To start things off, I wasn’t even aware that Obama had a Kenyan half-brother named Malik. Eight years of his presidency and I completely missed that boat. That was probably one of the current event lessons that I slept through because, silly me, I figured I knew everything there was to know about current events. Despite this, it seems as if Barack is kind of hoping he could forget about his brother too, since he has plans to vote against the Democratic Party for Donald Trump.
Via The New York Post:
““I like Donald Trump because he speaks from the heart,” Malik Obama told The Post from his home in the rural village of Kogelo. “Make America Great Again is a great slogan. I would like to meet him.”
Obama, 58, a longtime Democrat, said his “deep disappointment” in his brother Barack’s administration has led him to recently switch allegiance to “the party of Lincoln.” The last straw, he said, came earlier this month when FBI Director James Comey recommended not prosecuting Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton over her use of a private e-mail servers while secretary of state.
“She should have known better as the custodian of classified information,” said Obama.
He’s also annoyed that Clinton and President Obama killed Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy, whom he called one of his best friends. Malik Obama dedicated his 2012 biography of his late father to Khadafy and others who were “making this world a better place.”
“I still feel that getting rid of Khadafy didn’t make things any better in Libya,” he said. “My brother and the secretary of state disappointed me in that regard.”
But what bothers him even more is the Democratic Party’s support of same-sex marriage.
“I feel like a Republican now because they don’t stand for same-sex marriage, and that appeals to me,” he said.
Obama believes strongly in the institution of marriage — so strongly that he has at least three current wives, although press reports have put the number as high as 12. When asked by The Post how many wives and children he has, Obama demurred.
“That’s personal,” he said.
Obama made headlines in 2011 when he married his third wife, who was still in her teens. Obama plans to trek back to the US to vote for Trump in November. Obama used to live in Maryland, where he worked for many years as an accountant and is registered to vote there, public records show.”
I always thought that Kenyans believed in strong familial ties. ‘Blood’s thicker than water’ and all that. I guess not. I have to say, pretty insane that this dude has three wives. He doesn’t look like anything special. Maybe I should move to Kenya. I also believe that, in today’s day and age, getting upset about two people of the same gender sharing a kiss is pretty trivial. “There’s violence in the Middle East.” “Yes but two men want to settle down and start a family together!!” Even though I doubt a single vote will sway this election between Trump and Clinton, it’s more the ‘slap in the face’ aspect that makes it newsworthy. And, at the end of the day, Trump was very graceful of the potential familial baggage this support could stir up (Hint: No he wasn’t).