Cindy McCain's "lost" Sister found!

[Lunar]

I hate these threads too.  But if people are going to attack Obama for not giving his wealth to his half-brother...

http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/president/27205934.html?elr=KArksi8cyaiUgOahccyiUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU

When Cindy McCain talks about growing up, she usually refers to herself as an "only child" -- a phrase that ignores the existence of her half-sisters.

"It's terribly painful," Kathleen Hensely Portalski said. "It is as if she is the 'real' daughter. I am also a real daughter."

Portalski and McCain are both children of the late Jim Hensley, the Arizona businessman who founded one of the largest beer distributorships in the nation. Kathleen, 65, is the product of Hensley's first marriage in the 1930s to Mary Jeanne Parks. Hensley divorced Parks for Marguerite (Smitty) Johnson, whom he met at a West Virginia hospital in World War II and married in 1945. Cindy was born nine years later.

The half-sisters had little contact growing up and have not spoken since Hensley's funeral in 2000. In his will, he left just $10,000 to his older daughter; Cindy inherited her father's multimillion-dollar fortune.

Portalski said she stood quietly by for decades while her father lavished attention on his second family. But the past few months -- with Cindy McCain's repeated references to being her father's only child -- finally became too much. "I was his family, too," she said from Phoenix.

Cindy McCain has another half-sister, Dixie Burd, by a previous relationship. Burd could not be reached for comment.

The McCain campaign has been tight-lipped about the expanded family tree: "Mrs. McCain was raised as the only child of Jim and Marguerite Hensley, and there was no familiar relationship with any other sibling," it said.

Portalski said that all she wants is for the McCains to apologize and acknowledge her family. (Since you asked: Yes, they're Democrats.) "He was my father, too. I don't know why even now he cannot be a part of my life." [/i]

[Lunar]

Well, a few things that make them different:

1) Yes, for McCain it is his half-sister in-law.
2) McCain had FAR more of a relationship with Cindy McCain's Dad, the father of the half-sisters involved than Obama had with his father.  Obama has an extreme disconnect with that part of his life.  The only time his father was part of his life was for one month when he was ten years old.  McCain, by contrast, was employed by Cindy's father and his career was launched by her Dad bankrolling his campaign.
3) Does anyone have any information that Obama's brother even wants money?  The brother doesn't tell people that Barack is even his brother.  It's possible the brother is too proud to take the money.
4) Does anyone have any information as to Obama's knowledge of his half-brother's financial troubles?  When Obama visited him that one time he could have been slightly better off.

This whole debate is ing retarded I must declare, haha.  I really hope the whole "Obama ignores his Kenyan hut brother" default rebuttal fades away in the forum soon.

If my Dad, who I only saw once when I was ten years old, fathered some additional kids in Africa with another woman, I'm not sure if I would do anything either.  To give a more relevant example for Americans, It's sort of like if you found out when you're thirty that your Dad had some bastard children that are now very poor.

Considering that Barack's Dad was hardly a father, I would say that his half-brother is hardly a  relative.

[Lunar]

I was unaware Cindy McCain was running for anything

See my last post.

I would say that a half-sister-in-law (this is for McCain) when you have an extremely close relationship with the mutual father is about equally important for a half-brother a continent away from a father you've basically never seen (and whose financial situation you might not even be aware of).

Like I said, this entire debate is retarded, srlsy.

[Lunar]

This wasn't a serious thread, but rather an attempt to point out the stupidity of posts that constantly drag up Obama's half-brother.

I stopped reading your post half-way through.  You've reached a new low of internet childishness and are now ignored, Cheers.