Obama's half brother in Kenya says he married teen

[boomerbust]

Source: ap

NAIROBI, Kenya — President Barack Obama's polygamist half brother in Kenya has married a 19-year-old woman more than 30 years his junior. Malik Obama, 52, told a Kenya news station that the teen quit school and wanted to get married. He appeared on video taken by a hidden camera, although he knew he was talking to journalists.

"She decided she doesn't want to go back to school. She wants to get married now. She came here, and what am I supposed to do? So we are married," Malik Obama said on the video broadcast by NTV.

Sheila Anyango is now Malik Obama's third wife, although he did not say when the wedding took place. Polygamy is legal in Kenya if it falls under religious or cultural traditions.

The 19-year-old's mother told The Associated Press on Friday she is furious that her daughter quit high school and married the 52-year-old. Mary Aoko Ouma says her daughter tried to marry Malik Obama two years ago, but the mother says she wouldn't give permission.



Read more: http://www.rr.com/news/topic/article/rr/9000/24082425/Obamas_half_brother_in_Kenya_says_he_married_teen

[mucifer]

1. should I care

[DCKit]

2. Different culture (as dispicable as we may believe), and no reflection on OUR President.

It's not as if they grew up together (in the same culture).

[midnight]

31. Conviently this old man side stepped that one convention that would of benefited this family....

This culture also practices bride prices.... So basically he has a level of entitlement.... It's like having a Republican half brother....

[madokie]

34. I had one of those but he passed away years ago

republican half brother

[Radical Activist]

3. meh

Teens have been marrying older men for all of human history. I'm sure the teabaggers will pass this story around, but it isn't newsworthy.

[Journeyman]

4. Still not as embarrassing as "Billy Beer". . .

[pnwmom]

13. Or as the Bush brother with the failed S & L. n/t

[dflprincess]

17. Or the Bush son with the failed presidency.

[704wipes]

18. or the Jebson Bush boinking teenieboppers in the

Florida shopping mall parking lot.

[Nostradammit]

26. Nicely played!

:)

[madokie]

35. Somewhere I still have 5 cans of Billy Beer

a friend brought it back from Nuolens or thats how he pronounced it

The sixed can I had to drink to say I had drank one

[madinmaryland]

44. I heard that stuff was worse than piss-water. Is that true?

[madokie]

48. I forget the brewer but it was just a rebranded beer

whoever bottled it for them. I can't for the life of me remember who

[valerief]

5. I hear he's making Malik Beer, too. Brothers!

:rofl:

[rucky]

33. ROFL

Billy was my first thought, too.

[d_r]

6. ok, so I guess if I say

"atta boy" it would be considered poor taste.

[awoke_in_2003]

16. She is an adult. nt

[Devil_Fish]

7. Why is this news? NT

[MadMaddie]

8. So I am waiting for Faux to pick this story and run with it

Somehow they will say President Obama and his brother are close....blah...blah..blah..

I am really sick of how they disrespect President Obama...The stories always lead off with "Obama....."

Is it just me or did I forget that they called Junior by his last name in every article and by every talking head...?

[Va Lefty]

11. Another of their "tools" to undermine him

It was always President Bush

[glinda]

14. It is already headlines on our Provider's web page. blech*

[Jamastiene]

9. President Obama may piss me off from time to time, but

I don't think this really reflects on President Obama very much one way or the other. Last I checked, President Obama doesn't sleep with teenagers and I don't even care if people have multiple wives or husbands. The polygamy part of the story is no big deal, imnsho. :shrug:

[fascisthunter]

10. why is this even a story?!

[FLyellowdog]

12. Just another reason to impeach Obama!!!

:rofl:

[awoke_in_2003]

15. the "MEH" is welling up deep inside me. nt

[Tx4obama]

19. So, what. Obama never even met that side of the family until he was in college.

Those folks in Kenya are not his immediate/close family.

[madrchsod]

20. it`s legal and the woman is of legal age even in the usa

ap does`t have anything else to write about?

[4lbs]

21. I like the 'false' headline. Married 'teen', as in 19-year old is kind of stretching it.

Uh, when Americans think 'teen', we think of 13 to 17 year olds.

It should actually be "Obama's Kenyan half-brother marries young woman".


Yeah, not that big of a deal is it?

[seabeyond]

43. little games people play. stupid. i was expecting young. had to be a reason for the op

but i was wrong. there was no reason for the op

[PSzymeczek]

22. Who Cares?

My maternal grandfather was 57 when he married my 17-year-old grandmother. Of course, that was about 1904.

[Alameda]

23. I have a bunch of half brothers and sisters.....I only met as an adult

I shudder to think we are related in anyway. I like one, but the rest, they are like from another planet. Brought up in very different locals, even different ethnicities, we are like day and night.

[SlipperySlope]

24. Same here

I have a half brother I met only once (as a child).

My life has turned out ok. His, not so much.

Not all apples fall the same distance from the tree.

[Alameda]

40. well these apples are not even really from the same trees...

[shanti]

25. why is this our business?

:shrug:

[Warren DeMontague]

27. Um...

so?

[Zax2me]

28. Not.

Relevant.

[B Calm]

29. Hell that ain't nothing, you should see my right wing cousins in Oklahoma.

[yellowwood]

30. What

Are you trying to say? And I do mean "trying."

[TexasObserver]

32. let it sink

[Ikonoklast]

36. So, you are anti-marraige?

Unrec for really, really reaching for something negative.

[proud2BlibKansan]

37. Why is this important?

[jkappy]

38. "SHE chose" "SHE decided" so guess i got room for her in my

stable. a bit of a nuisance, but as my youngest i may come to tolerate her.

[Arkana]

39. Oh well.

Guess that makes Obama unfit to be the President then.

Seriously, who gives a shit?

[blondeatlast]

41. Post perceived flamebait. don't get teh response you expected. Run like a coward anyway.

:boring:

[seabeyond]

42. wtf does that have to do with anything. teen? 19. i was expecting at least 13 or

something.

no outrage. none of my business. has nothing to do with obama.

[SoCalDem]

45. wow..the media is surely reaching now

19 is probably way past "legal" in Kenya, and I'd bet that Obama has little (if any) influence/relationship with the man in Kenya.

Our very own male "mooooovie stars" often marry "girls" who are 30 years younger..

Even politicians do it :)

Fred & The floating footless girl-wife

[HipChick]

46. So what..it's his half-brother and are they even in contact...why is he responsible for distant

relatives? geez

[Caliman73]

47. I saw that last night...

I immediately thought, "The media is doing its bit to smear the president again" Seriously, the story is stupid. It is a non-story designed to look like the president is doing something wrong. I noticed how they tried to link President Obama to Kenya by saying, "they claim him as a Kenyan" and "they have adopted him".

Ridiculous story. :eyes: