...i.e., WTF?
You can read the whole of Dinesh’s column here. I’ve long known that abstract benevolence, a specialty of liberals, was eerily compatible with practical indifference or even cruelty. (I go into some of the reasons for this in “What’s Wrong with Benevolence” in my new book The Fortunes of Permanence.) But this spectacle of callous familial neglect by, as Dinesh rightly describes him, the most powerful man in the world is something special. Forget politics. This is about simple humanity. I have to assume that Dinesh’s facts are true. No one would dare fabricate such a story. But what does it mean? For once I am speechless.
Maybe George Obama is scamming. Maybe Barack Obama knows his brother is a scammer. Who knows?
But, if George is not scamming, it just seems like if your brother reached out to you, even if you didn't know the man, and it involved the life of your nephew, even if you didn't know him, you'd feel obliged to do something, particularly if it wasn't particularly onerous or difficult.
Who is this guy?
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