01/26/10

From Newser.com

Indonesia May Tear Down Obama Statue

Facebook drives puts matter on government agenda

By Will McCahill|

(Newser) – Under pressure from a 55,000-member-strong Facebook group, Indonesian authorities are considering tearing down a statue of Barack Obama as a boy, less than a month after it was erected in a Jakarta park near Obama’s childhood home. “We’ve been discussing ... whether to take it down, move it elsewhere or retain it,” a parks official tells AFP. “We’re finding the best solution.”

Obama, who lived in Indonesia for 4 years beginning in 1967, “has yet to make a significant contribution to the Indonesian nation,” the Facebook page says. “We could say Obama only ate and shit in Menteng. He spent his subsequent days living as an American.”

As more and more Americans wake up and examine Obama's character and qualifications to occupy the office of president of the United States, they arrive at the same assessment as the Indonesians; making it increasingly unlikely that an Obama statue will ever be erected in this country.