Once Again, Obama "Did Not Know"

"Barack Obama did not know a relative was living in the United States illegally for the past nearly four years prior to today's Associated Press report," reports Politico.com.



Obama seems to be unaware of far too much. He doesn't know about his poor aunt illegally in the United States just as he doesn't know about the inexcusable hatred spewed by Reverend Wright, Bill Ayers, and Rashid Khalidi. Obama knows so little about what is going on around him that any rational person has to ask how he is going to be able to keep our nation free and secure.

He speaks of redistributive justice and today said "I will change the world," yet he managed to forget about his own poor relative living in the US. How very convenient.

As a matter of fact, this not the first time we have heard of Obama's complete neglect of his own family members. Barack Obama's half-brother George Obama lives in a hut in Kenya and according to reports Barack has offered no help.

For those who may wonder why issues such as this make a difference, I shall explain. Firstly, they help us understand the character of our potential next President. Secondly, Barack Obama has said that McCain's opposition to the Obama tax plan makes a virtue out of "selfishness." He has called raising taxes on "the rich" a matter of "neighborliness." His VP candidate Joe Biden has called paying taxes "patriotic." Yet when one looks at Barack Obama and his lack of charitable giving, care, and compassion toward his own blood one realizes there is something very wrong with the philosophy of the Democratic candidate. Barack Obama seems to feel that charity is a governmental duty. He seems to to think it is the duty of the government, be it the courts or the legislature, to impose "redistributive change." He believes it is the government's job to "spread the wealth around." This is the liberal creed where the government has become the complete substitute for any individual kindness and charity. Obama seems to think charity is the job of government, not the community. Obama talks about his compasssion for helping the underdog, yet he has not done anyting to help his own family.

Obama's own charitable giving has been examined and it is very revealing. Professor Arthur C. Brooks, the Louis A. Bantle Professor at the Syracuse University's Maxwell School and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, has written about the charitable giving of Barack Obama. Professor Brooks notes that "between 2000 and 2004" the Obamas "gave less than one percent of their income to charity, far lower than the national average. Their giving rose to a laudable five percent in 2005 and six percent in 2006, with the explosion of their annual income to near $1 million, and the advent of Mr. Obama’s national political aspirations (representing a rare case in which political ambition apparently led to social benefit). According to an Obama spokesman, the couple’s miserly charity until 2005 'was as generous as they could be at the time,' given their personal expenses. In other words, despite an annual average income over the period of about $244,000, they simply could not afford to give anything meaningful....

The Obamas got rich in 2005. Their income increased sevenfold from 2004 to 2005, mostly because of Mr. Obama’s book royalties, and stayed very high in 2006 for the same reason. In 2005, another wealthy political couple with significant book royalties was Mr. and Mrs. Cheney, who had a combined income of $8.8 million, largely due to Mrs. Cheney’s books and the couple’s investment income. Just how much did the Cheneys give to charity from their bonanza? A measly 78 percent of their income, or $6.9 million. (No, that is not a misprint.)"

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