Aunti Zeituni

Headlines:

AP REVEALS: OBAMA AUNT LIVING IN U.S. ILLEGALLY...

Boston Housing Authority 'flabbergastered' Zeituni Onyango living in Southie...

Obama's family in Kenya stops media interviews...

Let's review the bidding here. Obama writes a self-serving memoir (two, actually) in which his Kenyan origins and Aunti Zietuni and other family members are used as props. He writes about a village school, which turns out to be a very poor thing to which he made promises of help. It wouldn't have taken much to have made a big difference, but he never came across with a dime. It was used for his purposes, then stiff-armed and discarded. His half-brother lives in a hut.

Aunti Zeituni Onyango was a useful prop, too. But, having served her purpose, having been used to further Obama's ambitions, she lives out her life in a Boston slum, as an illegal alien. Lawyer Obama, the compassionate, does not seem to have even inquired about her immigration status, let alone offered any help in mounting an appeal on her behalf. Now the Bush Administration has stepped in to protect her from deportation, while Obama makes speeches about the importance of family. His believers are tearful with gratitude that once he is elected, they won't have to worry any more about gas bills and mortgage payments. He coasts on the surreal and groundless image that the media has not only allowed him to create, but which they have contributed to constructing. It's grotesque.

The depth of Obama's ego-centered, manipulative cynicism seems to be without limit. You expect to see a healthy ego and a surplus of ambition in any presidential candidate, but this verges on the pathological. Hundreds of thousands of people have early-voted for Obama without any clear understanding of what kind of person he is. They voted in ignorance because the media did not do its job, but instead bent their efforts to getting him elected no matter what. Obama's calculating, manipulative character was allowed to pass under the radar; the media gave him a pass, while his opponents and critics were/are systematically savaged on his behalf.

It is not that Obama is simply unqualified to be president, although he surely is, having done essentially nothing but write memoirs and run for office. It's that he is wholly unsuited to be president. That a slick, self-aggrandizing, calculating, manipulative phony like Barack Obama could be elected over a man like John McCain is truly sickening.

Byron