Whats this BullCrap about BO's half-brother

[OwnedByFerrets]

living in Kenya. Is it real...is it bullshit. Some mouthpiece on Thoms show right now using it as a tool to disparage BO.:mad: Any info in case it gets thrown in my face? Nothing on the internet that I can find.

[dolo amber]

1. Kentucky, not Kenya

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/obamas_hillbilly_half_brother

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

12. I was afraid this whole Cooter thing would come out eventually. n/t

[PeaceNikki]

15. Cooter had to drop out of chicken-killing school because an air conditioner fell on his head

...and Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), whom Cooter mistook for an outhouse Monday and urinated on for 35 seconds.

:rofl:

[powergirl]

2. I think Obama's Father had a separate family in Kenya

And he has some half-siblings there. I don't know why it is disparaging really. I think he mentions this in one of his books.

[TahitiNut]

8. He has several siblings in his extended family from Kenya. (Read "Dreams From My Father")

:shrug: His father had at least two other wives.

Obama, 45, has two half- sisters, one living in Britain, and five surviving half-brothers, the eldest of whom converted to Islam, and whose stories span the globe.

http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=ae5895fc29971b172938790be94ab107

[Cassandra]

3. Probably something to deflect from Cindy's half-sister...

whom she disinherited. Does Obama even have a half-brother and have they ever met?

[DURHAM D]

4. It is a story from Vanity Fair - the European version.

It is not printed in the U.S. edition apparently. I think it was picked up by a British paper this am - I think the Guardian but not sure.

Edit: Its in the UK Telegraph.

[spanone]

5. who cares?

[juajen]

6. George Hussein Obama lives in hut outside of Nairobi

Supposedly on one dollar a month. He was, again, supposedly, mentioned in Obama's book. According to story I read, please don't ask me to link, I don't have it, he was profiled in Italian "Vanity Fair" magazine. I would say google his name.

[Marrah_G]

7. err not sure what you are upset about

He has a number of half-siblings.

A little bit of internet searching can answer these questions for you.

A link to the genealogy of Obama:

http://genealogy.about.com/od/aframertrees/p/barack_obama.htm

[TragedyandHope]

9. link

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/2590614/Barack-Obamas-lost-brother-found-in-Kenya.html

[ben_meyers]

10. Barack Obama's 'lost' brother found in Kenya

It's push back for the Cindy McCain "half-sister". You have to admit these guys are good, they even get a British paper to do the dirty work.

"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.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/2590614/Barack-Obamas-lost-brother-found-in-Kenya.html

I've heard that the National Enquirer has searched out many of Obama's half brothers and sisters and is doing a "big story"

[jtb33]

11. This link?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/2590614/Barack-Obamas-lost-brother-found-in-Kenya.html

Is there anything WE can do to help?

[RaleighNCDUer]

13. So Obama has some half-siblings.

Don't most of us, these days?

[zbdent]

14. wait ... you hadn't heard about the half-Vietnamese middle-agers

that were spawned after McSame made his 30 or so "war crimes confessions", by the Vietnamese hookers that John McCain had access to as a reward?

[OwnedByFerrets]

16. I have been asked here why I care....

I care because its just something else for the fucking right to sling at BO. This is the question being asked......Why, if Obama has a brother living on one dollar a day in Kenya, doesnt he care about his brother. Wouldn't YOU care. Wouldn't YOU being trying to help him? Why oh why does Obama not care about his brother. Why should someone who doesn't care about his brother be our president? THESE are the questions being flung at us.

I, for one, would like to have some answers to sling back in their slimy faces. Thats why I care.

[closeupready]

17. Personally, I think it's kind of embarrassing for Obama, don't you?

He apparently met him as a youngster, and then in 2006, so I'm sure Barak was aware of his brother's impoverished circumstances. Did he try to help or do something to make his life better?

[MiniMe]

18. This is the RW smear machine's answer to the questions the MSM

was asking about Cindy McCain's brother and sister. As usual, their answer is to deflect the question by publiching a smear about their opponent. Could it be true? Sure, but who knows. Obama's father left and was out of the picture when Barack was 2 years old. If his father remarried, or had another child, how is Barack supposed to know?