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Old 04-07-2009, 05:16 PM
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'Chia Obama' booted from local stores

TAMPA - Some local Walgreen's stores are pulling a supposed likeness of President Barack Obama off their shelves. The 'Chia Obama' will no longer be sold there.

Walgreen's spokesman Michael Polzin explained to FOX 13 that local store managers have the ability to purchase and market products -- like the Chia Obama -- on their own.

But now, the corporate office has asked stores to pull the product from their stores because, he said, it is not appropriate for the company's corporate image.

The Chia Obama is a version of the Chia Pet line, which features a ceramic figure upon which fresh greens are planted and allowed to grow, filling out the likeness of the



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Old 04-07-2009, 06:57 PM
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Old 04-07-2009, 07:10 PM
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I want one! Make him grow a fro and put a joint in his mouth!
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Old 04-07-2009, 07:14 PM
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I want one! Make him grow a fro and put a joint in his mouth!
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Old 04-07-2009, 07:16 PM
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Mercedes-Benz ownership spans all boundaries.
Racism does not become us.
Ah...I see that you didn't have a 'fro in the 70's? I made a joke, and you just made it a racial slur. funny how you can do that, perhaps you should teach the rest of the nation, so that you can rise to the top of the charts and get a job in Obama's cabinet at the Racial Czar??

It wasn't racial, you made it so
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Old 04-08-2009, 01:23 AM
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I "puff-balled" back in the latter part of the 70s...I ended up looking like Art Garfunkel (sp?)...so what's the deal?
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Old 04-08-2009, 10:05 AM
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I "puff-balled" back in the latter part of the 70s...I ended up looking like Art Garfunkel (sp?)...so what's the deal?
Careful now...you may be labeled a racist as well...
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Old 04-08-2009, 11:32 AM
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I "puff-balled" back in the latter part of the 70s...I ended up looking like Art Garfunkel (sp?)...so what's the deal?
And Art *NEVER* stepped outside and smoked himself a "J", now did he?
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Old 04-08-2009, 11:53 AM
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http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/dpp/news/local/chia_obama_walgreens_040309

'Chia Obama' booted from local stores

TAMPA - Some local Walgreen's stores are pulling a supposed likeness of President Barack Obama off their shelves. The 'Chia Obama' will no longer be sold there.

Walgreen's spokesman Michael Polzin explained to FOX 13 that local store managers have the ability to purchase and market products -- like the Chia Obama -- on their own.

But now, the corporate office has asked stores to pull the product from their stores because, he said, it is not appropriate for the company's corporate image.

The Chia Obama is a version of the Chia Pet line, which features a ceramic figure upon which fresh greens are planted and allowed to grow, filling out the likeness of the

There are people here in Texas who would have liked to have dragged it from their pickups, they will be disappointed to hear this.
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Old 04-08-2009, 02:13 PM
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Don't tell me you wouldn't have drug a W Chia behind your benz.

I just love the Chia thing. I wanted to plant Chia seeds all over the roof of my high school, it had a gravel roof, Chia School would have been awesome. to bad I never had any money for seeds
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Old 04-08-2009, 02:15 PM
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Don't tell me you wouldn't have drug a W Chia behind your benz.

I just love the Chia thing. I wanted to plant Chia seeds all over the roof of my high school, it had a gravel roof, Chia School would have been awesome. to bad I never had any money for seeds
Yeah..... Your house is making up for it though. You have Chia Gutters! Chia Roof Too!

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