George Obama ,Barack’s Half-Brother Arrested for Marijuana

The half-brother of President Barack Obama,George Obama was arrested for marijuana possession in Kenya. And I can already hear Rush Limbaugh gearing up with glee and gusto (I know that was a pretty pointless sentence, but I wanted the alliteration).
George Obama, who is in his 20s and barely knows the president, had one joint of marijuana on him, said Joshua Omokulongolo, the police chief in the area.

"He is not a drug peddler," Omokulongolo told The Associated Press. "But it's illegal, it's a banned substance."

George Obama has a court appearance scheduled Monday morning.

George Obama is denying the charges, but really who cares: He either had it or he didn't. But either way, how does that affect us as Americans? It's true he is the president's half-brother, the same president that was pretty up front in his book about his cocaine use. So is there a connection between the family and drug use?

He and the president have the same father, who died in a car crash in 1982.

The White House declined comment Saturday on the president's half-brother.

Several of President Obama's Kenyan relatives went to Washington, D.C., for his inauguration, but George was not among them. He lives in Huruma with extended family.

Media reports about him surfaced over the summer, after a magazine article said he lived in a shack and earned a dollar a day. George Obama has called the reports insulting.

"I'm proud of how I live," he told The Associated Press in an interview over the summer. "(The media) are tarnishing the family name."

He also said he was studying to be a mechanic and works with a local youth group in Huruma.

In President Obama's book "Dreams From My Father," he describes George Obama as "a handsome, roundheaded boy with a wary gaze."

Barack said in his book he met George Obama once in Kenya and it was a pretty sad affair. But you know what, I have plenty of friends who use marijuana and I think it's pretty much blown out of proportion. I mean, what do you get up to when you're high? Don't know about you, but I just sit around and talk about all the stuff I'd do to change the world for the better. If I wasn't high that is.

George is the youngest of the senior Obama's seven children, born six months before his father died.