George Obama: Book Deal

It's really no secret, but the lib media don't talk about it much.

George Hussein Onyango Obama, half brother of Barack Obama, lives in a hut in the town of Huruma on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya.

From the Italian edition of Vanity Fair:

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.

I'm surprised the compassionate Michelle Obama didn't suggest that they forgo their New York date night and send the tens of thousands of dollars saved to poor George. I guess a lot of the bill for that date was picked up by the taxpayers, but the part that came out of the Obamas' personal funds could have gone to George.

George could probably live like a king for a year for the price of the Obamas' dinner in Paris.

Obama believes in "spreading the wealth around" yet he didn't help his own brother.

That has always struck me as incredibly weird. I just don't get it.

No matter. George is making it on his own, thanks indirectly to his big brother.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Another Obama relative has a book deal.

A memoir by George Obama, the president's half brother and a resident of Huruma, Kenya, will be published by Simon & Schuster in January 2010. George Obama, 27, shares the same father with his famous, older half sibling, although George and Barack Obama—20 years apart in age—did not grow up together and did not meet as children.

...Little is known about George Obama. The book, tentatively titled "Homeland" and to be written with author-journalist Damien Lewis, will tell of George Obama's fall into crime and poverty as a teenager and his eventual embrace of community organizing—a passion shared by the president—and of advocacy for the poor, an identification so strong that he chooses to live among them.

"Even had George Obama not been our President's half brother, his story is moving and inspirational," David Rosenthal, Simon & Schuster publisher and executive vice president, said in a statement Sunday. "It is an object lesson in survival, selflessness and courage."

Financial terms were not disclosed, but an official with knowledge of the negotiations said the deal was worth six figures. The official, who was not authorized to discuss the contract, spoke on condition of anonymity.

...Barack Obama has written a pair of million-selling books, "The Audacity of Hope" and "Dreams from My Father," in which he describes George Obama as "a handsome, roundheaded boy with a wary gaze."

Of course, little is known about George Obama. If Barack doesn't want to talk about his half brother, the media don't pursue the story.

Of course, Obama having a half brother living in a hut in abject poverty is an embarrassment. So it's not discussed.

I don't know how Obama could sleep at night knowing that his sibling, the "handsome, roundheaded boy with a wary gaze," was suffering like that.

I'm sure George's story is moving and inspirational, as "David Rosenthal, Simon & Schuster publisher and executive vice president" says.

That's especially the case since George has a very rich and powerful brother who didn't reach out to help him.

George as a community organizer who chooses to live among the poor is a very different spin than the one given by the original Vanity Fair article. It's one that's been pushed by Obama supporters and the Left-wing media.

This book deal is a win-win situation for the Obama brothers.

George will get at least six figures for his story. That's probably more than he ever thought he'd see in his lifetime.

And Obama will benefit by the propaganda piece that lets him off the hook for failing to assist his half brother.

Everyone is happy.