Posted on 09/11/2008 6:38:18 AM PDT by Aussie Dasher
SUSPECTED robbers have broken into the home of US presidential hopeful Barack Obama's grandmother in a Kenyan village, local media said today.
"These are just people ... who think that Obama has been sending me a lot of money," Sarah Obama, the Illinois senator's 85-year-old step-grandmother, said of the burglars.
Nothing was stolen during the raid early on Wednesday, but senior police commanders and local officials visited the modest homestead in Kogelo village to investigate.
Reports said the thieves used a ladder to try to steal a solar panel from her roof, but failed. They also broke into a small, locked outbuilding but found nothing of value.
Police vowed to intensify patrols in the area near Kisumu and said local authorities might also assign a dedicated unit to guard the family.
"A local analysis will have to be done to ascertain the risk and recommend to the commissioner," Kenya's deputy police spokesman, Charles Owino, told the Daily Nation newspaper.
Low-level crime is common in the east African country, which was rocked by post-election violence at the start of this year.
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Barack sent them there to get the birth certificate.
Well, they don’t need to bother to target his brother with his meager salary of $12.00 a year.
First of all the article is not accurate, this is not Obama’s grandmother, it is his step-Grandmother.
Secondly, how low will Obama stoop to get his name back in tne news, pilfering his step-grandmother’s house.
Gotta hand it to him, he’s learning from Hillary!
Oh - if only Barak were president, then he could make some tax money go her way. Otherwise, she’s stuck in poverty.
That was my very first thought!
I'm pretty sure they edited out her next statement:"the only thing they got was a tube of lipstick the cheap s.o.b. sent me".
For all of the “african”-americans who are wistful for the ancestral motherland; this is an example of what it is to be a real african.
This douche can’t even protect his own grandmother. Doesn’t he have resources to help her? How can he protect the citizens of the United States of America?
On the one hand you have Cindy and John McCain going to the poorest parts of Bangladesh to rescue a poor girl with a cleft palette and adopt her.
On the other hand you have Obama's actual relatives living in squalor without multi-millionaire Obama sending them a thin dime. His brother living in a shanty. His grandmother getting robbed.
Let's hear those Obama-Jesus comparisons again.
Those robbers ought to know better, Zerobama’s Grandmama don’t have no money, and neither does his half-brother George, who is living on $12 a month (or is that a year?)
“Brother, can you spare a dime?” — George
“Hellllllll noooooo!!!!” — Obama
Barack Obama’s biological grandmother is in Hawaii.
...under a bus ?
I wonder if these people, regardless of race, would be considered "typical" by Barack.
I'd LOL if that weren't so accurate. Liberals are very generous.
With other peoples' money.
I wouldn’t think Obama wants his name associated with this step family. It makes him look like a real POS allowing them to continue living in a hovel. How much do you think it would take to support them financially? $200 a month max? The man is compassionate?
These far flung Obama relatives would be easy targets for people who want to hold the U.S. hostage if Obama is President.
Obama only sends money to his murdering Jihadist cousin to help him destroy democracy and install Islamic theocracy and sharia law.
Boy were they wrong!
Half-bro George better put a door on his crib or he might be next.......
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