Obama arrested on drug charge

Raiders Army · 01-31-2009, 08:27 AM

Obama's half brother arrested on charge of marijuana possession - CNN.com

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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.

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.

Heh heh. Made you look.

JPhillips · 01-31-2009, 08:29 AM

How many steps from here to a WSJ editorial claiming Obama killed his owned Vince Foster?

jeff061 · 01-31-2009, 08:29 AM

I'm already sick of this story. CNN.com had this as their main story this morning. Irrelevant to everything.

Young Drachma · 01-31-2009, 10:05 AM

Roger Clinton called, he said it was all good.

MJ4H · 01-31-2009, 10:08 AM

Thank goodness my half-sister's actions don't reflect on me.

Fonzie · 01-31-2009, 10:39 AM

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Originally Posted by jeff061

I'm already sick of this story. CNN.com had this as their main story this morning. Irrelevant to everything.

Indeed. This is newsworthy? Really?

Logan · 01-31-2009, 10:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Dark Cloud

Roger Clinton called, he said it was all good.

I laughed very hard.

Senator · 01-31-2009, 11:30 AM

OBAMA FAMILY PRESS RELEASE:

You can't stop us, it is our time, baby......

Dutch · 01-31-2009, 11:39 AM

I didn't realize people in Kenya could afford pot. Looks like the world economy is on an upswing!

gstelmack · 01-31-2009, 12:01 PM

Billy Beer!

One of these days a republican's brother is going to get in trouble...

Galaril · 01-31-2009, 12:27 PM

Nice troll go back to your bridge.

SackAttack · 01-31-2009, 01:17 PM

George?

JPhillips · 01-31-2009, 02:25 PM

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Originally Posted by gstelmack

Billy Beer!

One of these days a republican's brother is going to get in trouble...

You may want to read up on Neil Bush.

gstelmack · 01-31-2009, 03:14 PM

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Originally Posted by JPhillips

You may want to read up on Neil Bush.

Bah, he was only involved in a billion-dollar savings & loan scandal. The Dems always get stuck with the alcoholics and potsmokers

lungs · 01-31-2009, 03:48 PM

Hmmm... Free Republic is probably having a ball with this one, cooking up some fucked up scheme to link this with his majesty, President Obama.

Young Drachma · 01-31-2009, 03:58 PM

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Originally Posted by lungs

Hmmm... Free Republic is probably having a ball with this one, cooking up some fucked up scheme to link this with his majesty, President Obama.

LOL @ Freepers

M GO BLUE!!! · 01-31-2009, 11:58 PM

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Originally Posted by gstelmack

Bah, he was only involved in a billion-dollar savings & loan scandal. The Dems always get stuck with the alcoholics and potsmokers

...and Reps put them in the White House!

SackAttack · 02-01-2009, 12:37 AM

Seriously, George?

MrBug708 · 02-01-2009, 01:44 AM

I figured for all the flak that republicans took for Palin's daughters, boyfriends, mother's drug possession charge, this thread was going to be good.

Fail

jeff061 · 02-01-2009, 07:31 AM

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Originally Posted by MrBug708

I figured for all the flak that republicans took for Palin's daughters, boyfriends, mother's drug possession charge, this thread was going to be good.

Fail

I don't even remember this happening.

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