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Obama Threatens To Choke Indonesian Children - With Video
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
A gimmicky snack bearing a caricature of US President Barack Obama making a peace sign has gone on sale in Indonesia, but worried consumer activists are already calling for it to be banned.
The “Obama” snack packet shows a grinning Obama making a peace sign with his right hand and spinning the globe like a basketball on the fingers of his left hand.
It also bears a peace symbol and the word “peace,” along with a teaser suggesting that if you are lucky you might win a bonus.
The Indonesian Consumer Foundation has called on the government to investigate, saying the snack is defamatory ...
Obama Snacks - Video
Blue Star Chronicles —
President Barack Obama is very popular in Indonesia where he spent four years as a child. Now it seems that his likeness has been used for a snack food that a consumer watchdog group there doesn’t like too much. Read more, see photos and video. ...
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