Who Is This Guy?

Barack Obama has an aunt (OK, a half-aunt) living in Boston and we need a British newspaper to tell us this?  What else are we going to learn about Obama after we elect him?  And will we learn it from our own ever-vigilant press, or must we rely on the kindness of foreigners?

Let's see - in Ohio the state routinely checks people in the news, or so we are told.  OK, as if.  But Obama's half-aunt has reportedly contributed to his campaign, prompting this tap-dance from the London Times:

While Mr Obama was on his voyage of personal discovery in Africa, his aunt and uncle were engaged in their own journey in his homeland.

The Times could not determine their immigration status and an official at Boston City Hall said that Ms Onyango was a resident of Flaherty Way but not registered to vote on the electoral roll. However, that Ms Onyango made a contribution to the Obama campaign would indicate that she is a US citizen. Records at the Boston City Hall confirmed Zeituni Onyango’s birthdate as May 29, 1952.

It is not clear when Ms Onyango first came to the US. She said: “I have been coming to America ever since 1975. I always come and go.”

The Obama campaign seems to have taken the position that donations are legal unless someone can prove they are not.  I don't suppose we can rely on Deval Patrick to clear up Ms Onyango's immigration status, but if George and Condi get involved I can imagine the howls.

That said, I can't find a donor with a last name of "Onyango" from Masachusetts at Open Secrets or the FEC.  Brit magic?

Whatever - maybe she is here illegally, maybe she is contributing illegally; this will be looked into after Nov 4.  It's not as if this is important, like Joe the Plumber.  What, you think Obama's stance on illegal immigration would be affected by his relatives' situation?  That's the old style politics of division - there is no evidence that Obama has any interest in this woman at all, other than as a useful prop in his own global biography.

Comments

[MikeH]

Oh God, I am so sick of this guy, and to think that we might have to endure 4 years or more of him at the top. Ugh. Thanks a lot American MSM.

[PeterUK]

It also takes a British, PAPER - THE SUN to point out that you know more about Captain Nemo than you do about Barrack Hussein Obama. William Shawcross points out that less is known about Obama than any presidential candidate in history.

[vinman]

Hope knows no national boundaries.

[Appalled]

TM:

Here some things you will learn about Obama in the post-November future:

He was bit by a radioactive spider in high school, causing him to bitterly cling to the walls of buildings;

For a period in the eighties, he roamed the American West in a mask, with his trusty native-american companion, Tonto;

In his spare time, Obama puts on a deerstalker, calls his dear friend, Dr. Biden, and solves crimes through great feats of ratiociznation;

Obama also works for the British government. Code name -- 007.

That bit about the fake birth certificate was true. Obama can't be president because he was born on the planet Krypton and sent here on a rocket ship when the planet exploded as a result of global warming... If I remember correctly, he even admitted this in a recent speech

[PDinDetroit]

OK - TM must be feeling better. This article shows he is back to his "cheeky" self.

Questioning "The One"? Trolls will now be appearing by the bushel basket in 5..4..3..2..1

[Topsecretk9]

However, that Ms Onyango made a contribution to the Obama campaign would indicate that she is a US citizen.

The new path to US Citizenship. Contribute to the One and you automatically get presumed to be legal citizen.

[PeterUK]

"For a period in the eighties, he roamed the American West in a mask, with his trusty native-american companion, Tonto;"

That would be BONTO - Barrack Obama,Not the One.

[Charlie (Colorado)]

She may just have said she's contributed in order to avoid being struck by a thunderbolt.

[PeterUK]

Presumably,Ms Onyango has tax returns??

[PDinDetroit]

TSK9 - I think it is even easier than that, you only need mention his name for all things to be possible and for all doors to open.

Wonder when that half-brother of his will want an upgrade from a tin shack to an apartment in the projects?

[PDinDetroit]

PUK - LOL

Cheeky, very cheeky...

[PeterUK]

At least Jack only traded the family cow for a bag of magic beans,the American electorate seem to be betting the farm. The Nigerian branch of the family must be green with envy.

[Patrick R. Sullivan]

Jack Cashill reports that four tests have been performed and the results support his hypothesis that "Dreams" was at least partly written by Ayers:

"Using the chi-square statistic," observes one professor, "Obama's and Ayers's books were indistinguishable, while Obama's book was easily distinguishable from books by other authors."

Writes another analyst, using his own proprietary software, "There is a strong likelihood that the author of "Fugitive Days" ghost-wrote "Dreams From My Father" using recordings of dialog (either tape recorded or notes). Alternatively, another scenario could be possible: Ayers might have served as a 'book doctor.'"

One systems engineer writes, "The statistical style analysis performed by our research team suggests that the writing style of 'Dreams From My Father' is significantly more similar to the style observed in 'Fugitive Days' than to the style found in other works by Barack Obama such as 'Audacity of Hope.'"

