Posted on 02/13/2010 10:35:13 AM PST by opentalk
The Central Jakarta administration will move the controversial "Little Barry" statue from its current location at Taman Menteng in Central Jakarta to state elementary school SDN 01 Menteng next week, an official says.
"We are currently discussing with officials from the school and its alumni association," city spokesman Cucu Ahmad Kurnia told reporters Friday. "We hope the move will happen next week."
US President Barack Obama attended the elementary school for almost two years when he spent part of his childhood in Jakarta.
Erected by the Jakarta-based Friends of Obama Foundation in December last year, the statue, which resembles Obama as a boy, recently sparked wide public criticism for insulting the nation's pride.
Just a few days after the Central Jakarta municipality unveiled the statue at Menteng Park, experts and a group of Facebook users demanded it be dismantled.
On Wednesday, the Central Jakarta District Court held a hearing to try a class action lawsuit by five plaintiffs representing 50,000 members of the "Take down the Barack Obama statue from Menteng Park" group on Facebook.
The five plaintiffs - Heru Nugroho, Protus Tanuhandaru, Daniel Rudi Haryanto, Andes Soesman and FX Agung Bimo Sutedjo - filed the suit against Jakarta governor, Central Jakarta mayor and the Jakarta Parks and Cemeteries Agency, saying the statue didn't deserve a place at the park and should be immediately removed.
Although appreciating the administration's plan to remove the statue, Heru said the group would go ahead with its lawsuit.
"We will only withdraw the lawsuit if the city administration publicly apologizes for its one-sided decision to permit the statue," he told The Jakarta Post.
Hawaiian-born Obama moved to Indonesia at the age of six to live with his mother, Ann Dunham, and Indonesian stepfather Lolo Soetoro.
Obama attended third grade at the school in 1968. He returned to Hawaii at the age of 10 to live with his maternal grandparents.
I dont really understand your post.
So you claim that the info exists but will never be posted here or anywhere else.
Obama wont run again.
So exactly what is suppose to happen with this supposed info?..build their cases for what?
Strom Thurmond did right by his daughter. Principle trumped sedution for that “old racist.”.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/12/17/60II/main589107.shtml
he was probably molested as a kid...had horrible parents..it’s no wonder he is so screwed up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5QD_6UtfFo
This one takes the coinky-dink past freaky to conspiracy city.
Probably not, I'm just kinda literal and I often miss sarcasam.
Besides my wife is blonde and I know her IQ is higher than mine. Not much, but higher. She also has a PhD to my Master's. I'm the uneducated one in my immediate family. Master's for me, LLD for 0lder daughter, PhD for wife and (soon) younger daughter.
Did I mention that the daughters are blonde too? As is the older granddaughter (She's a real snowball like her grandma was) Fortunately the twins are not blond, they are insufferable as it is. Loveable, but insufferable.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5QD_6UtfFo
THAT’S MY ALL-TIME FAVOURITE! LOVE THE WAY THE AUDIENCE GOES OOOHH AND AAAHHH DON’T YOU? THEY ALL KNOW...
Other than the email from the University of Hawaii stating the she was enrolled there for the Fall '60 semester, and then latter of course starting in '63 until she got her BS, MS, and PhD. (with breaks in between).
My post wasn’t a slam at Thurmond. It was a reply to a suggestion that X wouldn’t have had an interracial extramarital affair due to his principles.
LOL!
Yeh, but lots of black preachers sound like Martin Luther King. And even more pilots sound like Chuck Yeager on the radio or intercom. I knew one pilot, (F-90, U-2, F-4, and others, Colonel (ret) ) who sounded like Yeager in person, when talking about airplanes and "for motivational effect", despite normally sounding like me with a rather buzzy accent. (We went to the same high school, but he was about 18 years ahead of me. Wow, hard to think of him as that Old. Know he had a heart attack but is still chewing folks new ones AFAIK.
It would have helped had the press done their job to let us know all this before we put him in the Oval Office. He could have a break down.
More about the nanny.
Caretakers of Sukabumi Want Obama Problem Israeli Influence
Mbak Lia Nun or Soetoro is Barack Obama’s half brother when she was living in Jakarta. Lia raised by Obama’s stepfather, Lolo Soetoro to be Barry’s friend and caretaker at the time. In the early years, Lia and then got word that a friend Maya Soetoro Obama’s half brother, let me know if he was invited to Hawaii to attend the inauguration . Now, the happy news that, as if dim, could not be more true.
A scan of an e-mail? not very convincing...sorry, I want to see more than that. All the letters of recommendation written for Obama Senior in that period NEVER mention his ‘wife and child’.
Simple explanation.
He wasn’t married to Stanley Ann because she wasn’t on the island, and he didn’t have a child with Stanley Ann. That’s my take and I’m stickin’ to it.
:-)
Sorry that I took it that way.
I always liked that interview, and loved Essie Mae. Old Blather was trying his best to get her to say something negative about Thurman, and she wasn't having any. I was proud of her.
I got the impression that at a couple of points she wanted to grab him and slap him upside the head.
Simpler explanation, she wasn't married to BHO Sr. Or the "marriage' was a sham for "due consideration" from Toot the banker.
Now we don't know for certain where she was from the end of the Fall '60 semester (which in those days might have been January of '61) until she showed up at U. Of Washington in August '61 or early September at the latest. Could have been almost anywhere. We do know that the Polk City directory for Honolulu shows her at the same address as listed in the birth announcement and as a student, *sometime* in '61, but it also shows her parents living at that address. So that could have been early in '61. The same guide shows a different address, closer to th3 University, for student BHO.
I hope you got a screen shot of that page, the page is gone or the link isn’t working. Best to copy and paste the entire thing and put it here on FR if you can’t get a screenshot.
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