Obama says he did not know aunt in country illegally

Obama didn't know his pastor was a virulent racist when he sat in his pew for 20 years. Obama didn't know Bill Ayers was an unrepentent domestic terrorist when he blurbed his book, served on boards with him, and helped him throw tens of millions down a hole in pursuit of a Socialist education agenda. Obama didn't know Rezko was corrupt when he bought real estate with him. Obama doesn't know how to set up his website to prevent a flood of illegal campaign donations. And now he doesn't know his Aunt is in the country illegally.
Either Obama is the dumbest man to ever walk the Earth, or he is a liar.

I see you all have not lost your fight :

GOOD! Because we have a lot to do. You! (the American people) are going to have to take back control of your elected government at every level, and set your government back on the right path of service to you, and the greater good of the World.

Barack Obama and the democrats are your best hope of doing that now. Tell your family, friends, and everyone you know to support them as best they can. Because the Bush McCain vote fraud, vote cheating, vote buying, vote manipulation machine is already hard at work to cheat you again. And we all know what a disaster that has been the past 8 years of Bush McCain.

Barack Obama and the democrats will need all the power you can give them at every level of government (Federal, State, County, and local City elected governments). Obama and the democrats will have an enormous mess to fix for the American people, and the rest of the World. A mess caused by the corrupt Bush McCain administration.

You see, starting back in 2000, and before 911, it was mostly the Republican governors, Republican legislatures, and county elected Republican officials that conspired with the corrupt Bush McCain administration to raise college, and university tuitions by the fastest, and highest rate increases in American history. Some state tuitions went up by as much as a WHOPPING! 30% in one year.

The reason the Bush McCain administration did this was to force struggling working class kids into the military to pay for the sudden jump in tuition. Which was forced on them by the corrupt Bush McCain administration, and their corrupt Republican Governors, and republican controlled state legislatures.

See, Bush McCain had plans to get us into all these immoral, foolish, criminal, and unnecessary wars from the start. So they could use these wars to seize power, and later to get reelected. But, for their evil plan to work they needed more volunteer soldiers struggling to pay for an education whose blood they could spill to help them seize more power. Remember Bush McCain's "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!" theatrics.

The exploitation, and lost lives of these finest Americans is despicable, disgusting, immoral, corrupt and criminal. And it makes me SICK, and ANGRY!

You will have to vote for Obama, and the democrats in overwhelming numbers to overcome the Bush McCain vote fraud machine. Vote early if you can. Then help your fellow Americans cast their votes now, and on through election day. Vote for Obama, and the democrats like your life, and the lives of your loved ones depends on it. Because it does. You will not survive 4 more years of "Let Them Eat Cake" Bush McCain, and their republican allies.

Just look at the mess we have now.

You can fix this mess with your votes for Obama, and the democrats. And REMEMBER, no matter which of us may stumble or fall, the rest of you must continue to surge forward for Barack Obama, and the democrats, and for your-selves most of all. The children, and the World are counting on us.

It's in your hands now. And I know you will get it done.

God bless all of you.

JACK SMITH - WORKING CLASS... :-)

This whole situation is an obamanation!

THEY CAN'T FIND NOTHING ON THE MAN SO THEY LOOK AROUND HIM.

Any excuse these people can come up with to not have to admit they just don't want a negro in the white house.

Hang in there people. The old white racists are dying off right along with their party. We just have to be patient until the youth and diverse are able to restore this country.

Of course he didn't.

Obama himself invited his aunt from Keyna on a tourist visa. All my Mexican friends know their relatives' status. Give us an explanation we can believe, Obama!

There is absolutely no way that Obama didn't know about this. I would have respected him more if he would have been honest about the situation.

Wouldn't it be against the law for him to use his influence to help her..?
If he knew about her and If he did in fact use his position to help...think of the outrage and indignation of it all...you would have been upset about that as well...

Mr. Marcism is Wrong....when did you last help a distant family member????
I'm certain that speaks volumes about you......................
Do you have family members using the system? Avoiding paying their taxes?
Collecting Workman's Compensation...?
Cheating on their taxes? If Palin could be nominated ..so could you...Be prepared..

Most of you anti Obama racists are grabbing at straws.

This is certainly not anything that would change my vote. Do you know all your relatives and where they are and what they are doing? My father was in the military and we lived in Europe during most of my childhood. I have relatives I haven't seen since I was child and have no idea where they are and what they have been doing. To think that Obama should be responsible for this woman's actions is ridiculous and another example of how desperate the Republicans are, they just keep throwing mud out there hoping it will stick. I really don't see what this has to do with someone running for any public office. By the way why is Palin's dysfunctional family off limits?

If he knew or didn't know, he still looks bad. He wants to give peole here illegally, healthcare, amnesty, drivers licenses, social security, so with his spread the wealth mentality taxpayers will foot the bill.

