Thread: Obama's half-brother held on drugs charge

Obama's half brother arrested on charge of marijuana possession

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/01 ... index.html


NAIROBI, Kenya (CNN) -- 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.

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.

CNN Correspondent David McKenzie talked with George Obama at the jail where he is being held. 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 before. 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.

George Obama and the president barely know each other, though they have met before. 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 2008 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 he is Barack Obama's half brother.

The two men share the same 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 until he rose to prominence in the Democratic primaries last year.

Unlike his grandmother in Kogela, in western Kenya, George Obama had received little attention from the media until reports about him surfaced in August 2008.

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.

McKenzie tracked down George Obama in August 2008 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 he is Barack Obama's half brother.

Well at least George Obama has a REAL BIRTH CERTIFICATE. Can McKenzie get a REAL copy of Barack Obama's birth certificate?

Anyway, the apple doesnt fall far from the tree does it?

I support Ron Paul, Dana Rohrbacher, Barney Frank and others, who say decriminalize marijuana. We need the space for detaining criminal illegal aliens.

Originally Posted by Richard

I support Ron Paul, Dana Rohrbacher, Barney Frank and others, who say decriminalize marijuana. We need the space for detaining criminal illegal aliens.

But just think how much money beer seller McCain will lose. Hey actually that is another reason to legalize marijuana!

Maybe George O. Shouldn't have been hanging around the US Embassy blowin' rope.

I didn't realize George was so young. Why hasn't Obama been a mentor to him?

Seriously, Obama is the mighty Socialist that is going to help all the little people but from what I've seen in his personal life, he hasn't helped the people closest to him. He has shown a pattern of not practicing what he preaches. I believe that is what you call a hypocrite.

The people we know about...



George Obama his brother and Aunt Zeituni Onyango that is poor enough to obtain public housing.

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Childhood friend Keith Kakugawa whom Obama calls "Ray" in his book.
Ray is on the right with an unamed man.
That might be the Old Mazda Kawugawa is living out of.

This is just interesting because I have friends and relatives that I help out and I don't make the kind of money Obama does but he wants to take my taxes and give it to someone the government decides deserves my money. I should be exempt from taxation for Socialist programs.

Dixie

Real socialists will say they want the strong to help the weak. In practice the poor wind up paying for the poor.

Originally Posted by Dixie

Seriously, Obama is the mighty Socialist that is going to help all the little people but from what I've seen in his personal life, he hasn't helped the people closest to him. He has shown a pattern of not practicing what he preaches. I believe that is what you call a hypocrite.
Dixie

Wealthy liberals all want someone else to pick up the tab to cover their guilt. Nothing hypocrital to them.