Democrats want Obama to delay trip, Indonesians want him to cancel it

It was just announced that the President Obama’s trip has been canceled. Expect celebrations to break out in Jakarta.

Indonesia Obama Protest
Indonesians demonstrating their love for President Obama

UPDATE: It was just announced that the President’s trip has been canceled. Expect celebrations to break out in Jakarta.

To go or not to go, that is the question.

Should President Obama delay his Indonesian trip to satisfy House Democrats? Or should he cancel is completely to satisfy protesting Indonesians?

Politico reports on the House Democrats:

Last week, the president pushed back his planned Friday departure three days after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats groused he was leaving at a critical time.

“For the first time in eight months, the president is finally getting his hands dirty, and now he’s going to hop on the plane? Please,” said a Democratic congressman, requesting anonymity.

“These deadlines are sort of silly,” the member added. “Remember the first one? March 18th? That was sort of like putting a calendar on [White House chief of staff] Rahm’s [Emanuel’s] back and inviting members to throw darts at him.”

Another Democrat told POLITICO bluntly, “This trip is really getting in the way of things.”

Ahhh, but if the Democrats think they’re pissed off about Obama’s Indonesian trip, they should talk to some Indonesians.

The Sydney Morning Herald reports the other end of the story:

Thousands of Indonesian Muslims have staged peaceful rallies in cities across the country to protest US President Barack Obama’s visit later this month.

Around 2,000 protesters from the hardline Muslim group Hizbut Tahrir, which aims to establish a Muslim caliphate, shouted “Islam united… will not be defeated. Reject Obama” and tore printouts of the American flag as they marched around the South Sulawesi capital of Makassar on Sunday.

In Central Java’s Solo city, another 500 of the group’s supporters carried posters saying “Expel Obama.. leader of coloniser” and “America.. The Real Terrorists”.

“There are two types of visitors, good and bad. Obama is bad. He might be of a different skin colour from George Bush, but he still oppressed the Muslims,” the group’s spokesman Nur Alam said, referring to former US president George W. Bush.

Hey, wait just a second. Didn’t Obama apologize to the Muslim world? We thought they love us now.

There’s only one way to solve this problem, President Obama. Go over there to Indonesia and give them another speech. Because that approach has worked sooooo well for you on ObamaCare.

Source: Politico, Sydney Morning Herald

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