Barack Obama, Age 9: 'I'm Going To Be Prime Minister Of Indonesia'

From the Daily Mail:

“It turns out Barack Obama was dreaming big right from an early age – at just nine-years-old he announced he was going to be the prime minister of Indonesia.

The episode from a new biography of the president’s mother, Stanley Ann Durham, reveals the roots of a hunger for power which has driven Mr Obama’s heady rise from an eccentric upbringing in Hawaii and Indonesia to the White House.

In A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother, author Janny Scott tells how young Barack – then known by the westernised abbreviation of ‘Barry’ – was pushed by his mother to reach for the sky right from the start.”

Full story here.