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Texpat

CNN
Feb 1, 2009

NAIROBI, Kenya -- George Obama, the half-brother of U.S. President Barack Obama, has been arrested by Kenyan police on a charge of possession of marijuana, police said Saturday.



George Obama was arrested in Kenya on a charge for possession of marijuana, according to police.

Inspector Augustine Mutembei, the officer in charge, said Obama was arrested on charges of possession of cannabis, known in Kenya as Bhang, and resisting arrest. He is scheduled to appear in court Monday, Mutembei said.

He is being held at Huruma police post in the capital of Nairobi.

Speaking from behind bars, Obama denied the allegations.

"They took me from my home," he said, "I don't know why they are charging me."

George Obama and the president barely know each other, though they have met. George Obama was one of the president's few close relatives who did not go to the inauguration in Washington last week.

In his memoir, "Dreams from My Father," Barack Obama describes meeting George as a "painful affair." Barack Obama's trip to Kenya meant meeting family he had never known.

McKenzie tracked down George Obama in August and found him at a small house in Huruma, a Nairobi slum, where he lives with his mother's extended family. His birth certificate shows that he is Barack Obama's half-brother.

The two men share a Kenyan father. In the memoir, Barack Obama struggles to reconcile with his father after he left him and his mother when he was just a child.
Barack Obama Sr. died in a car accident when George was just 6 months old. Like his half-brother, George hardly knew his father.

George was his father's last child and had not been aware of his famous half-brother growing up.

Unlike his grandmother in Kogela, in western Kenya, George Obama had received little attention from the media until reports about him surfaced in August.

The reports sprung from an Italian Vanity Fair article saying George Obama lived in a shack and was "earning less than a dollar a day." Those reports left George Obama 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, said at the time that he was learning to become a mechanic and was active in youth groups in Huruma. He said he tried to help the community as much as he can.

Obama's half-brother arrested on charge of marijuana possession - CNN.com

How embarrassing. Look at his eyes.

Rattanaburi

This is more interesting than just a right wing wank. It shows that people may try to use relatives of Obama against him. I wonder to what extent relatives of the president get protection or warning info from those protecting the president. I can see that it could have an affect on the president considering how connected he is to his relatives abroad.

Now imagine an American with a mother and father overseas becoming president. This person would have a lot more connection to those overseas. Just a thought. I have a feeling Obama's relatives will be exploited by governments or groups for political purposes. They are already exploited by Republicans.

ChiangMai noon

yes, tell us more.

i'm intrigued.

my brother and I know each other quite wll, yet he gets into all sorts of illegal shit, none of this reflects on me in any way whatsoever.

why is this embarrasing.

you right wing cranks really are clutching at straws.

FFS first homosexual accusations and now dope.

I bet you there will be claims that in both cases they sucked but didn't swallow!

impeach the negro upstart.

You can't call him a Negro! That's offensive.

Rightwinger have little to live for nowadays. The Enquirer is selling well in rightwing strongholds. Billy Oreilly said ' Yeah, I can work with this. It's not over for hateful spitters like me' Rush dropped his oxycontin down the toilet when he heard the story. Matt Drudge is scanning the Kenyan websites first think every morning. Finally with the black leader they all wanted to run for the presidency instead of McCain the rightwingers are ready to do their own moving on.

strange fukking split.

he's confused again.

Strange sub-forum as well.
This is a non-issue no matter how much the right-wingers want to make an issue around it.

Circle the wagons, boys!



fukk fukkety fukk fukking crappy twunty, twangy crap....

am i allowed to say that, after all 'impeach the negro upstart was allowed to remain in issues'.

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blackgang

and this is also a bunch of shit,, his 1/2 brother wasn't famous when he was growing up, not unless he grew up in the last few months cause less than a year ago I had never heard of that cotton chopping dude and no one else had either.

GooMaiRoo

Barak Obama's half brother George, a Kenyan whom he hardly knows, was arrested for possession of a doobie. George Bush's full brother Neil, while on the board of directors at Silverado Savings and Loan, approved of bogus loans that cost the US taxpayer over one billion dollars during the savings and loan scandal. As a US taxpayer, I'm relieved that Barak Obama has relatives like George Obama and not like Neil Bush.

Additionally, George and Neil Bush were raised by the same parents in the same household and instilled with the same values and attitudes. Barak and George Obama merely share the same gene pool on their father's side and nothing else.

Given that George Bush was a coke-snorting, former alcoholic, what on earth is the point of this thread? That, somehow, Barak Obama has a genetic predisposition to smoking pot? This thread is pure silliness by frustrated Foxbots grasping for straws.

Texpat

The president's brother is a dope!

Boon Mee

Just look at those red eyes! A dirty, stinkin' pot smoker if I ever saw one!

Butterfly

another lame thread from the typical sore losers,

and GW Bush was a cokehead, bet you didn't know that

Boon Mee

Gird yer loins 'cause it's gonna be like this for the next four years!

ChiangMai noon

why?

because you have decided it should be or you are going to actually look at the issues?

silly question.
don't respond.

ChiangMai noon

and make it 8 years, and probably a whole lot more.

doubtless there's another upstart negro being primed for 2016 as i type.

lom

So the only difference is that in the Bush family the black sheep became president.

Texpat

Isn't negro an offensive term?

ChiangMai noon

liberality is the new normality, you racist, redneck dinosaurs really need to get used to it.

Boon Mee

That's OK, I will...heh

It's gonna be 'like this' for the next four years 'cause it's called "payback'' for one thing. See - there's a lot of Old Testament-type of people left in the world who don't exactly buy into this kumbaya thing. You reap what you sow and as said, there's lots of payback to payback.

Perhaps we can couch it in even more simplestic terms some a yáll can grasp: KARMA!

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ChiangMai noon

carry on.

us kumbaya types would be disappointed to find you were intelligent enough not to act like 8 year olds.

off you go.
make us proud.

lom

Then up your game. You can't payback with strawmans.

Boon Mee

It's still eary days lom - standby...

ChiangMai noon

suck my balls boon.

Boon Mee

Back on topic:

You know, it's almost scary the parallels between Jimmuh & BO!

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