Bloodthirsty Liberal

No, that’s not some sort of necrophilic come on, it’s how military people talk:

Had Obama said this just one time and corrected it afterward in his remarks, then I’d have bet that some helpful staffer had loaded the Teleprompter with an incorrect phonetic spelling. However, after the first time “corpsemen” came out of his mouth, any speaker with even a passing knowledge of the military would have realized that the word had been mispronounced. After the second one, it should have been obvious. Instead, Obama went for the hat trick.

It’s no biggie, at least not like having an aunt living here illegally (in public housing, no less), having ignored two deportation orders, and who illegally (as a foreign national) contributed to your campaign—especially after you (factually incorrectly) berated the Supreme Court live on national TV when they had no way to respond.

If something like that ever happened, that would be a bigger deal, and would, I’m sure, get great coverage in the mainstream media.

Especially if they thought she was faking (or at least exaggerating) a disability.

And lest I seem cruel and heartless to a poor old lady, let me show you her in a moment of candid, honest, unrehearsed, vulnerability (and… action!)

It’s just a pity she doesn’t have any family to support her, no one who came into some money ($1.4 million) recently, and could see that she lives out her days comfortably and peacefully in a Nairobi condo.

And when we get behind closed doors
Then she lets her hair hang down
And she makes me glad that I’m a man
Oh, no-one knows what goes on behind closed doors

The illegal alien aunt of President Obama could learn this week whether she can put down roots in Boston - or start packing her bags for a one-way trip back to Kenya.

And, save for U.S. Immigration Court Judge Leonard I. Shapiro, she’ll know before anyone else. Zeituni Polly Onyango has persuaded Shapiro to bar the public from her removal proceeding Thursday morning at the John F. Kennedy Federal Building, though it’s unclear why.

“I assume (Shapiro) thought it would be a three-ring circus. She’s the aunt of the president of the United States - the most famous man in the world,” said Mike Rogers, spokesman for the Ohio law firm defending Onyango, 57, against the Department of Homeland Security.

So, who’s going to be the one to load the president’s auntie on a plane back to Kenya? Hope he likes the cold, because he’ll be transferred to Ice Station Zebra before you can say “George Obama’s shack”.

Given the proclivities of his father, it’s no wonder President Obama has to ration his exposure to the myriad members of his extended family.

But it’s kind of sad that Auntie Zeituni is persona non grata:

President Barack Obama’s aunt buried her face in her hands and sobbed as she described her anguish over no longer having contact with him and his family after the revelation she had been living illegally for years in the United States in public housing.

Zeituni Onyango told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview that she is troubled that her immigration woes have made her a political liability to her nephew.

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Onyango helped care for the president’s half brothers and sister while living with Barack Obama Sr. in Kenya. She moved to the United States in 2000 and applied for asylum in 2002, but her request was rejected and she was ordered deported in 2004.

However, she did not leave the country and continued to live in public housing in Boston. She had been a health care volunteer but not since her status became public. She refused to discuss how she affords to live now or who is paying for her attorney.

Onyango said she previously had no trouble visiting Obama when he was a state senator in Illinois or after he became a U.S. senator, though she declined to discuss details of how often she had contact with Obama and his family.

I’m no fan of the president and no fan of illegal immigrants ignoring deportation orders (much less those staying in public housing), but if a nephew doesn’t have the courage to give his auntie a hug once in a while, he should be led by said auntie around by his ear until he shapes up.

Oh wait, it looks like he already has been:

Yes, Mr. President, we see. Looks like she gave it quite a tug.

Sounds like a Playboy spread, but thankfully not.

One groupie has followed the Obamas to the Vineyard:

Rabble rouser and peacenik Cindy Sheehan is jumping on the Obama vacation bandwagon. The activist, who made headlines when she protested in Crawford, Texas, during former President George W. Bush’s month-long vacation there in 2005, landed on the Vineyard last night to spread her anti-war message to Obama and the media.

