I note that the Prowler reports that Barack Obama’s campaign team was aware that his aunt was living in Boston illegally, and elected to do nothing about it:
Instead, according to the source, Axelrod reached out to his former client, [Massachusetts Governor Deval] 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… 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.”
Obama asserts that ‘Aunt Zeituni’ attended his Senate swearing-in in 2004, and that he heard from her in 2006 as well — to let him know that she was in Boston. Yet it apparently never came up that she was denied in her request for asylum status. Would anyone be shocked if we learn after election day that Senator Obama hasn’t told us the whole story yet?
