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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-02-10 09:33 AM
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Obama, Family Plan Trip to Boyhood Indonesian School in March
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Obama, Family Plan Trip to Boyhood Indonesian School in March

By Agus Suhana and Achmad Sukarsono

Feb. 2 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama will bring his wife and children on a trip next month to Indonesia, where he spent part of his childhood, as the U.S. seeks closer ties with the nation that has the world’s largest Muslim population.

“This visit has a sentimental aspect and that’s why he’s bringing along his two daughters,” Indonesian presidential spokesman Dino Patti Djalal told reporters today. “The children will see where their father went to school,” he said, referring to Obama’s time in Jakarta where he studied at Catholic and state-run elementary schools from 1967 to 1971.

Obama plans to formally announce a U.S. partnership with Indonesia during the trip, which will take place in the second half of March, the U.S. embassy in Jakarta said in a statement. The pact, discussed in a November meeting between Obama and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, will include ways to enhance bilateral investment, Djalal said.

Talks on climate change may also come up, Djalal said. Indonesia trails only the U.S. and China as the biggest carbon dioxide emitting nations when greenhouse gases from deforestation and land-use changes are included, according to the World Wildlife Fund. The U.S. and Indonesia signed up to the Copenhagen accord, which contains numerical goals for all major greenhouse-gas emitters.

Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601074&sid=abO2u7UvLbP0
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Robb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-02-10 09:35 AM
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1. Ah HAH!!111!!
Catholic-run muslin mattrasses!!!
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Raschel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-02-10 10:26 AM
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4. Get out the sheets Jim Bob, that muslin's actin' up again!
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Bette Noir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-02-10 12:41 PM
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11. Muslin sheets for the mattrasses? Okay, if you don't prefer percale.
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NBachers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-02-10 09:51 AM
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2. Here comes the Barry Sotero tidal wave
The insanicons will be in a delirium of hysteria.
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jberryhill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-02-10 10:30 AM
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5. Obviously, he is going there to destroy damaging records...

He'll break away from his security detail at night and break into the secured vault containing the proof of his birth on Mars or wherever it is.
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RedCloud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-02-10 10:06 AM
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3. Hoping there is no bad end to that story!
It would seem risky from a security standpoint.
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Haole Girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-02-10 12:26 PM
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10. Me too
:scared:
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lobodons Donating Member (448 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-02-10 10:57 AM
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6. Can't wait to see Stoocey's reaction to this
Can't wait to see that bumbling idiot Stoocey's reaction to this on faux news. (I know I probably spelled his name wrong, but didn't want to spend the time on this fucktard to google it)
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CanonRay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-02-10 11:22 AM
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7. This ought to set the teabaggers aflame
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Turborama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-02-10 11:55 AM
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8. Damn! I've been looking forward to this since the election and I'll be out of town when he comes.
Hopefully he won't be giving an awesome speech which I could have gone to see.
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progressoid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-02-10 12:04 PM
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9. Oh Nooes! He's the Manchurian Candidate!!
He's going back home for his marching orders.
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msanthrope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-02-10 01:01 PM
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12. The birthers will freak---Can't wait for Orly Taitz's take on it. n/t
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Raschel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-02-10 01:52 PM
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13. I think of a blackhead or pimple whenever I hear her name.
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