Say Anything Blog

Remember what Barack Obama had to say about the morality of Americans during the Saddleback forum?

“Americans’ greatest moral failure in my lifetime,” he said, “has been that we still don’t abide by that basic precept in Matthew that whatever you do for the least of my brothers, you do for me.”

Well perhaps Senator Hypocrite should practice what he preaches a bit:

  Barack Obama has lived one version of the American Dream that has taken him to the steps of the White House. But a few miles from where the Democratic presidential candidate studied at Harvard, his Kenyan aunt and uncle, immigrants living in modest circumstances in Boston, have a contrasting American story.

  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. …

  In his book Mr Obama writes that “Uncle Omar” had gone missing after moving to Boston in the 1960s – a quarter-century before Mr Obama first visited his family in Kenya. Aunt Zeituni is now also living in Boston, and recently made a $260 campaign contribution to her nephew’s presidential bid from a work address in the city.

Take a moment and think about that.  Obama, a rich politician and author by his own admission, is letting a relative he lovingly alluded to in one of his own books live in low-rent housing in Boston.  Doesn’t that make it seem as though he used his aunt as little more than a prop?  Something with which he decorated his own background and then discarded when he no longer needed?

And then, of course, there’s Obama’s half brother who lives in a shack in Kenya.

Obama spends a lot of time on the campaign trail championing himself as an advocate for the poor and downtrodden.  But this man isn’t even an advocate for the poor and downtrodden in his own family.

Barack Obama is only out for Barack Obama.