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Washington, D.C.: a city infested with statues — and Congressional Blow-Boys who WISH they were statues.
Statue of a Young Obama To Watch Over Indonesian Capital
A bronze statue of a young Barack Obama is set to stand in the Menteng neighborhood of Central Jakarta where the US president spent part of his childhood.
“The statue is being erected to inspire Indonesian children and help them remember that they can be whatever they set their hearts on,” Ron Mullers, the chairman of the Friends of Obama Foundation, told the Jakarta Globe on Tuesday.
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The 2-meter-tall likeness of a 10-year-old Obama, built at a cost of more than Rp 100 million ($10,600), will stand in a corner of Menteng Park, Mullers said.
He added that the statue was meant to remind children that someone their age who once played in the neighborhood had become a world leader.
Mullers said the statue was commissioned by the foundation and was designed by Edi Chaniago, who took three months to complete the project.
The project was sponsored by 10 individuals, including businesswoman Mien R Uno and businessman Hashim Djojohadikusumo. Mullers said the statue’s location had been selected because the area had been Obama’s playground when he lived in Jakarta as a young boy in the 1970s. Obama moved to Jakarta with his mother, Ann Dunham, and his Indonesian stepfather, Lolo Soetoro. Dunlop and Lolo met at the University of Hawaii.
He said US Ambassador Cameron Hume would be present at the unveiling of the statue along with students and teachers from the nearby Menteng 01 Elementary School where Obama studied as a child.
Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo is expected to be on hand to unveil the statue.
Ery Basworo, head of the Jakarta Parks and Cemetery Agency, said the foundation had asked for permission to use the spot in Taman Menteng a month ago. He said he supported the project as a symbol of Indonesian friendship with the United States.
“We only provided the place and the statue did not cost us anything,” he said, adding that the agency would cooperate with the foundation to organize maintenance and upkeep.
Sylviana Murni, Central Jakarta’s mayor, told the Globe by phone that she welcomed the statue in Menteng Park , which is under her authority.
“The statue represents childhood spirit. Obama embodies the ideal of a successful child,” she said.
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The statue, depicted here, is using the wrong dress code. He should be wearing a turban and robe and have a “jihad beard”.
It’ s nice that the Indonesians are getting the statue “FREE”. Of course it’s free. They are going to use their new-found welfare “jizya” from Climategate to pay for it.
Obama has a lot they can be thankful for. A doctor in the US will be earning the same as a fisherman in Indonesia after Climategate.
At least that’s how the Marxists seem to view the economics of the world.
We will all be taxed for carbon and paying the “jizya” to countries like Indonesia soon. Thanks Obama. Thanks Bab Ki Moon. Thanks Gordon Brown. Thanks Al Gore. Thanks to those 100 or so delegates in their shiny lomos and private jets, for deciding how much we earn and spend our money.
LMAO! It just tells the world anyone, from anywhere, can be President. Enough money will enable anyone to bypass our Constitution and pay off any of the Congress and Justices to just ignore Ovomit’s foreign born status.
So far Ovomit has spent over $1.3 million to keep his records hidden. That was up from a few months ago when I could only find he spent $900,000. here is a quote from an email I got,
“The transcript was released by Occidental College in compliance with a court order in a suit brought by the group in the Superior Court of California .
The transcript shows that Obama (Soetoro) applied for financial aid and was awarded a fellowship for foreign students from the Fulbright Foundation Scholarship program.
To qualify, for the scholarship, a student must claim foreign citizenship.”
I forgot to add about the birth certificate issue is that “Along with the evidence that he was first born in Kenya and there is no record of him ever applying for US citizenship, this is looking pretty grim. ”
I wonder if we can void anything he has done. This should shame the news agencies. Where is investigative reporters? Even Fox news hasn’t bothered to report this. This has been going around since before the elections and this SHOULD HAVE BEEN ON THE NEWS!
I don’t trust any of the news agencies anymore especially since Fox news mother corporation is being bought up by a wahabbi Saudi Prince. In the space of a couple of years his ownership went from 4.5% to 14%. It might be even more now.