• How I became George Obama's 'brother'

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    From: azjohn <haboob@nothere.com>
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    Subject: How I became George Obama's 'brother'
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    By Dinesh D'Souza

    Published August 16, 2012


    A few days ago I received a call from a man I recently met named George.
    He was a bit flustered, and soon informed me that his young son was
    sick with a chest condition. He pleaded with me to send him $1,000 to
    cover the medical bills. Since George was at the hospital I asked him
    to let me speak to a nurse, and she confirmed that George’s son was
    indeed ill. So I agreed to send George the money through Western Union.
    He was profusely grateful. But before I hung up I asked George, “Why
    are you coming to me?” He said, “I have no one else to ask.” Then he
    said something that astounded me, “Dinesh, you are like a brother to me.”

    Actually, George has a real life brother who just happens to be the
    president of the United States. (George Obama is the youngest of eight children sired by Barack Obama Sr.) George’s brother is a
    multimillionaire and the most powerful man in the world. Moreover,
    George’s brother has framed his re-election campaign around the “fair
    share” theme that we owe obligations to those who are less fortunate.

    One of Obama’s favorite phrases comes right out of the Bible: “We are
    our brother’s keeper.” Yet he has not contributed a penny to help his
    own brother. And evidently George does not believe, even in times of emergency, that he can turn to his brother in the White House for help.

    So much for spreading the wealth around.

    Obama’s refusal to help George is especially surprising because George
    doesn’t just live in American-style poverty but rather in Third World
    poverty. He lives in a shanty in the Huruma slum in Nairobi. He gets
    by on a few dollars a month. Obama also has an aunt named Hawa Auma,
    his father’s sister, who ekes out a living selling coal on the streets
    of a small village in Kenya. She says she would like to have her teeth
    fixed, but she cannot afford it. Obama hasn’t offered to help her either.

    What’s going on here? Why is President Obama so hesitant to help family members in need?

    A couple of years ago, George teamed up with a British journalist Damien
    Lewis and the two of them published George’s story in a book called "Homeland." Yet according to Lewis, shortly before the book’s
    publication in America, the publisher Simon & Schuster decided to shred
    the entire print run, more than 20,000 copies. Lewis tried
    unsuccessfully to get an explanation from Simon & Schuster but to no
    avail. He now suspects that the White House convinced Simon & Schuster
    that George’s story might prove embarrassing to the president.

    In 2010, George also applied for a visa to come to the United States and
    was refused. While George confesses that in his younger years he was a delinquent, he has never been convicted of any crime. Moreover, he has
    a very good reason to visit the United States: his mother Jael Otieno
    lives in Atlanta. So why would the U. S. embassy in Nairobi refuse a
    tourist visa to the brother of the president who just wants to spend
    time with his mother?

    In the past few days, an article has been circulating on the web that
    depicts George as a social undesirable. First published in the London
    Daily Mail, the article portrays George as a habitual drunk and
    philanderer. I spent a day with George this past February while
    interviewing him for my documentary film 2016: Obama’s America. I can
    attest that George is not an innocent. If he had been, he would not
    have survived life in the Huruma slum. Yes, George is street smart and cunning and I did smell alcohol on his breath.

    But so what? George may be a drinker and a skirt-chaser but, as becomes
    clear from his book, he is also a survivor. He has overcome his past as
    a gang-member and petty thief and now works as the organizer of a slum
    soccer league. He is trying to uplift himself, and he is trying to help
    slum kids aspire to a better life. On balance, Lewis assures me,
    “George is not a bad guy. He is on the side of the angels.”

    But even if Lewis is wrong, and George exhibits some harmful cultural pathologies, the liberal argument—one that Obama himself makes in his
    book "The Audacity of Hope" — is that the cultural pathologies of the
    poor are themselves the product of social disadvantage.

    Barack Obama Jr. first met George in 1987, when George was five years
    old. He met George again in 2006 when he visited Kenya as a U.S.
    Senator from Illinois; George was then in his early twenties. Had Obama helped George along the way, perhaps this young man would not have ended
    up dirt-poor and living such a degraded life.

    So what’s the real story here? Where’s George Obama’s “fair share”?
    George’s tragic situation exposes President Obama as a hypocrite. Here
    is a man who demands that others pay higher taxes to help the poor—even
    poor people who are not related to them—while Obama himself refuses to
    help a close relative like George.

    Yet I believe there is a deeper explanation that goes beyond hypocrisy
    for why Obama wants nothing to do with George. After all, it would
    cost Obama so little to raise George out of poverty, and yet he won’t do
    it. This isn’t mere negligence; it suggests an active animus. The
    reason for that animus emerges in George’s book and also in my interview
    with George in the film 2016. In that interview, George rejects the anti-colonial philosophy that was espoused by Barack Obama Sr. This is
    the “dream from my father” that President Obama celebrates in his own autobiography.

    From the record of their lives and writings, it’s clear that Barack
    Obama Sr. and Barack Obama Jr. both share the anti-colonial view that
    blames Western colonial exploitation for the poverty and suffering of
    the Third World. Yet George doesn’t buy it. He observes that at the
    time of its independence in the early 1960s “Kenya was on an economic
    par with Malaysia or Singapore. Look where we are now, and where they
    are. They’re practically developed and industrialized, while Kenya is
    still a basket case.” George believes that poor countries should take responsibility for their own situation. “What’s our excuse for failure?
    We don’t have one. We’ve only got ourselves to blame.”

    Incredible though it seems, George Obama is, within the context of his
    own society, a conservative. He doesn’t worship at the shrine of Barack
    Obama Sr. and he espouses an ideology diametrically opposed to that of
    his father and his famous brother. George has experienced first-hand
    the empty rhetoric of the two Baracks, and he rejects it based on his
    actual experience of Third World poverty.

    No wonder President Obama despises George, doesn’t want him around,
    doesn’t care to hear George’s views circulated in America, and won’t
    lift a finger to help him even when George’s son is in the hospital.

    So that’s why George Obama felt he had to call me. He had no one else
    to call. He reached out to me in his time of need because he felt he
    couldn’t call on his real life sibling living at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

    That’s how I got to be, if only metaphorically and for a short time,
    George Obama’s “brother.”

    Dinesh D’Souza, narrator and co-director of the film "2016 - Obama's
    America," is also the author of the new book "Obama’s America,"
    published this week by Regnery.
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    In article <k0jn94$1jh$1@wieslauf.sub.de>, azjohn <haboob@nothere.com>
    wrote:

    So what¹s the real story here? Where¹s George Obama¹s ³fair share²? George¹s tragic situation exposes President Obama as a hypocrite. Here
    is a man who demands that others pay higher taxes to help the poor‹even
    poor people who are not related to them‹while Obama himself refuses to
    help a close relative like George.

    Contrast that with Romney's long history of personal help, financially and physically, for even complete strangers.
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