*Who Does Obama's Aunt Zeituni Onyango Love? * George W. Bush
<http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBAMA_AUNT?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US>.
Onyango reserved special words of kindness for former President
George W. Bush for a directive he put in place days before the
election requiring federal agents get high-level approval to arrest
fugitive immigrants, which directly affected Onyango. The directive
made clear that U.S. officials worried about possible election
implications of arresting Onyango.
She said she wants to thank Bush in person for the order, which gave
her a measure of peace but was lifted weeks later.
"I loved President Bush," Onyango said while moving toward a framed
photo of Bush and his wife standing with Barack and Michelle Obama
at the White House on inauguration day. "He is my No. 1 man in my
life because he helped me when I really needed that help."
But, in the same interview, she revealed that she is not getting along
well with her famous nephew.
President Barack Obama's aunt buried her face in her hands and
sobbed as she described her anguish over no longer having contact
with him and his family after the revelation she had been living
illegally for years in the United States in public housing.
. . .
Onyango, the half sister of Obama's late father, said she has exiled
herself from the family after attending Obama's inauguration because
she didn't want to become fodder for his foes. Obama and his family
have not reached out to her either, she said.
Obama appears to get along well with his wife and his two daughters, but
he does not appear to be close to any of his other relatives, or to have
any friends from his lives before Harvard Law.
It would be inappropriate for him to intervene in his aunt's case now
that he is president, but I have long wondered why he appears to have
done nothing for her, or for any of his half brothers or other
relatives, earlier.
My tentative explanation is that Obama is almost totally lacking in
empathy
<http://www.seanet.com/%7Ejimxc/Politics/May2009_1.html#jrm7361>. (Even
though he says that empathy is an important quality for judges.)
(The story of his aunt by way of Dan Riehl
<http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2009/12/oh-no-obamas-aunt-i-loved-george-bush.html>.
Incidentally, I think that Bush was right to make that order during the
campaign --- and that the order should have been lifted later.)
- 8:18 AM, 2 December 2009 [link]
<http://www.seanet.com/%7Ejimxc/Politics/December2009_1.html#jrm8160>
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