That President Barack Obama Statue email came with this text:SO FAR, THIS HAS GOT TO BE THE BEST EMAIL OF 2010!!!!!Here is a real statue of president Obama as a boy growing up in Indonesia.
Inscription on the Statue:
Text on the base of the Young Barack Obama statue:
A young boy named Barry (Soetoro) played with his mother, Ann In Nenteng area. He grew up to be the 44th president of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Barack Obama.From CNN Statue of young Obama unveiled in Indonesia
The U.S. president was born in Hawaii and lived in Indonesia for four years in the 1960s with his mother and Indonesian stepfather.and USA Today reports:
The young Obama, who once studied and played in this neighborhood, was known to many then as "Barry."
"We imagined Barry, and we thought the story would be inspirational to all Indonesian children that when you dream big, they can come true," said Ron Mullers, chairman of the nonprofit group Friends of Obama.
Mullers, a Hawaii native and long-time resident of Indonesia adds, "We thought wouldn't it be great to have a statue of him here as a child, not as president, but as a child, as an inspiration to the Indonesian people."
Controversial Obama statue in Indonesia removed from park after protestsThe Jakarta Globe reports Jakarta Obama Statue Taken Down
The decision to take down the 43-inch statue, which was erected in December, came after more than 57,000 people joined a Facebook page calling for it to be removed and replaced by a memorial to an Indonesian. It was removed Sunday night.
The two-metre bronze was removed from Menteng Park and taken to nearby Menteng One primary school, which Obama attended in the late 1960s, vice-principal Akhmad Solikhin told AFPNote that President Barack Hussein Obama II went by "Barry Soetoro," the name of his stepfather, in his early years.
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