Posted on 02/02/2010 9:31:16 AM PST by Steelfish
Barack Obama To Travel to Indonesia With Family US President Barack Obama and his family will retrace his childhood steps, travelling to Indonesia next month in a nostalgic return to the country where he lived with his late mother and Indonesian stepfather in the 1960s.
02 Feb 2010
The trip, in the second half of March, has been greatly anticipated in the world's most populous Muslim-majority country since Mr Obama's inauguration, which was welcomed in Indonesia as the start of a new era in US diplomacy.
Dino Patti Djalal, a spokesman for Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, said the visit was a chance for Mr Obama to set relations on a more equal footing. "We want relations between Indonesia and the United States not only to cover one issue. There used to be an imbalance, only democracy and human rights," he was quoted as saying by Antara state news agency.
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The bad news is... he’s coming back.
And they said you can’t go home again.
How cute! “Retrace his steps”?! Will he have his baby sandals bronzed?
He wants to save the statue?
“We want relations between Indonesia and the United States not only to cover one issue. There used to be an imbalance, only democracy and human rights,”
...now we want money and part control of the US!
Should not obama travel to Kenya if he wishes to go back to his roots `?
This man has no home.....he is the world’s most famous government mooch.
This guy has taken more vacations in one year than the last 5 POTUS combined. And more than an average American will take in 10 years.
Wonder if he`ll visit the school he went to where he was enrolled as a muslim and studied the koran as well as visit the mosque he went to for friday prayers.
Not true you say?
Substantiated fact.
Could be interesting. Could stir the pot for so-far undiscovered documents about 0’s secret childhood.
How about they just keep him and his family?
Maybe, he’ll stay! I hope, a’hope, a’hope, a’hope...
Does he ever have time for the crisis we are having here?
Wasn't blowing at least 40K of AMERICAN TAXPAYER dollars on a Hawaiian vacation in December enough?
Oh, I forgot. This President has partied MORE than any other President and played more golf (the white man's sport) than George Bush did in years in Obama’s first nine months of office. I get it ....
How amazing it is that a president of the United States has to fly to another country to visit his boyhood home?
Oh, he wants to ADMIRE the controversial staute of HIMSELF!
Now, I really get it!
Don’t hurry back.
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