The following is excerpted from Obama's book Dreams From My Father where we are first introduced to his Auntie Zeituni and Barry's jorney of discovery and his desire to suceed and help improve his family's living conditions in Nairobi, Kenya:
" If Jane or Zeituni ever fell ill, if their companies ever closed or laid them off, there was no government safety net. There was only family, next of kin, people burdened by similar hardship.
Now I was family, I reminded myself; now I had responsibilities".
-Barrack Obama-

I am sure that Obama didn't know about this and that is why his campaign told them not to speak to the press until Nov. 5. His uncler said it himself on camera few days ago. Obama invited these people into the US, and as such is directly responsible! How is it possible that illegal immigrants receive public housing? Absolutely pathetic! Doesn't he know his own family?

I'm still waiting for Obama to produce birth records he was born in the US> There have been at least 8 lawsuits filed & to date he hasn't pprovided it.

Why didnt' this make the news in early October, this woulda been the Hail Mary pass Mccain needed.
The problem with Obama is he turned table on all the people he used to hang out with, inlcuding that angry preacher 20yrs.
At least Mccain show some bittered loyalty loosing to Bush in 2001.
It akes you wonder how legally Obama father came here , or that one night stand in Hawaii. We're pretty sure Hawaii has one of the country strictest immigration policy that' s how the pineapple plantations bought out the island and usurped the queen. Anyone remember that? no?

Anyone will do anything to keep this man from becoming president! Give the man a break! I think party lines are being a little overbearing. We will finally have someone who thinks of the people......not themselves!

Ah, ya gotta love the Globe's fair and balanced news coverage. Palin's clothes are front-page news. Obama's aunt living in a SOUTH BOSTON housing project gets buried in a left-hand corner of page B4. Here is a Kenyan woman, the nephew of an Illinois senator, and you're telling us she never once contacted him for help with her immigration status, even after she'd been turned down and was told to leave the country? Please don't insult our intelligence. Every one of us would have used any connection we had not to have to return to our native land if we were truly in fear. African people, particularly, born into a tribal culture, would naturally turn to a family member who held high office in the US, particularly one who is, and whose wife also is, an attorney. And not just any law-school grads, but with pedigrees from Harvard and Princeton, yet. And how it is that Aunt Zeituni lives off the taxpayers' largesse is another story that the Globe won't investigate until after Tuesday, you can be sure.

Okay.... Why isn't Obama "spreading" some of his wealth to help his aunt, but is doing so to help his grandma? Could it be because he doesn't want intolerant voters seeing him helping a family member who also happened to be an illegal immigrant? Or else Zeituni doesn't really like Obama, and she doesn't want much to do with him. Let's see. The Kenyan side of Obama's family separated from the American side when Bam's mom divorced and married Mr. Soetoro. There may have been bad blood from the Kenyan side. So, of course, the Kenyan side ignores Obama, and they get confused as to where he was actually born, and tries to sink Obama. Somewhat plausible theory to me.

The media has failed the people of this country by not investigating and reporting both sides of the story! I am very afraid that America is on the brink of Chaos, should Socialism occur with an Obama presidency! If his relatives in Kenya is saying he was born in Kenya, then the media should dispatch a team of investigative reporters to Kenya to interview these relatives of his.
They sent repoters to Alaska to dig up dirt on Palin let's see this done to Obama too in Kenya!

She is really set up there in Boston! He hooked her up in that public housing. And that affects his qualifications to be president how?

A ego-centric liar will never admit to anything negative about him or that reflects on him. Obama has proved tinme and time again that he lies and will not admit to it ,even when caught. A pure narcisist and control personality. BEWARE.

My there is so much that we can go on record for turning our heads but I'm reminded of a story in the Bible that say "cast a stone at some one may bring that stone back at you . It's interesting to see the level of perfection that people will clam at the expense of tearing down some one else. Oh and by the way if we are going to send all the illegal person home be careful where your family tree start.

I would like to know her voter status, is she registered?

I would like to know how the BHA has been paying her, don't they need a social security number?

i'm tired of both major candidates -- they both believe in bailouts that are devoted to enriching the top dogs of companies that otherwise would have gone bust -- they both believe in the federal reserve system & the fiat dollar that got us into this mess -- each one wants to shaft the taxpayer -- i voted but neither of them got my vote

Daniel Mack -- what evidence do you have that any taxpayer funding whatsoever has gone towards Obama's aunt? I realize you're trying to stoke fear and resentment in people, but it's a pretty weak attempt.

Marcism [sic] is wrong, apparently you don't really understand how immigration law works in this country. That's okay, most people don't.

It is so highly improbable that she didn't contact him to get her a citizenship. It goes off the scale of logic. She has been staying very low until after the election knowing that nobody would send her back then. Another case of the press letting this dude get a free ride.

he is so full of it . . he wrote about this same aunt in his book, but did not know about her status?
Thorninurside - Columbus did ot discover America - don't you know this by now? What does Omaha Beach have to do with immigration? Just another Liberal whacko here in MA I suppose, right?

It makes me sick how Obama is always involved in some questionable situation. Yet the press along with him have done very well indeed at attempting to cover it up. And the worst is how he always claims he's innocent. He never handles the situation til he's caught, AFTER the damage has been done. Is this what we have to look forward to for President? But I guess he can still blame the "Republicans". This guy needs a complete overhaul of his past. But the press won't allow it along with special interest groups. This is what our great America has turned up to run the country. At least McCain/Palin don't have any discreditable past to reconcile. Shame on all of

What a close family!!!!!! NOT.....and we are sure the media believes anything and everything he says! DUH....Like we believe he didn't know !!! HA, not on your life !

