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Barack Zelig-Gump

By on 5.17.12 @ 6:08AM

A presidential chameleon re-writes White House history: Obama and LBJ’s credibility gap.

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Over there Zelig looks Chinese when he’s with some Chinese., black when playing with a jazz band, white when sitting with 1920s gangsters. Not to mention morphing into a fat man — when standing next to a fat man. And who can forget that famous shot of Zelig with his friend the playwright Eugene O’Neill?

Or perhaps you are familiar with a more recent 1994 film, this one based on a 1986 novel by Winston Groom. The film starred Tom Hanks in the role of the title character: Forrest Gump.

Forrest was a simple, uncomplicated man with below average intelligence whose mantra came from his beloved mother: “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” In spite of his lack of smarts, Forrest manages to accidentally impress legendary University of Alabama football coach Bear Bryant with his running ability — after Bryant spots him running away from bullies. It wins Forrest a star spot on the famous Crimson Tide team.

While attending Alabama he is in the crowd that witnesses Democratic Alabama Governor George Wallace’s infamous stand-in-the-schoolhouse-door episode, in which the progressive governor tried to block the admission of black students to the university. And on Forrest rolls through life, meeting JFK in the White House, as a member of the All-American football team, running away in Vietnam — straight into a firefight in which he performs so heroically he is back at the White House, this time being awarded the Medal of Honor by President Lyndon Johnson. 

A few years later he is invited back to meet President Nixon, who is so impressed he arranges for Forrest to stay overnight in the Watergate Hotel. Where, you guessed it, responding to what he thought was a hotel power outage Forrest winds up exposing the Watergate burglaries and accidentally exploding the Watergate scandal — which results in Nixon’s resignation.

Does any of this now sound familiar in terms of Barack Obama?

More to the point, who was the president in the late 20th century for whom making up stories about everything from his own biography to his policies became such a severe liability with the public that it wound up ending his presidency?

Yes indeed. That would be Barack Obama’s old presidential pal Lyndon B. Johnson. Of whom the Obama White House says by way of connecting the two in Zelig-Gump fashion:

President Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare into law in 1965 — providing millions of elderly healthcare stability. President Obama’s historic health care reform law, the Affordable Care Act, strengthens Medicare, offers eligible seniors a range of preventive services with no cost-sharing, and provides discounts on drugs when in the coverage gap known as the “donut hole.”

What happened to LBJ?

The idea that the man who had succeeded John F. Kennedy in the middle of the horrific national trauma that was JFK’s assassination might in fact have a habitual trouble with telling the truth took a while to permeate the nation’s shocked consciousness.

In the words of Theodore H. White, author of the famous Making of the President series: “The distrust of the President was slow in growing.”

But once that distrust took root, once Americans began to see a pattern of willfully not telling the truth in matters small and very large, there was no stopping it.

• Just like Obama, LBJ lied about his economic program. Johnson insisted he couldn’t produce a budget that was less than $102 billion. (The cost of running the government in LBJ’s first days, believe it or not, was only billions.) Suddenly LBJ dramatically announces a magic solution that he has produced a budget that is $98 billion — keeping the budget under a symbolic $100 billion! Eventually it became clear to Americans that LBJ knew right from the beginning that his budget was going to be under $100 billion — the whole public show just that. A show. By the time LBJ’s economic policies of massive government spending had turned sour in 1966 — a mere two years after his thunderous election in 1964 — fewer and fewer Americans believed anything he had to say.

• Just like Obama, LBJ lied about his foreign policy. While Obama swore up and down he was going to close Guantanamo — and didn’t — Johnson swore up and down that he had “no intention” of removing General William Westmoreland, his commander in Vietnam. Then, of course, he did just that — and it was discovered LBJ had already decided to remove Westmoreland when he was repeatedly insisting he had no intention of doing so.

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About the Author

Jeffrey Lord is a former Reagan White House political director and author. He writes from Pennsylvania at jlpa1@aol.com.

Letter to the Editor View all comments (66) |

Mike Hawk| 5.17.12 @ 6:44AM

He probably hasn't yet figured out how to tell us about his participation in Mao's Long March or how he facilitated the fall of the Berlin Wall. No wonder he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He has done things we who are to dumb to understand don't even know about our own 'Dear Leader'.

USSAlabama| 5.17.12 @ 10:56AM

This is a stinging expose:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....tu.be&hd=1

Produced by GBTV. It's stinging.

