Posted on 03/17/2010 3:00:27 PM PDT by COUNTrecount
Grinning happily at the camera, this is Barry Soetoro, the cherubic little boy who went on to become America's first black president.
The charming images taken at a child's birthday party in Jakarta 40 years ago were released as Indonesia prepares to welcome Barack Obama back to the country for the first time since he became president.
The Asia-Pacific tour will also take in Australia and Guam and has been described as an 'extremely important trip' involving 'important partners', a White House spokesman said.
Regional security is expected to be a major focus of the visit.
Ahead of the visit, Mr Obama's former teacher Israella Pareira, described the neighbourhood's reaction to the youngster's arrival.
She said: 'His mother was white, his father was Indonesian, and here was a black, chubby boy with curly hair. It was a big question mark for us.' But if the neighbours were initially curious, it didn't take long for them to accept Mr Obama, his American mother and Indonesian stepfather.
They now speak with pride and affection about the child who stayed for just four years but who left a big impression, before going on to make an even bigger mark in history. The forthcoming visit will also highlight Mr Obama's multicultural upbringing, his early exposure to Islam and his lasting family connections to Indonesia, a mostly Muslim, Southeast Asian nation of some 230 million people.
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Kid on the left: “Hey, where’d you get this weird scar, Barry?”
Is that the same little boy whose saintly mama would whip him and then lock him in the bathroom until the next day (without food). The same saintly mama who would also lock up the 12 year old “Nanny” who would try to sneak food to the chubby little black brat with the curly hair.
[That would be before she abandoned him by sending him across the ocean to live with his grandparents who then tossed him over to the black pedophile who is prolly the person with the greasy neck and matching underwear stains Barry so glowingly wrote about?]
Hey Hussein- when will we see your birth certificate? When someone hides something, they have something to hide!
the basketball one is a fake- big head, wearing another kid’s jersey, strange arms- lots of anomalies pointed out in earler thread on this
You're kicking it today, Mr. Karns.....brilliant, both of them.
ROFL! It’s even funnier because yours looks less like a photoshop than the original does. Good job!
LMAO!!!
You always make me laugh out loud!
(Is that a training boob belt to go with her training bra?)
You left out Waldo.
obumpa
Liz, apropos of nothing, has our Fearlessly Ineligible Leader had some “work” done on the schnozz? Inquiring minds want to know.
It looks like a third arm to me.
I think Laura Ingraham put it nicely - give him a bag of jelly beans, some Air Force 1 Napkins, peanuts and some M&M's, ROFL...
sad, isn’t it?
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