Bob McCarty Writes

Barack Obama would like everyone to believe he’s his brother’s keeper, but…

• His seeming inaction prompted me to write a post 14 months ago under the headline, Why is ‘Grandma Obama’ Still Living in a Hut?

• His seeming apathy prompted me to write a post two months ago under the headline, Why is Barack Obama’s Brother Living in a Hut?

• After reading an article published today in the UK’s Times Online, his inaction prompts me to write this post.

In case you haven’t read the Times Online article, the headline might give you an idea about what stirred my interest in it:

Found in a rundown Boston estate: Barack Obama’s aunt Zeituni Onyango

The writer of the article — James Bone in Boston, Rob Crilly in Kogelo and Ben Macintyre – go on to explain that, only a few miles form where Obama attended classes at Harvard, Zeituni Onyango, the aunt so affectionately described in his best-selling memoir, Dreams from My Father, lives in a disabled-access flat on a rundown public housing estate in South Boston.

Brother’s keeper?  Oh, brother!