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Being Obama’s Brother (George Obama)
Newsweek ^ | January 2, 2010 | George Obama

Posted on 01/02/2010 11:22:28 AM PST by maggief

In November 2008, I stood in a bar in Kenya watching Barack Obama give his victory speech. From the wild cheering of the crowd on TV, and his repeated appeals to them personally—"You said," "You heard," "You called"—I felt as if the people of America knew this man far better than I, even though we shared the same father. If there was a leading light in the Obama clan, he was it; and if there was a shadowed place that no one liked to talk about, then that, I guess, was me.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; georgeobama; kenya; obamafamily
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George Obama sits in front of his home in a slum in Nairobi, Kenya

1 posted on 01/02/2010 11:22:28 AM PST by maggief
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To: maggief

I wouldn’t care if Obama was libertarian, republican, democrat, or liberal.

I’ve never had respect for people who don’t help their family out.


2 posted on 01/02/2010 11:27:59 AM PST by I still care (A Republic - if you can keep it. - Ben Franklin)
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To: I still care

actually , he had a co-writer for this


3 posted on 01/02/2010 11:29:16 AM PST by cd jones (Liberals: spreading misery, calling it equality)
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To: maggief


4 posted on 01/02/2010 11:30:04 AM PST by avacado
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To: maggief


Not much Hope for Change, it seems.

5 posted on 01/02/2010 11:30:51 AM PST by Bronzewound
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To: maggief

He looks “curious”


6 posted on 01/02/2010 11:31:06 AM PST by evad (It's A Mont Thing)
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To: onyx; STARWISE; Fred Nerks

Maybe they aren’t biological brothers, and thus BHO feels NO filiah obligation or brotherly love & concern towards George.... perhaps they have different biological fathers.


7 posted on 01/02/2010 11:32:27 AM PST by hennie pennie
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To: hennie pennie

That is the future of all of us with the Kenyan in charge.


8 posted on 01/02/2010 11:35:09 AM PST by formerliberal_nowconservative
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To: maggief
I felt as if the people of America knew this man far better than I, even though we shared the same father. If there was a leading light in the Obama clan, he was it; and if there was a shadowed place that no one liked to talk about, then that, I guess, was me.

Well George, it turns out that YOU actually knew your half brother better than the voting public by a long shot and next years elections stateside will prove this to be true.

9 posted on 01/02/2010 11:35:55 AM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: hennie pennie

George Hussein Onyango Obama
Youngest half-brother of Barack Obama, born c.1982, son of Barack Obama Sr


10 posted on 01/02/2010 11:37:05 AM PST by formerliberal_nowconservative
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To: maggief

It’s a nice story. George Obama is doing some good work in a very poor environment. He pulled himself up by his bootstraps and is working to improve the lives of those less fortunate. Good for him, I wish him well.

The contrast between the two brothers is very clear and George is by far the better of the two.


11 posted on 01/02/2010 11:44:10 AM PST by SueRae
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To: maggief

Just don’t let your brother corrupt you as he has been corrupted.


12 posted on 01/02/2010 11:52:22 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: maggief

Liberace had a brother George. I’m sure that’s the only thing they have in common.


13 posted on 01/02/2010 12:17:30 PM PST by windcliff
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To: maggief

I wonder if he knows where his brother was born?


14 posted on 01/02/2010 12:22:44 PM PST by goldi (')
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To: hennie pennie

Actually this guy is the only person I’ve seen yet from that family who does look like hussein.


15 posted on 01/02/2010 12:23:52 PM PST by WVNan
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To: maggief

Conservatives should band together to help George become a thriving capitalist who denounces the Marxism of his brother.


16 posted on 01/02/2010 12:27:23 PM PST by Guyin4Os (My name says Guyin40s but now I have an exotic, daring, new nickname..... Guyin50s)
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To: maggief

17 posted on 01/02/2010 1:09:57 PM PST by Roscoe Karns (The goracle must not be questioned)
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To: Guyin4Os
Conservatives should band together to help George become a thriving capitalist who denounces the Marxism of his brother.

You beat me to it. I was about to say the same thing.

Wouldn't that be a hoot -- having George on the speaking circuit denouncing his brother? I wonder what names the 0bama's zombie supporters would call George?

Will the MSM rummage through the garbage pits of Nairobi, looking for anything negative on George, ala Joe the Plumber and Sarah Palin?

18 posted on 01/02/2010 1:30:01 PM PST by PallMal
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To: maggief
I felt as if the people of America knew this man far better than I, even though we shared the same father.

You non birthers....take note. Same BRITISH SUBJECT father.

19 posted on 01/02/2010 1:47:22 PM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Bronzewound

Yep you would think 0bama would do something to help his less fortunate bro..but maybe bro doesn’t want a hand out...wait that can’t be right..these 3rd world countries want handouts from the US TAXPAYER.


20 posted on 01/02/2010 1:55:07 PM PST by celtic gal (For the first time in my life I am not proud of my country.)
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