Conservative Not Republican| 5.17.12 @ 11:19AM

What are you going to do when "Obummer" is reelected next Fall? four more years of your incessant and infantile bitching and moaning?

Kyle Kiernan| 5.17.12 @ 11:58AM

I'm pretty sure we'll continue to work against him and not thunk up juvenile nicknames (although I may withhold that requirement for the moniker "Jugears").
But in reality, when he goes down in November we will struggle to survive the flailing throes of the inevitable defeat struggle and you guys can go back to your Hitler jibes and paper-mache extra large puppets.

Conservative Not Republican| 5.17.12 @ 12:12PM

That's what I thought. Four more years of Limbaugh-esque whining. Yawn.

Dustoff| 5.17.12 @ 3:33PM

The only whining I see is You!

Stupid Not Conservative| 5.17.12 @ 10:44PM

Reerect Hussein And Robinette 2012

Greatly Leaping Forward For Change To Our Middle Names Transformationally

And Cutting The Deficit In Quarter This Term

cats1cowboy| 5.18.12 @ 2:15AM

Yes, but you will be awakened to how you were a useful idiot and join us in the bitching and moaning.

floridahank| 5.24.12 @ 2:09PM

Who will he become next? Can he make his last 4 yrs. disappear like his birth certificate and his school records?
Maybe we won't be able to access anything about the past years. Is this guy a magician or what?

WalkingHorse | 5.17.12 @ 12:14PM

Undoubtedly there will be photos unearthed of Obama swimming miles up the Yangtze River with Chairman Mao.

TLP| 5.17.12 @ 3:26PM

He's a Liar.

Everything he says, is a Lie.

His LIFE is a Lie.

That's why he has it SEALED, in a Vault, on an Island, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

Duh.

LiveFreeOrDie| 5.17.12 @ 2:51PM

Here's another little gem that just popped about Obama:

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-G.....sia-Hawaii

Louis Jenkins| 5.17.12 @ 3:09PM

Just found it on Breitbart. And the great liar has done it one more time. Lies are his specialty. Does he ever tell the truth?

USSAlabama| 5.17.12 @ 4:03PM

Louis! He NEVER tells the truth.

The Rev Wright tapes from Ed Klein are out there and Wright quotes him as saying what politicians *say* is the truth. And much more:

http://www.theblaze.com/storie.....book-autho

Also find it on Hannity's radio website where the tapes were also played. Although they have not played the part where Rev Wright Wright “made it comfortable” for Obama to accept Christianity without having to renounce his “Islamic background,” which Klein recorded on tape...

And today Breitbart.com has the 1991 bio where he is claimed to have been born in Kenya, raised in Indonesia and Hawaii --- just to make him look better, of course. Like Fauxcahantas Warren I guess.

The GBTV link I provided above shows back to back lies -

Look at his face when you know he is lying. This is something he does all the time!

Anthony| 5.17.12 @ 5:18PM

So why are the Breitbart people still timid on this revelation?How can they insist Obozo was born in Hawaii after finding this information?
Hell, there was an article on the net some years ago from a Kenyan newspaper that called then Sen. Obama, Kenyan born. I have a copy of it.
Is the entire world full of cowards???
So if the Obozo defense is that he streached the truth in 1991, we have a right to demand is he still lying now!!!

Appleby| 5.17.12 @ 7:05AM

Obama is a man without a past -- who is trying with idiotic and pitiful desperation to invent one for himself. I knew people like this when I was in school. A couple of them committed suicide when their fantasy world began to crumble away.

Many people have rotten pasts and struggle in the present, and they don't know what the future will bring but it's sure to be difficult. Some of them retreat into fantasyland; some of them realize that it's possible to change the future but only if you embrace the present and understand the past.

Obama is a man whose past has been so vigorously supressed that he has no platform on which to stand and view either the present or the future. I am going to predict that he'll be the first American president to commit suicide the day the music dies.

Rmm| 5.17.12 @ 7:55PM

Not that Obama should go down in flames, but better that it be him than our country. That day, I hope, will be 6 November.

SC Mike| 5.17.12 @ 7:17AM

For a true appreciation of Obama’s influence, click here.

Biff Romney| 5.17.12 @ 7:17AM

Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama has freed millions from the "slavery" of employment.

Von Mises Jr| 5.17.12 @ 7:45AM

I don't think Obama is as bright as Forrest Gump. Epistemology is the study of knowledge and understanding. It begins with the nature and scope (limitations) of knowledge. Stated diferently, it begins with knowing what you do not or cannot know. Gump was a damn genius compared to Barry given this definition.

