My mother and biological father split up at the hospital when I was born. She left Arizona as soon as she left the hospital. I have never met him (don’t care) or any of my (I am sure he had kids)half brothers or sisters.
My mother has not spoken to him since she left.
I have no clue as to the circumstances of their break up since she never told me and by the time I was old enough to ask didn’t care. I had a great step father and we loved each other, didn’t matter that he was not my biological father.
Would I be responsible to help if my step brothers or sisters were living in poverty? I think not.
Would you be responsible for raping the US taxpayer of 800 billion dollars to redistribute to strangers around the world when you wouldn't even help your own blood living in poverty? No.
That's the difference to me. It's one thing for Obama to preach about helping the poor, it's quite another to preach about it but do nothing to help his OWN brother while claiming to want to help 100 million strangers that he's never even met and has no connection to. He isn't putting his money where his mouth is in his own personal life, and that's the problem.
He's just another typical filthy leftist elitist, just like Al Gore and his global warming BS. A bunch of "Do as I say, not as I do" hypocrites.
“Would I be responsible to help if my step brothers or sisters were living in poverty? I think not.”
The difference is you’re not running for POTUS. You’re not claiming altruistic motives of wanting to help your fellow citizens have a better life.
In a sense, we, as Americans, are an extended family. How can we believe that Barack is truly running for president in order to help us have better lives as Americans, when he has no interest in sending a few bucks to help out his brother.
This whole issue goes to Barack’s credibility. Does he really care about anyone other than himself? If he can’t spare a few hundred bucks a year to help his brother, who clearly didn’t have the opportunities in life that were given to Barack, then how we can believe that he gives a damn about us - people who aren’t even related to him as a blood relatives?