Posted on 08/18/2012 8:43:25 AM PDT by John Semmens
President Barack Obama's youngest Kenyan half-brother George had to beg for help from conservative author Dinesh D’Souza because his famous brother refused him aid. Moved by the man's plight, D’Souza paid $1,000 to cover the medical bills for the man's son.
The President's seeming callousness toward his own relative was defended by Press Secretary Jay Carney as “a matter of principle. Anyone who knows the President knows him as a man of infinite sympathy for the downtrodden of the world. Yes, he could easily have afforded the $1,000. But paying out of his own pocket would've undermined his belief that the health of every individual is really the government's responsibility.”
“Under a properly working health care system the needs of impoverished people like the President's half-brother would be provided for by the government,” Carney maintained. “Were the President to undertake individual action to provide for his own relatives he could be accused of favoritism. So, much as it saddens him to see anyone suffer he feels it is a necessary sacrifice that helps build the case for universal health care.”
http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Opinion/116971-2012-08-17-semi-news-a-satire-of-recent-news-august-19-2012.htm
Thanks for the clarification.
The true measure of satire is its believability. Judging by some of the comments, you have succeeded. But were their comments also satire ?
Saw “2016” last night. I did this to financially help the effort to undo the lamestream medias image of 0bummer.
This was a rehash as I expected of material every freeper already knows and it covers over his connections to Islam and the liberation theologies connections to Islam.
Here is a good primer on that:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCAffMSWSzY
But I will say that his brother (I am not sure if it is the same one in this story) comes off as extremely articulate and highly intelligent.
In fact that was the main take away from this movie for me.
From what I've read at other sites, this is factual. The guy did give the cash to the brother living in the hut. This came out last week some time.
Absolutely funny. And, would not surprise me if true
Hmm. I dunno. Perhaps the real test is this— if Frank Marshal Davis had a grandson, would he look like Trayvon?
/sarc
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