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For Indonesians, Obama is ‘Everyone’s Son or Friend’
Of all the people on earth expressing exultation over Barack Obama’s impending Democratic Presidential nomination, Kenyans and Indonesians are particularly enthusiastic, given that in part, the junior senator from Illinois grew up in those two nations.
This editorial from Indonesia’s Jakarta Post captures the mood in that nation – the world’s most populous Muslim state. Acknowledging the downside for Obama politically of his ties to Indonesia, the editorial begins this way:
“Some U.S. voters regard his childhood experience during the 1960s in predominantly Muslim Indonesia as a dark side of his life. Nevertheless, many Indonesians are notably happy to see Barack Obama have a chance to become the first African-American president of the United States. Here, he’s everyone’s son or friend. … Highlighting his ties to the world’s most populous Muslim country could have negative repercussions for him, so in public Obama has tried to distance himself from Indonesia. But many Indonesians believe that his brief stay here with his mother and Indonesian stepfather played a crucial role in Obama’s character building.”
Then expressing the hope of the people of Indonesia, the editorial goes on:
“Indonesians are quite confident that Indonesia-American relations will warm considerably with Obama at the helm in the White House. They also believe that under Obama, the world will be much more peaceful and that it has under George W. Bush, and that the nightmare Bush brought will pass like a bitter history never to be repeated.”
EDITORIAL
June 5, 2008
Indonesia – The Jakarta Post – Home Page (English)
Some U.S. voters regard his childhood experience during the 1960s in predominantly Muslim Indonesia as a dark side of his life. Nevertheless, many Indonesians are notably happy to see Barack Obama have a chance to become the first African-American president of the United States. Here, he’s everyone’s son or friend.
Indonesians regard Obama as the son of our neighbors. All neighbors want to share the pride of having someone from next door with the chance to become the world’s most powerful person, even if they had little knowledge of the boy when he lived in their neighborhood.
Indonesians are quite confident that Indonesia-American relations will warm considerably with Obama at the helm in the White House. They also believe that under Obama, the world will be much more peaceful and that it has under George W. Bush, and that the nightmare Bush brought will pass like a bitter history never to be repeated.
Although Obama will do everything possible to protect American interests, just as he has as a U.S. senator (although who knows what he’ll be like as President) and his interests will likely run counter to Indonesia’s, Obama is still the best “son” of Indonesia. Many of us perhaps don’t realize that the Democratic Party is much more demanding on human rights, labor issues and trade issues than the Republican Party.
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4 Responses to “For Indonesians, Obama is ‘Everyone’s Son or Friend’”
“under Obama, the world will be much more peaceful and that it has under George W. Bush, and that the nightmare Bush brought will pass like a bitter history never to be repeated”
amen
“And Obama will heal the sick and turn water into wine. He will raise the dead and feed all the poor.”
Though we've seen the degeneracy for ages in the United Nations, it really is sad and unbecoming to see other nations adopt post-1960s-radical-pathology-driven PC drivel such as instinctive, sub-50-IQ-level “requisite” Bush-bashing. And is the USA no good unless it's a giant welfare sugar daddy dispensing “foreign aid” to [the corrupt, dysfunctional, sometimes-despotic] governments of all nations who want it simply because it might be there? And what excuse does anyone in the USA or the rest of the developed world, who should always have known better, have for such playpen and self-nation-antagonistic antics? “Amen” to pathological PC nonsense? [sigh]
Quit gushing like uncontrolled children, and leave the PC degeneracy out of this race, for once.
“'And Obama will heal the sick and turn water into wine. He will raise the dead and feed all the poor.'”
1. It's not the USA's job to buy the “friendship” of all nations (and appease the most criminal regimes in this world), and I hope this far-left lunacy will never materialize and harm this nation under an Obama administration. Even worse would be radical lies like “guilt” (for nothing) as a reason to “repair relations”
2. Obama is no god and the idealism will be shattered within weeks, though the faithful will deny it and continue to believe in miracles for many more months.