- Wed Apr 23, 2014 3:10 pm
#39817
Obama Skipped Aunt's Funeral; Went Golfing Instead. After Zeituni Onyango, the woman President Obama wrote of in his book, Dreams from My Father, 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.So Obama justified shutting down a whole golf course to go golfing that day but can't attend his own Aunt's funeral. You can bet if it was a black leader Obama would have been there for the photo ops, but he had nothing to gain by attending his poor Aunt's funeral, nothing. That is Obama for you.
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 sent a condolence note, Ms. Onyango’s family members said, but the president did not attend, as he was golfing.