The White House on Thursday changed its story about President Obama’s contact with his father’s half-brother Omar Obama, acknowledging that the president had indeed met and spent time with his uncle.
The president first met Omar Obama when he arrived in Cambridge, Mass., to attend Harvard Law School and stayed with his uncle until his apartment was ready, White House press secretary Jay Carney said Thursday. That’s contrary to what the White House said in 2011, after Omar Obama was arrested on a drunk-driving charge. There was “no evidence that they had met” based on press office research in the president’s books and other publicly available information, Carney said, and the White House had told the Boston Globe then that the two had never met.
