Barry Soetoro
Nov 6th, 2008, in Opinion, by Guest WriterBarry Soetoro aka Barack Obama’s Indonesian connection.
Former Menteng student now US President
Obama Barack has been democratically elected President of the US.
Quite an about face for the best democracy money can buy, in view of the Bush presidential se-lection.
But of course, corruption, collusion and nepotism is the sole monopoly of the Third World – or so the deluded denizens of the West repeat to themselves as they hug their knees, rocking back and forth – reminding themselves of how they uphold human rights equally across the board, entirely devoid of double-standards and totally oblivious to race, creed or religion.
Barrak Hussein Obama II was born to a white American Ann Dunham and Kenyan Barrak Hussein Obama Snr, in Nyang’oma Kogelo now in Kenya.
Here the Indonesian link starts.
Ann Dunham married in 1967 Lolo Soetoro, a Javanese, whose own father, in 1946 was killed along with his eldest brother were killed, after which the Dutch army burned down the family’s home. Soetoro fled with his mother into the countryside to survive. Incidentally yet more proof of Dutch war crimes – delibrate destruction of civilian property outside the scope of battle.
Pak Lolo Soetoro was an army geologist then later a government relations consultant for Mobil Oil. Obama describes Soetoro as well-mannered, even-tempered, and easy with people.
Barry Soetoro in Indonesia with mother Ann Dunham, step-father Lolo Soetoro, baby-sister Maya Soetoro-Ng.
From age 6 to 10, Obama lived in Jakarta. Age six, Obama attended the Catholic Primary St Francis di Assisi. Much was made of the lie he was educated in a Madrassa – or more accurately a pesantren – this of course was totally untrue. Obama Jnr later attended Model Primary School, Menteng and was registered as a Muslim – as his father was Muslim.
In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell my mother that I made faces during Koranic studies. My mother wasn’t overly concerned. ‘Be respectful,’ she’d say. In the Catholic school, when it came time to pray, I would close my eyes, then peek around the room. Nothing happened. No angels descended. Just a parched old nun and 30 brown children, muttering words.
One of “Berry’s” childhood friends was Adi who often visited “Berry’s” 16 Jalan Haji Ramli house. Speaking volumes of Dutch “development” at the time the road was of this established middle-class neighbourhood was a dirt lane where Obama used to wile away the hours kicking a soccer ball.
Adi recalled Obama and his friends wore plastic bags over their shoes to walk through the muddy street during the rainy seasons.
Neighborhood Muslims worshiped in a nearby house, which has since been replaced by a larger mosque. Sometimes, when the muezzin sounded the call to prayer, Lolo and Barry would walk to the makeshift mosque together, Adi said.
His mother often went to the church, but Barry was Muslim. He went to the mosque,” Adi said. “I remember him wearing a sarong.”
Obama spent most his spare time hanging out with Adi and other friends at the home of Yunaldi Askiar, a classmate. They used to play a kind of fencing game using sticks, kick a ball up and down the narrow dirt lanes or go swimming in the river behind the school, said Askiar, 42, a car mechanic.
Obama was taller and better dressed than most kids in classes where shoes and socks were still luxuries, so he stood out from the start. As an African American, and the only foreigner, he suffered racial taunts and teasing but never turned to violence.
“At first, everybody felt it was weird to have him here,” Israella Dharmawan, his first grade teacher said. “But also they were curious about him, so wherever he went, the kids were following him.”
His friends enjoyed playing tricks on Berry: Harmon ASki recalled,
“Sometimes we’d say, ‘Barry, do you want a chocolate?’ And we’d give him a chocolate. The next day we’d give him a chocolate again. The third time we’d give him terasi (fermented shrimp paste) wrapped up like chocolate. Obama didn’t get mad. He would laugh it off.”
Ann Soetoro moved to Yogyakarta, while Obama Jnr studied in Jakarta. She was inspired by Jogja village industries, which became the basis of her 1992 doctoral dissertation.
“She loved living in Java,” said Dr. Dewey, who recalled accompanying Ms. Soetoro to a metalworking village. “People said: ‘Hi! How are you?’ She said: ‘How’s your wife? Did your daughter have the baby?’ They were friends. Then she’d whip out her notebook and she’d say: ‘How many of you have electricity? Are you having trouble getting iron?’ ”
Dunham-Soetoro became a consultant for the United States Agency for International Development on setting up a village credit program, then a Ford Foundation program officer in Jakarta specializing in women’s work. Later, she was a consultant in Pakistan, then joined Indonesia’s oldest bank to work on what is described as the world’s largest sustainable microfinance program, creating services like credit and savings for the poor.