Reached by phone from a Boston hotel as she prepped for her trek to the island, Sheehan said it doesn’t matter who’s in the White House - she’s not going anywhere. “First of all, I oppose the policies of the U.S. government in the Middle East. I have since before my son was killed,” said Sheehan, who lost her son in the Iraq war in 2004. “I opposed it when Bush was president and I oppose it now when Obama’s president.”

Quoth the “Peace Mom”:

“We must BE the change we wish to see in our President!” … “The clock does not turn back with a new President. . . We must return all our troops back here immediately. No more waiting will be tolerated. Zero acceptance for keeping them abroad!

“Where’s the change? Did it get lost in all that wonderful changiness we’ve all been swimming in? And what’s up with all this “indefinite detention” stuff anyway? And now we’re starting it within the USA itself? (Well, I guess that is a change.)

I wouldn’t look for this story on the CBS evening news.

Oh, and here’s another woman who will have to crash the party to get anywhere near the Obamas:

She has kept a low profile since her story broke, and some worried it could hurt Barack Obama’s chance to win the White House. But recently, she decided to open up about her life, and famous nephew to me in her first television interview.

Onyango’s immigration lawyer is in Cleveland, and she has come here often from Boston, staying with family.

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The 57 year old Kenyan-born aunt of President Barack Obama quickly flashes a smile, when you mention his name. “Actually, it’s phenomenal. I love my nephew and always pray for him,” Onyango says.

She clutches a double strand of costume pearls she said were a gift from her nephew when he visited his family in Kenya in 1987. He also gave her a book: The Constitution of the United States.

Onyango proudly remembers attending the swearing in ceremony with her mother, Sarah Obama, the President’s paternal grandmother in 2005, as Barack became a U.S. senator. Home video shows them both in full African dress at a celebration party shortly afterwards.

She talks about the current controversy over the President Obama’s citizenship. His administration has refused requests to make public his birth certificate, leaving some to question whether he was actually born in Kenya. The issue of where he was born is important because the U.S. constitution requires the president to be a ”natural-born citizen of the United States”.

Onyango calls those rumors “satanic”.

“It’s not true. And it’s not true at all. Barack was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Ann (Obama’s mother) never stepped foot on Kenyan soil,” Onyango says defiantly.

Okay, I’m inclined to accept the word of an illegal alien living illegally in Boston public housing.

It’s one thing for President Obama to ignore his half brother half a world away in Kenya. It’s quite another for him to give the back of his hand to his loving auntie who (sometimes) lives in Boston, just a puddle jump away from Martha’s Vineyard. One local radio host even implored his listeners to help get Auntie Zeituni to the Vineyard. A listener responded with the use of his idle yacht for door (South Boston) to door (Oak Bluffs) service.

No word yet from the Obamas or the Onyangos.

PS: Is Cleveland especially picturesque this time of year, or did Zeituni make herself scarce from New England at someone’s suggestion (and expense)?

She’s in Boston, she’s in Cleveland, she’s back in Boston: where’s auntie?

Zeituni Onyango said goodbye to her Cleveland cousins and went back to Boston, where she has been winning court battles that could allow her to stay in America. She is being represented by Cleveland lawyer Margaret Wong.

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Many in Boston denounced her for defying deportation and for living in a public-housing complex with a waiting list. The president has said he did not know his aunt was here illegally and that all laws covering her situation should be followed.

Onyango, 56, escaped the attention by taking a train to Cleveland. She moved in with relatives in the city’s African immigrant community. One day in early November, she walked into Wong’s office and asked for a lawyer.

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On April 2 in Boston, an immigration judge said Onyango can remain in the country at least until early next year, when she can again make a bid for asylum.

Wong declined to discuss her legal strategy. According to the Boston Globe, Onyango is back in her subsidized apartment in South Boston.

Aunt Zeituni may not make Billy Carter and Roger Clinton look like model citizens—but at least they were citizens!

She’s got money for a lawyer, but she still gets public housing? Who’s on the waiting list, Donald Trump?

