A) Because he can afford it,
B) because they are related,
and
C) because it's the right thing to do!
Oh wait...I've been applying conservative values like decency, common sense and charity to this situation haven't I?
O dear, oh dear...my bad. They're leftist a$$hats. Things like decency, common sense and charity are completely alien to them.
You covered it nicely but I have to add...
Remember in the '08 election when we discovered his Kenyan family member (half-brother?) that lived in a tin shack? Remember the COMPLETE lack of interest that the LSM took in the story and the lack of compassion Ø'bozo showed for his own kin? I knew then that we were dealing with a borderline sociopath.
And my suspicions have been confirmed numerous times since then. He uses people as props - even his own immediate family. He is so entirely snake-like in his lack of empathy. Sure he can deliver the rhetoric - the bromides and euphemisms meant to elicit an emotional response from his leftist acolytes, but there is not a hint of honest human connection in any of it.
The aspect that I really do appreciate in him is his naked partisanship. He doesn't even pretend to GAS about anyone except those who can advance his personal agenda. Think about it and see if you agree - do you recal a single time when he uttered a word meant to inspire us as a whole? Every single speech contains the same prescription: "If you toe the line and adhere to my program you will be OK" (OK being the ever-shifting goalposts).
They will be writing about this jerk for years to come - and none of it pretty.