George Obama, half-brother of Barack Obama, seems like a nice enough guy. It really was absurd that conservatives took up his cause during the election campaign ("Barack Obama tells us that we are our brothers' keepers, but he can't even look after his own half-brother" etc etc etc). I didn't believe people were genuinely holding that against BO until I talked to a conservative pal, who swore it was true.
Now George is writing a book. Nothing wrong with that. Still, I found the following paragraph in the local newspaper to be a bit much:
"The book to be written with author-journalist Damien Lewis, will tell
of George Obama’s fall into crime and poverty as a teenager and his
eventual embrace of community organising — a passion shared by the
president — and of advocacy for the poor, an identification so strong
that he chooses to live among them."
"Chooses to live among them?"
In the meantime, journalists all across Nairobi are cursing themselves for letting Damien Lewis get to George first. Maybe it was more than luck; afterall, according to his web site, Damien Lewis ("author, war reporter, adventurer") has reported from "war zones, jungles, disasters,
mountains and famines in the Sudan, Eirtrea [sic], Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria,
Zimbabwe, Algeria, Syria, Iraq, Burma, Papua New Guinea, Brazil, Venezuela
. . . and more."
He must be good. He's reported from mountains.
