POWIP Piece of Work In Progress – Former Abode of Dan Collins

Obama’s Aunt: “The system took advantage of me!”

Which, you know, is kind of hard for me to understand since she's still here, living on public assistance:

Aunt Zeituni, as she has come to be known, first surfaced in the public light in 2008, in the final days of the Presidential election. Then-candidate Obama said that he was not against the possible deportation of his aunt. "If she has violated laws, then those laws have to be obeyed," he told CBS's Katie Couric. "We are a nation of laws."

In 2004 a judge ordered Zeituni Onyango out of the country, but she never left. She stayed, hiding in plain site[sic]. In 2005 she attended her nephew's swearing in as the junior Senator of Illinois. In 2008 she traveled to D.C. for President Obama's inauguration.

In May 2010, Onyango's case went back before the same judge who ordered her out of the country in 2004. This time she was granted asylum in the United States. The ruling said a return to Kenya might put Onyango in danger.

So she is now here legally, still living on public assistance and hoping that the spotlight on her will dim.

So here's the thing.  President Obama has gone out of his way to lecture us all about being our brother's keeper, which I'd have to agree with when applied on an individual basis.  But, there are folks that don't believe in this central tenet of Christianity, so the question is, should their tax dollars be used to be anyone else's keeper?

And furthermore, last I checked, President Obama has made quite a few bucks in public life, especially over the last few years.  Wouldn't you think he, as Aunti Zeituni's famous and successful nephew, would want to do something for the old girl?  Wouldn't he want to see her live without want or need, perhaps even nearer to him and his family?

And even if the answer to both those questions is a resounding, NO!, in a time that demands fiscal austerity and when the national debate on how to deal with illegal immigration and immigrants is in the fore, don't you think he would prefer that one of his relatives wasn't here illegally, living off taxpayer largesse?

Seems kind of, oh I don't  know, strange to me.  How about you?

Rocketman