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Obama's aunt granted asylum

Indeed, the mouth frothers always love it when they have a politico from the other side between a rock and a hard place. Obama would have been damned if he had forced her to go back and is being damned now because she got to stay. Whatever.

Once you realize the hard place is all in their heads, you will understand the conservative mind.
 
Once you realize the hard place is all in their heads, you will understand the conservative mind.
I see an opportunity for several dirty jokes here...
 
i was really touched by this associated press story about obama's aunt in the weeks before christmas

Nation & World | AP Exclusive: Obama aunt anguished by separation | Seattle Times Newspaper

she's "anguished" over her "separation" from the prez, aunt zeituni "buries her face in her hands and sobbed" cuz she fears her "immigration woes have made her a political liability to her nephew"

"she's disabled and learning to walk again after being paralyzed for more than 3 months" due to guillain-barre

barack, michelle and the kids are her only family in america

her teeny public housing apartment is practically a shrine to barack with photos of them together in springfield where she felt more free to visit him

she obviously loves him

she also adores bush who once did her a kindness

"he is my number one man in my life because he helped me when i really needed that help," she emotes

barack, meanwhile, announced he didn't know she was here illegally

she also goes out of her way to defend barack's father who has been labelled abusive by a half brother

everyone slapped kids, she rationalizes, he had trouble with alcohol

he was strict but not abusive

she lived with barack's dad for a time, it appears, and helped raise the president's half siblings

heck, one of US should take her in if barack doesn't

have a heart
 
If she was denied asylum before I would like to know what changed to allow her to stay.

Hew long lost nephew being president is not enough to reverse the decision.

Now why hasn't she had to pay legally for her being in this country after the decision to deport her?
 
Yes it is a very good reason for her to be granted asylum, because terrorist groups would use it to there advantage, if they knew about her in the first place.
 
If she was denied asylum before I would like to know what changed to allow her to stay.

Hew long lost nephew being president is not enough to reverse the decision.

Now why hasn't she had to pay legally for her being in this country after the decision to deport her?

uhhhh, what changed? Am thinking her nephew became president. (not a small thing in most families....)



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Obama's aunt granted asylum - Washington Times

Nothing to see here folks. Move along..... move along.

I do not think there is anything suspicious. If she was close to him then you might have a point. However from what I understand Obama did not spend much time with his birth father's side of the family. So she might as well be some stranger off the side of the road to him. So I seriously doubt Obama called in any favors for her.
 
You beat me to it. My thoughts exactly. He's the president of the US. If a fella doesn't take care of his own family, what kind of guy would he be??


Point to note: the prez can commute/pardon anybody he wants. (Now if Obama had granted amnesty to a Marc Rich type, i'd be a little pissed.....)


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Makes one wonder why he didn't bother doing anything over the past 10 years.
 
Anyone who says they didn't know Obama would do this is either a damn fool or one of Obama's blind brain dead worshipers. Oh yeah they're the same thing.

Her reason for the request is she gets better housing here than the mud hut that was waiting for her at Obama's home country.

Michelle says Kenya is Baracks home country not me.

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLDHDfPNBME"]YouTube- Michelle Obama: Barack's Home Country Is Kenya.mp4[/nomedia]
 
Obama's aunt granted asylum - Washington Times

Nothing to see here folks. Move along..... move along.

He's the President of the United States, the leader of the free world, and has command of the most powerful military in history. Perhaps a perk or two should come with the job.

Why, I even heard he has his own jet. How dare he when other Americans don't.
 
Makes one wonder why he didn't bother doing anything over the past 10 years.

Didn't have the juice. It's like wondering why the lottery winner didn't give a million dollars to charity before he won the money. You do what you can when you can.
 
Actually, I can make an educated guess as to why she was granted asylum. Islamic fundies in Kenya hate the US, and if Obama's aunt was forced to live there, I bet she would be the number one target for them, because of being related to the head of state of the country they hate the most.

In that context, I understand why she was given asylum. It would be a very legitimate reason. But let's not let that stand in the way of our political witch hunting.

There are 3 million more Muslims in the U.S. than there are in Kenya. If you figure only 1% of the overall population is fundamentalist, then the U.S. has 30,000 more radical Muslims than the does Kenya. In that context she should be immediately deported for her safety.
 
Didn't have the juice. It's like wondering why the lottery winner didn't give a million dollars to charity before he won the money. You do what you can when you can.

Yep. That 'bout sums it up.....


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He's the President of the United States, the leader of the free world, and has command of the most powerful military in history. Perhaps a perk or two should come with the job.

Why, I even heard he has his own jet. How dare he when other Americans don't.

Good point why has my property that he and his government have taken from me at gunpoint go to pay for his private jet? And while we're at it why does he get to steal from me to pay your salary?
 
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uhhhh, what changed? Am thinking her nephew became president. (not a small thing in most families....)



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So you are saing the court took into account in her case that her distant nephew is the president.

According to you her case was decided on the fact that her nephew is the president and nothing to do with her actual case.

Didn't he admit he didn't even know she was in the states before some journalist dug her up during the campaign?

Obamas new job was not a change in her status but his.
 
Being king pimp has it's privledges...


He gets his sick wheelchair bound aunt into the country. Meh.... It's not like he re-pardoned mark rich. :shrug:
 
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Can anyone here imagine the hue and cry if this was done with one of Bush's relatives while he was in the White House? Where is the outrage from the left?
i would not be outraged. you're petty.
 
None of which has anything to do with the topic under discussion.

the president's character?

well, perhaps we should parley your pet topic, the number of words properly comprising a paragraph
 
the president's character?

well, perhaps we should parley your pet topic, the number of words properly comprising a paragraph

The topic, in case you missed it: "Obama's aunt granted asylum"
 
How absolutely low and ridiculous.

So for months upon months now Rush Limbaugh and others have lambasted and joked, to the roaring approving laughter of fans, how Obama says we should be our "brother's keeper" but that his brother lives in a shack and is in a bad part of the world and why doesn't old Obama be his brother's keeper and help his family member out and get HIM out of poverty.

So then we have someone related to Obama granted asylum here. We don't know the facts, yet people are already jumping the gun with suggestions, implications, and assumptions that this was all done based on Obama. However, even assuming that's the case, isn't that just doing what Rush and others have essentially been lambasting him for NOT doing with his brother?

So lets see here...

If he doesn't help his distant family that don't live here he's being a hypocrite for talking about people needing to be their "brother's keeper" and is worthy of ridicule for not using his resources to help his family out.

If someone in his distant family actually does make it into America though, we're to assume and imply immedietely that its because of Obama, and if it is the case that it was because of Obama we should lambast and attack him for using his resources to help his family out.

For the love of christ, this is why hyper partisans always look foolish, because they give up any attempt at individual integrity or insight in exchange for continual attempts at scoring political points. Its actions and attitudes like presented here that make real, legitimate, honest, adult political discourse so difficult in this country.

His aunt is here. We have no facts of how close he is to his aunt, we have no facts whether he helped her get over here, we don't even know whether it'd be unethical if he DID help her get there. Once we get more information, then maybe we can figure something out.
 
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