He continues, "Even more interesting, when we extract those sections of 'Dreams From My Father' that Dr. Cashill believes to be Ayers' writing and treat this as a unique document, the style analysis software identifies a stronger correlation between this sample and Ayers' 'Fugitive Days' than we see between this same sample and the remainder of 'Dreams From My Father'! Thus we have reason to believe that 'Dreams From My Father' had at least two authors, and one author's measured style features more closely match those of Ayers than they match those of the other author(s)."

"Under the Q-value statistic," argues one university-based analyst who tested "Dreams" against Ayers' 2001 memoir, "Fugitive Days," "segments of 'Dreams' consistently compared as well with 'Fugitive' segments as it did with other segments of 'Dreams' itself. In contrast, 'Dreams' compared poorly with other documents."

[Charlie (Colorado)]

I just said this in the other thread, but ---

1) The Neilsen rating on the Obamawow commercial last night was about half the debate Neilsens; I suspect that was almost entirely decideds.

2) Fox News poll has McC/P back **3** against back 9 last week, gaining among undecideds, Catholics, and on the economy.

[thelonereader]

Amazing, the suggestion that Obama's aunt may be an illegal alien and may have donated to O's campaign illegally brings out such appalling wit in some people.
However accusations that Sarah Palin is not Trigs mom------nada----how appalling.

[Mustang0302]

Senator Government is a snakeoil salesman.

What he tells us, he doesn't mean.

What he means, he doesn't tell us.

Time will tell.

[Charlie (Colorado)]

Okay, lone, now tell me with a straight face that you see no distinction between the two cases.

[thelonereader]

Charlie,
Oh I do, but my statement was directed at Appalled not TM.

[memomachine]

Hmmm.

"Let's see - in Ohio the state routinely checks people in the news, or so we are told. OK, as if."

But not if they're registered to vote.

[Charlie (Colorado)]

More Ohio shenanigans:

• A man who most recently lived at Rescue Mission in Syracuse, N.Y. He listed his address as 154 E. Long St. Downtown. There's no such address. The 49-year-old man never has registered to vote in New York.


• A 27-year-old man who has lived in Kentucky since 1998 listed his address as 2462 Parsons Ave. That address, if it existed, would fall somewhere below the Rt. 104 overpass near the railroad tracks in a heavily industrialized area of the South Side.


• A 33-year-old native Californian who voted in Ohio on Oct. 4 using the address of a German Village [old section of Columbus--me] house. The current resident of that house and the Californian were roommates at UCLA in the mid-1990s. The California native is registered as a permanent vote-by-mail voter in San Francisco County, meaning that he can vote there as well. He had utilities connected at his new business address in San Francisco on Sept. 1. His MySpace account, last updated in August, lists his address in San Francisco.

[Thomas Collins]

With respect to the Cashill research, the fact that Ayers may have written portions or all of Zero's books is of no concern to me. What concerns me is that Ayers-type thinking will be the moving force in substantially all of the federal legislation over the next four years if Zero wins.

[Topsecretk9]

Feds probe Countrywide's 'VIP' program -- Chris Dodd, Kent Conrad, Franklin Raines

NBC News has learned that Robert Feinberg - a former Countrywide loan officer who handled what were known as the "VIP" mortgages - spent six hours last Thursday with a six-person team from the Justice Department. The team included prosecutors from the Public Integrity section, which handles investigations of possible public corruption.

[matt]

AP (Washington, DC)

The campaign of Barack Obama today released part of their fiscal plan for balancing the United States budget. This plan, dubbed " Nigerian E Mail America! Yes You Can!", will be administered by the United States Department of the Treasury.

The plan calls for a minimum of 10,000 new, highly paid internet development and call center jobs, and will be directed at "China, Europe, and other places that have lots of money and stupid people", said an unidentified spokesman.

Mass e mails will be sent out advising recipients that Secretary Ofanjuo Olesegun Obasanjo of the Department of Mines and Graft deposited $1,000,000,000( One Billion Dollars!) in a secret bank account known only by the sender, who will then request certain bank processing charges be forwarded before the recipient can claim the full amount of funds at the National Bank of the USA in gold ducats.

It is expected this program will balance the $3 Trillion budget defecit within 3 years, said the unidentified source. within 5 years, Social Security and medicare will also be fully funded, allowing for increased spending on unicorns and rainbows...."

end....

[Charlie (Colorado)]

Yeah, I've got to admit that the notion that someone might have ghost-written a popular Democrat's books doesn't surprise me.

[Charlie (Colorado)]

Love the video from the VIP story.

[Jim Ryan]

If it's true, don't tell C. Buckley. It would embarrass him to know that what he likes about Obama is Bill Ayers's writing.

[AdrianS]

Sources: Sarkozy views Obama stance on Iran as 'utterly immature'

French President Nicolas Sarkozy is very critical of U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama's positions on Iran, according to reports that have reached Israel's government.

Sarkozy has made his criticisms only in closed forums in France. But according to a senior Israeli government source, the reports reaching Israel indicate that Sarkozy views the Democratic candidate's stance on Iran as "utterly immature" and comprised of "formulations empty of all content."

