Responding to John McCain's claim that Obama wants to redistribute the wealth and is therefore a socialist, Barack Obama said Thursday:
"My Bible tells me there is nothing wrong with helping other people, that we want to treat others like we want to be treated. That I am my brother's keeper, and I am my sister's keeper. I believe that."

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I didn't understand what the controversy about "spread the wealth" was in the first place.
First of all, I thought the buzzword in GOP circles was "class warfare." I thought "spread the wealth" was a nice riposte by Obama to redefine it on Democratic terms.
Secondly, I guess the logical conclusion of the whole Joe the Plumber controversy is to say the GOP wants to CONCENTRATE the wealth. I mean, we already knew that, but it seems an odd campaign platform to stake McCain and Palin on.
If he really believes that why is his aunt living in a slum in Boston and his half brother in a hut. If he won't take care of his family how does he think he is going to take care of the rest of us.
Go to FactCheck or PolitiFact about the false socialism charges
If he was long lost, why is it Obama’s fault? Even his mother did not where he was.
Barack Obama's 'lost' brother found in Kenya - UK Article (if no one knew the location of Obama's brother, how is it Obama's fault?)
Senator Barack Obama's long lost brother has been tracked down for the first time living in a shanty town in Kenya, reports claimed.
The Italian edition of Vanity Fair said that it had found George Hussein Onyango Obama living in a hut in a ramshackle town of Huruma on the outskirts of Nairobi.
Mr Obama, 26, the youngest of the presidential candidate's half-brothers, spoke for the first time about his life, which could not be more different than that of the Democratic contender.
"No-one knows who I am," he told the magazine, before claiming: "I live here on less than a dollar a month." George added he was no longer in contact with his mother and said: "I have had to learn to live and take what I need.
Obama's Aunt - 56 years old - Born to Grandfather's Third Wife
I am sure Obama did not want to let anyone know about the aunt because the media would have hounded her.
Obama’s aunt likes him enough to donate to his campaign. The building does not look like a slum. It is probably far superior to where she lived in Kenya. Her apartment was adorned with photographs of Obama, including some that appeared to be more than two decades old. She took a taxi and does volunteer work, so she is not without money.
Barack Obama's presidential campaign confirmed today that a woman who has been living quietly in a South Boston public housing complex, far from the bustle of the presidential race, is the senator’s aunt. Zeituni Onyango, who has been living for several years in city public housing.
Federal Election Commission records show Onyango donated at least five times to the her nephew's campaign in July and September of this year. Three of the donations were for $5 apiece, and two of the donations were for $25. Records compiled by The Huffington Post show she gave a total of $260 to the campaign.
Onyango, who is paid a small stipend for working as a health advocate in her public housing complex, has shunned attention. This morning, she said nothing and ignored a television camera and several reporters as she walked out of her first-floor apartment, handed a duffle bag to the driver of a taxicab, and was driven off.
Onyango is Obama's paternal aunt, one of several children of the senator's grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama. In his memoir, "Dreams From My Father," Obama refers to Onyango affectionately as “Aunt Zeituni” and recalls that she was the first person to greet him when he stepped off a plane and arrived for the first time in Kenya.
"'Welcome home,' Zeituni said, kissing me on both cheeks," Obama wrote.
During visits to her building Wednesday morning and afternoon, and in a telephone conversation Wednesday night, Onyango made clear her desire to stay out of the way of her nephew's campaign.
"I'm proud of everybody," she said. "I ask God to bless everybody."
A city housing official who visited Onyango this week found the walls of her apartment adorned with photographs of Obama, including some that appeared to be more than two decades old.
"She's been with us five years, and she's been a model resident," said William McGonigle, deputy director of the Boston Housing Authority. "She did a remarkable job as a resident health advocate."
A few examples of 157 McCain Lies http://tinyurl.com/5u68pn for details
AP FACT CHECK: McCain Misreads 2001 Obama Interview. "Republican John McCain is misreading seven-year-old comments by rival Barack Obama about 'redistributive change' to argue that the Democrat's tax policy is built on 'taking your money and giving it to someone else'
Washington Post Fact Checker: Three Pinocchios for McCain claim that Obama's tax cut is like welfare
Politifact: Sarah Palin is "Pants on Fire" Wrong -- Barack Obama Would Not "Experiment With Socialism"
Politifact: Even Toned Down "Experiment with Socialism" Socialism Charge Is Wrong
1 Timothy 5 vs 8.
Everyone should provide for his own relatives. Most of all, everyone should take care of his own family. If he doesn't, he has left the faith. He is worse than someone who doesn't believe.
If it looks like a socialist, talks like a socialist, hangs out with socialist chances are its a socialist...
Bad things happen when good people do nothing, wake up America or one morning your going to wake up and the Constitution will be no more...
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