Meet Zeituni Onyango, Barack Obama’s aunt from Kenya who was found living in a Boston slum. See her pictures and biography.
Blockbuster Update: She is an illegal alien who Obama knew was living in Boston illegally in defiance of a U.S. court order. In fact, she lived in a taxpayer-funded, public-housing project which “someone powerful” helped her secure illegally. Meanwhile the Obama campaign accepted illegal campaign donations from her.
She is the second Obama relative known to live on skid row. His own brother was found living in a cardboard shanty last month in Kenya, and now his aunt in a Boston slum just five miles from where Obama attended law school. She was found by British journalists in a dismal, run-down public housing project in a violent slum in south Boston. Details.
Perhaps surprisingly, Barack Obama has apparently not reached out to help his aunt or his brother. In fact, his charitable contributions for any altruistic purposes are terribly low for a rich man and a typical Christian household. We are guessing that Barack does not send the Christmas cards in his family.
As a biography, Zeituni Onyango is Barack Obama’s aunt from his father’s side. She is the daughter of Hussein Onyango Obama, who is Barack Obama’s grandfather in Kenya. She confirmed to the newspapers that she is the “Auntie Zeituni�? described in Obama’s book, born May 29, 1952. It is unknown if she entered the country legally.
Zeituni Onyango is now handicapped, unable to walk without a walker. Obama’s aunt lives alone, virtually penniless without any family support from relatives including Barack.
She refused all other questions from the reporters, saying “I can’t talk about it, I just pray for him, that’s all. After the 4th, I can talk to anyone.” Obama handler’s had already gotten to her, which means Barack is aware of her presence and continues to let her live in abject poverty in the USA.
One wonders what stories she might tell about her nephew.
Zeituni Onyango Photos
October 30th, 2008 at 3:51 am
“One wonders what stories she might tell about her nephew.”
Uhm, that he WAS born in Kenya.
One also wonders WHO told her not to talk until AFTER the 4th.
October 30th, 2008 at 6:42 am
Seems that Obama ought to practice some of the “change and hope” he preaches and buy his aunt a place to live and take care of her. But like most liberals, his motto is ” Do as I say, not as I do.”
Which is sadder, Obama’ false promises or the people who are worshiping him blindly and excuse him for actions like this?
October 30th, 2008 at 7:04 am
Is there any hope that enough things in his shady past and present will reveal themselves in time to keep him from being elected? It is one of the most amazing things I have witnessed in my life. I can’t believe this country as a whole is so blind to this wolf in sheep’s clothing.
October 30th, 2008 at 11:58 am
We dont know the entire story. I too have family members that would probably make you shed tears if they told you how desolate their lives were. What they wont tell you is that the family has tried to help them several times and pumped money into them that went on either drugs or alcohol or God knows what else. and when you didnt give them money they traded what you gave them for money and are in a worst spot than they were before. you would never know i was related to some members of my family. They ask for help and than when you give it to them they are some how in yet another situatin a few months later and need your help again.
I thought everyone had a person like that somewhere in their family.
Think about it. All the homeless people in the shelters have extended relatives.
October 30th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Dana,
You are 100% correct. You can’t help people who don’t want help. They have to want to change their life and be willing to except your help.
BO said we are our brother and Sister’s keepers. Because he is a public figure, you would thing he would put his money where his mouth is.
I think in his mind, it is the intention of what is said that matter more then the actual actions taken.
October 30th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
The saddest situation is one which you want to change but cannot due to circumstance beyond your control. I have relatives that refuse help despite my family’s many pleas to get them out of poverty. Before you all judge, try thinking about walking in his well-worn shoes for a day. By the way, the Obamas give plenty of charitable gifts considering they make way less than the McCains. They are only newly wealthy, especially after the book deals. They were like so many of us paying off tens of thousands in student loans.
October 30th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
Cass, false. The Obamas give less that 1% of their income to charity, an abysmal sum for anyone especially rich fatcats. Do not spread false information on this site or you will be banned.
October 30th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
Of course people are assuming that he is in the least bit close to his Aunt. I have and Aunt who lives in public housing back east. I haven’t seen her for 25+ years. I have neighbors who I know better. Just because someone is a relative does not mean that you know them, or are obligated to financially care for them. Also you are also assuming that this Aunt wants help from Obama. Relative does not always equal a close relationship, or even any relationship at all.
