Posted on 08/21/2008 10:11:38 AM PDT by Schnucki
George Hussein Obama, 26, was discovered this week living in a shack on the outskirts of the Kenyan capital Nairobi. He told The Daily Telegraph that although he had hardly spoken to his half-brother, the Democratic candidate's book Dreams Of My Father was providing the inspiration to lift himself out of poverty.
"When you have a brother who wants to be the number one most important person in the world, it obviously gives you a lot of inspiration," Mr Obama, 26, said at his corrugated tin shack in a Nairobi slum.
"There was a long time when I was just taking a break, doing nothing, trying to find myself and what I wanted to do. Now I am more focused on my future, and I can say it is because I understand more about things because of hearing what Barack is doing."
Mr Obama said he has had only two brief conversations with the presidential candidate when he visited his Kenyan family two years ago. They have the same father as the Illinois Senator, but a different mother, Jael, who is now an American citizen living in Atlanta, Georgia.
Barack Obama's Kenyan family is scattered across the country, including his grandmother and uncle in the west close to Lake Victoria and several aunts and cousins living in Nairobi.
But this is the first time that his half-brother George, who had been unheard of until this week, has spoken to the British media.
The half-brothers' father died when Mr Obama was just six months old, and he was raised in Nairobi by his mother and a step-father, a Frenchman working for the European Union.
He lived in South Korea for two years from 2001, when his mother moved there for business, he said.
When he returned to Nairobi he became distanced
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I’m sure he is hoping that once the Messiah is elected that Tony Rezko can help him upgrade his shack.
The story seems to have changed since yesterday.
So Barak's brother is anti-American too?
“I wouldn’t be where I am today if it wasn’t for him”
Obama: I think America’s greatest moral failure in my lifetime has been that we still don’t abide by that basic precept in Matthew that whatever you do for the least of my brothers, you do for me
Obama could send his brother five bucks and DOUBLE his income.
Yesterday, he was ashamed. Today, he’s inspired. I wonder how much money Barak used to “inspire” him.
Of course—
Hey O’, you got so many relatives, it’s going to take lots of programs. Oh, right, that’s what you’re aiming for.
Your brother views you as a very round-headed man.
Well, now that the press has discovered him, he knows which side his bread is buttered on.
I’m sure Barry sent one of his handlers on a fast jet to Nairobi to talk to this guy and coach him what to say.
The fact that they have converted to Islam would be no deterrent to those who wished to harm America. I don't want to see our military used in a “Tears of the Sun” deployment to save his family.
If Senator Obama is elected, the moment it is verified, we'd better pull those folks to safety.
$5 would double his income for 5 months.
Very inspirational! And if we elect Obama it’s only a matter of time before we’ll all be living in huts just like his little brother
He wasn't "lost" he was hidden. Barry met with George in 2006. George went into hiding shortly after the meeting.
Barry doesn’t care about his own blood and people in America think he’ll care about them?
What is this, Bizzaro World?
Why do you care about a president's lineage? Obama's politics are at issue, not his parents.
They do. Barack Obama Sr. died when George was a baby. George's mom remarried a French guy.
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