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1031943.html

2008. The year The One (Barack Obama) ... Lost.

Obamalies or Lies Obama Tells
http://www.nextgenerationcorp.com/NextGenBlog/?p=73

[Charlie (Colorado)]

new RNC video: "Slippery Slope".

[Jane]

The new path to US Citizenship. Contribute to the One and you automatically get presumed to be legal citizen.

The sad thing is I can see Obama proposing this with a straight face, and Reid and Pelosi nodding in agreement.

"More money for ACORN to solve the illegal problem".

[Captain Hate]

Sarkozy views the Democratic candidate's stance on Iran as "utterly immature" and comprised of "formulations empty of all content."

Sarkozy was being charitable by just retricting those characterizations to his stance on Iran.

I've got an idea: Since the nation is so divided why don't we just have a co-presidency? McCain can do the stuff that isn't fun, like deal with the Middle East, formulate tax policy, deal with security issues and nominate people to the courts. Obammy can do the lightweight stuff that he seems to be so good at such as appearing on the intellectual shows where his stammering syntax is often confused with real thought; shows like "Ellen", "Countdown with Queef Uberdouche" and "Blueballs with Tweety".

I know that flies in the face of the Constitution but who pays attention to the moldy document put together by dead racists and christianists that never watched MTV.

[Captain Hate]

retricting == restricting

[Pofarmer]

I suppose some folks heard Rush talking about the commenter on Hillbuzz that's basically saying that Obama has been gaming the polls and the blogs and Youtube, which I assume most of us had already figured out. Ya know, it's one thing to spin things for politics, campaign hard, etc, etc. It's an entirely different thing to propagandize and outright lie to get elected.

[bad]

If Frank Marshall Davis is his father, Obama has no obligation to be brother George's keeper or any of the other Kenyan contingent's keeper. He's just being financially responsible....

[bgates]

Since the nation is so divided why don't we just have a co-presidency?
Since the world is so divided why doesn't the rest of it put Obama in charge?

Obama has been gaming the polls and the blogs and Youtube
I dunno, Po, I haven't seen such widespread enthusiasm for a candidate since Ron Paul.

[Jim Ryan]

Limbaugh just read this Ajami article. Ajami sure can observe and write.

Should O lose, the Dem base's misery (there will be loud and long crying, rage, and depression) will be just punishment for their foolish and dangerous political messianism.

[JM Hanes]

Have y'all seen the Mac/PC ad in which PC ultimately decides to put all of his money into advertising and none into fixing Vista? Et voilá, Obama's infomercial....

[PeterUK]

For a country that is built round the automobile,it is amazing that you haven't kicked Obama's tyres,checked the mileage or even taken him for a test drive.

[clarice]

No.Who's "PC".(Nice to see you JMH)

[Jim Ryan]

PC just means non-Mac desktop computers.

[clarice]

Ah--for a moment I thought the "Mac" was McCain..LOL

[Porchlight]

Hi JMH! Very glad to see you.

[Enlightened]

Wow. Palin just delivered a knockout speech per KLo at NRO.

[centralcal]

JM Hanes we've been wondering where you were!!

[PeterUK]

"Barack Obama has an aunt (OK, a half-aunt) living in Boston".
With your luck it will be the half that can vote.

[clarice]

Sad news(NOT):
"Call it the Five Percent Plan.

The Observer has learned that all Condé Nast publishers and editors have been told they have to cut their staffs by 5 percent and their budgets by 5 percent within weeks, according to five Condé Nast sources.

It will affect every title, including the company's most successful: The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Wired, Glamour and down the line.

The plan is not just a 5 percent overall spending reduction but rather two distinct 5 percent cuts for each title, guaranteeing that titles cannot meet the goal without cutting staff.

First, each book will have to cut 5 percent of its payroll. They can do this through laying off staff or eliminating open and unfilled positions or a combination of the two.

Second, each book will have to cut 5 percent from its non-payroll budget lines: travel and expenses, meals, freelancers, etc."

[Mustang0302]

For a country that is built round the automobile,it is amazing that you haven't kicked Obama's tyres,checked the mileage or even taken him for a test drive.

PUK, I sized him up with one glance...he's a skateboard with doors (ears!).

[Sue]

Have y'all heard that the Navy is naming the 2nd of a new class of destroyers after Medal of Honor recipient, Michael Monsoor? Ace has the story and the tribute video. Take your kleenex if you watch the vid.

[Sue]

Murtha is begging for money. If you haven't sent anything to Bill Russell yet, now's the time to do it. Kick Murth in the ass....donate to Russell!

[RichatUF]

Pofarmer-

It's an entirely different thing to propagandize and outright lie to get elected.

Isn't that what astroturfing and "community organizing" is?

Also-did anyone watch the Obamamercial? I heard he had on a UAW worker wondered what people's take here is about it and could McCain/Palin maybe put some weekend effort into Michigan?

[Sue]

Oh, and to sweeten the pot into kicking Murtha out, his campaign is calling what is happening to him Swift Boating. For once, he got the definition right. Using your own words and actions against you.