The Curious Case of Onyango Obama, aka Uncle Omar

The Curious Case of Onyongo Obama, aka Uncle Omar

Emulating sans accent and sans the lovability of ”Hogan’s Heroes” bumbling Sgt. Schultz, Obama’s White House knew “Nothing!” about the presence on American soil of the president’s fugitive alien relative, Uncle Omar, just as it knew nothing about Obama’s “Dear Aunt Zeituni” and her defiance of American immigration law.

Following the DUI arrest of the Kenyan native, Onyango Obama, half-brother of the president’s deceased father, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney declared his boss was “completely unaware” of everything concerning his uncle, presumably including his presence in the United States as an undocumented alien and Massachusetts charges of drunk driving.

Granted, the president is a busy man what with his vacations, his crumbling poll numbers, our deteriorating economy, etc. but you would think someone should have told him his unc was in the can and in a jam. Then, again, our astute chief executive seems oblivious of many things.

His Uncle Omar, as Obama referred to him in Dreams from My Father, was certainly aware of his presidential connections after his arrest when he told Framingham police, “I think I will call the White House.” He’s obviously well-attuned to his rights and privileges since, oddly for an illegal, he was in possession of a driver’s license and a Social Security card at the time of his apprehension.

That curiosity may not be as unusual as Benjamin Buttons’ reverse aging but surely qualifies Uncle Omar as a marvel worthy of Alice’s amazement when she said, “Curiouser and curiouser.” Omar also didn’t fall down a rabbit hole; he fell into a great situation when he somehow succeeded in entering the United States. Specifics on his entry are still pending.

At the very least, he should have called his sister, fellow Bay State resident and former illegal alien, Zeituni Onyango, Obama’s aunt.

For more details on the fugitive Onyangos and their happy wanderings in America, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5340)

Obama's Aunt Zeituni: Ingrate!

Obama's Aunt Zeituni: Ingrate!

What do you do with an auntie named Zeituni?

I posed that Maria-ish question back in February in “Zeituni’s Place in Obama’s Zeitgeist,” (http://tiny.cc/ncqdx), when President Barack Hussein Obama’s Aunt Zeituni Onyango was still awaiting a decision on her third request for asylum in the United States.

Onyango, a Kenyan, just like Obama’s father and much of his extended family, arrived on our shores in 2000, overstayed her visa–by about 10 years–went on welfare and lived in a homeless shelter.

She then was given priority treatment for public housing in Boston while seeking legal refuge here on the questionable basis that she would be in danger if she returned home to Kenya because she was the aunt of a U.S. president.

Unemployed, she still lives in South Boston on disability payments of $700. a month.

In any event, she insisted she didn’t want any special treatment from nephew Barack due to her familial status, and insists she didn’t get any.

Despite being fondly remembered in Obama’s Dreams from My Father, the president said that if she were living here as an illegal alien–which she was, and on the dole–”Dear Auntie Zeituni” should be deported. As he put it, ”If she has violated laws, then those laws have to be obeyed. We are a nation of laws.”

To his credit, I guess, Obama cuts no slack for relatives. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1917)

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)