Anthony| 5.17.12 @ 9:23AM

"Psychotic is, as psychotic does".

USSAlabama| 5.17.12 @ 10:58AM

The difference was the Forrest Gump was too dumb not to be HONEST.

JimH| 5.17.12 @ 9:38AM

I think he is more akin to Chauncey Gardner (Being There) in that there is less to him than meets the eye and people just see their reflected expectations in him.

Anthony| 5.17.12 @ 9:46AM

Perhaps, but Chauncey Gardner wasn't a flaming world class narcissist.

Von Mises Jr| 5.17.12 @ 10:03AM

Did Forrest Gump or Chauncey Gardner have mom jeans and throw like a girl?

rcb| 5.17.12 @ 10:58AM

good point

Kyle Kiernan| 5.17.12 @ 12:00PM

I like to watch.

William L. Gensert| 5.17.12 @ 10:22AM

Obama has Forrest Gumped his way through his presidency, except without the success, charm, and endearing sweetness of the original.

Read more of my article: http://www.americanthinker.com.....z1v8XcCLOS

Ken (Old Texican)| 5.17.12 @ 7:51AM

Jeffrey,
I guess I'm slow. After three years of lies and failures it seems somewhere around half the country will still go out and vote for this man.

All your splendid articles just can't fix stupid I suppose.
There is no ignorance as bad as arrogant ignorance is there?

chuck| 5.17.12 @ 8:30AM

They are the half that live off the tax dollars of the productive people. They will vote for anyone who will continue the freebies.

Atlas Shrugged, anyone?

WalkingHorse | 5.17.12 @ 12:15PM

Already happening, sir.

shipley130| 5.17.12 @ 8:13AM

All this did was to make Obama look like the small male he really is.

Judy | 5.17.12 @ 8:21AM

Pitiful! The problem Obama has but Johnson didn't have is called the world wide web. Thankfully for us their are individuals like yourself who know what he is saying is a lie and you go about debunking his assertions. Thanks.

USSAlabama| 5.17.12 @ 11:00AM

You are right. Puts ordinary citizens into the place the 'press' used to occupy.

Bob Miller| 5.17.12 @ 8:53AM

Voters have to be convinced not to want to be fooled.

Anthony| 5.17.12 @ 9:19AM

Do you believe how truly sick this Muslim Marxist bastard is!!!!
This guy needs to be institutionalized, and I 'm not just referring to a federal prison for Fast & Furious. (Wake up Boehner, stop crying and allow the contempt citation, you damn coward!!)
We have elected not just our first gay, Muslim, president, but our first psychotic president, once again, out besting Bubba Clinton.
I thought that was Obozo standing behind Reagan when he was giving his Brandenberg speech.
"Mr. Gorbachov, Barack Obozo told me to tell you to tear down this wall!!"

Crassus| 5.17.12 @ 9:47AM

It was Obama who stiffened Kennedy's spine during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Obama advised Nixon to go to China in 1972. Obama wrote FDR's fireside chats during the 1930's. Obama coined the phrase "the buck stops here" for Harry Truman to use.

Anthony| 5.17.12 @ 10:33AM

And don't forget, he helped command Apollo 13 safely back to Earth.

rcb| 5.17.12 @ 10:59AM

I hear Gore is really pissed because he is now claiming to have invented the internet.

USSAlabama| 5.17.12 @ 11:02AM

The reason algore is *really* pissed is because Obama is claiming to have discovered global warming before al did.

Bill| 5.17.12 @ 9:57AM

Obama has all the ingredients of being Jim Carter, except Obama lacks charisma and needs teleprompter.

Peppermint Tea| 5.17.12 @ 10:06AM

Credibility Gap?
It's not a gap, it's a whole freaking valley. It is as wide as middle America.
Anytime he speaks, we assume it is a lie until proven otherwise. What is the latest thing he said--wait while I look it up--
1. The luncheon to give congress a do list.
2. Paraphrasing the bible to condone gay lifestyle.
3. The polls showing him trailing Romney are biased.
There you go folks. The man has no credibility. But you knew that.

USSAlabama| 5.17.12 @ 11:03AM

A chasm rather. Even an abyss.

