Dec 8, 2009 9:37am

Indonesia to Erect Statue of President Obama as a Boy

A six-and-a-half foot statue of President Obama as a 10-year-old boy has been commissioned in Jakarta, Xinhua reports.

The president spent some of his formative years there as a boy, where he was educated at a school that was decidedly not a madrassa, despite some false reports pushed by conservative news outlets two years ago.

A group called "Friends of Obama" made the announcement today, saying the statue will be inaugurated on December 10 in a playground in the Jakarta suburb Menteng Dalam, where Obama lived from 1967 until 1971 with his mother and stepfather.

"The statue is designed to inspire Indonesian children that they can be anyone they want to be," said Friends of Obama chairman Ron Muller.

– jpt

User Comments

Who cares.

Posted by: Live! From DC! It's Sat Night! | December 8, 2009, 10:00 am 10:00 am

…who is paying for it?…or is it coming out of TARP money, too?

Posted by: justj joey | December 8, 2009, 10:00 am 10:00 am

But will they put up a plaque with the statue, telling the truth that Zero is now the “president” with the lowest poll ratings ever at this point in an administration (47% – Gallup); that he is a self-absorbed, America-hating narcissist; that he and his administration are a total failure; and that overwhelmingly the American people have only the deepest contempt for him and all of the morally-depraved thugs that make up his administration?

Posted by: Brian | December 8, 2009, 10:06 am 10:06 am

The fascination with celebs is not limited to America.
Rather pathetic, when you think about it, but then the human animal is often a pretty pathetic creature.

Posted by: Rick McDaniel | December 8, 2009, 10:16 am 10:16 am

Nice

Posted by: Huh | December 8, 2009, 10:32 am 10:32 am

C’mon Jake, be brave. Start a thread about the Climate scam, the HORRIBLE approval ratings or how the general population wants jobs not some BS healthcare. No offence but some of your posts appear as if you avoid the real stuff like CO2 now being REGULATED!!!? How’bout the fact that it will KILL job hiring? Seriously, ABC, stop playing dumb to what EVERYONE else is talking about. Really. Who cares about a statue of a guy who has done nothing but worsen things. Get it?

Posted by: Walsh | December 8, 2009, 10:47 am 10:47 am

Hey , he won the Nobel prize .

Posted by: nat turner | December 8, 2009, 10:48 am 10:48 am

nat turner – Yep so did Gore and Krugman.

Posted by: Huh | December 8, 2009, 11:34 am 11:34 am

Many countries will pay tribute to Barrack Obama. However, America will not be one of them.

Posted by: pauldia | December 8, 2009, 12:01 pm 12:01 pm

“…who is paying for it?…or is it coming out of TARP money, too?”—
No, no TARP money. But the White House has issued a statement that according to the recovery.org website, the completion of the statute and its dedication did “Save” fifteen jobs. They are currently creating another congressional district that will include Jakarta so the proper credit can be received for the new jobs.
Next week they are going to get his first home declared an historic site (provided the Kenyan government will agree to that).

Posted by: arkie vet | December 8, 2009, 12:17 pm 12:17 pm

those kids cant be president because they are from indonesia, so no they cant be anything like obama.
Another reason for me to think he doesnt have the right to be potus.

Posted by: keith | December 8, 2009, 12:35 pm 12:35 pm

Indonesia to Erect Statue of President Obama as a Boy
Rrrracissssts!

Posted by: Harry | December 8, 2009, 12:35 pm 12:35 pm

They are just showing support for one of their own

Posted by: jamescbuilder | December 8, 2009, 12:35 pm 12:35 pm

Not surprised…Obama’s “Change we can believe in” logos are being distributed on school supplies, pencils and notebooks, in MO….Just thought I’d throw that one out…

Posted by: Parallex View | December 8, 2009, 12:41 pm 12:41 pm

A sacred site.
Let the Pilgrimages start.
Hosanna Obama!
Gloria in Excelsis Deo!

Posted by: Obamatopia | December 8, 2009, 2:52 pm 2:52 pm

It’s amaizing that Occidental College in California does not erect a statue of Mr. Obama as an 18-yr old. It’s been reported that he attended as an Indoneasian Exchange Student.

Posted by: Terry | December 8, 2009, 4:56 pm 4:56 pm

While we are commerating, how about a Bronze Plaque placed on the hospital where he was born? Which hospital was that? How about a little sign in front of the house where he lived the first two years of his life. What is the address of that house?

