Swamp Sunrise

Today's news story the Swamp won't cover. From the London Times:

"Zeituni Onyango, the aunt so affectionately described in Mr Obama’s best-selling memoir Dreams from My Father, lives in a disabled-access flat on a rundown public housing estate in South Boston.

A second relative believed to be the long-lost “Uncle Omar” described in the book was beaten by armed robbers with a “sawed-off rifle” while working in a corner shop in the Dorchester area of the city. He was later evicted from his one-bedroom flat for failing to pay $2,324.20 (£1,488) arrears, according to the Boston Housing Court." See
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article5042571.ece for more.

Funny how the British papers -- in this case the London Times -- unearth this kind of story, rather than Obama's own hometown paper.

As commentator Bob Krumm says: "The most damning part of the Obama aunt story is that once his campaign found her living in squalor they told her to not talk to the press until after the election, but they didn’t try to help her."

Another comment: "I have finally figured out why somebody who has been as successful as Barack Obama believes that the government must help people who cannot or do not help themselves: He simply does not understand that helping the poor, unlucky, or incompetent is first the responsibility of family."

Plus this: "He has used these people -- his grandmother, his aunt and uncle, and so forth -- as props in his political narrative. He wants us to measure him in part by his relationship to these Kenyans, but -- and here is the harsh part -- only as that relationship is described by him. What if his characterization of that relationship is misleading? What if it turns out that while he is delighted to cite these people as evidence of his humble beginnings -- that is what I mean by using them as props -- he is not so delighted to consider them as part of his family? Is that not at least a potentially useful insight into the character of this man about whom we know so little?"

See www.instapundit.com for more, including links.

Don't forget the Berg v. Obama rally in front of the Supreme Court.
http://zachjonesishome.wordpress.com/2008/10/29/berg-v-obama-rally-at-supreme-court-steps/

Posted by: Disgusted | October 30, 2008 8:00 AM

So you want him to give money to these distant relatives ... wouldn't that be considered "redistributing the wealth"? But you Republic Party hacks have been railing against Sen. Obama for weeks now because you DON'T want him to "redistribute the wealth". You can't have it both ways!