<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/auG9qsZpL6o&color1=291787617&color2=325161297&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/auG9qsZpL6o&color1=291787617&color2=325161297&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> http://www.washtimes.com/news/2008/aug/26/the-inconvenient-obama/print/ [rquoter] BREITBART: 'The Inconvenient Obama' Andrew Breitbart ANALYSIS/OPINION: Sen. Barack Obama has a problem. And it lives in a hut. His name is George Hussein Onyango Obama, and he is the 26-year-old half brother of Mr. Obama, the multimillionaire autobiographer who neglected to write that his paternal sibling lives on less than a dollar a month in the outer slums of Nairobi, Kenya. They have met twice. Unearthed by Italian Vanity Fair and virtually ignored by the American press, the inconvenient George Obama could emerge as a compelling character in the freshman senator's carefully edited road-to-the-White-House narrative - especially now that his campaign has unleashed a personal attack on Sen. John McCain's station in life. The Obama hit job on Mr. McCain seizes on his clumsiness in answering a reporter's question about how many houses he and his wife, Cindy, own. "I think - I'll have my staff get to you," Mr. McCain fumbled. In a well-funded nationally televised ad spot titled "Seven," Mr. Obama's messenger twice repeats the correct answer as the words on the screen reinforce the meme of class warfare. "Seven. Worth $13 million." The Sunday morning shows parroted Mr. Obama's shocking discovery that the McCain family is well-off. Smarting Obamaniacs campaigning for their messiah are now scripted to ask voters in battleground states how many houses they own and participate in an official campaign contest, "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: McCain Edition." Winners receive hope, change and fist bumps - spoils of the "new kind of politics." Someone who made $4.2 million last year and lives in a mansion that a mobster helped pay for should not be throwing stones. When Mr. Obama's flesh-and-blood lives in squalor, raising the standard of living of his opponent's extended family is probably not a smart idea. It's scary to think that this could be a preview of an Obama presidency in which attacking the rich is all the rage, and the rich in the news media pretend it's OK. Hugo Chavez is having a helluva run bringing down his formerly prosperous nation of Venezuela with that formula. Mr. McCain, of course, would be publicly eviscerated if he funded an ad campaign called "12" - as in the amount of dollars a year Mr. Obama's half-brother subsists on. The message also could accurately point out that Mr. Obama and his wife, Michelle, have consistently fallen short of the national average in charitable contributions since they entered the highest income bracket - despite their ballyhooed "progressive" religious faith that touts "economic equality." It would also be fair game now to point out that preaching "social justice" pays better than being a United States senator. The Trinity United Church of Christ is building a mansion for the Rev. Jeremiah Wright that includes an elevator, a butler's pantry, a bar, a rubberized exercise room - and the 10,000-square-foot estate backs up to the Odyssey Country Club. (Memo to wealthy Caucasian Republican members of the golf club: "Fore!") Attached to Mr. Wright's church-funded property is a peculiar $10 million line of credit - presumably, none of which will be given to George Obama. Mr. McCain's ad also could highlight that Michelle Obama is on leave from her $317,000-a-year job at the University of Chicago Medical Center, which is now under scrutiny - along with Obama campaign chief David Axelrod and two other staffers - for a scheme that, according to the Chicago Sun-Times, "steers patients who don't have private insurance - primarily poor, black people - to other health care facilities." "The medical professionals who have come to me are accusing the university of dumping patients on its neighboring institutions," Toni Preckwinkle, alderman for the 4th Ward, told the paper. Patient-dumping poor blacks may be interesting, but not quite as newsworthy as John McCain marrying a beer heiress 28 years ago. Does anyone think if Mr. McCain had a sibling living in a trailer park making minimum wage (892 times more than Mr. Obama's half brother's yearly income) that the mainstream media and the Obama campaign wouldn't notice? In fact, last week National Public Radio ran a piece titled, "Cindy McCain's Half Sister 'Angry' She's Hidden," highlighting that Mr. McCain's wife's half sister was left out of her father's will. The piece was duly filed under the publicly funded network's "conservative compassion deficit" media template. Yet Mr. Obama has a half brother who lives in Africa on three cents a day, and the story breaks in an Italian magazine and is picked up by a London newspaper and a few others in Australia. Perhaps the story would be carried widely in America if they could figure out how to blame President Bush. But as Bob Geldof pointed out, he "has done more [for Africa] than any other president," and of the press harshly judged, "You guys didn't pay attention." Nor will they pay attention that the McCains have adopted a poor Bangladeshi child and done untold amounts of humanitarian and charity work. What makes this story newsworthy for Italians, Brits and Aussies, but not Americans, is that the U.S. free press is free to ignore stories that could take down their preordained president. And after the Internet and talk radio-driven "Swift Boat" story unexpectedly sank their last guy, the mainstream American press is taking extra precautions this time around. If for some inexplicable reason the media are forced by their online and talk radio betters to run with this outrageous and creepy story, key Obama supporter Oprah Winfrey can come to the rescue at the Democratic National Convention. On Night 3, the billionaire television hostess can synthesize her two best show archetypes: the heart-wrenching family reunion and "Oprah's Favorite Things," the giveaway of material goods. Imagine the emotional fireworks when 75,000 Obama supporters at Invesco Field witness Barack Obama reconnecting with his destitute half brother as is he lavished with Kai Body Butter & Buffer, Perfect Endings Cupcakes by Williams-Sonoma, Hand-Blown Crystal Champagne Glasses by Deborah Ehrlich and a Pure Simplicity Pumpkin Purifying Mask. Controversy averted. Because Democrats care more. Andrew Breitbart is the founder of the news Web site breitbart.com and is co-author of "Hollywood Interrupted: Insanity Chic in Babylon - the Case Against Celebrity." [/rquoter]
I agree...............but really is it any more stupid then the McCain house issue...........No...............however that for some reason is a big news story and has 10+ pages here on the BBS..................can't understand either. It's amazing politics has gotten to this for either side, which makes it hard to really support either one - but will soon.
