Separating Left From Right
Tigherhawk make this observation about who should be in charge of assisting family members:
This story is eerily reminiscent of the moment back in December 2007 when Obama seemed to brag that his grandmother lived in a “hut” back in Kenya. The press ate it up, but he dropped that talking point after conservative bloggers wondered why he had not helped the poor woman pay for a better house. Call me a bonehead, but we are beginning to see a pattern here. Indeed, I have finally figured out why somebody who has been as successful as Barack Obama believes that the government must help people who cannot or do not help themselves: He simply does not understand that helping the poor, unlucky, or incompetent is first the responsibility of family.
October 31st, 2008 at 8:37 am
Or maybe he wasn’t too keen on helping the mother of the father he barely knew. “[Barack’s parents] separated when he was two years old and later divorced.[5] Obama’s father returned to Kenya and saw his son only once more before dying in an automobile accident in 1982.”
I’m sure he and his father were close.