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To: tejek who wrote (553317)	3/5/2010 11:42:12 AM
From: HPilot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573428

They seem to think that by voting for Obama, the slate was wiped clean and things returned automatically to the way they were pre Bush. I don't think that people expected the slate to be automatically wiped clean. But that they expected Obama to try to wipe it clean, if not the deficient then the war. But the right doesn't like the fact he has increased spending and the deficient, and the left doesn't like the fact he is continuing Bush's war efforts.

To: tejek who wrote (553317)	3/5/2010 11:57:04 AM
From: FJB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573428

Indonesian students protest Barack Obama's visit Fri Mar 5, 7:53 am ET 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. Protest organizer Ahmad Irhamul Fikri, spokesman for the Coordinating Board for Campus Proselytizing Institute, said bigger rallies will be staged next Friday in more Indonesian cities ahead of Obama's March 20-22 visit. 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. Local government officials allowed business people to erect a statue of a 10-year-old Obama in a Jakarta park in December. But it was shifted last month to a nearby elementary school that he attended after more than 50,000 people supported a Facebook campaign against it and court action was threatened. Obama is expected to sign the statue's pedestal while in Jakarta.