A year ago, President Obama’s uncle Onyango “Omar” Obama was arrested in Massachusetts for drunk driving. When asked for comment, the White House insisted that the President had never met the man. This week, “Uncle Omar” testified under oath at his deportation hearing that his famous nephew had actually lived with him for a while.
Oh, you meant the Uncle Omar who has been in the United States illegally since 1963! Well, shoot. Sure the Prezzy knows HIM. Or, as the official statement goes:
“The President did stay with him for a brief period of time until his apartment was ready. After that, they saw each other once every few months, but after law school they fell out of touch. The President has not seen him in 20 years, has not spoken with him in 10.”
So let’s see … when he needed a place to crash, Uncle Omar was his pal, but once he got into politics where an illegal drunk driving relative would be a liability, he has never met the man.
Yup. That’s Barack Obama.
The high-larious PR spin Jay Carney put on this was … see, when we were first asked if the president knew Omar, we looked in his book and didn’t see any mention of him having met the man, so naturally we told the press there was “no record” that Barack had ever had relations with this relation.
But now, of course, there is a record … a court record … so naturally we are now saying we were wrong then, but it was totes our mistake, nothing whatsoever to do with the Boss, cuz you know, we just never thought to just ASK him, “Have you ever met your Uncle Omar?”
Send in the clowns.
Jay Carney Says No One Ever Asked President Obama if He’d Met Uncle Omar Until Now [1:48]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVJTJy68aec
Source:
polination.blog 