Barack Obama, an Ex Bali Expat !

**Bert Vierstra** · 03-09-2008 08:02 PM

Dear Mr Obama, thanks for visiting our site, and pointing out you were an expat on Bali once too.

We wish you all the luck in world in the coming elections.

The publicity from his election as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review led to a contract and advance to write a book about race relations. In an effort to recruit him to their faculty, the University of Chicago Law School provided Obama with a fellowship and an office to work on his book. He originally planned to finish the book in one year, but it took much longer as the book evolved into a personal memoir. In order to work without interruptions, Obama and his wife, Michelle, traveled to Bali where he wrote for several months. The manuscript was finally published as Dreams from My Father in mid-1995.

:mrgreen:

**Roy** · 04-09-2008 08:25 AM

During the primary campaign, CNN did some nice biographies of the major candidates and that was the first time I heard about Obama’s stay in Bali with his wife to work on his book. They even had some photos of them here in Bali, but I can’t recall where they stayed.

His sister, who teaches school was supposed to come to Bali last month for a fund raiser, but it seems there are enough Americans on Bali doing a good job of raising money for his campaign anyway.

Any Americans on Bali (or off Bali) with interest in what’s going on here in Bali regarding Obama’s campaign can check in here at this group:

http://my.barackobama.com/page/group...forObamainBali

**gilbert de jong** · 06-02-2009 05:25 PM

Hello guys and girls,

He (Obama)has been in ofice now for 20 days or so...
Didnt take long to (as americans say) f*** up :lol: .
And may be people will realise now, that's it's not the president (Bush) to blame for so many things like the war in Irak, Afghanistan, Guantanamo "prison", but the entire government. Thus not only republican's but democrates too.
friendly greetings, Gilbert.

**lumumba** · 06-02-2009 06:45 PM

Didnt take long to (as americans say) f*** up :lol:

What did he do? Can you elaborate? Or give us a link to the article. :roll:

L.

**gilbert de jong** · 06-02-2009 08:43 PM

here's the link,

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/index.html

happy readings.
Btw, he wasn't even there in person to plead for his "stimulus" package, he found it more important to appear in some tv interview.
Maybe it also wasn't so smart to give the senate an ultimatum for this stimulus package,
what is actually just another bail-out :) .
Friendly greetings.....Gilbert.

**gilbert de jong** · 06-02-2009 08:57 PM

somehow the link i placed doesn't work.. :(
So if you want to read he article

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first10 ... n/100days/

sorry for the faulty link placed :oops: .

**Bert Vierstra** · 06-02-2009 10:02 PM

The forum (still) has the error of not displaying the long urls correctly after a preview (or edit) of the post.. :roll:

**kerobokstar** · 07-02-2009 11:56 AM

Can we have a forum rule which disallows anyone looking for serious political discussion from referring to Fox News? Maybe just to be fair we can include MSNBC too?

The difference between Obama and his esteemed predecessor is that Obama saw his mistake and purposely appeared on TV to take responsibility and apologize, promising to learn from the error (which thankfully wasn't an Iraq war sized error). Bush would have just forced the nominations through anyway... When did he ever care about little things like the law (or the Constitution)?!? ;-)

Seeing as Obama has only been in power for two weeks, Americans can be proud of the amount he's achieving in making the U.S. credible again...

**gilbert de jong** · 07-02-2009 01:30 PM

I know fox is a "pro" republican media outlet, never the less the story is true.
I never said that he didn't apologize for his mistake, but to ingnore this "little" mistake by the people is somewhat strange? What bothers me is that in the same breath he made his apology, he also said that this is probably the first mistake of more to follow :roll: .

so the war on Irak is or was a mistake, well we never will know what would have happened is the war was not taken on by the US. I agree it has been dragged out for too long which costs many good soldiers their lives, but the innitial reason(not the so called weapons of mass-destruction reason) was good. Actually you can compare the war in/on Irak with the war in vietnam, as to the responsibilty of the president.
I dont understand your statement about the law or constitution, as we can't know if Bush would have pushed thru the nomination.
Btw, what has he(Obama) achieved within those two weeks, what can make americans proud, and the US credible again?print more USD :wink: ?
I am not saying he should have achieved anything within those weeks, give him some more time..a couple of months or so. That should be more then enough time to see, how he holds up his promisses from the election. CHANGE, isn't always better......it's just different :)
friendly greetings.....Gilbert.

**Bert Vierstra** · 07-02-2009 01:36 PM

Originally Posted by gilbert de jong

I know fox is a "pro" republican media outlet, never the less the story is true.

By "smartly" using truths, you can create a lie 8)

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