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slateland

Sep 14 2008, 02:15 AM

Ok I may be repeating myself, but the right is still going on this rant about Obama's half brother living in Kenya make just a dollar a week. Obama, according to the radio personalities not only fails to help this brother, but also gives no money to his grandma in Hawaii, who lives in an apartment.

Now its hard to determine who this brother is, but I hear the personalities say the name "Barry Obama" a lot. Don't they know that Barry was Barrack's nickname growing up. I'm confused and no body on the left is talking about this piece of brain wash meterial and smear polish that Limbaugh, Hannity and a hand full of others are dishing out. Why is no one talking about this? Go on YouTube sometime and every ditto head and their brother is yacking on the political video comment section.

FanFiltration

Sep 14 2008, 03:39 AM

Your are talking about this guy.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics...d-in-Kenya.html

Why should the crazy right wingers feel Barrack Obama should have to support him? That was Barrack's fathers job. We don't know the situation. This "long lost" person may not want help from anyone. He seems not to have any nasty or negative stuff to say about Barrack, or any ill will about any lack of help coming to him from his half brother. According to the interview in the link I just gave, this guy does not even have contact with his own mother who lives in the same area. This man is an adult, and is not in any way Barrack's direct responsibility to suport. We have no idea what kind of offer of assistance Barrack had offered this man when they met, and we have no idea if this man even wants any from Barrack. This is a non story, and it does not seem to be worthy of going into. If this was a child of Barrack's, then I could see a problem, but since when is it our personal duty to support every "adult" offspring of our Mother's or Father's? When Barrack is in office, I'm sure he will be able to help bring support to all people in Kenya through his support of social and education policy and programs. These people need that kind of help, not just simple hand outs. Barrack had told David Letterman during his interview last week that he wanted to do just that for all people around the world, not just his half brother. These people saying it should be up to Barrack to have to support this guy need to think of that old saying "Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him to fish and he will eat for a lifetime".

carmenjonze

Sep 14 2008, 03:42 AM

George Obama has debunked this b.s. himself.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/22/bts.obama.brother/

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had received little attention from the media.

But reports surfaced in the past few days, springing from an Italian Vanity Fair article saying George Obama is living in a shack and "earning less than a dollar a day."

The reports left him angry.

"I was brought up well. I live well even now," he said. "The magazines, they have exaggerated everything.

"I think I kind of like it here. There are some challenges, but maybe it is just like where you come from, there are the same challenges," Obama said.

Obama, who is in his mid-20s, is learning to become a mechanic and is active in youth groups in Huruma. He said he tries to help the community as much as he can.

At least one of his neighbors feels that perhaps the candidate should help the brother.

"I would like Obama to visit his brother to see how he is living, to improve his way of life," said Emelda Negei, who runs a small dispensary near Obama's house.

But George Obama will have none of it. He draws inspiration from his famous half-brother. He acknowledges that he is biased but said he knows that his half-brother will be the next president.

slateland

Sep 14 2008, 04:33 AM

Thank you... Now lets forward that to all those idiots in "Hannity's America"

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