Zeituni Onyango, 56, referred to as "Aunti Zeituni" in Obama's memoir, was instructed to leave the United States by a U.S. immigration judge who denied her asylum request, a person familiar with the matter told the AP late Friday. This person spoke on condition of anonymity because no one was authorized to discuss Onyango's case.
In fairness, it is unreasonable for a candidate to be held accountable for the actions of his/her relatives. On the other hand, to my eye, Obama has an unusually large number of personal connections to individuals with personal histories or circumstances that fall outside the realm of my personal experience. We know from the extensive literature rooted in symbolic interactionist theory that one's social ties determine a substantial amount of variance in an individual's views of the world. In short, those social ties DO matter, no matter how hard Obama and his surrogates try to shrug them off. There is much truth in the old saying, "You can tell a man by the company he keeps."
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