USSAlabama| 5.17.12 @ 11:04AM

Credibility chasm . . . credibility abyss . . . hmm
Both sound pretty good actually.

downloader1964| 5.17.12 @ 3:24PM

"It is as wide as middle America." No kidding. Just look at the electoral college map at RCP....blue/gray on the left and right, solid RED in the middle.

Louis Jenkins| 5.17.12 @ 10:09AM

The aritcle was pretty good until you mention Woody Allen, then it went downhill from there. Smoking pot, getting some blow when available, and smoking cigarettes are the highlight of the history of the Bamster. An American Curb Setter is by far more American that this man will ever be. His entire history is sealed away from prying fingers, and MSM believes this man is an American Hero, no an ICON! His entire history is a lie, from his childhood, his father(s), his sojourn in the SE pacific, his time in the church of the Honorable Jeremiah Wright, etc. Truly the only person who doesn't know he's lying is Barack. Or maybe he does.

Anthony| 5.17.12 @ 10:37AM

Louis, I had a composite girlfriend too, but then again, I was 11 years old.

Von Mises Jr| 5.17.12 @ 10:50AM

So did I. She was 19.

Anthony| 5.17.12 @ 11:01AM

Yummy!!! I like your girlfriend better than mine!!

downloader1964| 5.17.12 @ 3:26PM

Isn't plastic a compsite material? Wouldn't that make this composite girlfriend a blow up doll?

nathan| 5.17.12 @ 11:34AM

A "brief" observation for all you. Like any incumbent, he really does have a right to run and try to get re-elected. He has zero obligation to roll over and play dead. It's not his to give away, it's Romney's to take and he has no obligation to cooperate in his own defeat. And please, the "sainted" republicans of the past? Reagan in Iceland going up there willing to totally destroy all nukes? That was interesting in addition to the fact that he was probably impeachable on Iran Contra. And Bush? Absolutely totally ignored the Constitution for eight years and probably equally impeachable for a whole lot of things? Not "much" better than his successor if at all?

Again, Romney, like any challenger has to take it from the guy who has it not expect to have him hand it to him. Short of this guy pulling an LBJ (don't hold your breath) deal with what you have and the cards you're being dealt. It's a LONG way to November.

Skippy| 5.18.12 @ 4:36PM

Whistling past the graveyard.

Anthony| 5.17.12 @ 12:57PM

Hey folks, there's an article on the Politico web site where Rev. Wright tells Mr. Klein that the Obozo's weren't into church going, but Obozo needed Wright's church for his political scheme.
For years many of us have opined that Obozo chose Wright's hateful church to establish his street creds to run for office from Chicago.
We are so far ahead of the rest of America, it ain't even close.
P.S. The only thing Obozo did invent was Obozo himself, ah, with a little help from Bill Ayers.

Anthony| 5.17.12 @ 5:11PM

And now it's official, Obozo is the Kenyan Muslim Marxist. This revelation is exactly what our intelligence, intuition and common sense have told us about Obozo for years!!! All this despite all the shit directed our way by the left.
Obozo and his enablers are frauds. The D party is a fraud, and so are the pathetic cowards in the R establishment.
You say you want a revolution well.....

Don| 5.17.12 @ 1:32PM

Barack Hussein Obama is a work of fiction; nothing about him is real. Alarm bells should have gone off when he started writing autobiographies about himself when he hadn't accomplished anything of importance and when he was unknown.

Oldefarte| 5.17.12 @ 2:04PM

As Jeffrey Lord insinuates, this POTUS is nothing but.............A LYING SOB!!!!!!!

