Obama’s “Two Americas”

Did you know that Barack Obama has a 26-year-old half brother who “lives on less than a dollar a month in the outer slums of Nairobi, Kenya?” Obama has met him only twice, and failed to mention him in his latest autobiography.

Andrew Breitbart calls out Obama on his “glass houses” mentality.

Someone who made $4.2 million last year and lives in a mansion that a mobster helped pay for should not be throwing stones. When Mr. Obama’s flesh-and-blood lives in squalor, raising the standard of living of his opponent’s extended family is probably not a smart idea.

It’s scary to think that this could be a preview of an Obama presidency in which attacking the rich is all the rage, and the rich in the news media pretend it’s OK. Hugo Chavez is having a helluva run bringing down his formerly prosperous nation of Venezuela with that formula.

…Does anyone think if Mr. McCain had a sibling living in a trailer park making minimum wage (892 times more than Mr. Obama’s half brother’s yearly income) that the mainstream media and the Obama campaign wouldn’t notice?

In fact, last week National Public Radio ran a piece titled, “Cindy McCain’s Half Sister ‘Angry’ She’s Hidden,” highlighting that Mr. McCain’s wife’s half sister was left out of her father’s will. The piece was duly filed under the publicly funded network’s “conservative compassion deficit” media template.

Yet Mr. Obama has a half brother who lives in Africa on three cents a day, and the story breaks in an Italian magazine and is picked up by a London newspaper and a few others in Australia.

Amen. Read the rest. They hypocrisy of the wealthy liberal — to whit, now that I’ve made mine I’m going to jack up your taxes — never ceases to amaze me.

By the way, McCain did screw up on the house thing. All he had to say was “I own one house with my wife, and her family owns several investment properties.”