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  • Indonesia left deep imprint on Obama family

    03/23/2008 1:38:38 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 15 replies · 1,068+ views
    al Reuters via Yahoo! News ^ | March 22, 2008 | Ed Davies
    JAKARTA (Reuters) - A small group of Indonesians in their late 40s who attended the same elementary school in central Jakarta recently gathered for a reunion and to pledge their support for an absent former classmate -- Barack Obama. Obama's late mother came to Indonesia with her young son in the late 1960s to join her second husband knowing next to nothing about the huge, developing Southeast Asian nation. While her son left after four years to study in Hawaii, for the Kansas-born mother of the Democratic Party presidential hopeful the relationship with Indonesia was to grow into a lifetime...
  • Shake, Rattle and Roll (Mo Dowd on Castrated Obama vs Hillary the Dominatrix)

    11/18/2007 3:42:27 AM PST · by tlb · 27 replies · 319+ views
    New York Times ^ | MAUREEN DOWD
    The debate dominatrix knows how to rattle Obambi. Mistress Hillary started disciplining her fellow senator last winter. She has continued to flick the whip in debates. She had to do it again in Vegas, this time using her voice, gaze and body language to such punishing effect that Obama looked as if he had been brought to heel. Other guys, like Rudy, wouldn’t even be looking for a chance to greet Hillary, as Obama always does. Other guys, like Rudy, wouldn’t care if she iced them. But she can tell that Obama does care, ...that he responds to the sort...