Obama enemies’ bid to stain the audacity of hope

• A lawsuit charges that Senator Obama was born in Kenya and is thus disqualified from seeking the presidency
• Republican party running TV ad claiming Senator Obama neglects his half-brother, George Onyango Obama
• Viewers asked: “If Barack Obama cares so much about your family, why doesn’t he take care of his family first?”
• George Onyango Obama lives in the sprawling Huruma estate in Nairobi.

The man is also hard to interview. On Monday, the Nation tracked him down, but he would not agree to be interviewed and kept postponing it every time.
He is unhappy about the Italian magazine for portraying him as poor, and says he supports the Senator’s quest for the presidency.

“The media come here, I give them a story, and when they leave, they write wrong things. I never said I live on less than a dollar a day. I go to college and I’m all right,” he said with a newly acquired aide.

He may not know it, but his story has since been turned into a negative attack by the Republicans, who are now labelling the Democratic nominee “neglectful”.

The new YouTube ad was not approved by the John McCain Campaign, but it was funded by members of the Texas Republican Party.

The younger Obama’s relatives, realising the damage the attention has caused, have started to shield him away from the media before the situation gets out of hand, and have now insisted that an uncle be present during press interviews.