I’m going to have to call bullshit. You can feel however you want about the situation, but it’s not out of bounds to talk about issues that actually really do apply to him in the real world.
I call bullshit on your bullshit. So there. 
The thread is a valid discussion of a (generic) rich person’s responsibility toward his poor half-brother.
The fact that the story is in the media is what I am decrying, here.
If only someone had posted that link in Post #57… 
Was that before or after he denied having them?
Clinton discovered at least one half-sibling while president. I don’t even know that they ever met. I just can’t see how anybody could even remotely consider somebody with whom you share half a set of genes (but no memory, upbringing, or common background) your responsibility. If it is then we’re all responsible for our first cousins, with whom we probably have more in common than the Obama brothers. Even the half-brother doesn’t seem to regard himself as Obama’s responsibility.
EDIT: I missed the onion link a couple times
what possible reason would anyone care. Black people will vote for him regardless of how “black he is” and nobody else uses that yardstick.
You obviously don’t remember Billy Beer.
I don’t know of any cultures that have that kind of thing. Close family members are the people who you can rely on and them on you.
This situation is different though and from the story in the OP I can find nothing to criticise BO about.
He’s a “gateway black guy”. It always starts with the biracials… next thing you know, it’s President Flavor Flav, just like in ancient Rome.
I wonder why his half-brother’s African family isn’t supportive of or on terms with him. From what I’ve read his father was well to do by Kenyan standards (though he did have many children and other relatives to divide anything he left).
It’s the standard story for a bastard. Daddy goes out and slums it with some town hussy, knocks her up and then forgets about it. Happens all the time.
Obama or Flavor Flav?
John Edwards
Oh, SNAP! 
The family that shuns together.
What’s sauce for the goose, is sauce for the gander, as the saying goes.
Yeah, Middle-Class American vs Dirt poor Kenyan. Exactly the same thing. :rolleyes:
At least Barack acknowledged his half-siblings exist. Cindy McCain won’t even publicly acknowledge that her father had other children.
McCain’s mother suing his first wife is pretty sleazy too.
McCain’s a sleezeball, but of course all that is irrelevant to this thread.
Not if you consider that Clinton had a blowjob. A blowjob!
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.
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.