Posted on 12/10/2009 1:41:50 PM PST by broken_arrow1
A bronze statue of a young Barack Obama in shorts and a T-shirt — and what appears to be a Nobel medal around his neck — has been erected at a park in Jakarta, Indonesia, near the school where the future U.S. president studied as a child, according to news reports.
The likeness of a 10-year-old Obama — his hand extended with what appears to be a butterfly resting on it — cost $10,600 and now stands in a corner of Menteng Park, according to the Jakarta Globe and AP.
A paraphrased quote by Eleanor Roosevelt is inscribed on the statue’s base: "The future belongs to those who believe in the power of their dreams," reports AP.
“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, chairman of the Indonesia-based Friends of Obama Foundation, explained to the Globe.
The statue is set to be officially unveiled by Jakarta's governor Thursday.
Children of Indonesia can grow up and become president of the United States, hey??
Mmm mmm mmm.
Red Diaper Doper Baby In Chief
It’s great to see he’s living his childhood dream, plundering our tax dollars and raping our deficit...
Arg!
Guess there was no need for a barf alert.
Well, if the kids want to grow up to be a community organizer, do-nothing senator, Marxist, professor of law that doesn’t believe in the law, president of the greatest country who introduced Communism to the White House, then I’m sure the statue will go far. Hopefully, the kids are smarter.
“Dat honky Nobel prize? We took it waaay down t’de pawn shop and gots it bronzed! Yeah! Fo’ de fust time in our lives we wuz proud t’be citizens uh de wo’ld! Right on!
But we real deserved it, WORD! uh huh, so’s duzn’t ya’ listen dat JIBE Fox netwo’k `n de Po-Po whiteys `n dem skinnya$$ chick’nheads.
Ya’ know? Know whut ah’m sayin’? THAT’S whut ah’m takkin’ about! Whut ya’ gots’ta eat? You’s gots any kinned hams, pok chops o chikken? `Eff dat Arugala! Ah wants some meat.”
De Fust Wookie
With a veiled reference to Obama's ego, perhaps.
Here he is seen from the back.
I always call him ‘mariposa’ when speaking of him. (Spanish for butterfly and in my family it’s our ‘polite’ way of referring to homosexuals).
That looks like the same statue which was found on a dig in Iraq in the movie “The Exorcist”. Is that correct?
It's a dove. The stature is just a "Coloured boy gets prize for liking peace" theme
Hole in one. "Pazuzu".
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