56,000 Angry Indonesians Can't Be Wrong - Obama Statue to Be Removed

And so it shall be. The statue of "Little Barry" is going to be removed.

A statue of US President Barack Obama as a boy will be removed from a park in the Indonesian capital due to public opposition, officials said Friday, just weeks before Obama visits his old hometown.

The Jakarta governor's office confirmed that the two-metre (six-foot) bronze would be removed from Menteng Park and placed at the nearby Menteng One primary school where Obama spent part of his childhood in the late 1960s. The decision comes after 56,500 people joined a page on social networking website Facebook calling for the statue to be removed and replaced by a memorial to an Indonesian identity.

Check out the comments at the above-mentioned Facebook site dedicated to the removal of the statue. My favorite is this one:

John - Well it looks like him a little, but you might want to check his birth certificate.

Indonesians have already found a more suitable statue to take the place of the Obama statue.