I guarantee this woman knows more about this country, the constitution, and that she actually reads a newspaper she can cite than McCain's VP choice!!! In fact maybe McCain should have her as VP nominee, it's still better than that Alaskan dimwit!

you got trouble right here in river city and OBAMA is prof. harold hill...a smooth talking salesman who didn't know anything about music.

hmmm

So now Obama finally returns the campaign donation to her. She's been living illegally in the US for four years, sends little Barack some money to help with his quest for the Oval Office and she's been living in public housing even though she's not eligible for it. Gosh, I wonder what else Obama will be doing once he's president...or should we trust him at all?

Not only did he know her, but he also accepted checks from her for his campaign. He is a Lawyer and knows this is not legal, if it ever got out. O well so much for his redistribution, will not even lend his own a hand.

Indiscretions is one thing braking the law is a different ball game no matter who you are.

I have many relatives in the US and I am not aware of their immigration status. Its a personal matter. Why are people expecting Obama to know his Aunt's immigration status?

Get off it! All of us have distant relatives that we barely know. Are we responsible for their actions? There are 13 million people in the US illegally as I write this. One of them, just one of them is distantly related to Senator Obama. She is the half sister of the deceased father he met only once in his adult life. It's hardly likley they are close. Can anyone prove he knew she is in the US illegally? Is it suddenly his job to round up illegal immigrants for the INS? If he had used his influence as a senator to help her stay in the country, would he not be accused helping illegals remain in the country? Stop drinking the cyanide flavoured Kool-Aid people!

So when are we finally going to start the vetting process of Obama? Each time we learn something about his actual life we are called racist. If racism is knowing about Obamas history, then each president we have elected has had complete racism against them.

Immigration is a private matter, Let me show some light on Real world ....... A husband waiting for his immigration application to be cleared by USCIS cannot talk to USCIS to know the status on his wife and kids application. ONLY the applicant can talk and know about his/ her status. Its illegal to discuss your immigration status other than the applicant himself/herself.That says a LOT on why this information was LEAKED out ? and there is no proof that its true either. She may just be NOT ILLEGAL. so hold your horses there. because If you read the news " no one was able to confirm" As far as Obama is concerned " its none of his business to know which relative is on what status .

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I have family living overseas. I am not their keeper nor responsible for making them obey the law. However, I would never tolerate them living here illegally - especially on the public dole. I don't expect Barack to keep close tabs on his aunt - but how can anyone expect me to believe that when he found out that his aunt was living in Boston he had no idea of her immigration status? There are very few ways to live legally in this country long term - work, study, asylum or immigration - so Obama never asked the natural question - oh how did you get residency status? He had to know she wasn't here on a study visa or foreign assignment and as her only family in the US he didn't sponsor her so that leaves asylum which would lead to the natural question "Why do you need asylum? Oh is the rest of the family OK - I'm a US senator I can help!" There is no logical reason for Barack to assume she was here legally. Bottom line. If he says he had no idea about her immigration status he's ignorant (and we know he's not), lying or operating under don't ask (wink wink) don't tell.

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I'm so tired of the gotcha politics being used against Sarah Palin. Leave her alone and focus on the issues!

Unless and untill a person sponsors a relative HE/ she is NOT responsible for them in any way . That in SHORT makes OBAMA not guilty by association.

Before you comment on someone first understand the laws than pass your judgement.

This has nothing to do with Obamas qualification to be president. I doubt theres anyone but foaming-at-the-mouths republicans who actually think this can be used against him.

Sounds like some of you would like to light the torches and run her out of town. Most of us could care less. Mr Salter was decent enough to keep the campaign out of this, we would do the same. We're talking about a half aunt from a broken marriage-this would be tantamount to talking about McCain's first son (off limits) or his neglected ex wife (also off limits). Remember, Obama has also stayed above the fray on Palin's precocious daughter and her seccessionist husband. Rabid McCain/Palin fans would do well to do the same in return.

You people are so gullible and naive. Obama was the first person welfare Auntie called when she found out she getting kicked out of the US. You can bet your next tax cut that welfare Auntie has Hussein on speed dial.
Obama (an attorney) knew damn well about the legal status of his Aunt and only a sucker would believe otherwise.
Obama is a well educated lying con artist.

As we contemplate our most precious civil right--the right to vote--leading up to next weeks’ election, one must seriously consider the negative consequences of a United States in total control by one party; a party led by Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Chuck Schumer, and others of the far-left, social-engineering crowd who brought you this current Financial Crisis. That’s right, this wasn’t, as Obama’s crafty campaign strategists have tried to make you believe, something brought on by the ‘failed economic policies of Bush-McCain’.

