Consumer Activists in Indonesia Call for Obama Snacks to be Pulled from Shelves

Well, Obamamania continues and it continues to rile some folks. Personally, I think this latest case is much ado about nothing. The snack bearing a caricature of President Obama making a peace sign is now 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 and has said that the snack is defamatory to President Obama and potentially harmful to children's health. "Obamas" hit the streets recently in the West Java city of Bandung. As you will recall, President Obama lived in Jakarta from 1967 to 1971 after his mother divorced his Kenyan father and married an Indonesian.