When Barack Obama delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in 2004, he stressed the importance of caring for others, that Americans are one family.
If there's a child on the south side of Chicago who can't read, that matters to me, even if it's not my child. If there's a senior citizen somewhere who can't pay for her prescription and has to choose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer, even if it's not my grandmother. If there's an Arab American family being rounded up without benefit of an attorney or due process, that threatens my civil liberties. It's that fundamental belief — I am my brother's keeper, I am my sister's keeper — that makes this country work. It's what allows us to pursue our individual dreams, yet still come together as a single American family. "E pluribus unum." Out of many, one.
---BARACK OBAMA, July 27, 2004
That theme has been central to his own campaign for the presidency.
"That's the promise of America -- the idea that we are responsible for ourselves, but that we also rise or fall as one nation; the fundamental belief that I am my brother's keeper; I am my sister's keeper.
That's the promise we need to keep. That's the change we need right now."
---BARACK OBAMA, August 28, 2008
"Yeah, well - the - yeah, I think most people understand - that if you're not - caring for your family - then - you're probably not - the kind of person who's gonna be caring for other people."
---BARACK OBAMA, October 22, 2008
"Our view was that, if you can't run your own house, you certainly can't run the White House."
---MICHELLE OBAMA, August 2007
During this campaign, both Barack and Michelle Obama have stressed the importance of caring for one's family.
Last night, Barack Obama's infomercial highlighted stories of "Americans discussing their economic and health care troubles."
There was that message again, "the fundamental belief that I am my brother's keeper; I am my sister's keeper."
We have a moral obligation to care for others. I believe that. There are different ways to go about it, but there's no question that it's the right thing to do.
And the king will say to them in reply, 'Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me.' (Matthew 25:40)
If Barack Obama truly believes that we're called to care for others, why isn't he practicing what he preaches?
As a leader, and the wannabe leader of the Free World, it seems strange to me that Barack Obama is not personally assisting members of his own family.
From FOX News:
Barack Obama has lived one version of the American dream that has taken him to the steps of the White House. But a few miles from where the Democratic presidential candidate studied at Harvard, his Kenyan aunt and uncle, immigrants living in modest circumstances in Boston, have a contrasting American story.
Zeituni Onyango, the aunt so affectionately described in Obama's best-selling memoir "Dreams fFrom My Father," lives in a disabled-access flat on a rundown public housing estate in South Boston.
A second relative believed to be the long-lost "Uncle Omar" described in the book was beaten by armed robbers with a "sawed-off rifle" while working in a corner shop in the Dorchester area of the city. He was later evicted from his one-bedroom apartment for failing to pay $2,324.20 in bills, according to the Boston Housing Court.
The press has repeatedly rehearsed Obama's extraordinary odyssey, but the other side of the family's American experience has only been revealed in parts. Just across town from where Obama made history as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review, some of his closest blood relatives have confronted the harshness of immigrant life in America.
In his book Obama writes that "Uncle Omar" had gone missing after moving to Boston in the 1960s a quarter-century before Obama first visited his family in Kenya. Aunt Zeituni is now also living in Boston, and recently made a $260 campaign contribution to her nephew's presidential bid from a work address in the city.
Speaking outside her home in Flaherty Way, South Boston, on Tuesday, Onyango, 56, confirmed she was the "Auntie Zeituni" in Obama's memoir. She declined to answer most other questions about her relationship with the presidential contender until after the November 4 election.
"I can't talk about it, I just pray for him, that's all," she said, adding: "After the 4th, I can talk to anyone."
Read more, The Times, London.
Add Aunt Zeituni and Uncle Omar's sad stories to the story of George Hussein Onyango Obama, Barack Obama's half-brother living in the slums of Kenya. It's a disturbing picture.
Why hasn't Barack Obama offered to help his own flesh and blood?
I don't get it.
The Obamas are millionaires. How, in good conscience, can they fail to spread their personal wealth around to their struggling relatives?
Forget about Joe Biden talking about our patriotic duty to step up and pay more taxes.
What's stopping Obama from assisting his relatives himself?
Help doesn't need to come via a government program. It can come from the heart.
10 comments:
All of Obama's BS is being used only to get elected. I'm not so naive to believe that he is going to do anything that he promises. Nor am I so naive to believe that Obama believes a single thing that he has ever said in public.
