When someone is adopted the other family members form an attachment that is just as if the person was of blood.

And even with foster children they often bond with other children in a way that approaches family.

And even with friends they can be so close to be called your “brother”.

So what I am saying is the relationship is far more important than the blood.

And conversely when you have someone who I believe Obama has never met, who he certainly didn’t grow up with, who was sired by his father after his father abandoned Obama and his mother, why expect Obama to have a brotherly relationship with that person. Sure they may have the same father, but apart from that they are strangers. And since he was sired after Obama’s father left him, if Obama had any feelings for this guy at all I would expect it to be animosity instead of kinship.

But this whole aunt thing is different. He mentioned her (I guess favorably) in his book. There, while like Steve said, he should expect her to obey the law, for a multi-millionaire like him it wouldn’t be too much to ask that when she does get back to Kenya he wires her some money for a house or something.

But the whole half-brother thing I will always think as being unfair. Why should a product of a starter-throwaway family be responsible for the children that his father had after abandoning him and his mom.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTp_atr2G9E&feature=related

I always brought my kids to work as much as I possibly could. When I was a typesetter, I’d bring them in on Saturdays. They learned to use Quark XPress, Photoshop, the Image Setter, the process camera, and the developer. I showed them how to typeset ads, do paste-up, do opaquing. The only area they didn’t get to learn about was the actual press, since it was upstairs. They sent the films up on the dumbwaiter and then got to see the paper hot off the presses when the pressmen sent it down for a check.

So Sarah Palin brings her kids to work, too. How come that’s a good thing when a card-carrying NOW member does it, but a bad thing when the mom in question loves ALL her kids, not just the special “chosen” ones who meet society’s standards of perfection and good timing?

http://tinyurl.com/5l8qyg