The culprit is the same ideology that brought Obama to state to “Joe the Plumber” that Obama just wants to ‘spread the wealth around’. Yes, in the economic crisis that exists today, its’ origins go to an earlier Democrat philosophy of home ownership for everyone, regardless of any ability whatsoever to pay on a mortgage, or for that matter, to even pay any money down to get a mortgage. That led to a housing bubble by starting at the bottom of the housing chain, which in Obama’s political pandering language of ‘spreading the wealth around’ was a ‘trickle up’, except this trickle up led to the real estate mess we are in today. Thanks to Obama-affiliated ‘non political’ entities like ACORN, who by the way, though professing to be non-political, have endorsed Obama, banks were intimidated into lending to people who otherwise wouldn’t qualify for a home loan. No matter, Democrat-friendly, “Government Sponsored Entities”, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (Google: Franklin Raines, or Jamie Gorelick) would stand by to buy those high risk mortgages from the local banks. Freddie and Fannie would then SELL those loans to Wall Street, implying but not stating specifically, that the U.S. Government would back any loans that defaulted, since they were “Government Sponsored Entities”. Wall Street then packaged trillions of dollars of Fannie and Freddie loans and sold them to the world…which is why today so many international banks are in the same trouble as the U.S. Banks who bought those same ‘safe’ (Barney Franks’ words) securities. By the way, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, no Bush appointee he, stated to a House committee last week that he, Greenspan, probably kept interest rates too low for too long, allowing the housing bubble to percolate to the unsustainable level it reached. Once again, so much for the ‘failed economic policies of Bush-McCain’.

So, for those of you who want “Change we can believe in” as one of the Obama mantra’s goes, a Democrat sweep of the White House, super majority in the Senate and continued majority in the House will lead to “Change you could never imagine”, and I don’t mean GOOD change. You can say hello to an America more socialist that anything you could ever imagine or want. Before you vote, try to think of any country of the world where their form of government is socialism, and determine if you would like to live there. Examine the whole of such a country with all its warts, not just the 2-week-vacation post card version, ala, “It’s a nice place to visit but I wouldn’t want to live there”.

There is no doubt that Barack Obama is one of the most skilled political orators of our generation. He has successfully created a smokescreen about his true beliefs about what governments’ role in your life should be (hence those 130 “Present” votes while he was in the Illinois Senate…see, he had his sights set on the White House way back then, and he didn’t want to have anyone be able to learn which way he felt on key issues, lest he lose a part of the overall electorate). Then again, students of world history will tell you that there have been other fine orators throughout the history of the world, and not all of them were true heroes like Winston Churchill.

One last thought about today’s economic crisis. It was only 7 years ago when the attacks on the World Trade Center and Washington DC occurred. President Bush was vilified, then and today by Democrats, for speaking to the American people in the days immediately after September 11 to “Go about your business. Go shopping”. While he was mercilessly ridiculed for such statements by every Bush hater out there, he was really addressing something much more serious. He understood that Osama bin Laden’s goal wasn’t just to take down the WTC and a few DC buildings. It was to take down the United States economy, by causing chaos in our financial system and insecurity on Main Street to the point where no one would want to leave their homes. If you don’t believe that statement, think about the time in October and November of 2001, when we had the Anthrax-laced-letters and packages situation. At its peak, over 300 incidences a day throughout the country occurred, evacuating businesses and shutting down buildings. I am not linking bin Laden with the Anthrax scares, but I am stating that a country whose citizens are afraid to move about or do anything will have its economy shrink rapidly. That is what President Bush feared in 2001. If you don’t think inactivity by the consumer can impact the overall economy, just look at what is happening today as consumers, concerned about their jobs, are holding back on purchases of many items, which in turn causes even more of a slowdown!

Sadly, the bulk of major American newspaper and television networks have failed to adequately ‘vet’ Barack Obama. They are mesmerized by both his oratory and his charisma, and in essence failed to do the one thing that is vital to their charter as a ‘free press’: To inform and represent the public with figures in government, to press for answers to questions that the public doesn’t have the wherewithal to ask. For example, they failed to adequately challenge Obama’s assertion that during his entire 20 years of attendance at a church led by a hateful, anti-American minister, that Obama “never knew” Reverend Wright spouted those racist and anti-American words. I call Obama’s statement on that issue the “Audacity of audacity”. But, in a press fawning over their chosen one, Obama’s statement of ignorance was sufficient to quell their intellectual curiosity. Then there is the unasked question of exactly what is Obama’s leadership experience? Totally ignored by most influential media outlets. Don’t forget the sucker punch he threw at McCain when he initially agreed, in the interest of a fair and influence-free clean election, to accept ‘public funding’ for his election campaign, which would have meant about $84 million in funding for ads, etc. for each candidate. Instead, he opted to accept unlimited funds from anyone and everyone, in essence, becoming beholden to mega contributors with the hope of buying the election with massive outspending for ads etc., versus McCain. (Right now estimated at close to $1 Billion versus McCain’s agreed upon $84 Million). Change indeed!!!!

“Change we can believe in”??? How’s this for a final thought? In this most recent session of Congress (110th), Barack Obama voted ‘with his party’ 96% of the time. Does that sound like the “unifier” he likes to fashion himself as? John McCain only voted ‘with his party’ 88.1% of the time. By the way, 31 Democrats voted ‘with their party’ more than John McCain voted with his, and tellingly, only 5 Democrats voted with their party less than McCain did with Republicans. So, how do you think our world is going to look when you have a Congress controlled by one party, and upcoming Supreme Court nominees chosen by a President Obama who has shown very questionable judgment on his associations with people and institutions out to wreak havoc on America? A very scary thought indeed.

