[Rhodes22-list] Politics - Spread Your Wealth, Not Mine

[Brad Haslett]

Update,

So he knew, surprise, surprise! Thanks for the help, nephew.

Brad

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Aunt Zeituni's Protectors

By The Prowler on 11.3.08 @ 10:49AM

ALL IN THE FAMILY
Senior aides to Sen. Barack Obama and Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick
were aware that Obama's aunt, Zeituni Onyango, was living in the
United States illegally and in a South Boston public-housing project,
and were monitoring her at the request of senior Obama campaign
officials, according to a current employee for Obama's key political
consulting firm, AKP&D Message and Media.

Back in early 2007, as Obama's chief campaign strategist David Axelrod
was organizing and planning the Obama campaign, he identified Obama's
unique family situation -- a number of half-brothers, sisters, aunts,
uncles, some living overseas -- as a potential problem, says an
employee for Axelrod's political consulting firm, and who has done
work on the Obama campaign. "Given [Obama's] father's family history
here and in Africa, David wanted the campaign to know who was who,
where they lived, and what they were doing. No surprises. We knew she
was here illegally. We knew her income levels, but I don't think
anyone from the campaign had had contact with her."

Instead, according to the source, Axelrod reached out to his former
client, Patrick, who had retained Axelrod's firm for his run for
governor. Onyango was living in a state-funded housing project, "so
Patrick's people could just as easily keep track of things, and could
do it without drawing a ton of attention," says the AKP&D Message and
Media employee, who requested anonymity as he hopes to get a job in an
Obama administration should the candidate win. "If we had Obama people
around, the media would probably have found her much sooner. She was
in [Obama's] book, it wasn't like she couldn't be found." Indeed, that
is exactly how the London Times found her.

While the South Boston housing project is managed by the Boston
Housing Authority, it is a state-funded facility, according to the BHA
press office, and so it would not be uncommon for state housing
officials to be on the grounds or in the area. "Patrick was the
go-between, he's trusted by David and Senator Obama," says the aide.

In fact, Patrick spent most of the past two or three days stumping for
Obama up and down the East Coast. His and Obama's relationship goes
back a couple of decades, and the two actually represented ACORN
together in a civil suit back in 1993. Some Republican political
operatives believe that Patrick and his political team have been
cutouts for un-reported cash distributed to ACORN officials around the
country for Democrat "get out the vote" projects.

Some Obama aides believe that Obama was briefed at least twice by
Axelrod or campaign manager David Plouffe on the status of family
members. "We tracked who was talking to the press, we kept in touch
with some of these people," says an Obama campaign media aide. "Anyone
who thinks we didn't doesn't understand just how nervous we were about
all of these people, particularly the members of [Obama's] father's
family. Axelrod had everything covered." The aide said she was never
present for such a briefing, but "we all knew the candidate's family
was being taken care of, to protect their privacy and try to contain
any damage."

The Obama campaign has denied knowing anything about Onyango's illegal
status or her poor financial situation.

On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 4:53 AM, Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:
> Interesting update -
>
> http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D945TEE01&show_article=1
>
> So illegals can't contribute to federal elections?  Hmmmmm.
>
> Brad
>
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Isn't this just sweet!  We discussed this last Spring, Mr. Sweetness
>> and Light was complaining about his Kenyan grandmother not having
>> running water or electricity.  I suggested he drill her a well and buy
>> her a generator.  The village named a school after him and he donates
>> nothing (I donated $100 to the Senator Obama school).  His
>> half-brother lives in a slum in Nigeria and wants to go to auto
>> mechanics school.  Help from his brother? Zip, zero, nada.  He writes
>> in "Dreams From My Father" about his favorite aunt Zetuni.  Once
>> again, the foreign press does what the American MSM won't do.  They
>> found The One's "favorite" aunt living in a slum in Boston.  What a
>> selfish ass-hat this guy is, and a hypocrite. No money for family but
>> $30,000 for "God Damn America" Rev. Wright.
>>
>> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article5042571.ece?token=null&offset=0&page=1
>>
>> Brad
>>
>