Smearing Barack By ‘Helping’ His Half-Brother: The Daily Nation, Kenya

This of course is merely a rhetorical question: Does Dinesh D’Souza, one of the rightest-right-wing activists in America today, really want to help Barack Obama’s Kenyan half-brother out of a life of poverty, or does he simply want to to embarrass the Democratic Presidential nominee?

According to Philip Ochieng of Kenya’s Daily Nation, the answer is clearly the latter – and emotions are running high:

Ochieng writes of D’Souza in part:

“‘You’ are merely trying to embarrass the Senator. The urge in your puny mind is to convince the world that Barack is a skinflint who cares nothing about helping his own brother out of a quagmire. You are telling Americans that the man seeking their votes is a sadist whose entire paternal clan in Kenya is perishing from hunger. You say (not a word!) of your evident view that Barack is a leader unto the darkness of death and that the American electorate should reject him outright. You resort to the cheapest, meanest tactics to thwart a candidate’s quest. You are a godforsaken liar. ”

By Philip Ochieng

September 13, 2008

Kenya – The Daily Nation – Original Article (English)

Barack Obama’s popularity can be gauged by the growing desperation with which his enemies are fighting him. Some self-appointed individuals are now busy collecting money from Americans to lift one of Barack’s Kenyan siblings [George Hussein Onyango Obama] out of poverty. A man who may be a Kenyan of Goan origin, is seeking to “rescue” Obama’s half-brother from “misery” in a Nairobi slum. Don’t you smell a rat?

[The man raising money for Obama's brother is Dinesh D'Souza, an ultra-conservative Republican and supporter of John McCain, who was born in Mumbai, India - not Goa ]

First, to live in a slum isn’t necessarily to be a pauper. I know individuals with lots of money who live permanently in such areas.

Secondly, where was this latter-day savior before Barack appeared in the news pages? Why is it that he’s only interested in helping the relative of a celebrity, whereas hunger is rasping millions of other Kenyans?

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