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Title: Barack Obama's 'lost' brother found in Kenya
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URL Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new ... st-brother-found-in-Kenya.html
Published: Aug 20, 2008
Author: Nick Pisa
Post Date: 2008-08-20 09:58:43 by Jethro Tull
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Views: 554
Comments: 32
George Hussein Onyango Obama, Senator Barack Obama's long lost brother was tracked down living in a hut on the outskirts of Nairobi Photo: Guy Calaf, Vanity Fair, Italy The Italian edition of Vanity Fair said that it had found George Hussein Onyango Obama living in a hut in a ramshackle town of Huruma on the outskirts of Nairobi. Mr Obama, 26, the youngest of the presidential candidate's half-brothers, spoke for the first time about his life, which could not be more different than that of the Democratic contender. "No-one knows who I am," he told the magazine, before claiming: "I live here on less than a dollar a month." According to Italy's Vanity Fair his two metre by three metre shack is decorated with football posters of the Italian football giants AC Milan and Inter, as well as a calendar showing exotic beaches of the world. Vanity Fair also noted that he had a front page newspaper picture of his famous brother - born of the same father as him, Barack Hussein Obama, but to a different mother, named only as Jael. He told the magazine: "I live like a recluse, no-one knows I exist." Embarrassed by his penury, he said that he does not does not mention his famous half-brother in conversation. "If anyone says something about my surname, I say we are not related. I am ashamed," he said. For ten years George Obama lived rough. However he now hopes to try to sort his life out by starting a course at a local technical college. He has only met his famous older brother twice - once when he was just five and the last time in 2006 when Senator Obama was on a tour of East Africa and visited Nairobi. The Illinois senator mentions his brother in his autobiography, describing him in just one passing paragraph as a "beautiful boy with a rounded head". Of their second meeting, George Obama said: "It was very brief, we spoke for just a few minutes. It was like meeting a complete stranger." George added he was no longer in contact with his mother and said:"I have had to learn to live and take what I need. "Huruma is a tough place, last January during the elections there was rioting and six people were hacked to death. The police don't even arrest you they just shoot you. "I have seen two of my friends killed. I have scars from defending myself with my fists. I am good with my fists."
Poster Comment: Good Lord....these nutsack Obama's are crawling out of the woodwork.
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#18. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
No fancy bottled water, electric bills, McMansions, insurance premiums or gas- gulping SUVs for him. He lives a very "green" lifestyle. Now, if only the Obamessiah can do the same for us we'd be much better off. Who needs them fancy flush toilets anyway? Praise be to The Magnificent Majik Messiah! He has risen!
funny - thanks I am just about sick of all this 'green' stuff that's going on. Bubba Obama should sell some of his excess 'carbon footprint' credits and get himself a cheeseburger, or something.
There's nothing wrong with being green, at least until the government got involved in it and laid their reverse Midas touch on it. Green usually equates to cheap if you do it right. My wife and I have drastically reduced our consumption while increasing our standard of living, but once the government gets involved with their bullshit, it screws things up for everybody and any gains are lost.
That was the assumption I used when posting. Just because it's a good idea, does not mean that govs need to make it a law. (And create yet another pork-laden agency of gov-workers.)
There's something you have to respect about someone who can live on a buck a month. Hell, it'd kill most Uhhmerkkins if they had to walk the 120 feet to & from their mailbox rather than driving.
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#22. To: Esso (#18)
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No fancy bottled water, electric bills, McMansions, insurance premiums or gas- gulping SUVs for him. He lives a very "green" lifestyle.
#23. To: lodwick (#22)
I just about sick of all this 'green' stuff that's going on.
#24. To: Esso (#23)
My wife and I have drastically reduced our consumption while increasing our standard of living, but once the government gets involved with their bullshit, it screws things up for everybody and any gains are lost.
#25. To: lodwick (#24)
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