... in a rundown Boston estate:
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.
The US press has repeatedly rehearsed Mr Obama’s extraordinary odyssey, but the other side of the family’s American experience has only been revealed in parts. Just across town from where Mr Obama made history as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review, some of his closest blood relatives have confronted the harshness of immigrant life in America.
In his book Mr Obama writes that “Uncle Omar” had gone missing after moving to Boston in the 1960s – a quarter-century before Mr Obama first visited his family in Kenya. Aunt Zeituni is now also living in Boston, and recently made a $260 campaign contribution to her nephew's presidential bid from a work address in the city.
Speaking outside her home in Flaherty Way, South Boston, on Tuesday, Ms Onyango, 56, confirmed she was the “Auntie Zeituni” in Mr Obama’s memoir. She declined to answer most other questions about her relationship with the presidential contender until after the November 4 election. “I can’t talk about it, I just pray for him, that’s all,” she said, adding: “After the 4th, I can talk to anyone.”
Hmm... I wonder who's telling her she can't talk?
Interesting.
In the meanwhile, Religious Leftists continue to spread lies about The One:
Obama understands – “WE BELONG TO ONE ANOTHER”. There may be times when we may need to be mavericks, but at our very soul we need one another. We belong to one another because God has made it so.
You can name any issue our country and world is struggling with, and I believe that Obama provides the leadership that comes from a core belief that we belong to one another. I long for a leader who will not only lead our nation and the world to great things, but also one that will believe, “your people shall be my people”. I am so excited for my president to care for all of God’s creation. I’m voting early and then helping out on election day. I will go where my people will go – the polling booths – because after all, we belong to one another.
Obama can't take care of his own... yet some believe he'll take care of you.
Big pile of bovine fecal matter there folks.
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