Obama's disgraceful treatment of his half-brother

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August 21, 7:05 AM

by Arthur Bruzzone, S.F. Politics Examiner

 

 

SAN FRANCISCO, CA ---It is estimated that Mexican migrants residing in this country sent back $24 billion to their families last year, averaging $200-$300 per month.  Worldwide immigrants send back to their families $126 billion. 

Not all Americans are that charitable, even the very wealthy.

Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama's household income last year was approximately $4.2 million, tax records show.  The Obamas' salaries alone totaled $260,735, which included his $157,102 salary as a U.S. senator and his wife's part-time salary of $103,633 as a vice president at the University of Chicago Medical Center. 

It appears while the Obamas gave generously to charities, Barack Obama's half-brother was not so lucky.

The Italian edition of Vanity Fair reports that Barack Obama's half-brother, George Hussein Onyango Obama, has been found living 18-square foot a hut in a "ramshackle town of Huruma on the outskirts of Nairobi" on one dollar a month.

Barack Obama mentions his brother in his autobiography, describing him a "beautiful boy with a rounded head".  Of their second meeting, Obama's half-brother said "It was very brief, we spoke for just a few minutes. It was like meeting a complete stranger."  That's it, a single sentence in his autobiography. Not a dollar in support of his half-brother.

Contrast this to Obama's rival, John McCain and his wife, Cindy. (From the Wall Street Journal)

"In 1991, Cindy McCain was visiting Mother Teresa's orphanage in Bangladesh when a dying infant was thrust into her hands. The orphanage could not provide the medical care needed to save her life, so Mrs. McCain brought the child home to America with her. She was met at the airport by her husband, who asked what all this was about.  Mrs. McCain replied that the child desperately needed surgery and years of rehabilitation. "I hope she can stay with us," she told her husband. Mr. McCain agreed. Today that child is their teenage daughter Bridget."

Recall Barack Obama's speech Campaign Speech in Berlin, Germany on July 24, 2008.

"Now the world will watch and remember what we do here - what we do with this moment. Will we extend our hand to the people in the forgotten corners of this world who yearn for lives marked by dignity and opportunity; by security and justice? Will we lift the child in Bangladesh from poverty, shelter the refugee in Chad, and banish the scourge of AIDS in our time?"

One presidential candidate talks. The other acted.
  

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