news.bostonherald.com - 11/1/2008
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arack Obama s campaign has confirmed that a woman living in a South Boston housing project is indeed the senator s aunt, a little-known relationship that was only revealed this week - five days before the election. Obama spokesman Reid Cherlin confirmed to the Herald this afternoon that Zeituni ...
breitbart.com - 11/1/2008
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breitbart.com —
WASHINGTON (AP) - Barack Obama's aunt, a Kenyan
woman who has been quietly living in public housing...
in Boston, is in the United States illegally after an immigration judge rejected her request for asylum four years ago, The Associated Press has ...
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AP: Obama aunt from Kenya living in US illegally
news.yahoo.com - 11/1/2008
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news.yahoo.com —
AP - Barack Obama's aunt, a Kenyan woman
who has been quietly living in public housing in...
Boston, is in the United States illegally after an immigration judge rejected her request for asylum four years ago, The Associated Press has learned.
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AP: Obama aunt from Kenya living in US illegally
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timesonline.co.uk - 11/3/2008
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timesonline.co.uk —
The trail that led to Aunt Zeituni ,
the relative of Barack Obama who was traced by...
The Times last week, started with Mr Obama s memoir, one of the most widely read political autobiographies of all time. The Democrat campaign has implied that the ...
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How The Times followed a trail to find Barack ...
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Obama's Aunt an Illegal Alien; She Contributed to His Campaign; Lives in Public Housing
Wizbang —
... or receive any such contribution from a foreign national. 2 U.S.C. § 441e. I'm sure there will be plenty of Obama sycophants who will make all kinds of excuses since she's Obama's aunt. The fact that she's related to Obama is irrelevant. She's not an American citizen so she can't donate. Now if the press would look into all the other illegal donations. Boston Housing Authority deputy director Bill McGonagle is telling the media to back off because Obama's illegal alien aunt is feeling a little bit oppressed : McGonagle said that Onyango has been overwhelmed by the media ...
The Anatomy of a Smear
TPMMuckraker —
Here's how the right's big eleventh-hour smear on Obama was carried out.
First the Murdoch-owned Times of London reported Thursday that Obama's aunt, Zeituni Onyango, is living in a Boston public-housing complex. It's unclear how the paper learned of the woman's presence in the U.S.
From there, the story quickly got taken up by the right-wing echo chamber. Fox News (also Murdoch-owned, of course), Drudge, the Boston Herald, and various conservative blogs -- as well as some mainstream outlets -- began ...
McCain’s November Surprise Is a Dud
Comments from Left Field —
I was planning to write something about the Rashid Khalidi smear today, but it seems I was too slow: That smear has already been overtaken by another one: Obama’s Kenyan aunt, who lives in public housing in Boston, has made a number of small donations to her nephew’s campaign, but the contributions are illegal because she was told to leave the United States after her request for asylum was denied in 2004:
The campaign of Sen. Barack Obama will refund a small number of contributions made by Obama’s aunt, who has been living in the United States illegally, according to a published report.
The woman, Zeituni ...
The aunt and the smear: The right-wing effort to make an issue of an Obama relative
The Reaction —
By Michael J.W. Stickings I didn't comment on the illegal aunt story over the weekend because the status of one of Obama's aunts isn't important in the context of the election. But allow me to review: So Obama's aunt, Zeituni Onyango, is living in the U.S. illegally, having been denied asylum four years ago. Big deal. Well, it's a big deal fo Ms. Onyango, and I take nothing away from that, and I wish her well, but her status has no bearing on Obama's run for the presidency. The fact is, and I take him at his word here, Obama was not aware of his aunt's status. Ms. Onyango ...
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riehlworldview.com 11/1/2008 — Isn't this just precious. Of course the liberals will tell us how racist we are for even bringing it up. After all, why should we mind contributing tax dollars for services provided to an illegal alien, especially when she's the Democrat nominee's ...
AP: Obama aunt from Kenya living in US illegally
breitbart.com 11/1/2008 — WASHINGTON (AP) - Barack Obama's aunt, a Kenyan woman who has been quietly living in public housing in Boston, is in the United States illegally after an immigration judge rejected her request for asylum four years ago, The Associated Press has ...
AP: Obama aunt from Kenya living in US illegally
breitbart.com 11/1/2008 — WASHINGTON (AP) - Barack Obama's aunt, a Kenyan woman who has been quietly living in public housing in Boston, is in the United States illegally after an immigration judge rejected her request for asylum four years ago, The Associated Press has ...
Complete Text of Barack Obama campaign infomercial
latimesblogs.latimes.com 10/30/2008 — Here is the complete spoken text of the nationally-broadcast campaign infomercial by Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama on Oct. 29, 2008:
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McCain vs. Obama: Tracking the race —
First Read 11/1/2008
Here’s a wrap of some of the tracking polls we’re following: Gallup has Obama up 11 points among registered voters (52%-41%), eight points in its traditional likely-voter model (51%-43%), and nine points in its expanded likely-voter model (52%-43%). ...
Battleground: An early vote advantage —
First Read 11/1/2008
The Washington Post , covering yesterday’s Obama conference call on the state of the race, notes what appears to be the Democrats’ early-voting advantage. “A surge in early voting by Democrats marks a reversal of the pattern that helped Bush win in ...
Obama: Nervous Democrats? —
First Read 11/1/2008
Despite what the polls say, the New York Times writes that plenty of Democrats are nervous about the election. “Certainly, national and swing state polls suggest that Democrats might allow themselves a deep breath or two. But liberals are not ...
McCain Mantains Hope for Victory —
WSJ.com: Washington Wire 11/1/2008
Elizabeth Holmes reports from Perkasie, Pa. on the presidential race.
John McCain campaigns in Perkasie, Pa. (AP)
John McCain reiterated his confidence in victory Tuesday, saying at a rally here Saturday afternoon, I know were ...
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