I wonder what the Obama administration thinks about this?

This might be a little embarrassing, but then, the statue being there in the first place had to be a little embarrassing, too.

Right? Hadn’t it? Or am I projecting my middle-class humility onto the president?

The story: Indonesia mulls tearing down Obama statue

JAKARTA — Indonesian authorities said Monday they are considering a petition to tear down a statue of US President Barack Obama as a boy, only a month after the bronze was unveiled in Jakarta.

The statue of “Little Barry” — as Obama was known when he lived in the capital in the late 1960s — stands in central Jakarta’s Menteng Park, a short walk from the US president’s former elementary school.

Critics say the site should have been used to honour an Indonesian and 55,000 people have joined a page on social networking website Facebook calling for the statue to be removed.

Here’s the original Facebook group, if you’re interested. Here’s an English version.

In other news, Obama Birtherists see…cover-up!

Obama, who was born in Hawaii, lived for four years as a child in Jakarta from 1967 after his divorced mother married an Indonesian.

Hat tip Grandpa Steve.