Obama in Hawaii with Maya and Ann and maternal grand-father, shortly after leaving Indonesia.
In his tellingly-titled Memoir, Dreams from My Father, Obama describes his Indonesian interlude as “one long adventure, the bounty of a young boy’s life”. But he also recalls being troubled by the poverty around him: “the empty look on the faces of farmers the year the rains never came,” and the desperation of the disabled beggars who came to the family’s door.
“The world was violent, I was learning, unpredictable and often cruel,” he writes. Obama and his mother thus we were very well acquainted with the harsh realities of indigenous Indonesians.
Fermina Katarina Sinaga, recalled yojhng Obama in her class: in the common task of class to write an essay titled “My dream: What I want to be in the future.” Obama “wrote ‘I want to be a president,’ ” she said. During a later writing assignment on family, he wrote, “My father is my idol.
The Indonesian connection for Obama and all that shaped him proving once again all things Javanese and indigenous Indonesian the bedrock for the towering monuments built on the foundations of a great civilisation.
1,047 Comments on “Barry Soetoro”
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Pakmantri says:
I believe I called him a LIAR, YES a liar who LIED his way into office and used SMOKE and MIRRORS to lie to the people of the USA. Not to mention the race card!
Savtru said it and yet Savtru does not believe it was a Quran Obama was sworn on. SMOKE and MIRROR my friend it was Quran covered in a Bible cover …………………. 😀
And Savtru, don’t forget to send mas Aluang AB your recipe of Paella and Curry.
ROTFLOL ……………
Peace.
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ET says:
purba negoro said (somewhere in november)
So what if he is Muslim- it still teach respect for Christians.
Respect????
Qur’an 5:51 “O believers, do not hold Jews and Christians as your allies. They are allies of one another; and anyone who makes them his friends is one of them.”
As to the entire BC stuff, college records and citizen issues this makes excellent material for a clever screenplay. I think the Hollywood tycoons are already working it out. Phantasies must be running wild.
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Aluang Anak Bayang says:
Aluang Anak Bayang…… “Obama was sworn in with a quran” WTF are you talking about? You obviously have NO IDEA what is going on in this world. I have a picture with his hand on the Bible, a CHRISTIAN bible you LOOSER!
You sneaky little racist roti man, have you injected yourself with curry powder? Make up your mind. Now you are pretty sure he put his hand on a bible. So why are you calling him a moslem and a liar?
Look at yourself in the mirror first. Kelingkia like you should be making teh tarik and washing cars instead of being a lapdog for Bule. I know what you are getting at, You don’t like moslem, you don’t like Blackie. So a Blackie has to be a moslem and a liar.
@ Burung Koel
@AAB:
Fish in a barrel.
I am going to make fish head curry out of this racist bastard.
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@ savtru
Aluang Anak Bayang… Get your head out of your A$$. You think because I hate Obama, that makes me white?
I couldn’t be more right, so you are a curry lapdog.
We need a BLACK MAN? WTF are you talking about? Obama is HALF WHITE you idiot! Thats the problem these days, you have one iota of AFRICAN in you and that makes the rest of your nationality obsolete. WOW! I don’t claim just SPANISH or INDIAN because I have some in me. But if you have 1% African in you, then your black! That’s idiocy at it’s finest!
You are seriously colour blind. If the light is switched off in a room, Obama will disappear with the darkness. Not only does he has afro hair if he let it grow, this man has all the feature of a Black man. Tell me where is the the white you see in him (besides the teeth)?
You obviously have shaded views on us readers. What does nationality have anything to do with an opinion?
It sure does in this case. Indians are known to suck up to bule during colonial period. Come to Indonesian and learn from us, we don’t suck up to anyone.
Who said anything about what BUSH has done? Sounds like YOU HAVE a problem with BUSH and are trying to take it our on the rest of us. What did BUSH do to this economy? Come on… WHAT DID BUSH actually do to make this economy bad? You need to get laid, if you can get it up little boy.
Oi, you were the one who said Bush was an angel. All I said was pfffffft (a wet fart to your face). And yes, I have laid many times with Malaysian Indians, at least they smell better than their homeland kins. You, I believe, are the type that are always seen under the arm of bule men.
JAVANESE name? WTF? ….. who LIED his way into office and used SMOKE and MIRRORS to lie to the people of the USA. Not to mention the race card!
So a successful Black man has to be a conman. You are jealous because Javanese paved his way to the White House. Go jump off the cliff if you can’t bear it no more.