And now, we have just the latest revelation that could, and should, have been uncovered by a truly independent, inquisitive national press. Obama’s disavowing any knowledge of his dear aunt and her illegal immigrant status, even though he thought so much of her that he speaks of her in one of his “I’m a warm person” books. FLASH: Congressman John Conyers, (D-Michigan) wants an immediate investigation…not into why Obama’s aunt is here illegally, but rather into WHO told the truth and revealed this information!!!

Change you’ll regret.

The real story here is how does an ILLEGAL alien with standing deportation orders get taxpayer funded public assistance for 4 years?

It's O.K. for you lib morons to make cracks about Sarah Palin's pregnant daughter, but this is irrelevant? Check the Messiah's 3rd satement about this in the last 2 days. I said 3rd, because once it was made known she is an illegal, he said they've spoken a few times in the last 2 years, and she was at his swearing in 2 years ago in the Senate. Yesterday, he said they hadn't been in contact for a long time, today he admits they have. Which suggests he knew about her status. Also today, he said he's considering John Kerry for Secretary of State. Now there's sound judgment. Probably will nominate Bonnie Fwank for Secretary of Buggery, also.

Is Sarah Palin responsible for her daughters actions?

Obama knew how to reach his auntie one year after she moved into her Boston housing apt. to have her attend his US Senate ceremony, so she must be more than a very distant aunt on his father's side... McCain/Palin '08

"Obama says he did not know aunt in country illegally" I don't believe that for one second. She even gave money to his campaign.

Patrick Toner - I lived all over the world in my 20's and was literally looking for a better place to live than America - couldn't find one so kissed the ground and came back here. Europeans need to realize that up until now anyway we don't want to be Europe and that's why we don't let you vote in our elections. Since you live in Ireland you are probably unaware that Barack hired our governor's campaign manager. Two years ago our governor barnstormed through Massachusetss saying taxes for no one and services for everyone. As I sit here today he has accomplished zero - actually less than zero because his sole achievement has been to give away $1 billion to the biotech industry on the absurd notion that government should be in the biz of picking winners and losers in industry. Sadly the people of Mass. must not be too smart as it is a foregone conclusion that we will once again vote for a man who talks a great story and will never have the financial capital to back up his grandiose plans. Fool us once, shame on you. Fool us twice shame on us. Fool us twice with the same lies another guy told us just two years ago and we're just stupid.

It seems that he keeps "not knowing" or feels that even though he has attended a particular church for many years, he was unaware of the goings on of the religious clergy there. When is the time for him to stand up and take responsibility for his "unknowing." Why isn't there accountability for his actions, or lack of?
Perhaps, there is more that meets the eye, and the people who vote should take a long hard look at where there vote is going, before the vote is made, and more unknown info comes out too late. Hope or time for a change are not a reason to vote for someone. There is no ideal candidate on the ballot this election. It's a shame, as now is when we need one the most.

The mindless drivel coming out of the supporters of Obama, where they are all reduced to the mind-controlling chant of 'CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN', is truly scary.

Should Obama win, and his proxies at ACORN have been working overtime in swing states to guarantee that to happen, there will be change, but it will be change that even most of his myopic supporters will wish never happened. It will be THEY who will be to blame for not demanding answers to so many of the unanswered questions about Obama. Of course, those questions never came from his supporters; they were too busy in their altered state of anticipated nirvana as they chanted 'CHANGE'. And those questions never came from most of the media. Anyone who has dared to challenge his HIGHNESS risks being left off the invitation list to the Utopian kingdom's succession of the 200+ year American system of government.

History has proven that a democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy, which is usually followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years.

Doesn't that sound about where we are perilously close to today?

An Obama-Reid-Pelosi-Frank-Schumer-Durbin Congress and Administration, coupled with upcoming Obama appointed, left-leaning Supreme Court nominees will send America down a trail that it might not come back from.

Point 1: Innocent until proven guilty. Did Obama's aunt know that her asylum had been denied? If she moved to Boston in 2004, it's possible that the information did not follow her to her new address, and that this is a horrible surprise for a woman who thought she had safely immigrated.

Point 2: If we excoriate Obama for the misdeeds of his adult, fully responsible, not terribly close aunt, then we must also hold Sarah Palin accountable for the misdeeds of the unwed pregnant teenage daughter living under her own roof. No double standards.

"And that affects his qualifications to be president how?"

He doesn't know the first thing about how to field dress a moose, that' s how.

I wonder whether Auntie Zeituni know's about nephew Barry's illegal status, thanks to his false Hawaii birth certificate.

Obama giving her money back is the same as Palin giving the clothes away. Maybe you knew or maybe not. Just follow the rules in the end. Of course Obama made a $200 mistake and Palin a $150k.

When someone runs for President, don't you usually check things like this out? You would hate to have an uncle pop up that's a crack dealer, even though you never have seen him in 20 years. This is just something you look up so it is not embarrising later on.

Maybe Obama wasn't properly "vetted"?

Sorry I don't trust Obama anyway so this is no shock to me. I do think he will be President then God help us all.

