posted February 05, 2012 10:36 AM            

It's been 4 years since O'Bomber made the statement.."We're all our brother's keepers", yet O'Bomber's brother is still living in poverty in Kenya on the same $12 per year income today as in 2008.

Given that O'Bomber is a multi-millionaire, he has no business whatsoever bringing up that issue at a religious...Prayer Breakfast in Washington DC.

Obviously, O'Bomber doesn't believe his own rhetoric. In addition to which, it's unseemly for O'Bomber to use biblical references in his campaign when he's outright the most anti-religious president in US history.

It's just another facet of O'Bomber's phony persona...and another manifestation of the "do as I say, not as I do" mentality of leftists.

Steyn rips Obama’s ‘Brother’s keeper’ remark: ‘His brother is back in Kenya living on $12 a year’
02/03/2012
Jeff Poor

On Thursday, President Barack Obama delivered remarks to the National Prayer Breakfast at the Washington Hilton and said, “Living by the principle that we are our brother’s keeper, caring for the poor and those in need.”

But according to National Review columnist Mark Steyn, author of “After America: Get Ready for Armageddon,” Obama’s comments leave much to be desired, particularly when it comes to the president’s own brother, George Hussein Onyango Obama who lives on $12 a year in Kenya.

“Oh give me a break,” Steyn said on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show on Thursday night. “For a start, when he says, ‘I am my brother’s keeper,’ his brother is back in Kenya living on $12 a year. That’s what he was living on at the time of the 2008 election. So all the president has to do in terms of shared responsibility is put a $10 bill in an envelope and mail it to Nairobi or Mombasa or wherever and he will double his brother’s salary.”

At issue is the Obama administration’s effort to require Catholic institutions to provide contraception. Steyn explained this is part of “big government” trying to supplant the church as a source of “moral authority.”

“This version of shared responsibility means the state should be your ‘brother’s keeper,’” he said. “And this is the point for the Catholic Church. Separation of church and state is one thing, but big government means the state as church, the sole legitimate source of moral authority whether it’s on contraception or gay marriage or abortion or any of the rest. And that’s what you see in Europe. Big government drives out other sources of moral authority.”

posted March 30, 2012 12:28 PM            

"I'm proud of how I live," he told The Associated Press in an interview over the summer. "(The media) are tarnishing the family name."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/31/george-obama-obamas-half-_n_162775.html

maybe obama knows more about his brother than you or the writer above do? it seems reports of his income do not agree even with each other...

this judging others by one's own standards is the basis of the lynch mentality.

posted March 30, 2012 12:39 PM            

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Originally posted by jwhop:
Gee, since O'Bomber says we're all our "brother's keepers" but as of the start date of this thread...or at any other time either...O'Bomber still hadn't sent HIS BROTHER GEORGE one thin dime. Let alone a sawbuck which would have doubled HIS BROTHER'S income.

You have to wonder if hypocrites of the "do as I say, not as I do" variety really think no one notices.

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Great point Jwhop!

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posted March 30, 2012 12:58 PM            

i would hate to have either of you on a jury if i were the defendant OR the plaintiff!

posted March 30, 2012 02:58 PM            

I notice the BROTHER GEORGE, did not dispute the facts that THE ONE, THE LEFTIST MESSIAH O'BOMBER, hasn't sent him a dime.

posted April 05, 2012 03:57 PM            

But, does anyone know where this biblical saying..."my brother's keeper" actually comes from?

Not only is O'Bomber an economic, domestic and foreign policy dunce and hypocrite of the first order, he's also a biblical dunce to boot...or, he would have known from whence that reference..."my brother's keeper" came.

April 5, 2012
Obama Misquotes Bible on Wealth Redistribution
By W.A. Beatty

Liberals/Progressives/Democrats say the Bible is off-limits when it addresses the subject of homosexuality, homosexual marriage, abortion, or any issue liberals favor but the Bible condemns. But it's permitted to be used when wealth-redistribution is being discussed. The only problem is that when President Barack Hussein Obama quoted from the Bible, he both took his quotation out of context and got it wrong.

On Friday, March 30, 2012, in an address to supporters at the University of Vermont in Burlington, VT, Obama condemned what he called "you're-on-your-own economics," arguing for policies that involve transferring wealth from one group of citizens to another to support providing public schools with more money for teachers' salaries; supporting companies developing bio-fuels, electric batteries, and wind and solar power; and funding scientists who are researching climate change. Obama then quoted from Genesis to support his argument for more taxes and wealth redistribution.

Obama said, "I hear politicians talking about values in an election year. I hear a lot about that. Let me tell you about values. Hard work, personal responsibility - those are values. But looking out for one another. That's a value. The idea that we're all in this together. I am my brother's keeper. I am my sister's keeper. That's a value."

Obama said, "I am my brother's keeper. I am my sister's keeper." The "brother's keeper" quote comes from the book of Genesis. But when the entire story is presented, a quite different message comes forth:

(1)Adam made love to his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, "With the help of the LORD I have brought forth a man."
(2)Later she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil.
(3)In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the LORD.
(4)And Abel also brought an offering - fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering,
(5)but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast.
(6)Then the LORD said to Cain, "Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast?
(7)If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.
(8)Now Cain said to his brother Abel, "Lets go out to the field." While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.
(9)Then the LORD said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?"

"I don't know," he replied. "Am I my brother's keeper?"
(10)The LORD said, "What have you done? Listen! Your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground[.]"

By the way, I searched the NIV Bible, with "brother's keeper" as my search argument, and found reference only to Genesis 4:9, so Obama cannot plead "wrong verse."

Further, the Hebrew word for "keeper" is what a prison guard does, keeping prisoners in cells. Abel was a keeper of flocks, not a lamb that needed "keeping." A "keeper" implies control of a flock of docile, stupid, incompetent, wandering, helpless...sheep. The only economic function of sheep is to be sheared. The State has been the "keeper" of the poor for so long that many of them act like caged animals, fed through the bars of their limited freedom, beholden to the State for sustenance.

This passage has become a familiar one in liberal political and theological circles. The liberal interpretation of this passage is that each man owes his neighbor property, confiscated from the rich through political action. We are supposedly the guardians of the poor, the infirm, and the feebleminded. We have this responsibility, liberals say, as members of the body politic, not as Christian individuals, members of churches, or contributors to voluntary charities. (See page 215 of Dr. North's referenced PDF.)

So the question is, "Is Obama (or his teleprompter) suggesting that we 'keep' our brothers?" Is being kept what Obama really has in mind? The verse Obama misquoted asks a question of a liar (Cain knew where his brother was) and a murderer. To use Cain's reply to God as justification for wealth redistribution is like using the quotation usually attributed to Joseph Stalin -- "You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs" -- to support "change."

A better illustration of care would be the Good Samaritan in the tenth chapter of Luke, but that wouldn't work for Obama because the Samaritan used his own money.

posted April 05, 2012 04:33 PM            

a)misquoted the bible...he didn't quote it but used a phrase out of it - that is used on an everyday basis by someone - to describe an attitude

b) ignored the "plight" of his brother which isn't even estimated the same by two different reports ($12 a year does NOT equal a dollar a day, for instance)

and which

c) ignores his brother's own words regarding the situation

d) is so contorted by hatred of obama it makes no sense WHATSOEVER.

just because the phrase "brother's keeper" is in the bible doesn't mean one can only use it in the sense cain used it.

just because YOU have no record of obama helping his brother doesn't mean he hasn't, privately - as a lot of people help friends and family

and just because you hate obama gives you no right to judge his half-brother's life in american terms either.

this is one big prefab storm in a teacup based on suppositions, lies and hatred.