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Cukurungan says:
purba negoro said (somewhere in november)
So what if he is Muslim- it still teach respect for Christians.
Respect????
Qur’an 5:51 “O believers, do not hold Jews and Christians as your allies. They are allies of one another; and anyone who makes them his friends is one of them.”
Do you know what does mean respect for us? Respect is appreciate or admire something in their true value. If you are dog, we will admire you like dog, if you are snake, we will appreciate you like snake not like my wife
We Muslim pay respect to anything from human being to animal include to cow and sheep, therefore, there is a code of ethic how to treat those animal accordingly before finally we slaughter them on Qurban festive
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kngfish740 says:
2 points need to be made. Obama was in fact born in kenya. He was later registered by his grandfather as a live birth at two seperat hospitals in hawaii. That according to our constitution makes him inelligible to be president. The second is his name change to soetero. He never changed his name back to obama once he returned to america. He enrolled in all 3 colleges and recieved aid in all 3 colleges as an indonesian citizen, not an american citizen so to recieve foriegn aid. That is why he will not release his official birth certificate or his college record. America has been fooled by this con artist.
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So a successful Black man has to be a conman. You are jealous because Javanese paved his way to the White House. Go jump off the cliff if you can’t bear it no more.
There was a time when I believed that having a colored man in the White House, elected by whites, blacks, browns and yellows, would be a great step towards more racial tolerance and understanding.
I must have been wrong.
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Cukurungan
We Muslim pay respect to anything from human being to animal include to cow and sheep, therefore, there is a code of ethic how to treat those animal accordingly before finally we slaughter them on Qurban festive
So why not pigs? Because it’s difficult to slaughter yourself?
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Valerie says:
In response to Bill on page 2… I as a young American am truely offended by your comment. We are not all misinformed ‘youngsters’ that only pay attention to what star wore what alfit to what club. While I DO admit to having a subscription to UsWeekly, I also have subscriptions to Time, Newsweek, Newsmax, and Mental Floss. My television will almost always be set to either CNN, Fox News, Headline News, and sometimes even the dreaded MSNBC. My three year old can identify John McCain and Sarah Palin by both voice and photo (and swears up and down he voted for them). I volunteered my time twice a week with my local Republican office and made sure my friends knew why they were voting for the candidate they chose before hitting the polls. While many followed the hype before I spoke with them and stated they were voting for Obama, when I asked them ‘why’ and they couldn’t tell me, I begged them to do their research or not vote. They did and all ended up voting for McCain. Bottom line… my blood runs ruby red and Patriotism for my country runs to the bottom of my heart. Have some faith in us younger generation, we are not all mindless zombies. BTW.. I’m 27 :o)
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dhewi untara says:
He will be good president of USA.
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DJ says:
To Jennifer: I too take offence at Bill’s statement. I have three kids, 18, 20 and 22. They all voted for MCCain/Palin and they actively recruited many of their young friends to do the same. Many registered as Republicans and voted for the first time in their lives. Not all young people are naive when it comes to politics. They were as heartbroken as I on election night. I commend you for being a strong patriotic conservative and for instilling those values in your young son.
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Sorry, Valerie, I called you Jennifer in my above message. Had just recieved an email from my niece of that name and must have been on my mind.
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Burung Koel says:
Many registered as Republicans and voted for the first time in their lives. Not all young people are naive when it comes to politics.
Oh, I see. It’s like an irregular verb:
“I voted as a strong patriotic conservative”,
“You voted naively”, and
“He or she voted for a radical n-word”.
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savtru says:
WOW…. Two weeks in office and BARRY is already screwing thing up. Now he wants to eliminate the Presidential Term… WTF? This crazy Muslim’s True Side is coming out. That’s just what this country needed, another black man asking for change. What’s next? He’s going to do something to make sure he stays in office as long as possible! We will just have to sit back and see! This country is going to hell, and he’s right at the top!
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schmerly says:
So come on you pig fearing cretins, where’s your answer to ET???
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So come on you pig fearing cretins, where’s your answer to ET???
I thank you because finally you confess that the English (Brown man) is better than the English (US). But sorry I have to tell you that we brownman has no too much time to teach the whiteman who want to learn our wisdom.
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I thank you because finally you confess that the English (Brown man) is better than the English (US). But sorry I have to tell you that we brownman has no too much time to teach the whiteman who want to learn our wisdom.
Who’s the rambling crank who wrote this crap? absolutely nothing to do with my question.
