Posted on 08/25/2008 11:42:58 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Texas GOP is accusing Barack Obama of leaving his own family out to dry after reports surfaced that his half-brother George is living in a run-down hut in Kenya.
The Daily Telegraph and other publications have recently drawn attention to the unusual report in the Italian edition of Vanity Fair, which tracked down George Hussein Onyango in the outskirts of Nairobi.
He apparently spoke to the magazine for the first time, telling them he lives on less than a dollar a month, and that “no one knows who I am.”
The Republican Party of Texas released a Web video Friday seizing on the story, in response to Obama’s earlier ad mocking John McCain for allegedly not knowing how many homes he and his wife Cindy own.
“Barack Obama has viciously attacked John McCain and his family for being successful and living the American dream,” the narrator says, as the ad then flashes up pictures of Obama body surfing and golfing.
“Obama claims he is looking out for our families in an economic downturn, but ask yourself this: If Obama cares so much about your family, why doesn’t he take care of his own family first?”
The ad then shows a picture of Obama’s stately Chicago home, and one of Onyango’s shack.
“Barack Obama lives in this house … while his own brother lives in this one,” the narrator says.
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We’ll all be living on half a buck if Obama is elected.
Doing enough for those less fortunate alert!
I betcha Obama is a bit sorry he brought up houses right about now.
Come on now. We all know why obama doens’t acknowledge his half brother? He’s a registered Republican.....
Obama responded: In an excess of selflessness, I put my brother at the bottom of my list. I will uplift everyone on the planet first, before I lift a finger for my own brother, ... I mean half-brother. I would even put my own children last, ... (ouch, groan) but Michelle gave me that dirty look!
Better be careful of using this tactic. Cindy McCain has claimed to have no siblings, but it turns out she has two or more half-siblings in the North East. They did not receive any of their father’s fortunes when he died. She explained that she was raised as an only child and did not have contact with that side of the family.
If you have half a buck left it will be because Obama forgot some change.
Remind me, is Cindy McCain running for president? This is Senator Barack Obama’s brother, not Michelle’s.
What happened to our project to get together and send the young man some money?
I’m game.
Moot point. The GOP doesn’t make a claim for providing for an individual womb to tomb. That is the RAT party. Nobama is a RAT.
Yeah, I know Cindy is not running; however, you know how the lamestream media is. They’ll blow it up as if Cindy is the nominee.
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