Oldefarte| 5.17.12 @ 2:09PM

The following is the opposite of LIES, and is in fact sadly the TRUTH [and not to be read by members of TAS PARAGRAPH SWAT TEAM]:
'............Sacrificial scamsby Ann Coulter Posted 05/16/2012 ETUpdated 05/16/2012 ETThe real class warfare in this country isn't rich vs. poor, it's government employees vs. we, the taxpayers, who pay their salaries. Working for the government is supposed to be a trade-off: You can't be fired and don't have to exert yourself, but you will receive smaller remuneration than in the private sector, where layoffs are common (especially in the Obama economy!). Instead, government jobs are safe, secure, pressure-free -- and now, amazingly lucrative! Whether it's in Wisconsin, Illinois, California or the nation's capital, today's public sector workers expect to do little or no work (I'm not counting partying in Las Vegas as "work"), and then be lavishly compensated. Often, the only heavy lifting they do all week is picking up their paychecks. When government employees mobbed the state capitol in Wisconsin last year, the upside was: They got to bully people. The downside: Voters finally found out what these public servants were being paid. Their compensation included not only straight salary, but also lavish overtime benefits, pensions, health care plans, sick days and vacation time (most of which they spent protesting). The unions thought they could fight back against Gov. Scott Walker's tiny pension rollbacks without anyone finding out the details. Most people saw what public employees were getting and assumed it was a misprint. Two years ago, seven bus drivers in Madison, Wis., made more than $100,000 a year. A few years before that, we found out that the city manager of little Bell, Calif. -- per capita annual income $24,800 -- was making $787,637, or including benefits: $1.5 million a year. The chief of police was getting $457,000 a year -- $770,046 counting benefits -- making him the first chief of police to commit highway robbery on the job. The assistant city manager was taking home $376,288 per year, for a total compensation package of $845,960.All were Democrats, the party of Big Government. Speaking of which -- whatever happened to that investigation Gov. Jerry Brown was launching into these thieving public servants drawing million-dollar pensions from California taxpayers? The Bell scandal broke during the California gubernatorial race between Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown, who was then state attorney general. Brown vowed a no-holds-barred inquiry. Anyone seen his report yet? Jerry Brown will demand to see Obama's birth certificate before he will call for a rollback of these undeserved, million-dollar government pensions. Less than 20 percent of private sector employees get pensions. Most people save their own money for retirement -- for example, through 401(k)s. By contrast, government employees expect to be paid by us for the rest of their lives.
Former representative and amateur home pornographer Anthony Weiner was a member of Congress until he resigned last June in order to spend more time with his hard drive. He will probably end up collecting about a million dollars from his 80 percent taxpayer-funded government pension. These are the "1 percent" deserving of the public's wrath: We're paying their salaries. We weren't taxed to pay Mitt Romney's salary at Bain Capital. We aren't taxed to pay the salaries of Jamie Dimon or Alex Rodriguez. Anthony Weiner? Him, we pay for. Government employees expect to live like something out of the czar's court -- and then have us admire them as if they're Rosa Parks. At the 2008 Democratic National Convention, Barack and Michelle Obama both paid heartfelt tributes to themselves for passing up money-grubbing private sector jobs to work in "public service." In her speech, Michelle boasted that she had "tried to give back to this country."
"... That's why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service, working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities."
She was hired by the University of Chicago Hospital as soon as her husband became a state senator. When he was elected to the U.S. Senate, her salary nearly tripled, from $121,910 to $316,962 -- and the junior senator from Illinois returned the favor by sending taxpayer dollars the hospital's way. By Obama's second year in the U.S. Senate, in 2006, Michelle Obama's compensation from "public service" was approximately $375,000 a year -- more than triple the average salary for a lawyer in the United States with 20 years' experience. (America to the Obamas: "You two have sacrificed enough. Please retire and kick back a little!") Vice President Joe Biden, long touted as the poorest U.S. senator, took home $248,459 in household income in 2006, including his public school teacher wife's salary, also paid by taxpayers. In 2007, these working poor made $319,853. This puts the couple nearly into the top 1 percent of all earners in the U.S., where the median household income was $48,201 in 2006 and $50,233 in 2007. A career in "public service" pays well.........'

Cabermon| 5.17.12 @ 3:13PM

So will he follow LBJ and partially abdicate by dropping out of the race? His ego won't allow it but once the polls show his campaign is toast, the Clintonistas might throw him under the bus so Hillary would get her chance. The birther issue could be used by them to facilitate converting him into a speed-bump under a public transit vehicle. This scares me because HRC might be able to beat Romney.

grossly impolite| 5.17.12 @ 7:04PM

Speaking of re-writing history - in 1991, who furnished the literary agent with the information that Barack Obama was born in Kenya, raised in Indonesia and Hawaii? Obama,presumably hired the agency, did he not?

Remember Alan Keyes confronting Obama with the first "birther" statement - that he was not born in the United States - and Obama's retort - "So what, I am running to U.S. Senate, not President...."it is on tape - still on YouTube.

Maybe Breitbart, from the grave, will unmask Obama - no one else has - including Jeffrey Lord.

Russel| 5.17.12 @ 9:30PM

The bottom line ? . We're sick and tired of it . No enthusiasm , heck , even our e-mail has no humor in it . This nutcase has our country down in the dumps . He's a bummer , a drag , a real ass-pain all around . I , like everyone I know , do our best to try to live our lives as fruitfully and enjoyably as possible . The jerk will learn all about Nero when his time comes .

