McCain and Obama: Half and Have Not

There's a lot of chatter in the political blogosphere about the extended family members of the two leading presidential candidates. The dueling controversies center on Cindy McCain’s half sister and Barack Obama’s half brother. Cindy McCain was pretty much raised as an only child, but she actually had an older half sister from her father Jim Hensley's previous marriage. Cindy's half sister, Kathleen Portalski, was essentially left out of her father’s will except for a small pittance and college tuition for her children, while Cindy McCain inherited the multimillion-dollar Hensley fortune when her father died, a fact that has proven to be a gripping bit of grist for the political mill of late. And just to add more spice to the extended family drama, the Italian edition of Vanity Fair has found Barack Obama’s youngest half brother, George Hussein Onyango Obama, living in a wood hut in the shanty town of Huruma on the outskirts of Nairobi, where he says he manages to survive on less than one dollar a month. (Obama photo: Guy Calaf, VF Italy)

– AGNW

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