
Japan’s Prime Minister Taro Aso recently met with Barack Obama, following an invitation the US president had extended to him earlier.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime Figures, H, News
- Date: Feb 12, 2009 06:55 JST
- Tags: Dolls, Dutch Wife, Marketing, Obama, Onanism, Parody, Politics, USA

Forget your Barack Obama action figures, superheroes and towns; the real Presidentially inspired onanist would surely be better served by a device such as the one advertised here, offering a slightly realistic depiction of the great panacea President.
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In a not unprecedented but still unusual piece of political marketing, president-elect Barack Obama and Marvel’s arachnid superhero Spider-Man come face to face in an official crossover, in “Amazing Spider-Man #583“.
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Obama is looking to cash in on having the same name as Obama, we hear.
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Japanese mobile phone firm eMobile bowed to pressure recently and pulled an advert which critics lambasted as a racist attack on Obama, since it featured a monkey in a suit engaged in crowd wooing oratory, and calling for “Change”. The firm for its part denies the accusations, but has ceased the offending campaign anyway. In their defence, they state they had earlier employed the macaque motif in other campaigns.
Full report at rag Guardian. It may be interesting to note that hardly a whiff of this story has appeared in the Japanese media, or even on 2ch to my knowledge. Comes to my attention via FG.
Insensitive, or oversensitive?