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In the preface to the 2004 reissue [of Dreams from My Father], he writes: “Most of the characters in this book remain a part of my life, albeit in varying degrees – a function of work, children, geography, and turns of fate.”

“What is family?” he reflects. “Is it just a genetic chain, parents and offspring, people like me?” Twenty years after he first met Aunt Zeituni, and first heard of the elusive Uncle Omar, the man likely to be the next president will have the opportunity for another family reunion, rather closer to home.

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ORIGINAL: stamper_ben

...not faced. Much as with brother George.

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In the preface to the 2004 reissue [of Dreams from My Father], he writes: “Most of the characters in this book remain a part of my life, albeit in varying degrees – a function of work, children, geography, and turns of fate.”

“What is family?” he reflects. “Is it just a genetic chain, parents and offspring, people like me?” Twenty years after he first met Aunt Zeituni, and first heard of the elusive Uncle Omar, the man likely to be the next president will have the opportunity for another family reunion, rather closer to home.

Indeed, what is family? Not too much to the man who wants to lead this country.

Article here

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Should I remind you of what did McCain did when he came home from war and found his wife disfigured from a car accident?

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He doesn't care about family because he's got poor relatives that he hasn't seen in decades?

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ORIGINAL: relady

Hmmm, well I guess family doesn't mean much to me either since I have cousins and aunts and uncles that I haven't seen in decades. Try again.

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“Most of the characters in this book remain a part of my life, albeit in varying degrees – a function of work, children, geography, and turns of fate.”

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Zeituni Onyango, the aunt so affectionately described in Mr Obama’s best-selling memoir Dreams from 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 flat for failing to pay $2,324.20 (£1,488) arrears, according to the Boston Housing Court.

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Seriously? He doesn't care about family because he's got poor relatives that he hasn't seen in decades?

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ORIGINAL: Jhud

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Seriously? He doesn't care about family because he's got poor relatives that he hasn't seen in decades?

So we are supposed to believe that a man who doesn't seem to know about the poverty in his own family, a brother and aunt, is a loving family guy who cares about the poor in the US whom he has no relationship with whatsoever?

The fact is when a millionaire makes as a central tenet of his campaign sacrificing to care for the needy, and he hasn't even taken a look around his own family to care for the needy, he is demonstrably a hypocrite and panderer.

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Is Obama expected to support everyone in his family? How do you know he hasn't tried helping them? I have a married brother who always need money. I've helped him for the last 5yrs, but now I gotta cut him off. I tired of doing without myself to help hime get ahead. I also have a brother who is jobless and homeless, my mother helped him for years, but now he is on his own since her death. Sometimes, you can only help so much,especially if the other person is unwilling to do anythig to help themselves.

Regarding McCain adopting a girl from China. He didn't even know Cindy had adopted a child, until she got off the plane and presented the adopted child to him as a surprise.

Obama doesn't have a wife who's worth over $100 million.

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Is Obama expected to support everyone in his family? How do you know he hasn't tried helping them?

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I have a married brother who always need money. I've helped him for the last 5yrs, but now I gotta cut him off. I tired of doing without myself to help hime get ahead. I also have a brother who is jobless and homeless, my mother helped him for years, but now he is on his own since her death. Sometimes, you can only help so much,especially if the other person is unwilling to do anythig to help themselves.

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ORIGINAL: Jhud

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Is Obama expected to support everyone in his family? How do you know he hasn't tried helping them? I have a married brother who always need money. I've helped him for the last 5yrs, but now I gotta cut him off. I tired of doing without myself to help hime get ahead. I also have a brother who is jobless and homeless, my mother helped him for years, but now he is on his own since her death. Sometimes, you can only help so much,especially if the other person is unwilling to do anythig to help themselves.

Regarding McCain adopting a girl from China. He didn't even know Cindy had adopted a child, until she got off the plane and presented the adopted child to him as a surprise.

Obama doesn't have a wife who's worth over $100 million.

Both Obama and his wife are millionaires; there is no excuse for a man who claims self-sacrificial giving is the most important quality should have close elderly relatives living in slums, and he certainly shouldn't have a brother living in the pit of a Kenyan slum.

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So, everyone who's rich should support all their poor relations?

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ORIGINAL: stamper_ben

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Is Obama expected to support everyone in his family? How do you know he hasn't tried helping them?

Seems funny how the aunt isn't allowed to say anything until after the 4th...

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Who said she wasn't allowed? I am sure if she really wanted to she could've. I mean who was stopping her?

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Who said she wasn't allowed? I am sure if she really wanted to she could've. I mean who was stopping her?

SHE said she wasn't allowed. Did you read the article?

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That could just mean other relatives convinced her not too.

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ORIGINAL: Jhud

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Seriously? He doesn't care about family because he's got poor relatives that he hasn't seen in decades?

So we are supposed to believe that a man who doesn't seem to know about the poverty in his own family, a brother and aunt, is a loving family guy who cares about the poor in the US whom he has no relationship with whatsoever?

The fact is when a millionaire makes as a central tenet of his campaign sacrificing to care for the needy, and he hasn't even taken a look around his own family to care for the needy, he is demonstrably a hypocrite and panderer.

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So, everyone who's rich should support all their poor relations or just Obama? How do you know his brother didn't accept his help by being a proud man?

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Wow that must mean that my Aunt and Uncle who too are very rich and live well should be helping me and my poor family memebers out instead of there immidate family that they are very close to. I need to call my mom and find out why her very own sister has not given us that hand out. I mean I don't talk to them weekly or monthly or even semi yearly....they live several states away and all, but they should be spreading there wealth! (and where are my smilies when I need them) shaking my head.

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ORIGINAL: Jhud

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So, everyone who's rich should support all their poor relations or just Obama? How do you know his brother didn't accept his help by being a proud man?

Have you ever been to a Kenyan slum? I have - there are no people there 'too proud to accept help'.

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Both Obama and his wife are millionaires; there is no excuse for a man who claims self-sacrificial giving is the most important quality should have close elderly relatives living in slums, and he certainly shouldn't have a brother living in the pit of a Kenyan slum.

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"I would like Obama to visit his brother to see how he is living, to improve his way of life," said Emelda Negei, who runs a small dispensary near Obama's house.

But George Obama will have none of it. He draws inspiration from his famous half-brother. He acknowledges that he is biased but said he knows that his half-brother will be the next president.