Firewall: Obama's family struggles with legal issues

By Mike Bibb
Columnist
Published on Sunday, September 25, 2011 5:50 PM MST

Sometimes you’re forced to increase the medication dosage in order to keep from going completely bonkers.

Or at least that’s my solution when hearing that President Obama’s uncle was recently arrested in Boston for being DUI. Now, being DUI isn’t a particularly rare occurrence in the United States, but being a drunk uncle of the president is, even more so when the inebriated family member is discovered to be in the country illegally.

After being arrested and booked into the local police station and asked if he wished to make a call to arrange for bail, Onyango Obama calmly replied, “I think I will call the White House.â€