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Indonesia mulls tearing down Obama statue

Tam

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Indonesia mulls tearing down Obama statue

JAKARTA (AFP) – Indonesian authorities said Monday they are considering a petition to tear down a statue of US President Barack Obama as a boy, only a month after the bronze was unveiled in Jakarta.

The statue of "Little Barry" -- as Obama was known when he lived in the capital in the late 1960s -- stands in central Jakarta's Menteng Park, a short walk from the US president's former elementary school.

Critics say the site should have been used to honour an Indonesian and 55,000 people have joined a page on social networking website Facebook calling for the statue to be removed.

"We've been discussing for the past two weeks what to do with the statue... whether to take it down, move it elsewhere or retain it. We're finding the best solution," Jakarta parks agency official Dwi Bintarto said.

Obama, who was born in Hawaii, lived for four years as a child in Jakarta from 1967 after his divorced mother married an Indonesian.

The bronze was designed by Indonesian artists and depicts the boy Obama dressed in shorts and a T-shirt with a butterfly perched on his hand.

"The statue is of Obama as a child, not as the US president. His relatives and friends who erected it said it's meant to motivate children to study hard and dream big," Bintarto said.

Members of the "Take Down the Barack Obama Statue in Menteng Park" group on Facebook say Obama has done nothing for Indonesia.

"Barack Obama has yet to make a significant contribution to the Indonesian nation. We could say Obama only ate and s (expletive) in Menteng. He spent his subsequent days living as an American," the web page says.

"For the dignity of a sovereign nation, Barack Obama's monument in Menteng Park must be removed immediately."

The childhood connection and his knowledge of a few words of Indonesian made Obama popular in the mainly Muslim country of 234 million people.

Obama said in November he would visit Indonesia this year along with First Lady Michelle Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha.
 

Tam

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Maybe Hawaii will buy it off them and put it up in front of the hospital he was supposedly born in so Obama will know which one to tell reporters when they ask. Better yet maybe Kenya could mark the hut he was born in, since they seem to think it is a tourist attraction, or maybe it isn't anymore. :wink:
 

Steve

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Tam said:
Maybe Hawaii will buy it off them and put it up in front of the hospital he was supposedly born in so Obama will know which one to tell reporters when they ask. Better yet maybe Kenya could mark the hut he was born in, since they seem to think it is a tourist attraction, or maybe it isn't anymore. :wink:

do you have room for it in Canada?

There is a "Barrack Hussein Mohamed Obama" born on 23 August 1961 in Canada

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Larrry

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I think they should make it a traveling statue. Then everyone can see it and only keep it till they get tired of it. It should make it to everyone rather soon that way. When everyone is done with it the dems can have it so they can throw it under a bus.
 

Tam

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Larrry said:
I think they should make it a traveling statue. Then everyone can see it and only keep it till they get tired of it. It should make it to everyone rather soon that way. When everyone is done with it the dems can have it so they can throw it under a bus.


Well can I suggest that after the tour they scrape the bird crap off and sell it for fertilizer and melt down statue and used the money from both to pay off the fuel bill for a U-Haul truck to move Obama back to Chicago. :wink: :lol:
 

Tam

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Steve said:
Tam said:
Maybe Hawaii will buy it off them and put it up in front of the hospital he was supposedly born in so Obama will know which one to tell reporters when they ask. Better yet maybe Kenya could mark the hut he was born in, since they seem to think it is a tourist attraction, or maybe it isn't anymore. :wink:

do you have room for it in Canada?

There is a "Barrack Hussein Mohamed Obama" born on 23 August 1961 in Canada

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Sure we need another bird perch in Vancouver. :wink:
 

Sandhusker

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Larrry said:
I think they should make it a traveling statue. Then everyone can see it and only keep it till they get tired of it. It should make it to everyone rather soon that way. When everyone is done with it the dems can have it so they can throw it under a bus.

I think you're onto something. I say they should put it on somebody's lawn, and they have to pay $500 to have it removed, but they get to move it to somebody else's lawn. The statue will make the rounds, and if all the funds are applied to deficit, we'll be out of the hole in no time.
 
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Tam said:
Larrry said:
I think they should make it a traveling statue. Then everyone can see it and only keep it till they get tired of it. It should make it to everyone rather soon that way. When everyone is done with it the dems can have it so they can throw it under a bus.


Well can I suggest that after the tour they scrape the bird crap off and sell it for fertilizer and melt down statue and used the money from both to pay off the fuel bill for a U-Haul truck to move Obama back to Chicago. :wink: :lol:

The saying by RED FOX WAS send me back home yea send me back home He said HE was from Saint Louis! :lol:

Ya wanna send obamah back home better get a ticket to Kenya. :oops:
 
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