# Is Barack Obama his brother's keeper? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [August 20, 2008, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-barack-obama-his-brothers-keeper/460690 "2008-08-20T17:35:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hypnagogic_jerk/32/4252_2.png) [@Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypnagogic_Jerk)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-barack-obama-his-brothers-keeper/460690/101 "2008-08-21T05:16:42Z")
[QUOTE=kaylasdad99] I cheer myself with the knowledge that any arrangements he made regarding assistance to/further contact with his half-brother are not really any of my business, and I like to think that Senator Obama feels the same way. [/QUOTE] Agreed. I believe Obama will privately contact his half-brother and ask him if he can be of assistance to him in any way. That’s the best thing he can do: if he doesn’t contact him, some people will see it as lacking empathy for his family, and if he publicly offers his half-brother help, some people (possibly the same ones) will spin it as Obama trying to make political hay from the situation. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-barack-obama-his-brothers-keeper/460690/102 "2008-08-21T05:43:54Z")
[QUOTE=ArizonaTeach] Not if you consider that Clinton had a blowjob. A blowjob! [/QUOTE] That would be after he raped a woman and then lied about sexually molesting 2 others. You got a sister we could hook him up with (your mom’s too old). ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-barack-obama-his-brothers-keeper/460690/103 "2008-08-21T08:43:27Z")
[QUOTE=Magiver] That would be after he raped a woman and then lied about sexually molesting 2 others. You got a sister we could hook him up with (your mom’s too old). [/QUOTE] So completely unproven allegations for which a person has never been tried, let alone found criminally liable, count the same as “beyond a reasonable doubt” convictions now? Cool— we can have some fun with this! ---
**Author:** ![ArizonaTeach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/45deac/32.png) [@ArizonaTeach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArizonaTeach)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-barack-obama-his-brothers-keeper/460690/104 "2008-08-21T13:19:31Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] So completely unproven allegations for which a person has never been tried, let alone found criminally liable, count the same as “beyond a reasonable doubt” convictions now? Cool— we can have some fun with this! [/QUOTE] Man, there’s a **lot** of things we can talk about that have nothing to do with the topic - and some people sure are tryin’! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-barack-obama-his-brothers-keeper/460690/105 "2008-08-21T13:37:50Z")
Yeah! What’s the deal with that airplane on a treadmill, anyway? ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-barack-obama-his-brothers-keeper/460690/106 "2008-08-21T14:10:13Z")
[QUOTE=kaylasdad99] And in the OP’s link, didn’t he say he’s makin’ it by on one dollar a _month_? This guy poentially has it made. All he needs to do is write a book on how to live on twelve bucks a year, then get it on Oprah’s book club. He’ll be rollin’ in it before long. [/QUOTE] Step 1. Move to Kenya… ---
**Author:** ![davidw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c4cdca/32.png) [@davidw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidw)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2008, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-barack-obama-his-brothers-keeper/460690/107 "2008-08-23T02:44:04Z")
[Meet George Obama](http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/22/bts.obama.brother/index.html) > [@](#): > > But reports surfaced in the past few days, springing from an Italian Vanity Fair article saying George Obama is living in a shack and “earning less than a dollar a day.” > > The reports left him angry. > > “I was brought up well. I live well even now,” he said. "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,” Obama said. > > Obama, who is in his mid-20s, is learning to become a mechanic and is active in youth groups in Huruma. He said he tries to help the community as much as he can. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2008, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-barack-obama-his-brothers-keeper/460690/108 "2008-08-23T02:45:17Z")
Sean Hannity offered to send him a check for $ 1000. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2008, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-barack-obama-his-brothers-keeper/460690/109 "2008-08-24T03:24:14Z")
[QUOTE=mswas] Or maybe you guys are just making shit up. [/QUOTE] [Behind the Scenes: Meet George Obama - CNN.com](http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/22/bts.obama.brother/index.html?iref=hpmostpop) According to this article it was suggested by people around his 1/2 brother that Barack should help him. George said he wanted no part of it. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2008, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-barack-obama-his-brothers-keeper/460690/110 "2008-08-24T04:03:43Z")
[QUOTE=gonzomax] [Behind the Scenes: Meet George Obama - CNN.com](http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/22/bts.obama.brother/index.html?iref=hpmostpop) According to this article it was suggested by people around his 1/2 brother that Barack should help him. George said he wanted no part of it. [/QUOTE] Yeah, I read that article. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-barack-obama-his-brothers-keeper/460690/111 "2008-08-25T16:02:11Z")
[QUOTE=mswas] Yeah, I read that article. [/QUOTE] And?.. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-barack-obama-his-brothers-keeper/460690/112 "2008-08-25T22:50:18Z")
[Of course, McCain is on this.](http://www.youtube.com/v/auG9qsZpL6o&color1=11645361&color2=13619151&fs=1) ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2008, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-barack-obama-his-brothers-keeper/460690/113 "2008-08-29T06:26:52Z")
I was listening to Obama’s convention speech and he talked about us all being our brother’s keeper so I guess that answers the op question. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-barack-obama-his-brothers-keeper/460690.md?page=5)