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Here's a link to an interview from Stanley's high school friend, Susan Blake. She talks about Stanley's visit to WA in late Aug with “BARRY”, shortly after his birth. So was Barry his birth name, and then he changed it to Barack Hussein Obama during his college years? Seems like a reporter should ask him when he started requesting people to stop calling him Barry and start calling him Barack.

http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/06/25/honolulu-seattle-roundtrip-in-61/

And why did Obama go to Bali, Indonesia in the 90’s to finish his first book about his Muslim Father? Seems he finds peace reciting the Muslim call to prayer and spending time in Indonesia.

My Father (Times Books, 1995) followed by The Audacity of Hope (Crown, 2006).

According to a report in the New York Times quoting the Presidential candidate's half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, Senator Obama retreated to the island of “Bali for several months with his wife, Michelle, to find a peaceful sanctuary where there were no phones.”

The Balinese writing sabbatical took place after Obama’s graduation from Harvard Law School in the eaqrly 1990s.

Is Bali and inspiring Island? Just ask Senator Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic Party nominee for U.S. President. He'll tell you that Bali is the pause that refreshes on the way to the U.S.A.’s top job.

http://www.my-indonesia.info/page.php?ic=7&id=3944

Nice to know he continues to get great inspiration from Indonesia. Too bad their tourism has declined greatly since the 2002 Bali Bombings.

The 2002 Bali bombings occurred on 12 October 2002 in the tourist district of Kuta on the Indonesian island of Bali. The attack was the deadliest act of terrorism in the history of Indonesia, killing 202 people, 164 of whom were foreign nationals, and 38 Indonesian citizens. A further 209 people were injured.