Obama Kin Will Just Be Human Interest
From a very understanding Politico:
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Obamas may come out of woodwork
By: Daniel Libit
December 29, 2008Just days before the election, the media focused briefly on the news that Barack Obama’s paternal aunt was living illegally in public housing in Boston.
While the story didn’t get much traction, it offered a glimpse of things to come: With the spotlight shining so hard on the next president, distant family members are likely to get caught up in the glare…
The Obama family tree, by contrast, is a veritable ancestral Banyan, with roots and branches extending to four continents. There are many half-siblings, cousins, aunts and uncles. That means there may be many stories to tell—but also many possible sources of heartburn…
Without prompting, the media took up its own fascinations with Auma Obama, the president-elect’s Kenyan born half-sister, who is now a social worker in Britain, and George Hussein Onyango Obama, a half-brother who was discovered, by Italian Vanity Fair, to be living the hutted life on the edge of Nairobi. And it didn’t stop there.
Earlier this month, Chinese television shined the bright lights onto Mark Ndesandjo, a half-brother of Obama’s living in the city of Shenzhen and running an Internet business. Back in July, the Times of London described Ndesandjo as "helping to promote cheap Chinese exports in a low-profile business career."
Well, low-profile no more: He’s now practically a Chinese celebrity.
Who will be next? And for what reason? …
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, the director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, thinks that the diffuse nature of Obama’s family will inure him from the long hard look at his tree…
"There may be a human interest story but I don’t see it being a typical Washington story," Jamieson said…
Is this not typical?
Just days before the election, the media focused briefly on the news that Barack Obama’s paternal aunt was living illegally in public housing in Boston. While the story didn’t get much traction…
The media did not “focus” on that news. It was reported by one British paper. Our watchdog media went out of their way to bury the story.
And it is clear that only now, deep in the middle of the Christmas holidays, do they think it is even safe to bring them up again.
Sorry for the double post! I don’t know how that happened. Mea Culpa
Well, it’s times like this I miss “Miss Carter”. Is illegal Auntie still in Boston? I believe she is and probably will be in DC for the “festivities”. I will be waiting to see how many come over from Kenya as well. Are there any relatives from KS attending or are they not the “type of people” that Michelle the belle wants there? How sad we have to depend on foreign news outlets to inform us of all “the branches that would inure him” on his family tree.
Remember two days before Christmas was also an opportune time to release the”findings’ in the Blogo case as well. People making merry have little time to watch the news or read the papers-or so it is thought.
OT: I am also watching Fox & Friends and they’re yapping about the “Adonis”. I am sick of this coverage already and if Bush “waxed his chest”, the left would have a hissy. Also, I think this clown is spending too much time at KMCB in the gym. President Bush works out about 60 minutes a day-that’s 30 minutes fewer for you in Rio Linda-yet the left mocked him saying he should be doing “more important things”. However, they continue to fawn, make statements like “well, he’s gotta keep himself in shape his entire presidency because he’s like sooooo busy, soooooo cool and soooooo wonderful”.