And those aren’t the only dollars we’re spending on Zeituni:

A police officer sits in his cruiser Thursday, Oct. 30, 2008, outside the public housing complex in South Boston where Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama’s aunt Zeituni Onyango reportedly lives.

Nice woman, happy she’s here—but if we’re going to take huge craps on our statutes and rules, I’ve got bran muffins at the ready for a few asinine laws myself.

My oh my Zeituni’s gonna stay.

The court officers couldn’t have assigned me to this case?

President Barack Obama’s aunt will remain in this country until at least next year as she awaits a chance to make her case before an immigration judge in her bid for asylum from her native Kenya.

Zeituni Onyango (zay-TUH’-nee awn-YAHN’-goh) had an initial appearance in U.S. Immigration Court in Boston on Wednesday. At the brief hearing, a judge set her case to be heard Feb. 4, 2010.

Onyango wore a curly red wig to the hearing and declined to comment to reporters as she was led away from court by her attorneys and Federal Protective Service police.

Onyango, 56, first applied for asylum in 2002, but her request was rejected and she was ordered deported in 2004. She did not leave the country and continued to live in public housing in Boston.

Her lawyer, Cleveland immigration attorney Margaret Wong, said in a statement Wednesday that Onyango first applied for asylum “due to violence in Kenya,” but she did not reveal what grounds she has cited in her renewed bid for asylum.

A curly red wig, huh? How’d anyone recognize her?

But what I really want to know is: is she still living in public housing on my dime?

Look, I think it’s fair to say that Auntie Zeituni’s safety back in Kenya would be seriously more at risk today than it was five years ago. I get that. (Though no one seems to worry about poor ol’ George Obama.)

But she defied a court order, and has been living here illegally (and on public assistance) for those five years. Can I have a consequence for that infraction—please?

If we tried in Kenya what she tried here it would be like Midnight Express (The Director’s Cut).

Just kidding—same old Auntie:

When last we saw the destitute relative, she was partying on Inauguration Day despite her fugitive status. The deportation evader is set to have yet another day in immigration court. She’s back at her Boston public housing complex, courtesy of the American taxpayer, preparing for the case.

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“The case is unusual in American history because it’s a relative of the president involved in immigration matters,” said Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Washington-based Center for Immigration Studies. “It really does present the White House with an opportunity or a minefield. If they follow through on a decision that she should go home, that would actually raise the president’s credibility enormously on immigration enforcement.”

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Onyango declined two requests for interviews in recent days, and told a reporter to stop wasting her time.

“I’m not happy,” Onyango said, bundled up in a parka against the spring chill as she went to pick up her mail.

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With help from the Bush administration, Onyango has managed to escape accountability for her prolonged defiance of the law. Her case points up the interminable ways in which deportation fugitives manage to buy time after receiving orders to leave — and create new bites at the judicial apple. If she loses her case, she can appeal directly to Congress for a special relief bill.

You can beef up security on the border, but if a dysfunctional deportation abyss remains in place and if DHS refuses to enforce immigration laws on the interior, it’s more time and money down the drain.

Of course she’s not happy—we’re celebrating spring in Boston with temperatures that barely reach the 30s. Who’s happy?

I do note that the forecast in Nairobi is for highs in the mid-80s.

But then she might have to share George Obama’s dollar a day (week? month?) here…

Rather than her taxpayer-sponsored digs here…

Like the woman who famously declared before the election that if Obama won, she’d never have to worry about paying her mortgage again, Auntie Zeituni has done all right under her nephew.

If she becomes a political liability, however (don’t look to the press for that), she’ll find herself sleeping on George’s sofa (which I doubt he even owns).

Aunt Zeituni has friends in high places:

The Homeland Security Department still is requiring high-level approval before federal immigration agents can arrest fugitives, a rule quietly imposed by the Bush administration days before the election of Barack Obama, whose aunt has been living in the United States illegally.