October 31st, 2008 at 1:30 am
How do you know she wants to live somewhere else? As people get older and set in their ways they are comfortable in how they live. She might not want the fancy house or to be fussed over.
You have a lot of celebrities or wealthy people out there that have relatives that might not live in the best places does that mean their a bad person or don’t care. You can’t save or change everyone’s lifestyles because of who you are,what you have or what people think all you can do is offer and love them unconditionally which I am sure he does. We don’t know the bond they have so stop assuming and being nosey!
Leave her alone and mind your business! Just make sure your doing the right thing. (if it’s welcome)
October 31st, 2008 at 9:52 pm
[...] continued to live here illegally. Her name is Zeituni Onyango who was referred to fondly as “Aunt Zeituni” in Obama’s autobiography. She is 56 years old. Her illegal status explains why she was [...]
October 31st, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Man, this is outrageous! How can people vote for him?!
You have 2 candidates — one who has no Christian values, ignores his family with complete indifference to their well-being, doesn’t give a damn what happens to them, and the other whose name is Barack Hussein Obama!
November 1st, 2008 at 12:56 am
So now with three days left in our Presidential election we are now going to go through McCain and Obama’s family tree and dig up every family member that has done a wrong. We all talk about Wall Street and Washington Reform, well in my opinion the organization that needs reformed is our world of media and news. We are now going to hear about every distant or close relative that McCain and Obama have in their family tree that has done wrong.
This has nothing to do with immigration this has to do about leaking a story to make Obama look bad, get real America. So, please throw stones but McCain’s wife has shared her demons, and I am sure both families have more stories as does 90% of America’s. Have we stooped so low as a society? Cindy McCain over used drugs does that mean she is a risk to McCain and his judgment in the White House, in my opinion no, but if you are following this a line of argument that this has anything to do with immigration or Obama’s character, then you won’t be voting for McCain – a drug user in the White House (see how ridiculous this has become).
I don’t care who you vote for but this story is sad and says more about our obsession with ripping people apart to sell another story and to make ourselves feel superior. Say what you want but this story has nothing to do with immigration or Obama, my question is what does it say about us as Americans.
We wonder why the youth of America does not enter politics – who the heck can pass these tests of perfection, I guess all of you.
November 1st, 2008 at 4:14 am
Libs just keep right on defending…
What the Libs don’t ever get, is that this has LESS to do with the woman’s situation in life, and MORE to do with the “HIDING”, connections to OTHER PEOPLE, and LOTS OF THEM, and not a single person to point to who has shaped his views from MAINSTREAM AMERICA…
I personally don’t think most reasonable people possess an UNREALISTIC EXPECTATION that he or anyone else won’t have family that have issues — like we all do — or that he won’t have the occasional friend/associate who are a bit shady characters — like we ALL do… RIGHT?
THE POINT IS THAT THIS GUY HAS PRECISELY THE OPPOSITE SITUATION… HIS ENTIRE, what’s known in Sociology as a “REFERENCE GROUP” (“Birds of a feather, flock together…” or “You can judge a man by the company he keeps…”) is COMPLETELY COMPRISED of individuals and organizations who are EITHER the MOST RADICAL within society at large, OR they are ALL CRIMINALS OF THE HIGHEST ORDER…
THAT’S THE POINT, FOLKS!
He DOES NOT have to be best friends with Jack Welch, Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Larry Elison, Mother Theresa, or Jesus himself, for crying out loud…
BUT, C’MON, Obama, SHOW ME ONE SINGLE PERSON from your list of those who have shaped your world view from MAINSTREAM SOCIETY or WHO HAVEN’T EITHER BEEN CONVICTED of CRIMES or ISN’T ALLEGED to have committed crimes…
GOOD GRIEF!
THERE ARE NONE!
- It’s the LENGTH of the LIST.
- It’s the HIDING of the Sheik Khalidi tape.
- It’s that it took Obama THREE DIFFERENT PRESS CONFERENCES to FINALLY come relatively CLEAN about Reverend WRIGHT
- It’s the 4-8 of HIS MOST FORMATIVE YEARS that are a COMPLETE MYSTERY — Occidental & Columbia
- It’s the birth certificate which looks like NOBODY ELSE’s who was born during the same time period from the SAME HOSPITAL
- It’s the beautiful narrative about his grandparents, YET his grandmother worked for Boeing for less than TWO years. SHE WAS THE VICE PRESIDENT of a BANK for nearly 40 YEARS!!! Why didn’t he mention THIS… THERE IS NO SHAME in being a BANK EXECUTIVE…
FOR THE LAST TIME…
IT’S NOT ABOUT ONE or TWO THINGS, PEOPLE!!!
