a Top Secret clearance. He has to disclose all relatives, their location and status. He either forgot the Aunt or the investigator did a poor job(didn’t read the book). The day after the election is confirmed, he will be briefed on the nations most trusted secrets. I am getting butterflys knowing someone who can’t find relatives he made money off of in his book will have access to the world.
Second point is “what a hypocrite”, he talks about redistributing the wealth, but doesn’t help those family members who helped sell a book. McCain at least professes the republican greed and says, “keep what is yours”. I’m thinking I’d rather know I’m being told the truth. At least I know if I want to keep what’s mine, I have to go earn it. I’ll bet many will be upset when their welfare checks don’t go up or the jobless find out you need that rich guy to spend his money to open a factory before you can get a job. Oh wait! under the Obama plan he’ll tax that rich guy and take the money he would use to build a business and upgrade his Aunts public housing apartment. Now, she will have a nice place for two years until the upkeep bills come in and she can’t maintain it.
Think about her statement. “I can’t talk to the press until after the election” Huh! since when does freedom of speech get stifled at election time. Also, he didn’t know her status, but she comes up with the silence line on her own, let me put on some boots, its getting deep. There is a lot more to this. Let the public know!!!

Barack and Michelle should be helping out their family memebers. They aren’t spreading THEIR WEALTH! The auntie lives in Public Housing? Is an illegal to top it off. The half BROTHER lives in poverty? The Obama’s have raked in MILLIONS of personal wealth for years. It would not have hurt them to give the brother some money, right? Obama expects ME to “Spread MY wealth”! And I don’t want to because I think everybody just needs to get up early and get off their duff and go to work like I have done all of MY LIFE. He can’t spread his wealth to his family to at least keep himself out of the shame of being a public millionare with dirt poor family and in the forefront in the news right now. Shameless OBAMA!

For those who believe that Obama didn’t know his aunt was in this country illegally – I have the state of Virginia to sell ya.
Do you actually believe that Auntie Zeituni never asked her nephew, Senator Obama, to use his influence in D.C to assist with her immigration issue. OH PLEASE!!!
He knew full well what her status was. Perhaps he even instructed her to lay low until after his inauguration by promising to use his influence as president to resolve the issue.

Obama made over $1 million last year and his destitute aunt sent him money.
This is wealth redistribution under Barack Obama?

How low can McCain go? He’s gone way past scraping the bottom of the barrel. McCain and Palin are so negatively charged, they repel each other.

Jim K: “Obama ‘didn’t know’ about a lot A LOT. Why on earth are you voting for him? He’s seems to be very uninformed.”
Besides the fact that he is already a great man with a set goal, that gives hope, and has ran a magnificent campaign
It’s step forward
To healing this country
We are no longer voting for just a president, but for a unity, for growth, for change, and for forgiveness.
It is of great importance to the future of our nation’s poeple.
We vote to live up to great promise of the Grand American Ideals^^

I hope Obama gets elected. Then the youth will learn first hand what happened in the 70′s under Carter. Obama’s policies are like Carter’s policies on steroids. He wo’nt lower taxes on those making 250 grand or less, he’ll do exactly what he says he’ll do. Roll back the Bush cuts, and restore the tax structure what it was under Clinton. He and Biden voted twice to roll back the Bush cuts, which translates to voting for raising taxes on those making $41,600, and raising the poverty level to $20,000.

Obama’s Aunt, Zeituni Onyango, is in the United States illegally, and the angle the liberal media chooses to highlight is her privacy? Please.
Can you say spin?
The liberal media (failing newspapaers, declining viewership) deserves what it gets after this election … they have lost all credibility.
And if Obama is elected, and the “Fairness Doctrine” is imposed, we will get more of this kind of journalism.
Do not allow our free press a free pass on this story America. Ask questions!
I encourage everyone reading about this to watch the Sunday morning news shows, and watch how the liberal talking heads spin this story! Should be interesting! I’ll just bet there will be a lot of hard-hitting jounalism. Not!
Vote McCain/Palin 2008 … Please … for our country’s sake!

OBAMA
Didn’t know about his Aunt being an Illegal Alien
That Rev Wright was a America Hating Racist Ranter, even after 20 years, and everyone else in Chicago knew it for 35 years
That Rezko was a hoodlum
That Ayers was a Terrorist
etc, etc
RIIIIIGHT!!!!!

I find it hard to believe that his aunt did not contact him regarding her immigration status. If I was facing deportation and Obama was my nephew, I certainly would have asked for his advise and/or help. I wonder if there are public records that would show if she had
any representation at her deportation hearing. Did
Obama write a letter on her behalf? I’m sure there is more to the story then Obama’s often used claim of
” I was unaware.”

For the fairness sake, let’s make negative assumptions for both sides: Obama and Sarah. Obama knew all along about his aunt’s illegal status, and Sarah intentionally pressured the Trooper Chief to fire her ex-brother-in-law.
Verdict:
Let’s say Obama did something about her status as a Senator, he would be criticized by political opponents for abusing his power for personal matters clouding his political future because there would be a clear document proving his involvement. His other choice would be what he has just done -keeping distance from her and pretend he knows nothing. His Kenyan aunt just couldn’t benefit his political ambitions anyway and yet he could use her story in the book to propel his political goal and even make money. When her situation comes into light, he says to the public, “Ok, deport her!”
That’s similarly a kind of struggle that has happened with Sarah Palin with her ex-brother-in-law case. She wanted to get rid of him from the law enforcement for his troubling behaviors toward her family. But she knew the ethics law so did it in a subtly way which is still a violation. Now as expected, her political opponents are all over her.
Year 2009;
An intel says a terrorist group training in a sensitive region a nuke attack against America (no doubt it will happen). How would Obama react to it and what about Sarah? Will it be better to take no-action and see what happens or preemptive action with a risk?
No wonder the world chants “Obama!”

With two days to go, the Obama people are throwing Aunt Zeituni under the bus. They refunded her $260 bus fare, so everything has been made right.

wow…
I was going to vote for Obama. After this incident, my trust for the candidate has been lost. Thank you for the update and hope McCain wins the elections.

The problem is, OBAMA is suppose to stand for the poor and middle class, yet his aunt is living in the slums. He wrote about her in his book. He is a millionaire but all he gave her was 260 dollars, what a cheapskate.