The unusual directive from the Homeland Security Department came amid concerns that such arrests might generate “negative media or congressional interest,” according to a newly disclosed federal document obtained by The Associated Press.

The directive makes clear that U.S. officials worried about possible election implications of arresting Zeituni Onyango, the half-sister of Obama’s late father, who at the time was living in public housing in Boston. She is now believed to be living in Cleveland.

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The White House said late Sunday that Obama “has not contacted any government agency regarding Ms. Onyango’s case, nor has any representative of the president.”

Of course not: the point has already been made clear. Zeituni is radioactive. You touch her, you die.

Aside to reader Joe O’Neill: we may live in s**t climate here in Boston, but at least one discerning (illegal) citizen chose to live here over sunny Kenya. In city housing, no less!

You can always put on another sweater. But cheap digs? There’s no substitute.

Hey, Auntie Zeituni, can I have your apartment if you’re not using it?

Federal immigration officials couldn’t find her, but she was spotted by several media outlets and partygoers around the Beltway.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported:

Ohio Democrats put aside the state’s financial troubles and cold weather Sunday night to celebrate its part in electing Barack Obama to the White House.

Just a few blocks from Obama’s soon-to-be residence, elected officials, former officeholders, proud volunteers and party activists from the Buckeye State noshed and drank at the Renaissance Mayflower Hotel, a historic luxury hotel…

… One special guest who commanded attention at the party was Zeituni Onyango, 56, Obama’s aunt from Kenya who has been in this country illegally and is getting help in her immigration fight from another ball guest, Cleveland attorney Margaret Wong.

So President Obama claimed not be his auntie’s keeper, had no idea she was here illegally, illegally occupying public housing here in Boston, but he can reach out and find her and bring her to Washington under his personal imprimatur?

Remember when our presidents used to be embarrassed by their reprobate relatives? Donald Nixon. Billy Carter. Roger Clinton. But now we celebrate the first family’s, uh, black sheep as a victim who needs legal help in her “fight”.

What a great country.

Where is the little girl we carried on the dole?
Where has the deportation fugitive absconded to?

According to my sources, the Bush administration issued a 72-hour cease-and-desist order to all fugitive apprehension teams to spare Obama embarrassment over his Kenyan half-aunt, Zeituni Onyango. The Associated Press had reported on Nov. 1 that Onyango was a deportation evader – one of an estimated 700,000 illegal alien absconders who have ignored orders from immigration judges to leave the country. The wire report mentioned that the Department of Homeland Security distributed “an unusual nationwide directive within Immigrations and Customs Enforcement requiring any deportations prior to Tuesday’s election to be approved at least at the level of ICE regional directors.”

But the politicized order was even worse than the AP reported. The deportation process wasn’t simply slowed down for public relations reasons and fear of a media backlash. The process was completely frozen.

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement source familiar with Western field offices told me: “The ICE fugitive operations group throughout the U.S. was told to stand down until after the election from arresting or transporting anyone out of the U.S. This was done to avoid any mistakes of deporting or arresting anyone who could have a connection to the election, i.e., anyone from Kenya who could be a relative. The decision was election-driven.”

Another source close to ICE operations in a southern California field office confirmed that immigration officials there received the same directive: “The reason they included all offices in the US was to show that they were not targeting the district Office where Aunti lived. They don’t want to pick her up by mistake and cause a big problem.”

Just how many illegal immigrant relatives do they suspect Barack Obama has living here? No, don’t tell me. I don’t want to know. (The story says Zeituni left Boston to stay with relatives in Cleveland.)

And I was always taught that the job of the President, as head of the Executive branch of the government, was to carry out the laws. Even Zeituni’s rather powerful and influential nephew believes “we are a nation of laws”.

Thank God for the Easter Bunny.

What do I care about an aged African lady living here illegally on public welfare? I don’t. At least as long as caring about fairness, justice, and the rule of law could get me branded as a racist, and earn me a visit from the Hate Police. Come back, Zeituni! Come back!