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Obama statue removed from Jakarta park
By: AP on: 16.02.2010 [04:16 ] (410 reads)
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Obama statue removed from Jakarta park
JAKARTA: Authorities removed a statue of Barack Obama from a park in the capital due to a public backlash and moved it Monday to a nearby school that the US president attended as a child.
The bronze statue, inspired by a childhood photograph of a 10-year-old Obama in shorts with a butterfly perched on an outstretched thumb, had been targeted by critics since it was erected in the Jakarta park last December. Detractors argued that an Indonesian hero should have been honored instead, noting that Obama still could pursue policies that hurt Indonesia’s interests.
Obama, whose American mother married an Indonesian after divorcing his Kenyan father, went to school in the capital from 1967 to 1971 and is regarded fondly by most Indonesians.
Edi Kusyanto, a teacher at the affluent government school Obama attended, said the 43-inch statue would be standing in the school grounds by the time the president visits Jakarta from March 20-22. The statue was erected with private funds raised by the Jakarta-based nonprofit group Friends of Obama Foundation, but Jakarta Gov Fauzi Bowo is paying for its relocation. Ron Mullers, an American living in Jakarta who came up with the idea for the statue and raised money for it, declined to say whether he thought moving it was an overreaction. ap
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\02\16\story_16-2-2010_pg4_7
by gmmonko on 16.02.2010 [04:35 ]
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...engraved in my toilet bowl.
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by RoyDubai on 16.02.2010 [05:06 ]
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disappointing all those naive people who believed the hype about Obama bringing change for the good and improving relations with the Islamic world. He is a party to the fraud on Wall Street and the proliferation of wars causing death and destruction around the world. In short he is a thoroughly evil man....a monster. They don't come much worse. Wake up America?
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by Lima-P on 16.02.2010 [10:59 ]
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United States. And when that country finally goes down, we shall all be glad he was given the Nobel Peace Prize in advance.
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by Deathtodubya on 16.02.2010 [13:40 ]
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comparison.
Both tried to prop up their empires with ridiculous policies and a lot of empty rhetoric.
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by PlymouthRock on 16.02.2010 [20:13 ]
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The part that I dont think you guys get is the amount of friction Obama has been running into here in the US by the republicans and racists. I think he really believes in what he says, you can call me brainwashed but I think his heart is in the right place. The politics in the US are out of control so everything has to be done sideways. You have to admit, he did take over after the worst leader in American history, he's still trying to clean up the mess. Our troops are pulling out of Iraq every day now, the US had already abandoned Afghanistan once decades ago and look what happened, so what do you people honestly think would happen if the US simply picked up and left Afghanistan? So he took over office with the US in two wars and the ecomony in the ****hole, he's had to make some tough choices and so far I think he's doing the best he can. He's talking tough on Iran cuz he has to, if he doesn't then he will made out to be soft. GO ahead and call me american-scum and tell me that American is about to be destroyed and all that other positive talk.
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