8/22/2008 at 7:01 pm   
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Forum Posts: 11634   Barry has a brother. He lives in Africa. How cool is that? He lives a very green lifestyle. Maybe his brother could get him in the Sierra Club. Let's meet Baraks brother, shall we?

It has been a mixed week for Sen. Barack H. Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate. On the one hand, a Reuters/Zogby poll announced the junior senator from Illinois' 7-point lead over Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential candidate, has dissolved into a 5-point deficit. Mr. McCain now leads him 46 percent to 41 percent. On the other hand, the media have discovered Mr. Obama's long-lost half-brother, George Hussein Onyango (also spelled Owango) living quietly in Kenya. Among the rustics who compose the Democratic base, this discovery can only help Mr. Obama.

   8/22/2008 at 7:02 pm   
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Forum Posts: 11634 According to the Reuters/Zogby poll, the Democratic front-runner has slipped with almost every category of Democratic voter: Catholics, Evangelicals, vegetarians, nudists, flagpole-sitters - you name it. Yet the slippage has been greatest among the senator's core supporters, the liberals. Among them he has dropped 12 percent. Part of the reason for this drop, Zogby speculates, owes to the candidate's efforts to sidle toward the political mainstream. Zogby mentions Mr. Obama's switch from opposing all offshore oil drilling to accepting limited drilling.

   8/22/2008 at 7:02 pm   
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Forum Posts: 11634 Brother George will assuage the concerns of many of these liberals. According to the Italian edition of Vanity Fair, George lives in a hut in bucolic Hurma, Kenya, a few miles outside Nairobi. His residence is the epitome of "green," using no electricity, cooled solely by gentle breezes, and with no plumbing to pollute nearby waters, if there are nearby waters. George leaves almost no carbon footprint. He does not drive an automobile. In fact, he lives a very Spartan existence, spending only "a dollar a month," as he apprised Vanity Fair in an exclusive interview; though other sources report an expenditure of a dollar a day. At any rate, his consumption of the world's resources is minimal.

   8/22/2008 at 7:03 pm   
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Forum Posts: 11634 Actually, it is not completely accurate to say the brother George is Mr. Obama's "long-lost" sibling, for he met his brother when George was 5 years old, two decades ago. In "Dreams From My Father," Mr. Obama's autobiography, he recalls George as a "beautiful boy with a rounded head." As a writer, the senator has an eye for detail. George tells Vanity Fair that the two met again in 2006 when Mr. Obama was touring East Africa and visited Nairobi. Apparently the meeting did not go well. As George recalls it, "We spoke for just a few minutes. It was like meeting a complete stranger." George is only 26, which could help his brother shore up the youth vote back in the United States, a vote that is often unreliable. 

   8/22/2008 at 7:03 pm   
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Forum Posts: 11634 Frankly, I find it curious that Mr. Obama has not brought George onto the campaign trail with him. Perhaps he has been saving George for the Democratic National Convention. The convention will abound with so many of the enthusiasts who in the recent primary season plucked Illinois' junior senator from relative obscurity and elevated him above the likes of Sen. Hillary Clinton and the widely admired former Sen. John Edwards in the presidential sweepstakes. I have in mind the environmentalists, the enemies of the giant corporations, the Angry Left, the Even Angrier Left - most of whom have never dirtied their hands in politics or, for that matter, any civic involvement whatsoever.

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