[Rhodes22-list] Politics 08 - Welcome to the Republican Socialist Agenda

[Brad Haslett]

Pete,

Am I still handing out $100 bills?  Sure am, the last one was to the
Sen. Obama school in Kenya.  Attached is another good cause that could
use some dough.  Why don't you make a donation, I am.

Brad

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George Obama, Start Packing
Dinesh D'Souza
Monday, September 22, 2008

So isn't it interesting that we keep hearing about Sarah Palin's
peccadilloes while the major media continues to ignore the George
Obama scandal? Here is a guy living in Third World poverty and his
half-brother is the leading candidate to become the next president of
the United States. Are the networks and major newspapers so
exhilarated at the prospect of an African American president that they
have become cheerleaders for the Obama campaign? Fortunately the
McCain campaign is making the media an issue, and I hope the American
people are smart enough to see through the news charade.

Here are the facts about George Obama. He's in his twenties. He lives
in a slum in a hut. He wants to become a mechanic but doesn't have the
money. He reports that he gets by on a dollar a month. He met George
Obama in 2006 for a few minutes and said it was like talking to a
"total stranger." He said when people notice he has the same name as
Barack Obama, he denies they are related because he is "ashamed." The
Democratic presidential candidate, who made $4 million last year,
hasn't lifted a finger to help his half-brother.

My modest campaign to assist George Obama has been coming nicely. Sean
Hannity mentioned it on his show on the Fox News Channel, and I
appeared on a handful of radio shows to talk about the idea.
Interestingly the George Obama Compassion Fund was reported on by
Kenya's leading newspaper "The Nation." So far I have received more
than $1,000 in small contributions. With my kickoff contribution of
$1,000, that's upwards of $2,000 for George Obama.

This is not a huge sum, but I specifically asked people to send gifts
of $5, $10 and $25. The reason is that even a relatively modest sum by
American standards is a considerable sum by Kenyan standards. George
Obama has said that he is living on a dollar a month. This seems an
impossible sum to survive on, so I checked the poverty line in Kenya.
According to United Nations estimates, it's around $100 a year. By
this measure, our little fund has provided for George for 20 years.
Alternatively, George can move out of his 6 foot-by-10-foot hut and
into a more comfortable dwelling. He can also get the training he
needs to become a mechanic.

The reporter for "The Nation" thought he had me cornered when he
asked, "Are you doing this to embarrass Barack Obama?" To which I
answered, "Absolutely. He deserves to be embarrassed." The reporter
went on to ask me: since when have you developed this great interest
in African poverty? I responded that I had only very little interest
in African poverty. I happen to come from a very poor country, India,
so my philanthropic work is directed there. I only took up the George
Obama cause when I heard what a jerk and a hypocrite Barack Obama is
being about his sibling. One Obamoron emailed me to say, "Why don't
you use your money to help your own impoverished relatives in India?"
The answer is that my relatives don't live in huts!

Here are some donor comments which I'll be forwarding to George along
with the funds. "This is for the poor brother long forgotten." "A
brother is a terrible thing to waste." "I wish I had a brother, or
even a step-brother. George is not my relative and not my race or
religion but I still want to contribute to his welfare." "When Obama
said that not taking care of the least of our brothers is our greatest
moral failure, who knew that he was talking literally about the least
of his brothers?" "I never thought I'd be writing a check to anyone
named Obama, but I do want to be a true Christian and help this man in
his shameful situation." "I'd send more, but I make $9.10 per hour."
"I'm unemployed, but I can spare $5 for the Obama Compassion Fund."

I hear a lot from atheists, but interestingly no self-identified
atheist contributed a penny. This seems in keeping with sociologist
Arthur Brooks' data showing that secular people are much less
generous, both with money and time, than religious people. As Brooks
might have predicted, most of my donations came from self-identified
Christians, some of them in difficult circumstances themselves. Thanks
to this generosity, Barack Obama's half-brother can look forward to
the prospect of a better life. George Obama, start packing!


On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 11:32 AM, petelargo <petelauritzen at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> On 60 minutes last night, John McCain admitted that the George Bush
> Presidency has increased the federal government more than any other
> administration in history.  Of course the same goes for the federal deficit,
> more than any other administration in history and erosion of civil
> liberties, more than any other in history.  This so-called conservatism of
> privatizing the profits and socializing the losses is disgusting. You call
> yourselves conservatives?! What a joke. No party has done more to shove a
> socialist agenda up our arses than you who support this 'brand' of
> republicanism.
>
> Is Brad still handing out those $100 dollar bills?
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