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The irony in the conservative mantra of personal responsibility and welfare seems completely lost in this thread.
We're talking about a 3rd world country. And Barack was the hypocrite talking about "I am my brothers keeper". Bull ****. He isnt his brothers keeper, he isnt anyones keeper. If he cant even help out his own brother, he sure as hell aint going to do much good for this country. And clearly he hasnt.
We don't know that Obama is not helping his brother. All we have is the word of an ideologue and a guy who may get more money by denying his support.
Sure. Who here knows if Obama may have just quietly and privately helped him out?
How many of you, if you were leading a very public life, would be willing to expose a poor relative publicly? How many of you have a relative that, no matter what, bounces off the bottom regularly and whenever something good comes, squanders it and goes right back to the bottom?
I think most of us have a family member that is a perpetual failure in some way. I have 'em, and everyone I know has them someplace. History is full of Presidents who had relatives that were bums, mentally ill, and failures of ever description.
Obama refuses to help his brother. And he doesn't want others to be able to choose whether or not they help complete strangers.
Do you not see the hypocrisy?
Links, please. Otherwise, this is just more garbage.
And I am sure every member here knows of a family who has cut one or more family members out.
Outside of few trustfunders I know who come from great wealth, none of the workaday families I know support one of their adult members completely except for the old, mentally incompetent, or the physically handicapped among them.
how many of us have family members who struggle with addiction? How many of us have family addicts who have stolen their parents blind, put their lives in continuous turmoil and heartbreak, and have hauled the addict out of jail, into rehab, allowed them back home and then kicked them back out repeatedly?
If you don't have a family addict, be grateful; I am. I know a ton of good folks who aren't as lucky as I with what they got in the way of family.
Don't be too quick to start chucking rocks. It could happen to any of us at any time.
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Location: Georgia, on the Florida line, right above Tallahassee
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So your saying Obamas brother is liar just like Obama?
Not at all. Here, lets' see what he has to say about it.
In later interviews George contradicted this picture. In an interview with The Times, he "said that he was furious at subsequent reports that he had been abandoned by the Obama family and that he was filled with shame about living in a slum."[121] He told The Times, "Life in Huruma is good." George Obama said that he expects no favors, that he was supported by relatives, and that reports he lived on a dollar a month were "all lies by people who don't want my brother to win."[121] He told The Telegraph that he was inspired by his half-brother.[120] According to Time, George "has repeatedly denied…that he feels abandoned by Obama."[125]CNN quoted him as saying, "I was brought up well. I live well even now. The magazines, they have exaggerated everything… I think I kind of like it here. There are some challenges, but maybe it is just like where you come from, there are the same challenges."[123]
He's in a 3rd world country, and one thing we've learned from you liberals, he's a victim and unable to succeed.
I thought liberals were all about compassion. I see, you can call for 800,000 illegals staying here, but the first to make excuses for Obama abandoning his own brother.
this behavior by Obama should convince you he is NOT all that liberal nor left. His actions certainly indicate a more conservative moderate.
I agree that it is indefensible that Obama does not help his blood relatives, his family, in some way. I will definitely vote for Obama, but I'm not at all impressed with his attitude toward "family." Again, that behavior, IMO, just proves he is not the "socialist" far-left liberal most of you claim he is.
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Sure enough . . . we found several good articles -- one British article in particular was very balanced -- had some video with it, I believe. And we were very surprised. It sounds like Obama's brother has some addiction issues, but we were thinking - why oh why has his brother not reached out to see if he could get him into a good rehab program, help him get further education - something.
Link?
IF there were any interest in balance by FOX News the article would be detailing how they'd reached out to the White House for comment on the situation. I guess their interest in news conveniently ends when they have enough to suit their own unbalanced agenda.
He has money. He lets members of his own family live in poverty and dependent on government programs.
And you think he cares about Americans ?
Actions speak louder than words.
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