IT’S THAT HIS ENTIRE NARRATIVE and HIS ENTIRE LIFE IS “C-H-A-R-A-C-T-E-R-I-Z-E-D” IN IT’S ENTIRETY by LIES or SECRETS, and EVERY ASSOCIATE being of ill repute.
Give we conservatives a freaking BREAK ALREADY…
You don’t need to accuse us of SMEAR TACTICS…
Obama’s doing a pretty good job of it on his own, WITHOUT OUR HELP!
November 1st, 2008 at 4:43 am
I thought families were off-limits. Just like Cindy McCain and her drug problem. Just like Palin and her husband’s membership in the AIP. Just like Palin’s 17 year old getting pregnant. This should have been left alone.
November 1st, 2008 at 5:39 am
April, are you also June and July ?
This is not a personal problem as is with Cindys addiction, or The Palins personal choices.
This is a legal issue if anything.
And maybe some traditional reluctance on the part of the media to print anything negative about Obama.
If McCain had an illegal relative in the country I’ll bet my gonads it would be plastered all over the media.
November 1st, 2008 at 7:17 am
I am so glad I am part of the American Elite–(third or forth generation American) I don’t have to worry about relatives needing to come to this country for political asylum or economic distress, and somehow or other, people judging me because of the problem. I didn’t help enough; I helped too much. I’m a sneak, a liar, bla, bla, bla. My family came over during the potato famine, and guess what, they were hated too.
10 million people are living in this country just like her. That means their are 10 million (or more) other families in the same situation that Senator Obama is in. All that speaks of is that immigration issues are going to have to be part of the discussion, and Senator Obama is in a first person position to understand these situations.
Guess what, this aunt situation doesn’t change a thing for me. I’m still voting for senator Obama over governor Palin–and that is really what this election is about. Senator McCain isn’t the one running for president, governor Palin is. She and all of the conservatives who have ruined this economy, can take their trampy little mini-skirts and go-go boots and walk on back to Alaska.
November 1st, 2008 at 9:54 am
@JoeKnows
Have you ever worked at a bank office? Not a teller branch but an office? Everybody is a “Vice President” for signature authority. I work in IT, in my 20s, and a VP. I am by no means an executive, either in duties or pay.
November 1st, 2008 at 10:24 am
micky, are you a mouse?
You wrote: “This is not a personal problem as is with Cindys addiction, or The Palins personal choices. This is a legal issue if anything.”
I’d say Cindy’s addiction, along with the illegal drugs she imbibed, the drugs she stole from patients for whom they were intended, and the lives she destroyed in abusing her authority and involving them in her illegal behavior is a “legal issue if anything.” John McCain’s blind eye to his wife’s out-of-control conduct and it’s impact on their friends and people they said they were serving seems quite analgous to Obama’s failure to observe closely the decline in conditions, and possibly illegal behavior of his missing father’s side of the family.
We agreed to leave families out of this. I’m sure if we looked closely, we’d find some bad judgement and questionable behavior on your branch of the big family tree. As one of the good guys said…let the one’s who have no faults cast the first stones…or is it…don’t cast stones if you live in glass houses…and in the internet days of open public records…maybe all of us better be careful before we take aim.
November 1st, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Personally, I doubt Obama has two clues about what he spews from his mouth. He was right when he said, just words… His words are meaningless and change when the wind blows in a different direction. He’s sold out his friends, family and supporters. Most who do not even realize it yet.
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November 1st, 2008 at 12:47 pm
You righties let the real wolf in sheeps’s clothing, GWB, run our country for eight years. You guys make me sick. This story is built by you to play on two fears:
1) Fear of immigrants
2) Fear of Black people
You have nothing but hate and ignorance to bank on. You cling to them like you cling to your guns and religion. Hate and ignorance. That’s all you have left. Oh well. We’ll still accept you in our country when your Republican party becomes defunct.
November 1st, 2008 at 12:51 pm
What about the complete media supresion of Joe McCain calling 911 because traffic was too thick, then telling the 911 worker f##k you when she told him that he couldn’t abuse 911 in that way?
If you had to choose which person should stay in the country would you rather have, A) Zeituni Onyango, a poor kindly aunt that bothers nobody and tries to do right by people or, B) Joe McCain, a guy who thinks that 911 was built to get him out of a traffic jam?
