RUSH: We go from ‘Hut, Sweet Hut’ to ‘Slum, Sweet Slum.’ I mean this guy takes care of his family not at all. It is incredible. When you measure the way this guy has cared for his family versus what he talks about with charity and how we’ve all gotta help each other out, he’s not helping out his own family because he doesn’t want to use his own money.
Let’s go to the audio sound bites here. This is last night, this is the brief moment of the infomercial here. I think this is the audio from the convention speech.
OBAMA: It is that fundamental belief — I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper — that makes this country work.
RUSH: Well, we got the news yesterday, and he taped this a week ago, we got the news yesterday that old Auntie Onyango was found living in a Boston slum. She may not even be a legal citizen. We’re not sure about that. People have been looking into it and can’t find out, and note that it was a UK paper that found this, the UK Times. The US Drive-Bys still are not talking about this. By the way, Mike, hold onto audio sound bite number one here because I’m going to call for it again. I want to read you this quote from the story: ‘Aunt Zeituni and Uncle Omar are the children of Mr. Obama’s grandfather Hussein Onyango Obama, by his third wife — the woman Mr. Obama calls ‘Granny’ because she raised his father. Mr. Obama’s father, Barack Sr., was Onyango Obama’s son by his second wife, Akumu. That makes Zeituni and Omar a half-sister and half-brother of Mr. Obama’s father, or Mr. Obama’s half-aunt and half-uncle.’
You got that? Okay, let me go through this again. I know family trees are tough. Let’s go through the genealogical traits here. This is from the UK Times. Aunt Zeituni is Obama’s aunt living in a slum in Boston. I’m not trying to make too big a deal about this. I think it matters. You measure somebody’s words and we measure their words of compassion and caring, and we look at how the people closest to him live. One’s in a hut in Nairobi living on 12 bucks a year, and here’s Aunt Zeituni living in a slum, a slum housing project in Boston. ‘Aunt Zeituni and Uncle Omar are the children of Mr. Obama’s grandfather Hussein Onyango Obama, by his third wife — the woman Mr. Obama calls ‘Granny’ because she raised his father. Mr. Obama’s father, Barack Sr., was Onyango Obama’s son by his second wife, Akumu. That makes Zeituni,’ the aunt living in the slum in Boston, ‘and Omar,’ her husband, ‘a half-sister and half-brother of Mr. Obama’s father, or Mr. Obama’s half-aunt and half-uncle.’ Got it now? Okay, now it clicks. And she was not, by the way, included in the infomercial last night.
She has been affectionately described in his book, in his best-selling memoir, Dreams from My Father, Zeituni Onyango was described affectionately, she was discussed a lot in his book. So it’s not as though she’s a distant aunt or a half-aunt. She is living in Boston in a slum! Compassion? She’s living in Boston in a slum. ‘Slum, Sweet Slum.’ ‘Hut, Sweet Hut.’ Hut-hut. Auntie Zeituni in Mr. Obama’s memoir. She declined to answer other questions the UK Times asked about her relationship with Obama until after the November 4th election. She said, ‘I can’t talk about it. I just pray for him. That’s all. After the 4th I can talk to anyone.’ So poor old Auntie Zeituni here is not only living in a slum, she’s been buttoned up. She’s been zipped up, duct tape on her mouth, duct tape on Michelle (My Belle)’s mouth, and of course George Onyango Obama Hussein, stuck over in the hut, and nobody can find him. (interruption) Yes, Mr. Snerdley? It’s sort of like stay here and shut up or stay there and shut up, and you don’t know me, and I don’t know you even though I wrote about you extensively in the book, just shut up, Auntie Zeituni. No Iranian caviar.
By the way, that was a false story. It turned out being retracted by the New York Post, said Michelle (My Belle) was not even there in the Waldorf Hysteria that afternoon. It’s not clear when Mrs. Onyango, Auntie Zeituni living in the Boston slum first came to the US. She said, ”I’ve been coming to America ever since 1975. I always come and go.’ She is a frail woman who walks with the aid of a metal sick. Neighbors said she lived alone in a ground floor flat, normally set aside for people facing physical hardship.’ This is the aunt of Barack Obama living in a Boston slum. Let’s go back to the audio sound bite now from the Denver acceptance speech.
OBAMA: It is that fundamental belief — I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper — that makes this country work.
RUSH: It’s really showing its success rate in your family, isn’t it? My friends, this is important. I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper, that’s what makes this country work. Country’s working. Obama’s family is not. Can you imagine an Obama family reunion? How does the guy living in the hut get to the family reunion? Where is the family reunion? Is there a family reunion? Can you imagine Auntie Zeituni, she walks with a metal stick, not a cane, she doesn’t even have a cane, it’s a metal stick, it’s probably a pipe she picked up in the hood, how in the world does she walk around to get to the family reunion? Now, isn’t it interesting, I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper, that’s what makes this country work. He is nobody’s keeper. What he’s going to do is make us everybody else’s keeper. He isn’t anybody’s keeper. Now, let’s go back. Let’s go back to August 16, 2008. He just said, we just played the audio here of Obama and his acceptance speech, ‘It’s that fundamental belief — I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper — that makes this country work.’ Rick Warren at the Saddleback Church August 16th said to Obama, ‘What would be the greatest moral failure of America?’
OBAMA: America’s greatest moral failure, in my lifetime, uh, has been that we — we still don’t abide by that — that — that basic precept in Matthew that, uh, whatever you do for the least of my brothers, you do for me.
WARREN: You do for me.
OBAMA: And that notion — (applause) — that basic principle applies to poverty, it applies to racism and sexism, it applies to, uh, not having — not — not thinking about providing ladders of opportunity for people to get into the middle class. I mean there’s — there’s a pervasive sense, I think, uh, this country, as wealthy and powerful as we are, still don’t spend enough time thinking of the least of these.
RUSH: His aunt lives in a slum in Boston. Since 1975 she’s been coming and going. His brother lives in a hut outside Nairobi in Kenya. ‘There’s a pervasive sense,’ Obama says, ‘that this country, as wealthy and powerful as we are, still doesn’t spend enough time thinking of the least of these. The basic precept in Matthew, whatever you do for the least of my brothers, you do for me.’ Does this mean that we should demand Obama move to a housing project or a hut? Is he blaming America for the circumstances in which his aunt lives in a slum in Boston? He’s not even willing to take care and help his own family, and how many mesmerized Americans think he’s going to take care of them?