POST American| 5.17.12 @ 10:40PM

----Having just perused and compared
that footage and those photographs
once again-----

YES! we will reaffirm that wager of
a steak dinner that one day, probably
within a decade or so, as you sit voided
in some USURER operated, RED Chinese
staffed, FEMA camp ---you will hear a chirpily
delivered item on the still operating CNN
that --

"----Golly gosh!----- retired president
of the former state of America was --IN FACT!
---a stealth mixed race clone of CFR --RED
China sellout mastermind!

------------------AVERELL HARRIMAN!----------------

Need we add, yet again!
---that the wonders of EUGENICS
NEVER cease to amaze us?"

We even bet they'll try to reach the 'still
on the go' Bill Gates in his armed state of the
art redoubt inside some Chinese wonder hub.

----------We even bet he'll just giggle!

grossly impolite| 5.18.12 @ 2:22AM

Upon re-reading the "literary agent's" bio of Obama, the whole thing is laughable. "Son of an anthropologist and a Kenyan Finance minister" What Obama was son of, if he was, was a 17 year old college freshman and a guy from Kenya taking advantage of our education system in Hawaii.

We have a Composite President - the biggest "dream of his father" was apparently a figment of Barry's imagination - - evolving as the hands on a clock.

Well, we did not question it the first time around - - amazing how inventing a disparaging name, "Birthers" can make a valid question invalid.

Westie| 5.18.12 @ 6:21AM

Good job Mr. Lord in keeping the everyone laughing at this Fool in the WH. Shame the shameless prick to GTHO!

JamesJ| 5.18.12 @ 8:17AM

I heard he parted the Red Sea!
Moses once said,"Pick up your shovel, pack up your ass, mount your camel, and I'll lead you to the promised land."
Obama says," Throw down your shovel, sit on your ass, light up a camel, this IS the promised land!"

PJohnson| 5.20.12 @ 10:21AM

I see it rude that because he ate an animal that is culturally more important to us than our kids sometimes he is a bad person. It was the culture where he was. You must realize people will do things differently than you. If that was not the case we wouldn't be having these ignorant debates over small factors of a person upbringing. Second, first drug abusing president? Have you forgotten the stories with bush? Or clinton. Or even the fact that anything that alters your brain chemically is technically a drug. Please just understand what your talking about and don't make heinous remarks because a political party asked you to.

markenoff| 5.20.12 @ 2:30PM

From Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_meat

"INDONESIA - Dog meat is haram for Muslims and as such, it is not consumed by most of Indonesia's predominantly Muslim population. However, dog meat is eaten by several of Indonesia's non-Muslim minorities. The Islamic faith considers the meat of canines to be ritually unclean, along with swine. The consumption of dog meat in Indonesia is mainly practiced by remote tribes and does not appear to be a widespread phenomena, given that Indonesia's population is largely Muslim.

In Indonesia, the consumption of dog meat is usually associated with the Minahasa, an ethnic group in northern Sulawesi, and Bataks of northern Sumatra, who consider dog meat to be a festive dish and usually reserve it for special occasions like weddings and Christmas.[79] Popular Indonesian dog-meat dishes are rica-rica, called variably as "RW" or rintek wuuk, rica-rica waung, guk-guk, and "B1". Locally on Java, there are several names for dishes made from dog meat, such as sengsu (tongseng asu), sate jamu, and kambing balap."

From Brietbart -

"In fact, in Jakarta, where the Obamas lived with their Indonesian stepfather, Lolo Soetoro, dog meat is illegal. In the majority Muslim Indonesia, eating dog is forbidden among most ethnic groups in the islands, though a small, black market is said to exist for those looking for it. The only exception are the Batak people, principally of Northern Sumatra who eat it on holidays--but Obama's stepfather, who was raised in West Java, isn’t a part of that ethnic group. Besides, the Obamas lived hundreds of miles and several islands away.

A diplomatic source close to the Indonesian delegation in the U.S. confirms that while dog is sometimes eaten in Indonesia, it is done so very rarely. “Obama had to go hunting for dog meat,” the source, who didn’t want to be identified, told me.

“I don’t know of anyone who eats it and frankly, I’m a little offended you would ask.”

Breitbart.com scoured Indonesian cook books. Not one mentions ways to prepare dog."

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