When Obama Was Just "Dumpling Ears"

Jakarta Globe ^ | 4/25/2010 | Yanto Soegiarto

[Velveeta]

Candor7, are you pinging for LucyT?

[mojitojoe]

he is now the most powerful person on earth
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ROFLMAO! No, he just thinks he is. He works for us, he’s our peon.

[DJ MacWoW]

Load of BS ping!

[mojitojoe]

Did you read the article? Lolo was in military uniform. I doubt an adult would be in cub scouts.

[thouworm]

Barack Obama and his primary school classmates in this class photo from the 1970s. Some of President Barack Obama’s former classmates were invited to the home of US Ambassador Cameron Hume a day before Obama’s inauguration in 2009. (Photo courtesy Widiyanto)

11/03/2008 / INDONESIA/ USA
"Obama never studied in an Islamic madrassa"

Photo of Obama's class (he's circled in yellow) at the Besuki Menteng 01 School, Jakarta 1970.

Obama’s former classmates took this photo in front of their old primary school on 1 March 2008

Rully Dasaad was a classmate of Obama in 1970 in Jakarta:

"Barack Obama, "Barry" as we called him, was always a good pupil. Always in a good mood, always smiling. He made a big effort to adapt and make friends; being different was no problem. At that time, the scout captain named Barry leader of group A. I was in that group. It was him who gave the order to stand to attention or at ease. At school we all spoke in Indonesian, and he learnt how to speak it too. He knows our language. "He spent two years at the Catholic school and so two years with us. The rumours about him attending an « Islamic Madrassa » are nothing but lies. It's just because his step-father and father are Muslim.At that time there was no mini-mosque like now [there's a small mosque inside the school now].

This school was a normal public school. There were Chinese Buddhist pupils, Hindus from Bali, Christians and Muslims. Everyone was mixed up. It was not a school reserved for Muslims, not at all. Most children from well-off families came to study at the school. Suharto's young children also went there."

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[mojitojoe]

Which one is him in the first photo? I thought he left there in 1970, but they are saying he was there until August of 1971.

[MissDairyGoodnessVT]

what? no barf alert for indonesian propaganda?

[thouworm]

Indonesia 1969: Rully Dasaad

After Barack's parents split up, he moved with his mother and Indonesian stepfather to Jakarta, aged seven, where he befriended classmate Dasaad - now a commercial photographer - at Basuki Primary School.

Quotes by Rully Dasaad

"When the teacher introduced 'Barry Soetoro' [Obama went by his stepfather's name at the time] to the class, he was very exotic. He was the only non-Indonesian; he was taller than all of us and chubby. He was accompanied by his white mum and his Indonesian stepfather, who was wearing a military outfit, and I remember thinking, that's strange, he looks half black, half white - maybe this is what a boy from Hawaii looks like."
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"He and his mum had been living in Indonesia since 1967. She worked for USAID, helping Indonesian women in the countryside to live in a more Western fashion. For the first two months, Barry was still adjusting. We had a singing class once a week and he wouldn't sing, probably because he was shy and worried that he might sing a word wrong. But after three months, he spoke Indonesian. He became one of us."
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"At the time, my father and President Sukarno were the only people in the country with Cadillacs, and both were presents from my grandpa, who was the richest man in Indonesia."
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"We came back from the summer vacation for fifth grade and Barry wasn't there. The teacher said he'd gone back to Hawaii. Our small gang was split up."

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[DJ MacWoW]

I think His Smirkness is standing behind the woman. In the center.

[thouworm]

Note on Wynton Marsalis: Flamenco, Food, Fado and Friends FACEBOOK page

Rully Dasaad

Many Thanks to you Wynton to all yours sweet attention and kind support to my daughter Rose Dasaad,Susanna Tadjab and Remon..My great respect to you as a Jazz Fan whos listening to you since you were still in Art Blakey's Jazz Messenger Band...I hope someday you will appear in Java Jazz in jakarta - Indonesia someday..May God Bless you always....Take care Rully Dasaad
July 15, 2009 at 7:51pm

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[skimbell]

Is that a picture of Barry's mother?

I didn't recognize her with clothes on.

[Las Vegas Ron]

When US President Barack Obama officially visits Indonesia in June, classmates from his elementary school days are looking forward to seeing him again.

Wonder where all of his classmates are from schools he "attended" here in the U.S.?

[thouworm]

When a whispering campaign began in Washington that Obama had attended a radical Islamic school, it galvanised his former classmates from the nearby Besuki Primary School. Rully Dasaad, a photographer, formed an Obama fan club and almost all his 24 classmates joined, dismissing suggestions Obama was educated as a Muslim.

"The claims it was a madrassa [Islamic school] were unfair," he said. "In our time we had Christians, Hindus, Muslims and Buddhists all mixed in one class. Every morning we would recite the state ideology of Pancasila [promoting unity in diversity]."

Coming from one of Indonesia's wealthiest families and with an American aunt, Dasaad spoke good English and took "chubby Barry" under his wing. They joined the Scouts together and every lunchtime would play tak gebok, an Indonesian version of dodgeball.

He remembers buying Obama a notebook and pencils for his 10th birthday, as he loved to draw. "He liked to draw superheroes; it was always Batman or Superman."

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[DJ MacWoW]

It’s easier to support fairytales from Indonesia. If an American lied, SOMEONE would come forward and tell on them.

[gleeaikin]

I thought you were talking about the son. He wore a cub scout hat.

[Las Vegas Ron]

Yeah, you know it's funny, I never noticed before but in that pic at post 10, Barry could pass for Lalo's kid.

I'm not suggesting anything but it just kind of struck me, must be my mood today.

[mojitojoe]

Odd, isn’t it?

[Las Vegas Ron]

Odd, isn’t it?

It is, funny thing is it never caught my attention before.

[DJ MacWoW]

Yeah. In that pic he does look like he could be Lolo’s.

[thouworm]

lol; contentious school rivalry to claim Obama and to reaffirm that Obama is not Muslim [that seems like the real campaign]
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April 9, 2010
Indonesia Catholic School Promotes Ties to Obama Washington Post: Catholic Elementary School Seeks Recognition For Its Role in Obama's Life

"What Madewa and other old friends want to remind Obama about won't bring any joy to those in the United States who contend that the president is a closet Muslim. The truth, they say, is this: While Obama went to Besuki, a mostly Muslim school, for less than a year, he spent most of his four years in Indonesia studying at Santo Fransiskus Asisi, a Roman Catholic school run at the time by a stern Dutch priest. Classes began and ended each day with Christian prayers."

"Sometime in the third grade, Obama's mother moved up-market to Menteng. Obama switched schools to Besuki. He returned to the United States less than a year later. Exactly how many months he spent at Besuki is not known; the school's registration records were destroyed years ago by flooding".

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