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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neeka who wrote (54071)	11/1/2008 9:33:40 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224704

True. empty O's campaign mgr said he's not going to get into illegal auntiegate -- when asked by the press why not -- he replied "I'm just not." Obama's Aunt, an Illegal Alien, Attended His Senate Swearing In, 2005 Associated Press, November 1, 2008 Obama said he last heard from his aunt Zeituni Onyango, who attended his swearing-in ceremony to the U.S. Senate in 2005, two years ago. HENDERSON, Nev. — Barack Obama said he did not know a relative was living in the United States illegally for the past nearly four years prior to today's Associated Press report. News of Onyango's legal status, which the AP confirmed through sources, including a federal law enforcement official, provided an embarrassment for the Obama campaign during its final push toward Election Day. Obama did not respond to questions shouted at him by members of the traveling press corps as he exited Caesars Palace hotel here Saturday morning with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) at his side. The Associated Press wrote that it confirmed the deportation case with two separate sources, one of them a federal law enforcement official. House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers has written to Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff requesting an immediate investigation into the matter, and referring as well to an ongoing investigation of voter fraud by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN. Obama met Onyango, 56, when he traveled to Africa as an adult, and she earned a mention in his 1995 memoir "Dreams From My Father," in which he referred to her as "Auntie Zeituni." The campaign said Obama has seen Onyango several times over the years, including during a second trip to Kenya with his wife, Michelle. Onyango previously traveled to Chicago on a tourist visa at the Obamas' invitation about nine years ago. The campaign will return $265 in contributions that Onyango made to Obama, citing prohibitions against foreign nationals donating to American campaigns. The Associated Press reported that Onyango had been instructed to leave the country four years ago by an immigration judge who rejected her request for asylum from her native Kenya. Onyango is living in public housing in Boston. Obama's campaign strategist Robert Gibbs shut down any line of questioning Thursday when news broke about Obama's relative, telling reporters, "I'm not going to get into it." Reporters asked, "Why not?" "I'm just not," Gibbs said.