Satirical mints poking fun at Obama pulled from UT bookstore (moved from Knoxville forum) (Barack Obama, politicians)

[doc1]

And I thought all the prissy, overly sensitive politicians hailed from places like CA and the NE, not TN.

"Breath mints are usually refreshing, but a Knoxville legislator believes a University of Tennessee bookstore's selling of novelty candies mocking President Barack Obama stinks.

UT officials pulled the mints poking fun at Obama from store shelves after state Rep. Joe Armstrong, a Democrat, visited the bookstore and told the director he found the satirical mints offensive......

Satirical mints poking fun at Obama pulled from UT bookstore » Knoxville News Sentinel

[JMT]

I'm moving this to the Politics forum because there's really no way to respond to this without the discussion becoming political in nature.

And, by the way, I agree with the OP. I guess this means the UT paper (The Daily Beacon) needs to stop printing political cartoons or political editorials, especially if it's against Dear Leader.