OBAMA SAYS HE DIDN'T KNOW AUNT WAS AN ILLEGAL ALIEN

Yeah buddy. There's all kinds of things you don't know. When convenient, or when in trouble, things are never as you once knew.

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Saturday he didn’t know that one of his relatives was living in the United States illegally and believes the appropriate laws should be followed.

The Associated Press found that Obama’s aunt had been instructed to leave the country four years ago by an immigration judge who rejected her request for asylum from her native Kenya. The woman, Zeituni Onyango, is living in public housing in Boston and is the half-sister of Obama’s late father.

A statement given to the AP by Obama’s campaign said, ”Senator Obama has no knowledge of her status but obviously believes that any and all appropriate laws be followed.”

Onyango is part of Obama’s large paternal family, with many related to him by blood whom he barely knows. Obama first met Onyango when he traveled to Africa as an adult — he referred to her as ”Auntie Zeituni” in his memoir.

The campaign said he has seen her a few times since that meeting, beginning with a return trip to Kenya with his wife, Michelle, four years after the first trip. Onyango visited the family in Chicago on a tourist visa at Obama’s invitation about nine years ago, the campaign said, stopping to visit friends on the East coast before returning to Kenya.

She attended Obama’s swearing-in to the U.S. Senate in 2004, but campaign officials said Obama provided no assistance in getting her a tourist visa and doesn’t know the details of her stay. The campaign said he last heard from her about two years ago when she called saying she was in Boston, but he did not see her there.

Onyango’s refusal to leave the country would represent an administrative, noncriminal violation of immigration law, meaning such cases are handled outside the criminal court system. Estimates vary, but many experts believe there are more than 10 million such immigrants in the U.S.

According to Federal Election Commission documents filed by the Obama campaign, Onyango has contributed $260 to Obama over a period of time. Under federal election law, only U.S. citizens or green-card holders are legally permitted to give money to campaigns. Onyango, who listed her employer as the Boston Housing Authority, gave in small increments to the Obama campaign. Her latest contribution was $5 on Sept. 19.

How many people have been disqualified for the Supreme Court or even cabinet positions because of having hired or even known about illegal aliens?

A statement given to the AP by Obama’s campaign said, ”Senator Obama has no knowledge of her status but obviously believes that any and all appropriate laws be followed.”

Really? What is obvious about this? Especially since he obviously allowed her to break the laws in any numbers of ways — including her contribution to his campaign.

Estimates vary, but many experts believe there are more than 10 million such immigrants in the U.S.

Perhaps the phrase the AP was looking for here was “law-breaking illegal aliens” rather than merely calling these people “immigrants.”

Onyango is part of Obama’s large paternal family, with many related to him by blood whom he barely knows.

Er, nice try Associated Press. But Ms. Onyango looms very large in Mr. Obama’s “Dreams From My Father,” which made Mr. Obama a nice sum of money. And, as even the article notes, he has had contact with her since she has been in the US.

But once again, this is not the Aunt Zeituni Obama knew ™.

Also note that we now know why Mr. Obama was exhorting his followers to vote early — “in case something came up.”

ANOTHER OBAMA SPEAK WITH FORKED TONGUE VIDEO

"CERTAIN TO MANIFEST ITSELF IN OTHER WAYS"

So sayeth the great Karl Rove about Obama's curious self love.

Great article today pointing out the outright falsehoods and self aggrandizement being shoveled out by this man and his campaign. Chutzpah, it is called.

My former White House colleague Yuval Levin pointed out that Mr. Obama, in his first national TV ad rolled out Friday, claims credit for having "extended health care for wounded troops," citing the 2008 defense authorization. That bill passed 91-3 – but Mr. Obama was one of only six senators who didn't show up to vote. This brazen claim underscores the candidate's thin résumé and, again, his chutzpah.

Click title for full article.

OBAMA STRETCHES THE TRUTH AGAIN AT GRADUATION SPEECH

The lies, pardon me, "gaffes" are coming fast and furious...

In his commencement address at Wesleyan College this weekend, Barack Hussein Obama told the assembled graduates:

"But during my first two years of college, perhaps because the values my mother had taught me -hard work, honesty, empathy - had resurfaced after a long hibernation; or perhaps because of the example of wonderful teachers and lasting friends, I began to notice a world beyond myself. I became active in the movement to oppose the apartheid regime of South Africa. I began following the debates in this country about poverty and health care. So that by the time I graduated from college, I was possessed with a crazy idea - that I would work at a grassroots level to bring about change.

I wrote letters to every organization in the country I could think of. And one day, a small group of churches on the South Side of Chicago offered me a job to come work as a community organizer in neighborhoods that had been devastated by steel plant closings. My mother and grandparents wanted me to go to law school. My friends were applying to jobs on Wall Street. Meanwhile, this organization offered me $12,000 a year plus $2,000 for an old, beat-up car.

And I said yes."

But Obama did not go from college to the "grassroots," as his statement at Wesleyan would lead one to believe:
"Upon graduating from Columbia in 1983, he worked first at Business International Corporation and then at New York Public Interest Research Group, both in New York City. Obama didn't take the community organizing job and move to Chicago until 1985. After three years in that capacity, he enrolled in law school."

Gaffelicious!