Obama's Brother
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/…
Is this BS or am I the only one here that thinks this is fascinating?
Didn't Bill Clinton have some kind of recluse brother as well?
And whatever happened to Frank Stallone?
- nicnichols0
I just posted the same link in the McCain thread..
wtf would Obama leave his own brother to live like that?or is his brother just "Too Black" for Obama?
- half brother. you are a judgemental fuckhead, seriously.mrdobolina
- Either way thats flesh and blood. I have a half sister, but I never use the word 'half'nicnichols
- Family is Family.. and if he won't help his own, what will he do for yours?nicnichols
- you read 100 words about it and have this hard of a stance already, you're a prick.mrdobolina
- either way the republicans are going to eat it up._niko
- I am a prick? dobs, how can you type while hugging that tree? Do us a favor and go wash your Prius...nicnichols
- (on the lawn, so you don't waste water...)nicnichols
- jesus dobs, stop cussing.kuzzAAAAM
- nic, you have no fucking idea about me, but run your mouth like an idiot anyway. no wonder you are a republican.mrdobolina
- dobs, I am not a republican, and I have stated such several times..
nicnichols - you said you and your entire family were republicans just the other day in a thread.mrdobolina
- my FAMILY IS.. I am not.. I was RAISED in by them, now I live on my own.. actually take the time to read dobs, ..nicnichols
- not just spew cusses and sling shit at people..nicnichols
- you said you were a republican. you sure sound like one.mrdobolina
- wow dobs you missed your calling as Ms. Cleo... so what color shirt am I wearing?nicnichols
- what thread was that comment in? I'll go check it and apologize if I am wrong.mrdobolina
- Not interested in clearing it up?mrdobolina
- ukit0
The Illinois senator mentions his brother in his autobiography, describing him in just one passing paragraph as a "beautiful boy with a rounded head".
LOL
- damn thats cold!nicnichols
- Sounds like a penis to me.********
- nicnichols0
With all the talk about him being "African American" (even though he is not...) wouldn't this be a great story if he rescued his brother from squalor and gave him a better life?
- If he really cared, wouldn't he have already done so?such
- WHO CARES WHAT HE IS HE IS A HUMANorangecrunch
- detritus0
If that's true, that's Obama's hopes fucked.
- No.********
- Sadly, yes.detritus
- Don't you live in England? WTF do you know?********
- This will have little to no effect on the election :|NONEIS
- Not a big storyukit
- You just made yourself look bad, dskzJaline
- Oops, of course!
I only pay attention to my own back yard - you're right, how ignorant of me.detritus - well, you are wrong detrius, but no point in bringing your location into things.NONEIS
- Right, but it's OK for other people to comment about detritus not being an American?Jaline
- I sincerely hope I am wrong, but this kind of shit is like sweet crude oil in the cogs of the political spin machine.detritus
- Yeah its a US election and if you cant vote then why sling mud?********
- That argument never works.Jaline
- Who's slinging mud?
I'm on "Obama's side", man.detritus - I just see it as a waste of time. But I guess since the world sucks the US cock so feverishly they are interested.********
- D: You just were so quick to be negative, it seems like you were feeding the sharks********
- I mean that if you cant vote, its a waste of time.********
- Right. So we shouldn't discuss the U.S.A., even though they could affect politics around the world...Jaline
- Im sure as hell not discussing Canada. I like Canada though. But unless they are invading someone...********
- I guess I see why you would be interested...********
- I cant believe we are in this tiny box.********
- No.
- ********0
"I have seen two of my friends killed. I have scars from defending myself with my fists. I am good with my fists."
- BattleAxe0
O Brother Where Art Thou?
- sherm0
this pisses me off.
- nicnichols0
Honestly, I am not hating on the bama, but if one of my family members was living like that, I would help.. especially as he has the money to do so..
Family should come first..
- yes you are, mccain left his first wife in the fucking hospital to mary cindy, you don't care about that though.mrdobolina
- you should talk to ponyboy.
then post after...e-pill - "Family", is sometimes defined more by who you love and grow with than pure genetics.NONEIS
- crickets.mrdobolina
- TheBlueOne0
Why having a drug using alcoholic failure of a brother didn't keep Jeb Bush from becoming Governor of Florida, now did it?
