Posted on 09/09/2008 3:16:14 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The biggest scandal of the election campaign is going unreported, for the most part, by the mainstream newspapers and TV shows. Imagine if John McCain or Sarah Palin had a half-brother who was living in a hut. Imagine if McCain, a multimillionaire, did nothing to help the guy. Imagine if McCain came to the convention and spoke incessantly about compassion and how he was inspired by the biblical mandate: we are our brothers' keepers! This would be the lead story on the evening news.
So why aren't the networks covering the fact that Barack Obama's half-brother George lives in a 6 by 10 foot hut in the slums of Kenya? It took a reporter for the Italian edition of Vanity Fair to locate George Obama. Obama noted that when he met his famous half-brother in 2006 “we spoke for just a few minutes. It was like meeting a complete stranger.” George Obama also told the magazine that “I live here on less than a dollar month,” and “if anyone says something about my surname, I say we are not related. I am ashamed.” Obama has done absolutely nothing to help his unfortunate half-brother.
Apparently alarmed that this report could hurt Obama, CNN dispatched one of its reporters to do cover-up work for the Obama campaign. This is a hopeless enterprise; anyone who sees pictures of George Obama's dwelling place on the web knows that they reveal the worst images of African poverty. Moreover, for all its propagandistic intent, the CNN report is unintentionally damaging to Obama. The reporter cannot hide the fact that George Obama comes from a "ramshackled slum." A neighbor tells CNN that Barack Obama really should connect with his half-brother and "see how he's living" and do what he can to "improve our way of life."
CNN attempts to portray George Obama as a self-reliant fellow who doesn't want any help. The network quotes him saying, "I was brought up well. I live well even now." George, however, speaks in a halting voice; he is trying to maintain his self-image. George also says, "I'm Kenyan...I would love to live in Kenya." Presumably George gave this answer to a question asking whether he'd like to move to the United States with Barack Obama's help. These answers, however, in no way suggest that George doesn't want Barack Obama's intervention to relieve his grinding poverty. A man's effort to maintain his dignity should not be exploited to pretend that he doesn't want a helping hand.
When I posted on my AOL blog about George Obama last week, the Obama apologists could do no better than to say that Barack Obama doesn't owe his half-brother anything. But sibling assistance is not a matter of debt. Rather, it is a matter of family values and compassion. Obama has cited as his favorite Bible verse Jesus's statement: whatever you do to the least of my brothers, that you do unto me. It seems that the Republican allegation that this man is full of pretense and empty words--in other words, a modern-day Pharisee--is more than justified.
Obama may not want to help his 26 year old half-brother, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't. I'm starting the George Obama Compassion Fund which has the goal of raising some money to help George Obama move out of his one-room hut. George also wants to become a mechanic and surely he could use some funds to get the training he needs to fulfill his humble aspirations. Currently George lives on a few dollars a month. Even a few thousand dollars would completely transform this man's life.
I'm putting up $1000 to get this fund started. I invite people to send me small contributions--$5, $10, $25, whatever you can spare. Send them to P.O. Box 3384, Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92067. Make your checks to "George Obama." I will then contact the Obama campaign and offer them the money on the condition that they forward it to George Obama in Kenya. The advantage of this approach is that not only does George Obama benefit from our generosity, but also Barack Obama can use the opportunity to improve his relationship with his half-brother. Let's foster Obama family values, and give a break to a guy who really needs it.
Scandalous!!!
Sorry, I can’t make a donation if the money has to first go through the hands of the Obama campaign.
What about the Obama school he visited and then quickly forgot about?
Mc Cain should seize the moment and send him a pre Fab. But then again, the MSM would report that he sent him a cheap house instead of a split level.
Obingo should move to Nigeria. Scamming people online out of their money is a thriving business there.
I think Barack Obama should send for George, get him a Visa, bring him to the United States and help his brother realize the American dream.
0be has the best intentions?
I think Nobama should relocated to Kenya to help him.
In a way he should be off limits. But, yeah, if the tables were turned. There would be a nonstop feeding frenzy depicting the conservative/repub as uncaring, unfeeling tight wad for not having air lifted the poor relative into a $15k/Mo. apartment in Georgetown, NY or LA years ago. Hypocrites on crack.
Sean Hannity is repeatedly offering to send him $1000 if he can get the ‘address’ or where exactly to send the money from the Obama people.
I think Cindy McCain should go over there, adopt him, and bring him home to the McCain household as one of their kids.
It wouldn't be as completely out of character as it would if Obama-lama-ding-dong did something for him. Obama is a talker... Cindy is a do-er.
Mary Ann needed a better roommate, I'd have kicked Ginger out and helped the farm girl with the coconut cream pies.
(exactly where do you get cream on a deserted island anyway?)
Considering that it was Obama who was quoted saying that someone well-off should be taxed to help support their local waitress because that would be “neighborly” it seems rather lame that he is more interested in taxing total strangers to compel them to support others than he is in helping his own half-brother. But then liberal socialists often care more about taxing others for their programs than about displaying their own generosity. Al Gore and the Obamas come to mind as liberals whose charitable giving is know to be very low over quite a few years.
No, I don’t think anyone is obligated to support anyone else except their immediate family household or legal obligations voluntarily entered into ..... but since Obama is the one with such expansive views of what “support” we can be compelled by taxes to pay for total strangers, in order to be “neighborly” (I only like to have the kinds of neighbors who don’t like to extort or steal money from their “neighbors”)...... since Obama believes in re-distribution of wealth, HE ought to answer why his belief does not apply to aiding his long-lost half-brother and all the rest of his extended family that he has happily exploited for political convenience .....
I remember Obama proudly and arrogantly saying “I am my brother’s keeper.” This was obviously intended to contrast with “mean spirited” Republicans. He likes to say that words matter. But actions are louder than words. His words about being his brother’s keeper are just hot air.
Is it true 0 cited as his favorite verse of Scripture “whatsoever you do for the least of my brothers....”?
Do you have a local conservative radio show host? If so, why don’t you ask him for a spot on his show and PUBLICLY ask Obama for his half-brother’s address so that you can send him the money?
If you get on radio, start out by quoting Obama’s favorite bible quotation.
A local conservative host will LOVE this.
Half the MSM would be ON THE STORY
- ABC News would be running features on "similar situations..."
The New York Times would have three front page stories...
And all the rationalizations about the "public's right to know" would be swinging from every tree and on every journalists lips.
Obama won’t help his own flesh and blood, but expects voters to believe he’ll help strangers.
LOL.
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