The great Obama cover-up

We know every detail about other presidents and their families, why not this one?
By Ezra Levant ,QMI Agency
First posted: Saturday, September 03, 2011 08:00 PM EDT

Onyango Obama, U.S. President Barack Obama’s uncle, was charged this week in Boston with drunk driving. Turns out he’s also an illegal immigrant.

When he was arrested, he told police he wanted to call the White House. Why not? If President Obama bailed out General Motors, why not his own uncle?

In one of his autobiographies, President Obama talks fondly about Onyango, calling him “Uncle Omar.” So it’s not like they were long lost relatives. But Uncle Omar isn’t the only embarrassment in the Obama family. Uncle Omar’s sister — Obama’s aunt — is a newsmaker, too. Her name is Auntie Zeituni. She was once living illegally in the U.S. too, although she was granted asylum last year. Uncle Omar even had a social security number.

Then there’s Obama’s grandmother Sarah. She still lives in Kenya. And until a PR firm gave her electricity as a publicity stunt, she lived in a hut without power.

Have you ever heard of any of these members of Obama’s family?

These aren’t distant relatives. They’re aunts and uncles and his grandma.

How could Obama have let his own grandmother live without even electric power? How could he not help his uncle and aunt come into compliance with America’s immigration laws?

OK, how about this: What do you know about Obama’s brothers and sisters? He’s got as many as eight half brothers and sisters — some in the U.S., one in China, some in Africa. Can you name one?

How about his parents? Obama’s father, Barack Obama Sr., was a Kenyan foreign student in Hawaii when he met Obama’s mom, Stanley. That was her name, Stanley. She was just a teenager. Obama Sr. already had a wife and baby back in Kenya, but he married Stanley anyways. He was a polygamist.

How did you not know that? Easy, the Media Party didn’t tell you.

We know every detail about other presidents and their families — especially their goofy relatives. Jimmy Carter’s brother, Billy, actually worked for Moammar Gadhafi. Bill Clinton’s half brother, Roger, served time in prison for cocaine.

Sarah Palin ran for vice president, but we know everything about her — and her daughter Bristol’s ex-boyfriend Levi Johnston. There are more than two million Google hits about him — just 20,000 for Obama’s half brother Mark.

The real point is we know less about Obama than any other president in modern times.

A polygamist dad is exotic. Obama then followed his mom and his new stepdad to Indonesia, where he went to a Muslim school for two years. That’s exotic, too.

His mom and dad originally met because of their love of Communism, revolution and third world-ism. That’s unusual. It also informs Obama’s beliefs today — in everything from the war on terror to foreign affairs to capitalism.

Never before has an American president been subjected to so little scrutiny, or had such an empty resume with so many gaps in his life. He truly is the Manchurian president.

We don’t know about Obama, or his values, or his history, or even his family.

And the reason we don’t know any of this is because the Media Party doesn’t want us to know.

They realize this is all too exotic and problematic, and would lead to just too many questions about their candidate. So they dispatched dozens of reporters to Wasilla, Alaska, to scrutinize Palin, but not to Indonesia or Kenya.

Obama is alien. Not because he’s black, but because his beliefs are alien, and were formed in a crucible of radical student activism. If anything, Obama isn’t black in the traditional U.S. political sense — he is not descended from slaves. His adult life was one of charmed privilege, a Harvard lawyer-millionaire.

Barack Obama is going down as the worst president in American history. American voters may fix that next year. But the Media Party’s cover-up of his faults — and even the basic facts of his life — is a problem that will surely continue for years to come.