An odd story today in the Telegraph, a UK paper: apparently the Italian Edition of Vanity Fair (I am thankfully ignorant of the rest of its contents) has found George Hussein Onyango Obama, Senator Barack Obama's brother. He is Barack Hussein Obama's son, as Senator Obama is, but by a different mother than Senator Obama. And he lives on less than a dollar a day, in a hut in Kenya.
He's met Obama twice. We don't know the full story here, but I think, looking at the article, that it is at the very least odd that Senator Obama has apparently just forgotten about his brother. How can you allow your own brother to live in poverty while you run for president? I realize that Obama has somewhat tenous ties to the Kenyan side of his family, but ask yourself: could you allow your brother to live in poverty while you yourself are rich? Not just that, but could you all but ignore your brother and meet him only twice in almost thirty years? It sounds callous to me, again without knowing the full story.
I think it bears some investigation, if only to determine exactly what kind of person the Senator truly is, behind all the marketing and the media images.
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