Posted by: Terry | December 8, 2009, 5:05 pm 5:05 pm

Obama was adopted out to Indonesia with no record of him ever regaining U.S. citizenship. He attended a muslim school (as Indonesia is a muslim nation) where muslim students such as Obama were assigned muslim classes in a mosque built on the school site. ABC, stop spinning BS. He was/is an Indonesian that was schooled in a muslim school for which he even wrote about in his book. Not to mention, colleges used to dorm up like students together Indonesian muslim Obama was dormed with others like him hence his repeated housing with foreign muslims. Duh!!

Posted by: Sendthemtojail | December 8, 2009, 6:44 pm 6:44 pm

“Obama was adopted out to Indonesia with no record of him ever regaining U.S. citizenship.”
Oh goodie I was hoping some brain dead birthers would show up.
Obama not adopted. There is no record of adoption and the only people claiming that are birthers who need that lie to support a half dozen other lies.
Also according to US law, parents can not renounce citizenship for their children and I don’t see the US embassy accepting a child under the age of 10 renouncing his citizenship.
Make sure you send every dime you can to Orly Taitz, she is facing a $20K sanction and is heartbroken over the loss of her lover and legal assistant, a disbarred felon.

Posted by: Ryan C | December 8, 2009, 8:30 pm 8:30 pm

I wonder if attending a Occidental College on a scholarship for foreign students, and by traveling to Afghanistan in your twenties on a Indonesian passport would be sufficient to renounce your own citizenship. Not saying it happened, I don’t know, and neither do you. Just asking…

Posted by: Terry | December 8, 2009, 9:53 pm 9:53 pm

How’s that hope ‘n change working out for you?

Posted by: Freedom Lover | December 8, 2009, 9:58 pm 9:58 pm

Make that Hoax and Change (RHL)

Posted by: Terry | December 8, 2009, 10:59 pm 10:59 pm

“Someday after you grow up you can also become President of the United States…”

Posted by: Caper29 | December 8, 2009, 11:28 pm 11:28 pm

If he was born in Hawaii, then Barack Hussein Obama II, was born a dual-national, not an Article 2 natural born citizen. It may be possible to put a bun back in the oven, but you cannot undo a birth. No amount of legal statute can create a natural born citizen. Should evidence surface proving he was born in Kenya, then he is British. But, future litigation will clear that up.

Posted by: borderraven | December 9, 2009, 12:28 am 12:28 am

How emphatic Tapper is that Obama didn’t attend a madrassa school. Who decided, Tapper – you? I don’t trust a word out of Tapper’s liberal mouth.

Posted by: terry | December 9, 2009, 12:59 am 12:59 am

Folks, he is NOT a Muslim. OK, the New York Times did report that Obama said the sound of a muslim prayer chant blasting out from a mosque is the sweetest sound on earth. He might also say that he has memorized most of the key verses of the Koran. Until something substantial arises, I’m with George Stephanopoulos on this: No one can question President 0bama’s Christian faith.

Posted by: Jack | December 9, 2009, 1:37 am 1:37 am

Who cares if went to a madrassa or not? He was a child and didn’t have a say one way or another. I find it more concerning that when he could choose he chose to sit in church with Rev. Wright for 20 years.

Posted by: Diana | December 9, 2009, 7:36 am 7:36 am

> I’m with George Stephanopoulos on this: No one can question President 0bama’s Christian faith.
Neither Stephanopoulos nor (obviously) you have a clue about the Christian faith and are clearly unqualified to make any pronouncements regarding anyone’s “christian” faith.
Whatever religion Obama is, he isn’t a Christian. Over 20 years of sitting in Rev Wright’s “church” proves this.
Not to mention every word he spoke in Cairo and on the campaign trail.

Posted by: Wallabee | December 9, 2009, 8:06 am 8:06 am

BHO: not a Christian. Not a Muslim.
Most certainly an opportunist and a socialist.

Posted by: Mustafa Falafa | December 9, 2009, 8:59 am 8:59 am

“The statue is designed to inspire Indonesian children that they too can hope to contribute to the destruction of the once great United States of America”
fixed

Posted by: bitterlib | December 9, 2009, 9:10 am 9:10 am

Until something substantial arises, I’m with George Stephanopoulos on this: No one can question President 0bama’s Christian faith.
Posted by: Jack | Dec 9, 2009 1:37:44 AM
Not sure how you can be a Christian and support abortion – but if you say so…

Posted by: Live! From DC! It's Sat Night! | December 9, 2009, 9:39 am 9:39 am

hes not a christian , anyone who goes to a church (rev. jerry wright) where the preacher says God dam America repeatedly

Posted by: dee | December 9, 2009, 10:02 am 10:02 am

Birthers of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but your delusions.

