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Obama: My country is very stingy and uncharitable

But hey, don’t you go thinking that the Euro-kowtowing, arugula-eating, Hawaiian bodysurfer is an anti-American elitist or anything, m’kay?  From the DC Examiner:

Barack Obama, in a discussion with evangelist Rick Warren about his Christian faith, said he had been guilty of a “fundamental selfishness” that had contributed to regrettable youthful behavior.

Then he confessed for the rest of us.

“Americans’ greatest moral failure in my lifetime,” he said, “has been that we still don’t abide by that basic precept in Matthew that whatever you do for the least of my brothers, you do for me.”

Really?  Americans aren’t very charitable?

Sorry, but he can hang that one up. Whatever the case is with his own selfishness, the evidence of an internationally superior American generosity is impressive, beginning with the numbers on our charitable giving. We give twice as much as the British per capita, and according to The American magazine, seven times as much as the Germans and 14 times as much as the Italians.

Even in inflation-adjusted dollars, the amount given each year just keeps getting larger, and meanwhile, we do far more volunteer work than in other industrialized countries.

If only we conservatives could be as generous as liberals, then…well, we’d have more money in our pockets.

Of course, Obama isn’t just talking about private giving, and could face serious embarrassment if he were. As has been reported about a study by Arthur Brooks of Syracuse University, conservatives give almost a third more money to charities than liberals, who mostly have more to give.

Read the rest of the column.  It’s great!

As Instapundit notes on two points:

UPDATE: Speaking of selfishness, perhaps the millionaire Obama could do something for his long lost brother living in poverty in Kenya: “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.’ . . . He has only met his famous older brother twice – once when he was just five and the last time in 2006 when Senator Obama was on a tour of East Africa and visited Nairobi. . . . Of their second meeting, George Obama said: ‘It was very brief, we spoke for just a few minutes. It was like meeting a complete stranger.’”

ANOTHER UPDATE: More Obama/Kenya background. “Obama to School Named After Him – Drop Dead.”

“Stingy are thee, but not me!”  The Obamessiah’s message is clear: We should take care of our brothers…so long as they’re not our real brothers!

August 21, 2008 - Posted by crushliberalism | big government, hypocrisy, Obama, shameful