Obama arrested in Kenya for marijuana possession/resisting arrest!!

[웃 910]

NAIROBI, Kenya (CNN) -- George Obama, the half brother of U.S. President Barack Obama, has been arrested by Kenyan police on a charge of possession of marijuana, police said Saturday.

George Obama was arrested in Kenya on a charge for possession of marijuana, according to police. Inspector Augustine Mutembei, the officer in charge, said Obama was arrested on charges of possession of cannabis, known in Kenya as Bhang, and resisting arrest. He is scheduled to appear in court Monday, Mutembei said. He is being held at Huruma police post in the capital of Nairobi. CNN Correspondent David McKenzie talked with George Obama at the jail where he is being held. Speaking from behind bars, Obama denied the allegations. "They took me from my home," he said, "I don't know why they are charging me." George Obama and the president barely know each other, though they have met before. George Obama was one of the president's few close relatives who did not go to the inauguration in Washington last week. In his memoir, "Dreams from My Father," Barack Obama describes meeting George as a "painful affair." Barack Obama's trip to Kenya meant meeting family he had never known. McKenzie tracked down George Obama in August 2008 and found him at a small house in Huruma, a Nairobi slum, where he lives with his mother's extended family. His birth certificate shows he is Barack Obama's half brother. The two men share the same Kenyan father. In the memoir, Barack Obama struggles to reconcile with his father after he left him and his mother when he was just a child. Barack Obama Sr. died in a car accident when George was just 6 months old. Like his half brother, George hardly knew his father. George was his father's last child and had not been aware of his famous half brother until he rose to prominence in the Democratic primaries last year. Unlike his grandmother in Kogela, in western Kenya, George Obama had received little attention from the media until reports about him surfaced in August 2008. The reports sprung from an Italian Vanity Fair article saying George Obama lived in a shack and was "earning less than a dollar a day." Those reports left George Obama angry. "I was brought up well. I live well even now," he said. "The magazines, they have exaggerated everything. "I think I kind of like it here. There are some challenges, but maybe it is just like where you come from, there are the same challenges," Obama said. Obama, who is in his mid-20s, said at the time that he was learning to become a mechanic and was active in youth groups in Huruma. He said he tried to help the community as much as he can.

George Obama:

[Peikko 1,575]

Sleaze by association or just 'telling it how it is'?

I feel empathy for any of his larger family, particularly those who don't live in the US. Their every move will be scrutinized for any suggestion of 'anti-social' or other toxic behaviours and the 'news' will bring forth these oh so titillating non events as this to the eyes of the world. Can we get any more voyeuristic than we are? I guess we can.

[jundp 191]

Can we get any more voyeuristic than we are? I guess we can.

Oh PH, you know we can.

[Nagishkaw 510]

He got nipped in the bud.

[peejay 327]

Reminds me of the antics of Billy Carter, the beer swigging embarrasment of his brother Jimmy Carter. Or even Slick Willy's doper brother.

[Peikko 1,575]

Clearly, we need to sweep the dems out of office and restore proper values.

Things that lead to the destruction of the social fabric:

Gays

Condoms

Abortion

Divorce

Women in the workplace

Unmarried mothers

Drugs

Gays

Transvestites

Alcohol

Gays

Stem cell research

Dimocrats

Gays

Have I missed anything?

Oh, of course

Illegal immigrants

Oops, I forgot

Savages

[Peikko 1,575]

I now need a list of things that restore society:

Personal responsibility

Guns

Abstinence (Drugs/alcohol and Sex)

Women dressing modestly

Hangings

Corporal punishment.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

marijuana smoking should be mandatory

[lostinblue 1,989]

Maybe a few billion sent over there will buy a get out of jail free card. Just add another line of pork to the bill.

[alienlovechild 75]

Barack Obama describes meeting George as a "painful affair." Barack Obama's trip to Kenya meant meeting family he had never known.

Now we know why he won't be getting an invitation to the White House.

[peejay 327]

Clearly, we need to sweep the dems out of office and restore proper values.

Things that lead to the destruction of the social fabric:

Gays

Condoms

Abortion

Divorce

Women in the workplace

Unmarried mothers

Drugs

Gays

Transvestites

Alcohol

Gays

Stem cell research

Dimocrats

Gays

Have I missed anything?

Oh, of course

Illegal immigrants

Oops, I forgot

Savages

Sounds like a plan to me.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

I now need a list of things that restore society:

Personal responsibility

Guns

Abstinence (Drugs/alcohol and Sex)

Women dressing modestly

Hangings

Corporal punishment.

Sounds like Islam. Save us the trouble and move to Saudi Arabia.

[Reba 2]

Why the hell should it matter if his half brother got arrested for possession? What difference does it make to how Barak can run the country? NONE. None at all.

Heck, Dubya had a DUI on his record, and Clinton smoked but didn't inhale. ####### does it matter if the man's half brother half a world away smokes dope?

sheesh

[Jasman0717 9]

He got nipped in the bud.

[Danno 1,228]

Why the hell should it matter if his half brother got arrested for possession? What difference does it make to how Barak can run the country? NONE. None at all.

Heck, Dubya had a DUI on his record, and Clinton smoked but didn't inhale. ####### does it matter if the man's half brother half a world away smokes dope?

sheesh

You could have mentioned the way they hounded the Bush's Daughters.... but you'd be 8 years too late. (though it might have added a little cred.)