November 1st, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Lasinva.
Congratulations on being the first one to ever use the mouse thing in connection with my name.
Your brilliance and vivid imagination are astounding.
Also, since it seems you are prone to personal attacks with no provocation from me that means that from now on your stupid f*ckin ass is mine.
I am an expert on addiction and recovery as I have worked with addicts and alcoholics for decades.
First and foremost cindy is a victim of a disease as categorized by the dept of health.
This makes it a “personal” problem first and foremost !
Wise up !
The drugs were replaced , Cindy as stipulated by the courst recieved her treatment and has done far more good for those children than the few pills she took that you somehow think hurt anyone.
Not one of those kids ever missed any medication that was due to them.
She destroyed no life but her own for a short period of time.
It is a problem that has long since been dealt with, which is not something I could say for your boy Obama in this case.
Obviously you’re a couple quarts low, cant follow and issue, or just plain stupid.
This is about another episode in Obamas life that will never be clarified in one simple explanation.
“We agreed to leave families out of this.”
Whats this “WE” sh*t ?
Do you have a mouse in your pocket ?
Or would you be refering to the Obama camp attacking Palin, her children, her husband ?
And spare me the glass house bullsh*t.
We are allowed to percieve people and discriminate based on what behaviors we judge as ethical or not.
Just because everyone has screwed up a few times in their life doesnt omitt them from being able to judge ones ethics or morals in others as it is the first line of defense for any human in meeting someone for the first time or getting to know them.
We judge, we discriminate and we discern what we think will be in our best interest.
Thats what people do, like it or not.
I’m no angel, but that does not mean that I cant identify Obama for the snake that I know he is.
November 1st, 2008 at 1:21 pm
“We’ll still accept you in our country when your Republican party becomes defunct.”
“our country ?”
Good for you, anyone who thinks like you would go to the looney bin in “My country”
Andrew, really bro, you need some better talking points.
911 gets about a million prank calls a day.
I mean jeez, at least go with Ted Stevens or something substantial if you gonna bash us.
Beside that ya moron.
Joe McCain is actually an American citizen.
Lightweight.
November 13th, 2008 at 8:46 am
ZEITUNI ONYANGO-fugitive absconder deportee
111 Flaherty Way
Boston, MA 02127
(617)268-2003
Has a ssn
Registered to vote and has voted in various wards and precincts including
Ward Number :6 and Precinct Number: 2. Has worked in the US saying she was a citizen and received welfare benefits including a back operation. She is now a fugitive being harbored by
Margaret Wong, 18751 N Park Blvd, Shaker Heights, OH 44122,(216)371-4615
Wong said “she’s a pretty educated woman� and a computer programmer.
Has a brother Obama Onyango aka Uncle Omar who lives in the Boston area who is also a fugitive absconder deportee with a ssn , registered to vote, on welfare and owns a business called Wells Market.
Godson Anosike of 79 Winter St, Cambridge, MA 02141, (617)661-0017,has also harbored the fugitive absconder deportee.
LAWS
INA 212(a)(10)(D) aliens voting in elections will have their future citizenship revoked and are inadmissible into the US for any visas including work visas.
INA 212(a)(9)(A)(i) If an alien is ordered removed he or she is not admissible to the US for 10 years.
Grounds for Removal, Section 237 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) an alien can be deported for the following reasons:
**Presently in Violation of law—Any alien who is present in the US in violation of this Act, or any other law of the United States. INA sec 237
**Violated Nonimmigrant Status or Condition of Entry INA 237 (a)(1)(C)
**Criminal Offenses INA sec 237(a)(2)(A) and (B)
**Document Fraud INA sec 237 (a)(3)(C)
**Falsely Claiming Citizenship—Any alien who falsely represents, or has falsely represented, him or herself to be a citizen of the United States for any purpose or benefit. INA sec 237(a)(3)(D).
CONTACT
James T Hayes Jr, Director
Detention and Removal Operations at
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
500 12th SW, 11th Floor
Washington, DC 20536
(202)732-3000
(866)347-2423
February 2nd, 2009 at 3:51 pm
Sorry to disappoint you partisans, but Ms. Onyango is NOT AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT! She came to this country legally and applied for assylum. That request for assylum was denied, but there is a pending appeal of that denial. Thus, under US Law, Ms. Onyango is her legally. LEGALLY! Do you get it? What part about “LEGAL” do you fail to understand????
Morons.