Heart-ache...
JAKARTA, Indonesia – Scores of Islamic students staged protests outside Jakarta's parliament and in at least three other major Indonesian cities on Friday against President Barack Obama's upcoming visit to this predominantly Muslim country.
The students carried banners branding Obama as an enemy of Islam and an imperialist in downtown Jakarta as well as in the provincial capitals Padang, Yogyakarta and Surabaya.
They also threw shoes at large pictures of Obama's head. An Iraqi journalist was sentenced to a year in prison for throwing his shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush during a news conference in Baghdad in 2008.
Such demonstrations of hostility toward Obama are rare in Indonesia, where he enjoys widespread popularity because he spend part of his childhood in Jakarta while his mother was married to his Indonesian stepfather.
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H/T:HAPundit
awwwwwwwwwww can't give obarfy a heroes welcome
Posted by: Baraka | March 05, 2010 at 12:58 PM
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Posted by: dahozho | March 05, 2010 at 12:59 PM
Gee, why the Hell they pickin' on one of their own? I thought they loved U.S. President Carmen Mirandized.
Oh that's right! We be goin' back to military tribunals.
was this a typo?
"Throw Shoes at Large Pictures of His Head..."
shoulda been
"Throw shoes at pictures of his large head..."
Posted by: Will Profit | March 05, 2010 at 01:00 PM
"The students carried banners branding Obama as an enemy of Islam."
I wish he was.
Posted by: Elric66 | March 05, 2010 at 01:04 PM
Hmmm, I wonder how one throws a shoe with a clenched fist...
Posted by: JenBee | March 05, 2010 at 01:15 PM
Bunch of racist teabagging racisty racists! This is Limbaugh and Beck's fault!
Posted by: Name is required | March 05, 2010 at 01:22 PM
Jen,
Maybe they kicked the shoes off with their clenched feet.
Posted by: Elric66 | March 05, 2010 at 01:30 PM
Clenched feet! Elric66, you almost owe me a new monitor! ;)
Posted by: dahozho | March 05, 2010 at 01:35 PM
Hey maybe we'll get lucky!
Posted by: StandYourGround | March 05, 2010 at 01:57 PM
don't they have any of those green pineapple looking things to throw?
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Posted by: cl sandal | March 05, 2010 at 09:12 PM
cl sandal,
Kindly flog your shoes elsewhere. Maybe in Indonesia?
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