Barack Obama is a Ninja with a Lightsaber

Japan-based blogger Matt Alt has made an extraordinary discovery about America's new president. Why isn't the MSM covering this? Yet another example of citizen journalists breaking news that cowards like CNN are afraid to report, blogging truth to power. Snip:

This shot of our new Commander in Chief kickin' it under a kotatsu is only matched by the one where he's wielding a pair of gleaming katana blades. Check out the full photo set on the (Japanese language) Gamu Toys site. The doll is a 1/6 scale (roughly 12") figure produced by the Japanese Hong Kong based DID Corporation.

Link to Matt's blog post, and here's the source in Japanese. Really, that photo set is not to be missed.

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* Japanese monsters, and how to survive their wrath: YOKAI ATTACK
* Hunting for the Kappa Monster in Tokyo, part 1
* Hunting for the Kappa Monster in Tokyo, part 2

• [Brainspore]

  I knew Obama had some difficult issues with his father, but I never realized that it was because Barack Sr. was a Sith Lord.

• [Anonymous]

  Obama has mastered Miyamoto Musashi’s niten’ichi technique.

• [coldspell]

  Who is Barack Obama?

  • [Antinous / Moderator]

    He’s a viral meme that got popular enough to cross over into meatspace.

• [josh42042]

  hey, you can buy it here in english

  http://www.toywiz.com/barackobama.html

  this toy is a foot tall!

• [Anonymous]

  Use the change!

• [Anonymous]

  I managed to grab a PDF of the Gamu Toys site collapsed under the traffic. Hopefully that won’t happen to MY site, but here’s the PDF:

  Obama Action Figure

• [dfbecker]

  This looks tailor made for Robot Chicken! Pls Pls Pls Pls PLZ make this happen, Seth Green!

• [Falcon_Seven]

  It’s not that CNN are cowards, they are just clueless. This will show up in some segment in about two weeks or so. I wonder if Obama-san is ronin…

• [Takuan]

  watching live address by Obama to his staff – if he actually keeps/enforces ten percent of this, he is a ninja.

• [Takuan]

  “Spare change!?”

• [Takuan]

  if there is a benchmark for kitsch;
  http://www.franklinmint.com/product1.aspx?SID=2&Product_ID=9816
  Obama has arrived.

• [MisterEd]

  Yeah! Obama does the Ranka Lee singing pose! (The shot between the lightsabers and the kotatsu). Obama Star!

• [franko]

  he needs a better tailor. my president would never be caught in baggy attire like that — he’s MUCH too fly.

  • [Antinous / Moderator]

    my president would never be caught in baggy attire like that

    His inaugural suit was way too big for him. It looked like he borrowed the jacket from Ted Kennedy. Since he’s built like a clothes hanger, he should work it. Hopefully he’ll take his clothing advice from Mrs. O instead of his handlers.

• [Carl Rigney]

  Conveniently for fighting Darth Vader, the Obama figure has pop-off hands.

  The downside to US homes having decent insulation is the lack of Kotatsu over here. Mmmmm, Kotatsu.

• [Barack Obama]

  忍法 Jedi 4 eva!!

• [Clay]

  Wow, the URL for this post is right out of Blazing Saddles!!!

• [Lord Xenu]

  His battle cry should be, “Feel the POWER OF EXECUTIVE!”

• [wolfiesma]

  Antinous,
  So you were okay with the green gloves? I’m willing to say she’s just way ahead of the curve and I need to catch up. But the gloves definitely caught me off guard.

  • [Antinous / Moderator]

    She’s the only first lady in living memory who could convincingly play Lieutenant Ripley. She can wear whatever she likes. I just hope that she doesn’t go beige after a few weeks.

• [Bill]

  Barack is left-handed. The light saber is in the wrong hand.

• [Destin]

  It’s nice and all, but there’s something wrong with the figure’s face.

  Here’s what it says to me:
  http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h70/destinb/baraiiiins.jpg

• [Takuan]

  his inaugural suit was “bullet resistant”.

• [Takuan]

  http://i.gizmodo.com/5136183/barack-obamas-bulletproof-inaugural-suit

• [Takuan]

  kotatsu should be required by law since they save vast amounts of energy.

• [CharlieCoats]

  WOW! Scrolling down that photo set was ridiculous. The pictures just get exponentially more crazy, the gun was the first bit of weird, but it just keeps getting better the further you scroll…. damn

• [Takuan]

  http://www.mrs-o.org/

• [Noelegy]

  Someone, anyone, please say something to me that will make the blanket-and-oranges photo make sense.

• [robulus]

  Hey Clay, thanks for finding a delicate way to point that out. I almost sprayed my coffee when I saw the topic abreviation in the right column…

• [Takuan]

  yeesh: Hokay, I splain, ya gotta lissen now:
  O-man is kicking back with his legs toasty warm under the kotasu, seasonal happy fruit of mikans before him, video game control beside showing his ability to have normal fun, single other zabuton cushion showing girlfriend interest. Jeez, not obvious?

• [Takuan]

  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/20/barack-obama-inauguration-us-speech

• [Takuan]

  “the new sheriff is a NINJA!”

  don’t fuck with the new sheriff.

• [Bonnie]

  And then there’s Barack Obacca!
  http://starwarsblog.starwars.com/index.php/2009/01/20/barack-obacca/

• [Takuan]

  Oh Gawds! I am So. Damned. Relieved. I won’t see that ignorant, vile, little, smirking chimp ever again!

  We should have a poll: lethal injection, noose, firing squad or beheading? Cheney by acid bath of course.

  • [Xeni Jardin]

    Henceforth, let “HNIC” forevermore stand for the phrase “HEAD NINJA IN CHARGE.”

• [Captain Maybe]

  He’s already been spotted making friends with Jedi:

  http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/19/on-day-of-service-obama-visits–shelter/?scp=1&sq=jedi%20scott&st=Search

  Not surprised at all.

• [Takuan]

  NOTHUS?

• [eustace]

  Pirates beware! The Ninja have a new leader!

• [Takuan]

  att lasstt..
  http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=nyU3Rqo3CNQ&feature=related

• [angusm]

  Nothing we hadn’t already guessed.

• [MisterEd]

  @W. James Au: That’s not a blanket – that’s the kotatsu wikilinked in the OP.

• [Anonymous]

  Surely it’s not two katana. It’s bound to be a katana and a wakizashi as that would comprise the traditional daishō.

• [Takuan]

  gamu-toys boinged

• [Anonymous]

  Ninja, please!

• [Takuan]

  sloppy right index finger.

• [W. James Au]

  Somehow the weirdest one is Obama chilling with a blanket and a plate of oranges.