You Can't Make this Crap up: Barack's Obama's Aunt is an Illegal Immigrant, You and I Pay for her Housing, yet she has Contributed Illegally to Barack Obama

Link to the full story is at Ace of Spades. Note that the New York Times did the original piece and noted:

However, that Ms Onyango made a contribution to the Obama campaign would indicate that she is a US citizen.

So, the NY Times, being the last, great bastion of journalism in America, left it to the Associated Press to figure out that she is living here illegally. Nice job, NYT. And i really do believe journalism is dead in America, but nice job journalisming, AP.

Exit questions: Did Senator Obama know his aunt was living here illegally? Did he do anything to help her remain here illegally?

Also interesting from the AP article you can access from Ace's place:

"It was not immediately clear how Onyango might have qualified for public housing with a standing deportation order."

Yeah, how did that happen?

Meanwhile, the folks at Kos are going batshit crazy. Up over 300 comments now. Read them all if you hate your sanity. I actually read most of them and need to go somewhere else in a hurry to remind myself why I love this country.

Great questions from a commenter ("nobody of consequence") at Ace of Spades:

If there were any real journalists left in America, they might want to ask some of the following questions in addition to the obvious "did he know" ones:

1. "Your aunt said she couldn't talk about you until after the election. Who told her that?" (removes the "we didn't know" response option)

4. "Your campaign defended its lack of fraud control for online credit card donations by saying they would be caught later on during screening. Isn't the fact that an illegal alien was able to make multiple donations to your campaign proof that your screening either doesn't work or doesn't actually exist?"

More good questions from No Quarter:

• How did she contribute a total of $260 to her nephew’s campaign in a series of small donations from her South Boston address if she is not a United States citizen?
• Are many illegal immigrants and foreigners submitting small donations to the Obama campaign in order to avoid scrutiny by the FEC?
• How does she qualify for public housing if she is not a United States citizen?
• How is Obama to be trusted to reform the immigration system if his relatives are breaking immigration laws and living illegally in this country?
• And why did the Senator not file a form I-130, a Petition for Alien Relative, on behalf of his aunt after her request for political asylum was rejected? As a United States Senator, he certainly could expedite the adjudication of such a petition.