Secondly, this goes to campaign funding. Obama lied when he pledged to use public funds (as soon as his campaign realized they could get a lot more by going the other direction), and the fact that he doesn’t even use basic safeguards is exemplified here. It wasn’t until his aunt was proven to be an illegal alien that the campaign rejected the $$. This leads me to believe that there’s a lot of unaccounted for cash, from inappropriate/illegal sources, in Obama’s coffers.

So, in and of itself, not a big deal. Just more fuel for the anti-Obama folks.

Paranoid BS. Deportation orders are public record. They no more require “leaking” than does any criminal conviction or outstanding warrant. As soon as her name hit the news all someone had to do was check outstanding orders and court records for a match.

Yes, she should have worked on becoming a legal immigrant, but this is difficult. She probably could have become an American citizen had she worked hard at this. I do not know much about our immigration laws, doubtful many of you readers know much about this topic. Correct my thinking on this if I am wrong. I invite this.

My understanding is this old gal could become a citizen if she has a sponsor. This is, if an American or an American family document they will take her in, take care of her and take all those steps needed to find her employment, income, a place to live, all that, under circumstances like this, I “think” she could become an American citizen.

I do not know for sure. Again, I am very ignorant of immigration laws. Maybe a reader can clarify and add to this issue.

There is a cultural perspective worthy of mention. Our traditional peoples, we American Indians, are well known for taking in others in need, those of our bloodline. Not all of us do, but a majority of us do. This is especially true up in the Lakotas where our peoples are the most impoverished peoples of our nation. Not uncommon at all for ten, twenty or more people to be living under one roof. Sioux, Cheyenne, Crow, other tribes in the Lakota region, are well known for taking in those in need, no matter how distant the blood relationship.

This prompts me to wonder why Obama has not offered to take in his aunt, has not offered to sponsor her or employ some other method of helping her earn citizenship. I am sure there is something Obama can do, some law, some loophole, something he can do to help her.

Why has Obama not taken steps to help his aunt? He has certainly enjoyed plenty of time. Heck, years back he could have secretly whisked her away, made arrangements for her care. I tend to think not many would criticize Obama for an act of compassion, especially with her being old and at a disadvantage in our country. I do not know, maybe he would be critiqued. Personally, I would not fault Obama for helping his aunt in need; I would turn a blind eye.

Suppose this a cultural difference. Our peoples, if a distant relative, would have taken her in, right off. Not only taken her in, we would have also hidden her from authorities.

I suppose Obama is not willing to take a risk in the name of family compassion. Appears Obama is calling for his aunt to be deported back to Kenya. Odds are high, she will die back in Kenya.

I suppose her life is not as important as the presidency, to Obama.

Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation

So the AP broke the story? Big deal. How did AP get the documentation to back it up? There’s no proof that anyone in either the Bush administration or the McCain campaign was involved in this. Similarly, there’s no proof that anyone in either group was not involved.

I’d bet my next paycheck that Matt Drudge has an illegal clean his home once a week… as do most other rich Beltway types. People who live in glass houses with illegal maids and au pairs.

Agnostick
agnostick@excite.com

First of all, it’s the AP, where Ron Fournier is in the tank for McCain. Second, the story has already become more about the leaking of the information than the status of a distant relative. So the takeaway is that McCain and his media lapdogs will resort to the same type of politicization of the justice department to try to win elections.

Simple reminder that McCain = Bush, and another miscalculation by the criminally inept McCain/Bush cartel.

It is simple, Obama was demonstrating that he really doesn’t believe in ’sharing the wealth.’

I still don’t get how an alleged INS leak about a deportation case is imputed to McCain … someone help me with the link here. And I still assert that the alleged leak is not the story; the story is that Obama is letting his aunt live in poverty. I mean, most people I know would rally their families resources and lend a helping hand if someone fell on such hard times. You’d think that would be doubly so if you were RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT. I just don’t get this guy’s thinking on this one.

Seriously, the Conyers clan are corrupt as hell.

First they criticize Obama because he wants to “redistribute wealth” and now because he didn’t redistribute his wealth to his many half-cousins. Idiotic neocons.

Also, personally, I find the ethics charges against Palin (misuse of power, misuse of government funds for personal expenses) far more relevant, yet you have to hunt to find new stories about them.

This is going nowhere except to piss people off that an illegal leak designed to help mccain was made in the last days of the campaign. It was an obvious attempt by someone favorably disposed to mccain to try and create a distraction. If the GOP really cared about leaving people in poverty they have a strange way of showing it given their economic agenda. plus i doubt mccain and his wife want to get into a discussion about leaving relatives in poverty. They left cindy’s half sister in poverty and denied her existence. This was a political leak plain and simple. Have you happened to read Conyers letter on this?

Dear Mr. Chertoff:

I was startled to read in today’s Associated Press that a “federal law enforcement official” has leaked information about an immigration case involving a relative of Senator Obama. Even more troubling, the AP reports that it could not “could not establish whether anyone at a political level in the Bush administration or in the McCain campaign had been involved,” a very disturbing suggesting indeed. This leak is deplorable and I urge you to take immediate action to investigate and discipline those responsible.

I note that this is not the first leak of law enforcement information apparently designed to influence the coming Presidential election — in recent weeks law enforcement sources leaked information about an alleged investigation of a community services organization, a leak that the Department of Justice informs me is now under investigation by the Department’s Office of the Inspector General and Professional Responsibility.

Such leaks are deeply harmful to the political process, and the American people expect and deserve better from their government and its law enforcement agencies.

Sincerely,

John Conyers, Jr.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/241737.php

Winky McMyFriendserson

Quite possibly the best nickname ever!

Of course that’s contrary to what every other organization is reporting, but it IS Drudge after all.