Saturday, September 25, 2010
Source/Link: New Zeal
A story from November 2009 that you may not have seen yet.
"With President Obama scheduled to visit Beijing on Monday, city authorities have banned souvenir vendors from selling a popular t-shirt depicting the president as a Mao-era red guard," reports Foreign Policy.
"The T-shirts have Obama’s image in a Red Guard uniform. Since he was elected the US president last year, the T-shirt has had a ready market. According to some business owners, they got calls last week from Beijing Municipal Government demanding them to stop the sale of this kind of T-shirt immediately. And inspection officers even came to stores to make sure the T-shirts are off the shelf. Business owners have been notified that after Obama ends his visit to China, they can resume the sale." - China Digital Times
More photos here, and the original story at China Digital times is here.
"With President Obama scheduled to visit Beijing on Monday, city authorities have banned souvenir vendors from selling a popular t-shirt depicting the president as a Mao-era red guard," reports Foreign Policy.
"The T-shirts have Obama’s image in a Red Guard uniform. Since he was elected the US president last year, the T-shirt has had a ready market. According to some business owners, they got calls last week from Beijing Municipal Government demanding them to stop the sale of this kind of T-shirt immediately. And inspection officers even came to stores to make sure the T-shirts are off the shelf. Business owners have been notified that after Obama ends his visit to China, they can resume the sale." - China Digital Times
More photos here, and the original story at China Digital times is here.
My Note:
It appears China does not wish to insult Obama(?). Would anything insult Obama? Probably the only thing that would insult him is to have an Israeli flag flying with his photo attached. Personally, the most true photo of him would be one with the following logo:
or, perhaps this one:
but, my all time favorite would be the following:
"Obama's popularity polls slide straight into Hell"
