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Obama and Illusion in Indonesia

Obama and Illusion in Indonesia

A. Lin Neumann
Nov 10, 2010
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Barack Obama's visit this week to Jakarta prompted me to recall the feelings I had when he was elected president of the United States in 2008. At the time, I was bowled over by optimism for my country. Had we Americans, collectively, come to our senses?

It seemed that the bitterness and willful appeal to anti-intellectualism that characterized the eight …

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