When You Care Enough to Write a Bill ... (but, apparently, not a check)

While Barack Obama has been praised by many Republicans for his stance, it really is small wonder that in relation to the brouhaha over the pregnancy of Sarah Palin's teen daughter, Obama proclaims that family members should be "off-limits" in the campaign.
After all, one of Obama's rare efforts at legislating since he began his long campaign to lead the Free World is called the Global Poverty Act. Here's a summary:
A bill to require the President to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to further the United States foreign policy objective of promoting the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people worldwide, between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than $1 per day.(emphasis added)
Sponsor: Sen Obama, Barack [IL] (introduced 12/7/2007)
--Library of Congress
The bill, much like its author's standing in the polls, has since gone nowhere. Now, leaving aside the idea that it might have been better to call it the Global Anti-Poverty Act, there is the matter of one of Barack's many siblings. As most of the information-consuming class knows:
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.Embarrassed by his penury, he said that he does not does not mention his famous half-brother in conversation.
--Telegraph.co.uk
"Penury," for the non-Brits among us, means poverty. That would be just the kind that Sen. Obama, in his bill, professes a desire for American taxpayers to combat, globally. George Hussein Oyango Obama, who apparently lives with a couple of relatives now and studies at a Nairobi-area college, was reported by Vanity Fair as saying that that he lives on FAR less than $1 per day.
Barack Obama has made much of his Christianity of late, but perhaps he missed the part about being your brother's keeper.
Oh, wait, I forgot. Families are off-limits.