Are all Republicans this cynical, anonymous? And yet you think John McCain, who left his wife who stood by him all those years while he was a POW after he came home to find her disfugured from a car accident, is an honorable man. After fooling around on her with many, he settled on the one who had a bankroll, left his wife and married Cindy. Cindy then went on to develop a drug addiction and steal from her own charities. Oh but wait, Mother Theresa herself pleaded with Cindy to adopt a baby. Oh wait.... no, that part was made up by the McCain campaign. Rest is true though.
Man Of Peace
Dylan
Look out your window, baby, there's a scene you'd like to catch,
The band is playing "Dixie," a man got his hand outstretched.
Could be the Fuhrer
Could be the local priest.
You know sometimes
Satan comes as a man of peace.
He got a sweet gift of gab, he got a harmonious tongue,
He knows every song of love that ever has been sung.
Good intentions can be evil,
Both hands can be full of grease.
You know that sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.
Well, first he's in the background, then he's in the front,
Both eyes are looking like they're on a rabbit hunt.
Nobody can see through him,
No, not even the Chief of Police.
You know that sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.
Well, he catch you when you're hoping for a glimpse of the sun,
Catch you when your troubles feel like they weigh a ton.
He could be standing next to you,
The person that you'd notice least.
I hear that sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.
Well, he can be fascinating, he can be dull,
He can ride down Niagara Falls in the barrels of your skull.
I can smell something cooking,
I can tell there's going to be a feast.
You know that sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.
He's a great humanitarian, he's a great philanthropist,
He knows just where to touch you, honey, and how you like to be kissed.
He'll put both his arms around you,
You can feel the tender touch of the beast.
You know that sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.
Well, the howling wolf will howl tonight, the king snake will crawl,
Trees that've stood for a thousand years suddenly will fall.
Wanna get married? Do it now,
Tomorrow all activity will cease.
You know that sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.
Somewhere Mama's weeping for her blue-eyed boy,
She's holding them little white shoes and that little broken toy
And he's following a star,
The same one them three men followed from the East.
I hear that sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.
Obama was a cokehead and hung around with Marxists in college. So there.
Obama is a hypocrite.
"Man of Peace" sums it up perfectly, even though Obama likes Dylan and Dylan supports Obama.
The song's title reminds me of a poster from a now dead discussion board. I really enjoyed it for a while. Some of the participants on it were bright, friendly, and funny. Some were among the cruelest, most vile people I've ever had the misfortune to meet.
It didn't end well.
Dylan learned a long long time ago not to get in the middle of political parties and their lust for power. He made some comments on Obama but to say that he endorsed Obama is a stretch.
From the UK TimesOnline article where Dylan's words about Obama were published.
Asked about his views on American politics, he said: "Well, you know right now America is in a state of upheaval. Poverty is demoralising. You can't expect people to have the virtue of purity when they are poor.
"But we've got this guy out there now who is redefining the nature of politics from the ground up...Barack Obama.
"He's redefining what a politician is, so we'll have to see how things play out. Am I hopeful? Yes, I'm hopeful that things might change. Some things are going to have to."
He added: “You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future."
You're right.
Dylan didn't pull a Ron Howard.
When I first read that article, I got the feeling that Dylan is in Obama's corner.
But actually, rather than endorsing a specific candidate, Dylan seems to be endorsing change, a better country -- not necessarily at the hands of Obama.
The way the original and subsequent articles were written would lead one to believe that Dylan had endorsed Obama. If one reads what Dylan actually said, they would find exactly what you just noted. But such is the press of today. They just cannot present the facts they have to form their stories to fit their agenda.
Oh please! These relatives of Obama, including the aunt who lives here illegally, are some of his many Kenyans relatives through his father's side, the father that abandoned his mother when Barrack was two and went back to Kenya and then had several more children. Obama didn't grow up knowing this side of his family, let alone his own father.
What I find more disturbing is Cindy McCain's refusal to even recognize her own half-sister who she did grow up knowing and who her father continued to give support to until his death at which time Cindy claimed all of the family money and ignored her sister. By ignored, I mean she has gone so far as to claim she is the only child of her father. Why do this? Perhaps it's because her father was married to her half-sisters mother still when he began his affair with Cindy's mother? Sound familiar? Makes you kind of think of John McCain. Perhaps that's why Cindy likes to ignore that part of her family history - makes her feel better about herself thinking the first marriage and its children don't matter enough to even mention?
Oh and by the way, the McCain's are way more millionaires than the Obama's and Cindy has all her dad's money. Her half sister? None.
The woman was at Obama's swearing-in to the U.S. Senate. They were in contact by phone two years ago. He exploited her in his book. Now, she's nothing to him.
"Oh, please" indeed.
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