Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Barry Obama, "The Boy Who Ran Like a Duck"

Barry Obama, "The Boy Who Ran Like a Duck"

Being a city boy originally, I don’t know much about how ducks run (a rapid waddle?) but most Indonesians probably do.

President Barack Hussein Obama lived some of his formative years in Muslim Indonesia and attended a school popular with “the ruling class” in Jakarta after attending a Catholic school in which many students didn’t own shoes until third grade. He moved on to a Muslim public school Menteng which “still draws the children of the elite.”

Some of the locals recall him as a chubster and as “the boy who runs like a duck” duiring those years in Jakarta, 1967-1971, when he was about 6-10 years of age.

That should not be construed as a negative reflection on our president. It couldn’t be since it appears in an article in the New York Times titled, “Obama Visits a Nation that Knew Him As Barry.” . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=2589)

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