This sort of reporting is extremely irritating. Zeituni is not the President’s aunt, Onyango is not his uncle and George was not his brother. The press intentionally is loose in their classifications of the relations to make each of these into more of a story.

In the case of Zeituni and Onyango, they are step-sister and step-brother to the President’s deadbeat father (who he hardly even knew), or to put it another way they’re the children of the President’s step-grandmother. Many of these people are basically strangers to the President, and based on the number of times his father and grandfather remarried if he’s supposed to be responsible for the extensive tree of distant Obama relations, he’s likely going to be an extremely busy man.