Heard on the radio this AM

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Registered: 03-19-2003
Heard on the radio this AM
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Thu, 08-21-2008 - 12:47pm
That the British version of Vanity Fair is going to do an article that Obama may not like.

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Registered: 09-23-2004
Thu, 08-21-2008 - 1:19pm

I saw this on another board yesterday:

Barack Obama's 'lost' brother found in Kenya
Senator Barack Obama's long lost brother has been tracked down for the first time living in a shanty town in Kenya, reports claimed.

By Nick Pisa in Rome
Last Updated: 3:19PM BST 20 Aug 2008
George Hussein Onyango Obama
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."

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iVillage Member
Registered: 06-10-2007
Thu, 08-21-2008 - 3:20pm
It seems like nothing can hurt Obama, he is like the golden boy of politics.
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iVillage Member
Registered: 08-20-2008
Thu, 08-21-2008 - 4:15pm

I don't understand why people say he has an elitist mentality. Is it

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Registered: 05-30-2008
Thu, 08-21-2008 - 7:11pm
I was listening to talk radio this morning and heard this same topic.
iVillage Member
Registered: 08-30-2005
Thu, 08-21-2008 - 7:45pm

I don't see why this matters. Siblings aren't a reflection of the person. Especially, I'd argue, in this case, because they're half-siblings, all raised in different parts of the world by very different people.

I have two sisters. One is a successful lawyer with a large amount of wealth. The other was addicted to drugs for years and very low incomes. I'm a part time WOHM and of average income. Same parents, different personalities, different outcomes. All of my children have different personalities, as do my neices and nephews.

I guess I don't see what the big deal is, or why this is necessary to know.

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-19-2003
Thu, 08-21-2008 - 10:52pm
But how a person treats their siblings....half or whole shows is character......or in this case his lack of character.
iVillage Member
Registered: 08-20-2008
Thu, 08-21-2008 - 11:25pm
OK, we truly don't know the whole story. I've told you guys about my drug addicted mom,right? I tried, and tried to help her with no luck. There is no helping someone that doesn't help themselves. I am not saying he's a saint I am saying we are jumping to conclusions without all of the facts.
iVillage Member
Registered: 08-19-2008
Fri, 08-22-2008 - 8:14am
hi i am new to ivillage so i am not sure where to post this but here goes. this morning i
was dismayed to see so many photos of the volley ball players from the Olympics and so
few of the women's basketball players, I am certain due to the difference in the uniforms
it is shameful that after all these years women athletes are still battling the same
biases of yesteryear. women work just as hard as the men, still even today the public
allow them in part be portrayed as eye candy. the men would not be treated in this fashion.
iVillage Member
Registered: 05-29-2003
Fri, 08-22-2008 - 10:04am

I read that article.. He lives in Kenya living in a hut


http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12700.html


Sean Hannity said yesterday on his Radio show that he's giving George (half brother) a $1,000 and thinking of organizing a fundraiser for him

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iVillage Member
Registered: 05-29-2003
Fri, 08-22-2008 - 10:06am

Media Bias? ;)


You mean like hiding the Edwards affair ?

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