One of Barack Obama’s Indonesian friends recalls that even as a child, Little Barry Soetoro was deceptive and manipulative.
At least that’s our take away from this anecdote in the New York Times:
In the compound, Mr. [Barry Soetoro] Obama often played with the two sons of the physician’s driver. One time, recalled the elder son, Slamet Januadi, now 52, Mr. Obama asked a group of boys whether they wanted to grow up to be president, a soldier or a businessman. A president would own nothing while a soldier would possess weapons and a businessmen would have money, the young Obama explained.
Mr. Januadi and his younger brother, both of whom later joined the Indonesian military, said they wanted to become soldiers. Another boy, a future banker, said he would become a businessman.
“Then Barry said he would become president and order the soldier to guard him and the businessman to use his money to build him something,” Mr. Januadi said. “We told him, ‘You cheated. You didn’t give us those details.’ ”
“But we all became what we said we would,” he said.
Yes, one became a banker, one became a soldier and one became a confiscatory leftist who thinks others are there to help him fulfill his redistributionist dreams.
That’s a beautiful childhood memory, damn it, and we found ourselves tearing up just a little bit as we read it.
Source: New York Times
