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To: Rambi who wrote (92921)11/1/2008 12:16:43 PM
From: Alastair McIntosh  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 541990
 
People you've never or barely met?

Obama first met Onyango when he traveled to Africa as an adult — he referred to her as "Auntie Zeituni" in his memoir.

The campaign said he has seen her a few times since that meeting, beginning with a return trip to Kenya with his wife, Michelle, four years after the first trip. Onyango visited the family in Chicago on a tourist visa at Obama's invitation about nine years ago, the campaign said, stopping to visit friends on the East coast before returning to Kenya.

She attended Obama's swearing-in to the U.S. Senate in 2004, but campaign officials said Obama provided no assistance in getting her a tourist visa and doesn't know the details of her stay.

news.yahoo.com

Half-aunt.. I'm not even sure what that is.


the half-sister of Obama's late father.



To: Rambi who wrote (92921)11/1/2008 4:04:51 PM
From: JohnM  Respond to of 541990
 
i just take it to be one more odd thing they can throw out, never knowing what might stick. I don't see any more of a rationale than that.