Apparently Barack can’t afford to help his destitute half-brother.
So let’s all pitch in to help George Obama attend technical college so he can improve his life …
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“Whatever you do unto the least of these my brethren you do unto me.” – Matthew 25:40
The “Help Save George” sponsor spoke on local talk radio, KTTH.
I started by sending $12.
There are 80 thousand voters in West Seattle – just $1 from each voter would help George begin his new life.
Cary Thomas, GOP PCO, West Seattle
August 24, 2008 at 5:20 am |
How about contributing to Cindy McCain’s sister and her family that she denies having. At least Obama acknowledges his brother and his brother seems content in his circumstances.
August 24, 2008 at 8:18 pm |
DAN – The significant difference is that Cindy McCain does not seek to become the President of the US, and establish compulsory domestic and foreign policy.
Barack seeks to massively expand the involuntary welfare state, yet has done nothing on behalf of his half-brother or the brother’s community. If George is too proud to take his brother’s money, Barack could suggest establishing a community charity with his brother to manage it, to improve the lives of others in the squalid slum.
The same can be done with these funds raised for George – George can use these funds to help his neighbors in the slum.
That’s more than Barack has offered.
August 27, 2008 at 9:57 am |
You have forced me to have “sympathy for the devil” in this case. This isn’t an appropriate line of attack.
Obama’s deadbeat dad left Obama when he was only two. Didn’t have much contact with him afterwards.
So, why should he feel any family loyalty to any of his father’s offspring after his father left him. Yeah, his father went around having child after child but if I was Barak, I would have no feeling once so ever for those offspring. If I had any feeling it would be one of antipathy.
I hear this commonly happens, although in this case yeah, there were some unique factors. But I have heard that it is often the case where a father (sometimes a mother) abandons his “Starter family” and indeed becomes a very good father to his new family, but for the children of his first marriage he just for the most part cuts off relations with them.
No wonder that the “starter children” would have so much resentment towards the “new children”. The new children have the father that he should have been for for the starter children but wasn’t.
By making fun of this situation in the case of Barak you are alienating all the “starter children” out there who have found themselves in a similar situation.
One thing I do find interesting about the whole “George Obama” thing is that his father named him Barak (an Arab name) and this guy George (an American name). Or is this just a nickname, like say Barry?
But again, don’t blame Barak for not not helping a guy who really isn’t his brother except genetically. First we don’t even know if he knew about George, and even if he did why should he care? I honestly wouldn’t care if some offspring of my deadbeat dad who left my mother and I as a child lived or died. He would be like a stranger.
Although, I am am just speculating on how I would feel as my dad never left my mother and I.
August 28, 2008 at 7:58 pm |
GREG – that’s a steaming heap of psycho-babble to justify not holding Barack accountable for his judgment.
Barack is not a guest on Dr. Phil, to heal the hole in his heart from his father’s abandonment.
Barack seeks to MANAGE and EXPAND one of the largest welfare states on the planet, yet won’t take the time to help end his brother’s poverty. Or if the brother doesn’t want help for himself, Barack could offer to help set up a COMMUNITY welfare program for the slum, with his brother as manager. Barack continues to cite his community activism in Chicago, yet fails here?
Barack continues to quote from the teachings of Jesus, yet won’t live up to that standard.
Apparently you didn’t read the UK article which cites two meetings of the brothers. All the brother got was a copy of Barack’s book.
Public officials who seek power over my life, taking my money by government coercion, should be accountable for poor or bad judgment – this issue speaks directly to Barack’s judgment about his brother’s poverty, and Barack’s ability to wisely decide about managing a welfare solution.
November 14, 2008 at 5:00 am |
Senator Barack Obama, lives in a mansion he bought for $1.9 million in Chicago. George Obama, 26, is the youngest of the presidential candidate’s seven half-brothers and half-sisters, and while the other siblings are close, he told the magazine he was embarrassed he lived “on less than a dollar a month”, and so never mentioned his famous half-brother. “I live like a recluse, no-one knows I exist,” he reportedly told the magazine. “I live here on less than a dollar a month.” Check out George-Obama.Com