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Golfer-in-Chief Skipped Aunt's Funeral (Important State Business Got in the Way)
2014-04-23
Sociopathic President Obama did not attend the funeral of his late aunt Zeituni Onyango. Instead, he went golfing.

The New York Times reports:

After Zeituni Onyango, the woman President Obama once called Auntie, died in a South Boston nursing home this month, her closest relatives gathered her belongings at her nearby apartment. There, framed photographs of her with the president covered the wall.

Weeping before a polished wood coffin at her wake this past Saturday, they described Ms. Onyango, the half sister of the president's father, as "the spirit of the Obama family" and talked about raising money to send her body back to Kenya. Mr. Obama helped pay funeral expenses and sent a condolence note, Ms. Onyango's family members said, but the president did not attend, as he was golfing.

The paper notes that the president has kept his distance from his family:
Yeah, the optics would be bad if he went.
As president, Mr. Obama has kept his distance from, and even failed to acknowledge, members of this eclectic clan. In the time-honored tradition of eccentric presidential relatives, the assorted Obamas have faced deportation and drunken-driving charges, started Obama-branded foundations and written memoirs.
Now if his aunt happened to be his golf caddy, this story would have been entirely different.
Naah, I don't think so...
Posted by:gorb

#6  Bravo! Bravo!
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2014-04-23 19:10  

#5  Are reunions confusing and hectic?
Would hosting send you cataleptic?
Would comparing the stories
Mean the end of your glories?
Congrats! You just might be "eclectic."

Thank heavens his families' rascality
Failed to warp young Barack's personality.
Think how lucky we are
That he carries no scar
From their biblical disfunctionality!
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2014-04-23 18:44  

#4  He's such a good boy.
Posted by: bigjim-CA   2014-04-23 16:41  

#3  eclectic clan
Eclectic, yeah, that's the ticket.
Posted by: Shipman   2014-04-23 15:59  

#2  He would've been ripped to shreds if he showed up. And when it comes down to "doing the right thing" or "doing what's best for Barry", you know which way that's gonna fall.
Posted by: tu3031   2014-04-23 14:36  

#1  Bye Aunt Zeituni, I'll be thinking of you...Can you have a talk with the Big Guy and maybe let me have a Hole in One ?



Posted by: Caribbean Pete   2014-04-23 12:59