Posted on 08/20/2008 6:39:41 AM PDT by Schnucki
Senator Barack Obama's long lost brother has been tracked down for the first time living in a shanty town in Kenya, reports claimed.
The Italian edition of Vanity Fair said that it had found George Hussein Onyango Obama living in a hut in a ramshackle town of Huruma on the outskirts of Nairobi.
Mr Obama, 26, the youngest of the presidential candidate's half-brothers, spoke for the first time about his life, which could not be more different than that of the Democratic contender.
"No-one knows who I am," he told the magazine, before claiming: "I live here on less than a dollar a month."
According to Italy's Vanity Fair his two metre by three metre shack is decorated with football posters of the Italian football giants AC Milan and Inter, as well as a calendar showing exotic beaches of the world.
Vanity Fair also noted that he had a front page newspaper picture of his famous brother - born of the same father as him, Barack Hussein Obama, but to a different mother, named only as Jael.
He told the magazine: "I live like a recluse, no-one knows I exist."
Embarrassed by his penury, he said that he does not does not mention his famous half-brother in conversation.
"If anyone says something about my surname, I say we are not related. I am ashamed," he said.
For ten years George Obama lived rough. However he now hopes to try to sort his life out by starting a course at a local technical college.
He has only met his famous older brother twice - once when he was just five and the last time in 2006 when Senator Obama was on a tour of East Africa and visited Nairobi.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
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I think I would do the same.
OMG, Cooter’s been found!
“living in a hut in a ramshackle town”
That’s how we’ll all be living if Obama is elected.
Does he have his own brand of Beer that is the question?
Obama’s going to take care of all the social problems with OUR money, yet he can’t even help his brother out with HIS OWN money.
Typical liberal.
Obviously his “favorite” bible phrase is all political posturing cause he sure ain’t practicing what he preaches.
BUMP!
So much for Obama family values.
He could say that his brother is a piano player in a whore house. It would be less embarassing.
Ask him if he’s seen Roger Clinton. Is his hut nearby?
hahaha!
So much for Obama lecturing the rest of us on not helping the least of our brethren...
“Huruma is a tough place, last January during the elections there was rioting and six people were hacked to death. The police don’t even arrest you they just shoot you.”
Wasn’t the reason there was rioting is because of his own cousin? Why do they not speak of the Odingas?
uh oh - Team Clinton is in overdrive!!
I'd be 'ashamed' too - I wouldn't want to acknowledge the obambi as my brother.
On that note, there's also the Marxist/Muslim/dictator cousin Odinga, and on and on.
Character DOES count - and character largely comes from ones family values - i.e., "Genes count too." (Just contemplate the gene pool of bubba and jimmah)
How is it the son in Kenya is named “George” while the one born in the USA is named “Barack?”
Nice of Barack to take such good care of his own brother. What a selfish, smarmy ass.
McCain and his wife found an abandoned, sickly baby at Mother Teresa's orphanage in Bangladesh, took her home and adopted her as their daughter.
Meanwhile, Obama abandoned his own brother to live in abject poverty in a shanty town in Kenya. But he has told his brother to Hope for Change, so I suppose that makes all the difference.
Barack Obama has a half-brother living on less than a dollar a month. Obama could lift his brother out of poverty for less than he spends each day on coffee, and still George Obama lives in a slum and starves.
Obama will not lift a finger to help his own family, but he want the US to spend 7 Trillion Dollars to save the World through his international anti-poverty plan.
I am used to Liberal politicians saying one thing and doing another, pretending to care about the poor when what they really want to do is just seize more of your money. We have seen all that before. But this is even more. This guy is family, and Obama is going to let him starve.
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