1.0 link 160186 <![CDATA[Obama Impresses State Dept. Staff With His Indonesian (VIDEO)]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/22/obamas-impresses-state-de_n_160186.html Barack Obama put on a bilingual display today while visiting the State Department. Obama, who lived in Indonesia from 1967 to 1971, until the age of ten, broke into Indonesian after being greeted by a State Dept. staffer in the language.

ABC News has more details:

As President Obama worked the rope-line at the State Department Thursday, a State Department staffer named Charles Silver, knowing the President once lived in Indonesia, shouted out, "good afternoon" in the local language.


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