pajamasmedia.com - 10/30/2008
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October 30, 2008 MAYBE SOMEBODY SHOULD SPREAD SOME WEALTH AROUND IN HIS OWN FAMILY: Obama Aunt Found in Rundown Boston Slum. Zeituni Onyango, the aunt so affectionately described in Mr Obama’s best-selling memoir Dreams from My Father, lives in a disabled-access flat on a rundown public ...
bobkrumm.com - 10/30/2008
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Barack Obama’s aunt was found living in a
“rundown” Boston home. While he was a U.S. Senator...
and his wife was a high paid hospital administrator making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, while he was busy raising more than ...
(more)
Spread the wealth indeed
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What a guy!
Cold Fury —
Seems the Hollow Messiah has feet of clay : 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, immigrants living in modest circumstances in Boston, have a contrasting American story. Zeituni Onyango, the aunt so affectionately described in Mr Obama’s best-selling memoir Dreams from My Father, lives in a disabled-access flat on a rundown public housing estate in South Boston. A second relative believed to be ...
Should Barack Obama be giving handouts to his impoverished African relatives?
Althouse —
Glenn Reynolds writes: MAYBE SOMEBODY SHOULD SPREAD SOME WEALTH AROUND IN HIS OWN FAMILY: Obama Aunt Found in Rundown Boston Slum. Zeituni Onyango, the aunt so affectionately described in Mr Obama’s best-selling memoir Dreams from My Father, lives in a disabled-access flat on a rundown public housing estate in South Boston. A second relative believed to be the long-lost “Uncle Omar” described in the book was beaten by armed robbers with a “sawed-off rifle” while working in a corner shop in the Dorchester area of the city. He was later ...
Obama Aunt Found in Rundown Boston Slum
The New Editor —
... from the Times of London.
Okay, so now we have this Obama relative living in a Boston slum, and another, a half-brother, living in a grass hut in Africa.
Sen. Obama is a multi-millionaire who wants more government through higher spending and more taxes, yet he doesn't seem to take care of his own family -- when he is clearly able to do so financially.
At the very least, it is ironic. How will that resonate with the voters?
Glenn Reynolds has a lot more.
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