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powerlineblog.com - 11/1/2008
Dreams From His Aunt
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Yesterday Glenn Reynolds made the rounds in his usual style, spotlighting an interesting story and related posts on Barack Obama's aunt Zeituni Onyango (I've deleted the "update" notations): MAYBE SOMEBODY SHOULD SPREAD SOME WEALTH AROUND IN HIS OWN FAMILY: Obama Aunt Found in Rundown ...
breitbart.com - 11/1/2008
AP: Obama aunt from Kenya living in US illegally
— 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 ... (more) AP: Obama aunt from Kenya living in US illegally

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ap.google.com - 11/1/2008
The Associated Press: AP: Obama aunt from Kenya living in US illegally
— ap.google.com — 10 hours ago 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 ... (more) The Associated Press: AP: Obama aunt from Kenya living ...

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politico.com - 11/1/2008
Obama camp: Hadn't known aunt was in U.S. illegally
— politico.com — Obama last heard from Zeituni Onyango, who attended his swearing-in ceremony to the U.S. Senate in 2004.... (more) Obama camp: Hadn't known aunt was in U.S. illegally

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TPMMuckraker:  The Anatomy of a Smear

Comments from Left Field:  McCain’s November Surprise Is a Dud

The Reaction:  The aunt and the smear: The right-wing effort to make an issue of an Obama relative

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The Anatomy of a Smear
TPMMuckraker — ... 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 breathlessly hyping the story. ...

McCain’s November Surprise Is a Dud
Comments from Left Field — ... 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 breathlessly hyping the ...

The aunt and the smear: The right-wing effort to make an issue of an Obama relative
The Reaction — ... which is why I haven't been able to give money to Obama). The whole "story" has been a right-wing smear. As TPM Muckraker reported on Saturday, it was The Times, a Rupert Murdoch-owned British newspaper, that first "broke" the story. "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 breathlessly hyping the story." But ...

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Foreign Media Finds Obama's Aunt... In a Boston Slum
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Family last: The British press finds Barack Obama's aunt and uncle
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Should Barack Obama be giving handouts to his impoverished African relatives?
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Who Is This Guy?
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Obama's Aunt Illegal, Living In Public Housing
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AP Reports that Obama's Aunt is in the U.S. Illegally
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Ax Suggests Something Fishy About Breaking Story About Obama Aunt
blogs.abcnews.com 11/1/2008 — HENDERSON, NEV. -- David Axelrod, the senior campaign strategist for Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., today suggested there was something fishy about the story of Obama's long-last half-aunt living in the U.S. illegally breaking now, with three days left in ...
Barack Obama's Aunt is here illegally.
redstate.com 11/1/2008 — I might as well just rip off the band-aid on that one. When I had heard that Senator Obama's aunt - the one mentioned in one of his books - was living in public housing in South Boston, I was neither particularly surprised, nor particularly ...
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Amanda Carpenter: Obama's Aunt is an Illegal Alien — Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog
Reporters thought it was strange when they discovered Barack Obama's aunt Zeituni Onyango was living in the projects, or "public housing" as they call it, out in Boston.The woman who Obama sweetly described as "Aunt...
Obama: Do as I say, not as I do — Babalú Blog: an island on the net without a bearded dictator
Yesterday the London Times published a story about Barack Obama’s aunt, Zeituni Onyango, who lives in a rundown housing project in Boston. Aunt Zeituni is not an unknown Kenyan relative Obama just found out about, but instead an aunt he...
The price of vigilance — Classical Values
Tom Maguire asks some good questions about the recent news item involving Barack Obama's aunt: 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...
For Obama Aunt, a Quiet South Boston Life — 44
By Keith B. Richburg and Judy Rakowsky NEW YORK -- A Kenyan aunt of Sen. Barack Obama has been living quietly for years in a South Boston public housing project, according to public housing officials. The Obama campaign later confirmed the woman, Zeituni Onyango, is the senator's paternal aunt. ...
Obama's Long Lost Aunt — Politics Daily
Not quite the American Dream over here via UK Times Online : Barack Obama has lived one version of the American Dream that has taken him to the steps of the White House. But a few miles from where the Democratic presidential candidate studied at Harvard, his Kenyan aunt and uncle, ...
Obama's Aunt Living in US Illegally - Obama 'Didn't Know' — Little Green Footballs
Obama says he didn’t know aunt’s illegal status . CHICAGO – Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama said Saturday he didn’t know his aunt was living in the United States illegally and believes that laws covering the situation should be followed. The Associated ...
Obama - Enabler of Illegal Immigration — Daily Pundit
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Hot Patootie! Obama’s Aunt Zeituni in U.S. ILLEGALLY! — Flopping Aces
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An aunt in Boston, on message — Ben Smith's Blog
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Obama Will Spread Your Wealth Around, But Not His — Stop The ACLU
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