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Frosteetoes says:
I have a theory as to why Ann Dunham had her kids registered in Hawaii after they were born in other countries outside the USA. Both fathers were Muslim and may have come back for them to claim them as nationals of their country and try to take them from Dunham. By registering them as USA citizens they would be protected by USA laws and would not be allowed to take them from their mother outside the USA. The state of Hawaii at that time was allowed to give COLB to anyone who was born outside the USA and territories who registered for one. Dunham may have committed this fraud to keep her kids with her in fear that her children may have been taken away by their fathers at some point during her childrens life.
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I have a theory
Good. Then the scientific approach would be to test it and see if it holds up against the evidence.
I have an unfounded belief because I don’t like having an African American President…
/Fixed it for you. Got rid of the bold, too.
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Sook says:
Okay, let’s get some things straight…
1. Obama was born in Hawaii. Hawaii was controlled by the US since the early 1900s. It became a state in 1959. Obama was born in 1961, so he was born in the United States.
2. The Constitution says nothing about whether the president can be a dual citizen – the only citizenship requirements are that the candidate be a natural born citizen of the US, who’s lived in the country for at least 14 years, and who is 35 or older. If the Constitution doesn’t say anything else, the Obama doesn’t need anything else.
3. Obama is a Christian, who swore his oath on a Bible. President Abraham Lincoln’s Bible, in fact. Not that his religion matters. Senator Keith Ellison is Muslim, and the Constitution outlaws using religious beliefs as a qualification for office. So Obama could be an atheist and still be President.
So what’s your problem?
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prama says:
Well, these bigoted Americans who worry more about where Obama was born than what he stands for and what he has accomplished, can always vote for the cerebral duet of Sarah Palin and her running mate Joe the Plumber in the next election. After all, the average American voters, can easily relate to and probably share a lot of things in common with these two semi literate and innumerate individuals.
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@ prama.. I can see you obviously love America, yea?
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I would LOVE it if the Supreme Court would subpoena his records already and have the people DEFINE what a Natural Born Citizen is according to the Constitution AND ratify it. This stuff can’t go on open ended! Ah, but why do that when they have already thrown out every other part of the Constitution!
What makes matters worse, Obama pays over $800K for lawyers to keep his records sealed?? How does that make for a “good President”? What has he got to hide? According to some, they say that even if he had citizenship status up until the age of 5, he applied for citizenship in Indonesia where they DO NOT allow DUAL citizenship. That must mean he gave up his rights as a citizen here. What is the story and why hide it if he is a citizen? PROVE IT! I keep saying this because it is true, I have to provide proof of who I am to be able to get a Library card for goodness sake! End this crap already and SHOW US A VALID CITIZENSHIP!
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Oh dear, another muppet who’s been hypnotised by David Duke, Ann Coulter or Rush Limbaugh. You know those Fox presenters are taking all you rednecks for a ride, don’t you?
Oh, but why do that when they have already thrown out every other part of the Constitution!
And did you get up in arms when George W. trampled all over the Bill of Rights with the Patriot Act, extraordinary rendition, illegal wiretaps and torture? Spare me.
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Rhemrev says:
You write: “Speaking volumes of Dutch “development” at the time the road of this established middle-class neighbourhood was a dirt lane where Obama used to wile away the hours kicking a soccer ball.” And: “From age 6 to 10, Obama lived in Jakarta.”
Which means that we are talking here about the period 1967-1971. In 1967, Indonesia had officially been an independent country for EIGHTEEN years. So you think you can blame the sorry state of the Jakarta roads on the Dutch, eighteen years after their departure? An unbiased reader would rather conclude that the Indonesion government did a poor job of developing the city!
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rolech says:
No matter where he was born. The one thing that is true is the fact he is a socialist/communist and his goal is to destroy our government as we know it.
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Twang!
That’s the sound of a banjo.
And the sound of your brain snapping.
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AmericanbyGodsgrace says:
Hey Sook —
“2. The Constitution says nothing about whether the president can be a dual citizen – the only citizenship requirements are that the candidate be a natural born citizen of the US, who’s lived in the country for at least 14 years, and who is 35 or older. If the Constitution doesn’t say anything else, the Obama doesn’t need anything else.”
The US doesn’t allow dual-citizenship…therefore your point is invalid, you are either a US citizen or not. My son, born in Germany while I was stationed there as an American Military service man means he is a natural born citizen. When he turns 18 years old, he can choose to be a citizen of Germany, thereby giving up all rights to being a “Natural Born Citizen” of the United States.
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keith says:
Barack hussein Obama= the 12th Imam who is hell bent on bringing down the US
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