Another "I don't know" just like he sat in Reverend Wright's church for 20 years and did not know that the guy made the anti-american remarks. With his inability to see what happens in front of his eyes, how can he claim that he knows how to run this country?

Oh to Jack Smith living off the government as socalists do does not make you working class it makes you a lazy class. Socalism is not what we need. Mccain is not either but I dont trust Obama.

So, we are supposed to take care of our fellow citizen through wealth redistribution but Obama can't take care of his aunt? She lives in public housing. His grandmother who is gravely ill lives in Hawaii in a run-down apartment all alone. What kind of man is Obama? Perhaps if the biased media had bothered to ask a few questions we might have a better understanding of this hypocritical candidate. Oh I forgot...If they ask an unauthorized question, they get shut down. God bless America.

The only racist here is Obama and his racist anti-white racist church goers & the 96-98% of the black voters who are voting for him becasue he is black.
If Barry was a white Senator from IL, no one word have ever heard of him.
Let's hear from you all 9 months from now when NOTHING has changed, execpt higher taxes & higher uneployment. Oh yah, that will be Bush's fault.

Obama is just another rather smoother, proverty pimp, looking to bleed America to death with his cry of "Change" . It has been a long slide down as we were once a nation of men with the courage of their convictions, able to do anything; alas we are nearly the craven, kept dogs which fed off the corpse that once was Rome.

Tuesday night may bring one-hell-of-a-gap-down, the bottom is coming up to met us.

An answer? That every productive one of us, just say no to these tax and spend freaks by way of an individual and developing general strike against the welfare state, simply stop working so that they have nothing to tax away from us. Give up the tender traps which bind you to the state, take a walk and don't look back.

Screw these losers and enjoy eating the fruit born of your own hand. We will thereby save the nation from our fate - otherwise.

Not a Citizen? So what? Neither is "Senator" Obama..

So close to his family. So full of you-know-what.

Just exactly how stupid are you Folks??

What else is new with this terrorist. He has lied about everything so far so what is another lie. I dont beleive Barrack Hussein Obama is a US Citizen. He will not produce hie real birth certificate. We are in for big trouble if he wins and then i want to hear all these people who voted for him complain. Well then its to late so get ready for a socialist country especially with people Like Barney mumbles Frank,Nancy Idiot Polosi and the other bums Reed and Dodd of Conn. Good luck
and remember to keep your mouths shut because you voted for Hussein

We have over eight million people living here illegally and you guys are making the biggest deal of ONE hard-working illegal Kenyan just because she is related to Obama? You guys are really pathetic!

If Obama had helped his aunt to the front of the line for US citizenship, now that would be a real scandal. Nice try, though.

We have over eight million people living here illegally and you guys are making the biggest deal of ONE hard-working illegal Kenyan just because she is related to Obama? You guys are really pathetic!

If Obama had helped his aunt to the front of the line for US citizenship, now that would be a real scandal. Nice try, though.

OK, maybe Barack didn't know his aunt was living in public housing. Now it's time for him to step up to the plate and SHARE HIS WEALTH. .

More REPUBLICAN MUD. Non-issue..

Deport her...and give her spot in the subsidized housing to a deserving American citizen. How pathetic. I guess the state pays her medical bills as well. But really, how would he have known....his father is that in biology only. He could have "family" all over the world. But don't kid yourselves, if he didn't know I am sure that he will make it all about the Republicans instead of the truth. This woman is here illegally. She should have been deported.
It will be interesting if she gets asylum now ~ blood thicker than the law. Maybe Wilkerson will come to her aid.

Still rather have McCain.

Change is all you will have left-the dollars go to the cronies he is associated with.

Also why expect guys like Clinton and Obama to remember anything, they never do, never did what they are accused of and always blame the other guy for what they did. Clinton was made to look like an idiot after his term (he was) and now it is Bush's turn. It's a ploy to get the other guy in office. Americans want change and their dollars back from the bailout. Has the government ever kept any promise? Did Clinton? He pardoned his crook friends at leaving office.

The truth is this country needs the world more than ever. Obama is the solution. He has nothing to do with his aunt (she is a big girl). Stop the name calling and think about who can bring this country on the path of success, otherwise Chinese will invade (FORCLOSURE) us to collect the debts we are not paying. FREEDOM FREEDOM...That story is over...China, India, Middle East etc...are growing in the expense of USA, and we are talking an old women. PLEASE!!!!!!

Our nation is in a recession. It's no accident. You can thank Republican party, and the billionaires in corporate America. You help fuel the economy in this direction by making it easy for them to be greedy. Just support John McCain. Some CEO will be smiling. And laughing at you when he lays you off work.

The issue her, is Obama is either dumb or a liar.

How could someone who has taken on the presidency not have a firm understanding of all of the points of attack? He did go to Harvard didn't he?
He is not responsible for his family, but he is responsible to know the facts so he is in a positon to not be blindsided. What issues in the presidency will he "not be aware of?" Again, dumb or a liar?

Puhleeeze!

And she has a job for which she is paid without an appropriate Visa too? This means she must have a SS # on file with the State.

Let's see, Kerry and Kennedy are Obama mentors in the Senate. Patrick is Obama's good buddy? Which of these (and the other possibilities) got her the apartment and have been keeping her on ice until the election? Who is paying her bills?

