Posted on 01/21/2009 8:45:46 AM PST by lainie
A "shy" photographer in Indonesia is in great demand because of his resemblance to the new US President, Barack Obama.
Ilham Anas, 34, is already a celebrity in Jakarta, where Mr Obama once lived, but his fame is spreading.
He has appeared on Indonesia's premier TV talk show, done an advertisement as Mr Obama, and received other marketing offers from companies in the region.
The real Barack Obama went to school in Jakarta in the late 1960s, when his classmates knew him as Barry.
Mr Anas told Reuters news agency: "I was in the airport in Malaysia in transit and a man approached me and asked: 'Are you Obama?'. I was very surprised when he asked to take a picture together and bought me a meal."
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Mr Anas was born and raised in Bandung, West Java. He says he is happy to cash in but there are limits.
"I will take all the opportunities that come my way, as long as they don't violate ethical codes and my personal values," he told AFP news agency.
And he admits that all the attention has given him something of a boost. "I'm actually a shy person. I don't like being put in the spotlight.
"I see my resemblance to Obama as a blessing. I used to look at the mirror and I had a negative perception of myself."
Many Indonesians have a keen interest in Mr Obama, who lived in Jakarta for four years after his American mother, Ann Dunham, married Indonesian Lolo Soetoro following the end of her marriage to Mr Obama's Kenyan father.
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I feel sorry for him. And especially with a last name like that.
Could be a long-lost brother. What did Obama's dad know and when did he know it? /sarcasm
“I will take all the opportunities that come my way, as long as they don’t violate ethical codes and my personal values.”
Sounds like he’s a step above our president. The resemblance is amazing. They must share an ancestor somewhere.
“They all look alike”
(Waiting for somebody to post the “That’s Racist” pic)
quite uncanny (and creepy)
The brother from another mother.
Probably would make a better president too.
LMAO!!!
Wow! What a resemblance! He REALLY does look like Obama.
No.
I thought they all looked alike
I'm a portrait artist - and this is freaky to me.
Non-relatives just do not have that startling a resemblance.
In addition, often, first cousins will look more alike than siblings.
Some enterprising investigative reporter if such an animal still exists - it would mean someone honestly looking for the truth, wherever it may lay - might want to check out the genealogical chart of this young man. There may be a name in there that matches one on a certain illusive BC. And it may be that the sir name of his famous lookalike is NOT the connecting link - but a name on Mr. Anas's chart - father? Uncle? - may match one on said BC which must not surface?
Maybe when the ONE mumbled "a mongrel like me" - he was revealing something more than what the surface seems?
Also, consider that this young man is from Indonesia - NOT Hawaii, where the ONE's supposed dad lived for a time. This young man is, from all the possible places in the world, from the very region the ONE lived as a child. (It may be a good thing the publicity caught up with this young man before he 'disappeared'?)
What another “jug eared clodhopper”(-Ann Coulter) ??....
It is odd, since Obama has not a drop of Indonesian blood. Maybe Indonesia is halfway between Kenya and Kansas.
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