The Obama Tour: Meeting the president's relatives in Kenya

[Voegelin]

Daily Mail
Bryan Rimmer
August 1 2010

. . . As we waited for Roy's father Wilfred - the President's half-brother - and his wife to prepare us lunch, granny Penina peeled vegetables and beamed her toothy approval. The floors were dirt, cows and chickens roamed freely and grandchildren played hoopla with an old tyre. This was a world away from the White House . . .

Read more: The Obama Tour: Meeting the president's relatives in Kenya | Mail Online
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[Ar Cosc]

Do you just sit at home all day googling "Obama" every ten seconds?

 

[brinny]

Do you just sit at home all day googling "Obama" every ten seconds?

Yet you follow Voegelin like a deer after water in a desert, don't you?

 

[WalksWithChrist]

Daily Mail
Bryan Rimmer
August 1 2010

. . . As we waited for Roy's father Wilfred - the President's half-brother - and his wife to prepare us lunch, granny Penina peeled vegetables and beamed her toothy approval. The floors were dirt, cows and chickens roamed freely and grandchildren played hoopla with an old tyre. This was a world away from the White House . . .

Read more: The Obama Tour: Meeting the president's relatives in Kenya | Mail Online
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That was the most pointless, rambling article I've ever read.

 

[brinny]

That was the most pointless, rambling article I've ever read.

yet you read it?

 

[Voegelin]

That was the most pointless, rambling article I've ever read.

Don't find it interesting the half- brother of the United States of America has dirt floors in his house with chickens running around as kids use old tires as toys?

I do. Not sure, but its possible another US President had a brother or other relative in similar circumstances.

In the 19th century.

 

[The Lady Kate]

yet you read it?

yet you defend it.

 

[The Lady Kate]

Don't find it interesting the half- brother of the United States of America has dirt floors in his house with chickens running around as kids use old tires as toys?

Living in a third-world country has that effect.

I do. Not sure, but its possible another US President had a brother or other relative in similar circumstances.

In the 19th century.

Feel bad for the Royal Family?

 

[WalksWithChrist]

yet you read it?

Well, how would I know if it was pointless and rambling if I didn't read it?

Don't find it interesting the half- brother of the United States of America has dirt floors in his house with chickens running around as kids use old tires as toys?

I do. Not sure, but its possible another US President had a brother or other relative in similar circumstances.

In the 19th century.

Quite interesting. Yes.

Am I concerned about it? Not particularly. Are you?

 

[RedDead1981]

Don't find it interesting the half- brother of the United States of America has dirt floors in his house with chickens running around as kids use old tires as toys?

I do. Not sure, but its possible another US President had a brother or other relative in similar circumstances.

In the 19th century.

I have a sneaking suspicion that if Obama brought his family over to the US or did something to directly improve their lives, you'd be on here posting threads about how he was abusing the power of his position to hand out favors to family members.

No pleasing people like you.

 

[Ar Cosc]

Yet you follow Voegelin like a deer after water in a desert, don't you?

Somebody has to tell him his agenda is getting boring by now. He didn't seem to get it the first couple of times

 

[The Lady Kate]

Somebody has to tell him his agenda is getting boring by now. He didn't seem to get it the first couple of times

Quite... it is only because of our concern for Voegelin and his desperate need to get a life beyond Obama that we follow him so.

 

[katherine2001]

It makes you wonder what is going to happen in 8 years when Obama's terms as President are finished and he doesn't have Obama to kick around anymore.

 

[Willtor]

This is shameful!

Obama should use the resources at his command to "improve" his family's life. Who's with me? Voegelin?

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As an aside, any real red-blooded American President would leverage his political power to benefit his friends, right? Someone should bring this tidbit to bear in the birther threads.

 

[kiwimac]

Oh, but there will be someone else for him to obsess over.

 

[Ar Cosc]

Oh, but there will be someone else for him to obsess over.

Will there? Or will we still be getting "Obama goes to shop, buys milk" threads when President Schwarznegger is in the White House?

 

[kiwimac]

Think of Arnie's re-election slogan; "I'll be back!"

 

[Yusuf Evans]

It makes you wonder what is going to happen in 8 years when Obama's terms as President are finished and he doesn't have Obama to kick around anymore.

8 years? that he's out after this term.

 

[laconicstudent]

That would only happen if there is an alternative candidate who would be better.

 

[Willtor]

Will there? Or will we still be getting "Obama goes to shop, buys milk" threads when President Schwarznegger is in the White House?

This reminds me of the ordeal when Obama was criticized for buying a swing set for his kids outside the oval office. It wasn't, "Oh, what a nice family man." It was, "Obama is wasting tax-payer dollars on a swing set while Americans lose their jobs!" Talk about dancing around the issues with irrelevant miscellany.