I wish the Globe and some of the other papers/ news outlet would report on the secret racism that exists in Boston. Some of these comments are deplorable. Mentioning of crack dealing uncles and illegal aunts. Where's the Amos and comments? I remember growing up in Hyde Park and hearing the old timers (this was the 80's) complaining about "those people" moving up from Mattapan. Then there were the conversations about bussing in the 70's. The anti Obama comments remind me of just that. I'm not saying he's the best or worst, but he is better than the alternative.
The people who write these comments would not be asking these questions if Obama was white.

Its not that Obama's aunt is living off the taxpayers of Boston tha upsets me. Its the fact that the woman was probably allowed to vote.

I love hearing the excuses....the double standard dummocrap talk. Next time I am in a situation, i am going to start a post. You Demo could lie the color right out of the sky......your double standards are unreal! Its not a question of whether or not he is "responsible" for them, but the fact that he is lying about her status and the fact that it eludes to his own questionable status and ties. Why was this kept quiet? And dont tell me it wasnt, cause it was.......You all couldnt believe that Palin's daughter was pregnant so what gives....Famil members are family members right.

He going to lift up Senior Citizens becuase he cares so much about us? How is he going to lift up 300 million people if he cant help his Aunt who coincidentially he named in his book. And P.S. he a Harvard trained lawyer- he doesnt know he legal status. My mother could use some housing too...

A story *leaked* to AP by an *anonymous source* in the US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Agency: The source spoke on condition of anonymity because "no-one was authorized to discuss Onyango's case". I guess Boston.com didn't have the space to include that little tidbit. Or that "some immigration lawyers said that for government officials to disclose information about an asylum applicant was unethical or perhaps illegal," reported by the NY Times.

Nonetheless I'm completely paranoid to think the leak is politically motivated.

And isn't it interesting that McCain, the Maverick, hasn't appeared with he and his wife's Latin American adopted daughter even once during this campaign. She must feel really great that her father thinks her race is too much of a political liability to have her be seen in public with him. Go get 'em Johnny, you straight shooter, you.

What's shocking to me is not the immigration status of his aunt (easily imaginable that he would not know that or have reason to check) but that he has made millions, had an income last year of $4.2 million, and yet his aunt is living in subsidized public housing. Where she lives IS something he should have known, especially since he spent three years in Cambridge, and if he were a warm human being, would have known. If he were a caring human being, he would have helped her --- and helped the Boston taxpayers.

It all comes down to the press not doing its proper vetting of Senator Obama. Were they afraid of what they would find there? No, lets just dig up any old dirt on Joe the Plumber, because, afterall, he asked Sen. Obama a question. Really....

All this business about Obama’s aunt is sad. I have compassion for the old gal. She is now suffering humiliation and the blistering light of our mainstream media. This is wrongful.

Yes, she should have worked on becoming a legal immigrant, but this is difficult. She probably could have become an American citizen had she worked hard at this. I do not know much about our immigration laws, doubtful many of you readers know much about this topic. Correct my thinking on this if I am wrong. I invite this.

My understanding is this old gal could become a citizen if she has a sponsor. This is, if an American or an American family document they will take her in, take care of her and take all those steps needed to find her employment, income, a place to live, all that, under circumstances like this, I “think” she could become an American citizen.

I do not know for sure. Again, I am very ignorant of immigration laws. Maybe a reader can clarify and add to this issue.

There is a cultural perspective worthy of mention. Our traditional peoples, we American Indians, are well known for taking in others in need, those of our bloodline. Not all of us do, but a majority of us do. This is especially true up in the Lakotas where our peoples are the most impoverished peoples of our nation. Not uncommon at all for ten, twenty or more people to be living under one roof. Sioux, Cheyenne, Crow, other tribes in the Lakota region, are well known for taking in those in need, no matter how distant the blood relationship.

This prompts me to wonder why Obama has not offered to take in his aunt, has not offered to sponsor her or employ some other method of helping her earn citizenship. I am sure there is something Obama can do, some law, some loophole, something he can do to help her.

Why has Obama not taken steps to help his aunt? He has certainly enjoyed plenty of time. Heck, years back he could have secretly whisked her away, made arrangements for her care. I tend to think not many would criticize Obama for an act of compassion, especially with her being old and at a disadvantage in our country. I do not know, maybe he would be critiqued. Personally, I would not fault Obama for helping his aunt in need; I would turn a blind eye.

Suppose this a cultural difference. Our peoples, if a distant relative, would have taken her in, right off. Not only taken her in, we would have also hidden her from authorities.

I suppose Obama is not willing to take a risk in the name of family compassion. Appears Obama is calling for his aunt to be deported back to Kenya. Odds are high, she will die back in Kenya.

I suppose her life is not as important as the presidency, to Obama.

Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation

Another lie from Obama. This man can lie without blinking an eye. He's told so many lies that it is a wonder that he remembers what his positions are today they've changed so often. If you believe this man, you are really naive. Hitler fooled lots of Germans and this man seems to have the same talent. He told one of the national news anchor when asked for a list of his contributions that they were from small donors and 3 millions names would be difficult to give. Bull!! His donations were not from "small donors". Bet lots were from foreign countries and foreign organizations and many, many, many illegal contributions, just like the $200+ donation made to him by this aunt who's living here illegally and living in public housing on our tax dollars. Obama is bad, bad, bad for this country.

