Zeituni's PLace in Obama's Zeitgeist

Zeituni’s Place in Obama’s Zeitgeist

What do you do with an auntie named Zeituni?

That doesn’t quite have the ring of “What do you do with a girl named Maria?” but the Zeituni question poses an even greater challenge for Obama than Maria did for Mother Abbess in Sound of Music.

Kenyan Zeituni Onyango, age 57, is an illegal alien living in the United States for the last 10 years, for the most part in subsidized, Boston public housing on the taxpayers’ dime, has no visible means of support, and is a criminal by virtue of her illegal status.

She also happens to be President Obama’s dear Auntie Zeituni who is pleading for asylum for the third time.

What to do?

On the one hand, Obama could extend an empathetic hand to a blood relative whom he had affectionately praised in Dreams from My Father. She was in attendance at his Senate swearing inceremony in 2004 and was in the audience at her Obama’s inauguration.

This is no distant relative nor a demented aunt to be consigned to the attic or basement.

Aunt Zeituni, out of sight, out of mind, shouldn’t hold her breath awaiting empathy from a millionaire president who turned his back on another blood relative, his half-brother George who, at last word, is still subsisting on a buck a week in a suburban Nairobi hovel.

Zeituni has been living on our shores since 2000 . . .

(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1479)