- kezza_20
meh
- ********0
The brother was LOST. Can't blame Obama for that.
- If Vanity Fair could find him, I'm sure Obama has some resources he could have used too.such
- lowimpakt0
it makes a good analogy for the structural inequality of the world.
That and a failed presidential campaign.
- CALLES0
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- Is this another self-portrait Calles?********
- mmm Crack and Peanut Butter!nicnichols
- PB&Crack SamichJG_LB
- Is this another self-portrait Calles?
- Jaline0
I'd like to hear the entire story.
- lowimpakt0
mcCain left his what in the where?
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totally irrelevant
- That's all the republican operatives have - irrelevant emotional shit.TheBlueOne
- ********0
how about mccain's black daughter?
- sherm0
@ e-pill
on one level, the media is putting his personal shit out there.
on another level, he is disconnected from his own brother and lives in luxury while the other guy lives on a dolla a week or something? wtf- i dont care really but thanks.e-pill
- don't ask why then give me a "meh" when i elaborate.sherm
- no you shouldnt eloborate as no one carese-pill
- http://www.qbn.com/t…Jaline
- hey sherm ..
http://edd-e.com/nt_…
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- ukit0
Is it better or worse than this?
- ukit0
When Cindy McCain talks about growing up, she usually refers to herself as an "only child" -- a phrase that ignores the existence of her half sisters.
"It's terribly painful," Kathleen Hensley Portalski said yesterday. "It is as if she is the 'real' daughter. I am also a real daughter."
Portalski and McCain are both children of the late Jim Hensley, the Arizona businessman who founded one of the largest beer distributorships in the nation. Kathleen, 65, is the product of Hensley's first marriage in the 1930s to Mary Jeanne Parks. Hensley divorced Parks for Marguerite "Smitty" Johnson, whom he met at a West Virginia hospital in World War II and married in 1945. Cindy was born nine years later.
The half sisters had little contact growing up and have not spoken since Hensley's funeral in 2000. In his will, he left just $10,000 to his older daughter; Cindy inherited her father's multimillion-dollar fortune.
Portalski told our colleague Kimberly Kindy that she stood quietly by for decades while her father lavished attention on his second family. But the past few months -- with Cindy McCain's glowing childhood memories and repeated references to being her father's only child -- finally became too much. "I was his family, too," she said from her home in Phoenix. "I saw him at Christmas and I spent my birthdays with him."
But there's more: Cindy McCain has another half sister. Before her marriage to Hensley, Johnson had a daughter, Dixie Burd, by a previous relationship. Burd, who is much older than Cindy, could not be reached for comment.
The McCain campaign has been tight-lipped about the expanded family tree: "Mrs. McCain was raised as the only child of Jim and Marguerite Hensley, and there was no familiar relationship with any other sibling," it said in a statement.
The messy saga went public after McCain talked about her childhood in an NPR interview. Portalski's son, Nicholas, contacted the network to clarify the family history and his mother's feelings about being overlooked. "I'm upset," she told NPR. "I'm angry. It makes me feel like a nonperson, kind of."
Money, of course, has exacerbated the family tensions. The multimillionaire Hensley only occasionally saw his older daughter -- and was emotionally distant when he did, according to her son -- but gave Portalski and her children money and college tuition. But when he died eight years ago, Hensley bequeathed Cindy the majority share of his company. (Andrew McCain, John's son from his first marriage, is now the chief financial officer.) Portalski got no share of the business, and support to her family was abruptly cut off.
"It doesn't make any kind of sense at all,'' Portalski said yesterday. "He was generous over the years when I was growing up, so it doesn't compute that he would do that; that he would leave all of us out. He paid for college for two of my kids. He gave us yearly gifts that were generous, allowed for a down payment on a home. I felt shock and disbelief. I just wish I could ask him, 'Why?' "
Her son, Nicholas, asked for a copy of the will and said it had been amended so many times that it was hard to tell what the original intent or language must have been.
Now, she said, all she wants is for the McCains to apologize and acknowledge her branch of the family tree. (Since you asked: Yes, they're Democrats.) "He was my father, too. I don't know why even now he cannot be a part of my life."
- you can type a lot... im impressed, id vote for you for "he who types a lot"e-pill
- get outraged Nic, no double standards.mrdobolina