Is it US Administrations responsibility or is it Obama's responsibility that Obama's Aunt should not have been allowed to stay after her application for asylum failed? Is it Obama's job ?

And Obama would be so dumb that he would knowingly allow this to happen, knowing the problems it would cause for his presidential campaign.

I know one another asylum seeker, who continues to stay on after her application has been denied. This appears to be a frequent problem.

Some McCain/Palin Lackeys seem to know for fact that Obama knew. Even if they have not seen any evidence of it. Looks like they have some magical abilities to look into Obama's personal life and documents, which the rest of media does not.

Read Barack's first book. He lays the whole family situation out. It is kind of sad. His dad walks on them. His mom remarries and they move to Indonesia where he has an idyllic free youth until his mom gets cold feet and ships him to his grandparents in Hawaii to attend a good school there. He finally visits the family in Kenya after his dad is long dead. He saw his dad once when he was 10. His dad had three wives, two white Americans. He was married to an African woman with two children when he married Baracks' mother in Hawaii. Another followed him back from Harvard. She had two boys one tragically killed in an accident. So Barack has three living siblings from his father, two brothers in the US, one sister in Kenya. He didn't meet them until after he finished College. Barack had some real identity issues to work out. Barack is a very bright and very complex man who has shown in his campaign he has the stuff of leadership we need. His father's half aunt is a side issue dredged up at the last minute for political effect. If you think there are secrets, read his biography Dreams from my Father published in 1995. He lays it all out, including his family life. The kid had a lot to overcome, including his identity, a white guy in a black body. He is going to make us a great President!

How about Obama spreads his own wealth to his own family before asking me to spread mine to random legal and illegal citizens. It's too bad this had to come out only days before the election. I think if more people knew about his "real" character
we'd have a better chance of winning with a knowledgable commander and chief. We really shouldn't be too surprised though. He's attempting to become president of the US without enlisting into the military (which I believe should be a requirement.) What a selfish, capitalist huh? And I though he was a democrat.

Hilarious! Commenter #26 blames President Bush for Obama's illegal welfare-stealin great aunt far removed. Our President, the same one who has kept your ungrateful rear-ends safe from freakin Muslim terrorists for 8 years is now blamed for everything under the sun including Obamas illegal aunt. You libs are pitiful clowns. Obama wasn't aware of his illegal aunt, wasn't aware of Ayer's lifelong terrorist actions and beliefs and radicalizing professorship, wasn't aware of Rev. Wright's WRONG anti-american anti-white teaching (even though it's on the church website), wasn't aware of his good friend and benefactor Rezco's background. PLEASE ! I hope IF he gets in the oval office he doesn't forget where he left the Nuclear football or which button is "launch" !

hey mom look at this it is about obamas aunt in south boston but it is saying she is in the country illegal.

Let's see. Ordered his college records sealed? Didn't hear his pastor screaming G-D America? Won't produce a real Birth Certificate" only a registration of birth?
Thanks but I'll take my chances with McCain.
Everybody in my neighborhood who is getting checks from the Government and faking disability has a sign out for him. I asked I guy I work with who lived under Communism about that. He said if Obama is a Communist, those who don't work will get nothing and starve. He said they'll have to be out sweeping the streets all day in order to get something from the Government. So if he wins I may not be happy, but some of his supporters are going to become very unhappy.

Grasping at straws and pathetic attacks are all you republicans have left. Do you feel it coming, do you feel it after all these years of corrupt politics and bending over backwards as you raped our country!

Obama aunt is a distant relative, she is not even a half aunt to him. You expect him to keep up with all his relatives? How many of you do, how many of you take care of 2nd and 3rd cousins, aunts and uncles. Not many of you huh.

No

Cindy McCain's father was involved in organized crime. No one seems to care about that.

What I find hilarious is he wants to take money from US and share the wealth. When his Aunt lives in slums in Boston, and his grandmother who raised him lives in the same rental apartment she raised him in when he was in Hawaii. Well Obama, spread your wealth to YOUR family, lead by example before you decide you want to dip into MY wallet to do so.

1st am not an American citizen. My counsel to you Americans ....just know that the whole world is keenly watching your moves this electioneering year. Whatever your choice, will serve as a moral benchmark to be used by the rest of the world.

Think and think again ... because from 2009, the policies about liberating other regions of the globe (or "spreading democracy abroad") will be based on how the world feels about your own democracy!

Stevil

Didnt you people vote for Dubya twice??....Now thats just really stupid!!!
Hopefully America wont appear to be a backward nation to us Euros once Obama is elected.

Obama didn't break the law. When you read headlines such as, "Disclosure About Obama's Aunt May Have Violated Privacy Policy" then you must ask yourself this--do you want a government that breaks its own laws?

#153, what kind of talk is that? If you are not American, get out of here. We are electing OUR President, not yours. You don't have a say. A word also to all those Canadians who posted on this blog, YOU ARE NOT AMERICANS. We don't interfere with your elections. Don't post your opinions here, because they don't count. This is an American election.