Posted by: Chilidog | December 9, 2009, 10:49 am 10:49 am

As for the snarky remarks about “birthers,” since when is is unreasonable to ask for a COLB? I’ve had to produce mine on a few occassions.
So how about it Obama? What do you have to hide?

Posted by: Samuel Adams | December 9, 2009, 11:06 am 11:06 am

Will we be allowed to see the building permit?

Posted by: andycanuck | December 9, 2009, 11:41 am 11:41 am

“As for the snarky remarks about “birthers,” since when is is unreasonable to ask for a COLB?”
You mean the COLB posted on FighttheSmears, FactCheck & Politifact?

Posted by: Ryan C | December 9, 2009, 4:58 pm 4:58 pm

Hey, Ryan C…That photo-shopped COLB with a stamp at the top of the certificate doesn’t cut it.

Posted by: Samuel Adams | December 9, 2009, 5:42 pm 5:42 pm

dee sez: “hes not a christian , anyone who goes to a church (rev. jerry wright) where the preacher says God dam America repeatedly”
===============
But Pat Robertson and others on the religious right types say God is condemning America for its “immorality.” What do you think the word damn means?

Posted by: Krisipuu | December 9, 2009, 11:37 pm 11:37 pm

I guess President Obama can’t have a
statue. I guess the Lincoln Memorial
is horrible also, just like all the
statues Presidents have.
Oh my Gosh they are evil.
Grow up people.
No wonder America was falling apart
with Bush and Cheney where is your brains?
Oh I forget you don’t have any.
Stop spilling your ugliness and
make some sense.
He is not a Muslim and so what if he is,
how many Christians are true Christians,
Hypocrites!!!!!

Posted by: Suzi | December 9, 2009, 11:40 pm 11:40 pm

I’m so sick of all of the Socialist
crap, All of you know it alls,
Do not take Medicare, and do not
take Social Security if you do you
are a taking government run money.
Know it off, is the light bulb on
or off above your heads????

Posted by: Suzi | December 9, 2009, 11:44 pm 11:44 pm

“Hey, Ryan C…That photo-shopped COLB with a stamp at the top of the certificate doesn’t cut it.”
Except it wasn’t photo shopped.
It was also examined by two fact check organizations.
Unless you believe some anonymous freepers who lied about their expertise that claim it was a forgery.
You wouldn’t be the first gullible right winger to do so.

Posted by: Ryan C | December 10, 2009, 1:50 pm 1:50 pm

Does anyone know which hospital BHO was born at? I live in Hawaii and no one here seems to know?

Posted by: Bee | December 14, 2009, 2:58 am 2:58 am

Wonderful,the President deserves everything,this guy has….CLASS.
We adore our President Obama,he inspires us with his civility and classiness in governing.
Hail to President Obama,no matter what you evil cowards says about him.
He was voted President of our country and you are nothing in compares to him.
BAM IS THE WORLD.

Posted by: Carol Bautista | December 15, 2009, 4:02 pm 4:02 pm

simple questions:
every Sec. of State (for each state) verified Obama as a citizen before he could be on each state’s ballot. Did they see his BC? If not, then who did?
Have you personally seen it?
Who spends $2 million to defend something for no reason? I sure wouldn’t. If it looks & smells like crap, it probably is.
Obama used his Indonesian background to get foreign student scholarships, like so many other students.
best point: I had to present my infant son’s BC every time I got on a plane with him. I had to present mine to get a state job. to join the Air Force and serve 6 years honorably. To go to public friggin elementary school. Why do crybaby liberals find it unfair to ask to see the President’s BC?
America is sliding down a dangerous slope that ends with the loss of the very freedom that made us America to start with.
Answer the damned questions Obama, or get out.

Posted by: I have a question | December 15, 2009, 6:54 pm 6:54 pm

Hey his brith records is on line and he glade to stick it to anybody who cares ok now he the man do his job as we ask him to do now let use stop messing up the land we live on and help whom ever is trying to something I feel we need to work on our money value and work that only in the USA we can still help other countries too lets work on the important things please. LOVE THE WORLD AND LOVE YOUR SELF BETTER THAN ANYTHING OR ANYBODY CAN .

Posted by: denise | May 2, 2011, 11:38 am 11:38 am

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