the house issue is stupid. no matter how much I try to justify it in my mind because i'm an obama guy.
Straight out of the GOP playbook. Jimmy Carter too goody-two shoes? Make an issue of Billy. Clinton too sharp a politician? Make an issue of Roger. Obama looking formidable? Find a relative and make them an issue. I find it curious that Mr. Breitbart didn't use any quotes from this article... If it wasn't this guy it would be someone else. By the end of the campaign the GOP will be wondering why Obama isn't single-handedly supporting half of the African continent and cousins in 30 different states.
This is so absurdly r****ded and meaningless to the campaign that not even Matt Drudge has commented on it. If this is the best you got, I'll go ahead and start calling him President Obama (or at least there is nothing on there now). Jeez.
\ I am not arguing with you here and I understand that almost all of you from what I can tell that post on this forum our Obama supporters and will go after anything negative against him. But I am curious how you feel that this article is wrong (which I agree with), however will pounce all over something as silly and non-significant as the house issue with McCain. I think both our ridiculous, since let's be real here both of these candidates are multi-millionaires and don't really know what the average citizen is really going through. ************************************************** Rocketman95, I am not picking on you (just needed an example), but just showing you that you think the house thing should be a big issue and not something like this, which seems to me at least not equal. My opinion is both are wrong and the candidates would serve better focusing on the issues.......
The article says they have met twice. I think Obama is heartless to meet someone twice and not give them a substantial allowence of money. I wonder who else Obama has met twice and isn't taking care of.
The article, does not quote Obama or his brother one single time, not to mention, the brother is not an American citizen. I'm not attacking McCain because of the way he treats his family (other than him cheating on his wife, and that's just because the Republicans feel a need to make that an issue when a Democrat does it). There is another article posted in this thread where George Obama says the media has exaggerated the entire thing. Regardless, how does Obama having a half-brother in Africa who some say is making a dollar a day the same thing as McCain not remembering how many houses he has? Now if you want to argue all of this is stupid, I may agree with you. But the Republicans made the rules and it's time the Democrats started playing by the same ones. If they can't handle it when it's dished their way, they should maybe stop and reflect on how we got to this stage in the political process.
Ok... so let me get this straight... Obama's dad left him when Obama was 2 years old. Now Obama is supposed to take care of some guy who shows up and claims to be the son of Obama's dad? Right.... I'm pretty sure there are 0 Americans that would feel obligated to take care of that guy.
This isn't a big deal to me, but isn't one of the messages of the liberal movement that taxes on certain people should be increased to take care of the less fortunate?
It's this part of politics that drives me crazy (and makes me wish we had a good independent candidate to vote for - as it is tough to pick from either one of these guys) - as it reminds me when we were little kids, and your parents got tired of the fighting, so the kids go back and forth with "you started it first", "no you did". The reality is they both do it, no way, shape or form are the Democrats innocent in this and just doing it out of retaliation, they are just as guilty - similar to the two kids, your just going to feel your side is always correct and from someone in the middle watching, your wrong.
Is this the same half brother that one of the Obama smear books tried to paint as a terrorist because of the youth groups he's in? Or it might be communist, I can't remember, have to look it up now.
That is factually inaccurate. While the Dems have made some negative attacks over the years, they are not just as guilty. Willie Horton ad - GOP Swift Boaters - GOP Those are the worst examples, and are not matched by Dems. They may not be innocent, but they aren't "just as guilty".
this is kinda the point of the article, obama's only met him twice, and then hardly spoke to him. it's his brother fer crissake. i don't care about the money angle (but people in glass houses...). my sense is that barry's a little ashamed of his brother. one wonders why.
