boston.com - 10/30/2008
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This story was written and reported by Adrian Walker, Michael Levenson, and Sally Jacobs of the Globe staff.
timesonline.co.uk - 10/29/2008
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timesonline.co.uk —
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 ...
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Found in a rundown Boston estate: Barack Obama’s ...
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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An aunt in Boston, on message
Ben Smith's Blog —
Who knew? The Boston Globe discovers an Obama aunt living quietly in Boston.
Staying on message appears to be a family trait:
During two visits by reporters to her apartment yesterday morning and afternoon, and in a phone conversation last night, Onyango made clear her desire to stay out of the way of Obama's campaign, with only days to go before the election.
"I'm proud of everybody," she said. "I ask God to bless everybody."
Chuckling to a reporter, she added, "I'm praying for you, not only him." ...
Relative Poverty
baldilocks —
... . I do understand why some of the senator’s political opponents have made an issue of the fact that Senator Obama has done nothing to lift his younger brother up from his degraded existence, one which is light-years removed from that of a Harvard-educated lawyer and US Senator. (And now it has been discovered that the senator has an aunt on his father’s side--Zeituni Onyango-- living Boston public housing .) Senator Obama is the sponsor of the ...
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Foreign Media Finds Obama's Aunt... In a Boston Slum
gatewaypundit.blogspot.com 10/30/2008 — Barack wrote about his dear Aunt Onyango in his first book "Dreams of My Father." That was before she ended up in a Boston slum. Times Online reported: Barack Obama has lived one version of the American Dream that has taken him to the steps of ...
Aunt Zeituni in Hub, Obama campaign says - The Boston Globe
boston.com 11/1/2008 — Zeituni Onyango, Barack Obama's aunt, has lived in a South Boston public housing complex for five years. Photos of Obama adorn her walls. Zeituni Onyango, Barack Obama's aunt, has lived in a South Boston public housing complex for five years. Photos ...
Dreams From His Aunt
powerlineblog.com 11/1/2008 — 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 ...
Who Is This Guy?
justoneminute.typepad.com 10/31/2008 — 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...
Dreams From His Aunt, part 2
powerlineblog.com 11/1/2008 — Yesterday we noted the London Times ( here ) and Boston Globe ( here ) news stories on Barack Obama's aunt Zeituni Onyango. Ms. Onyango was found living in run-down Boston public housing, though she has enough money to have contributed $260 to ...
How The Times followed a trail to find Barack Obama’s aunt
timesonline.co.uk 11/3/2008 — 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 ...
McCain up 11 in South Carolina —
First Read 10/30/2008
From NBC's Mark MurrayA new NBC News/Princeton Survey Research Associates International poll shows McCain with an 11-point lead over Obama among likely South Carolina voters, 53%-42%.
Yet that margin is smaller is among registered voters, 50%-44%. ...