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Obama Hula Girls
Sunday, Jun 8, 2008 5:35AM / Standard Entry / Members only
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Video: http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=V5QK6bj-Ngs

On June 6th the hula dance group, “Obama girls", left to Honolulu,　the hometown of candidate Obama, to participate in "Hawaii Festival". Actually it was made up by "The residents' group which supports candidate Obama unofficially" in Obama-shi,Japan.

Obama (小浜 means small shore in Japanese), is a small fishing town in Fukui Prefecture. The residents of Obama-shi have supported Barack Obama only because the pronunciation of the town "Obama" was the same. The residents also put various souvenirs for sale to promote the town with officials. In fact not a few people criticize them for making a fool. However I am no judge on the issue.

Well, would Obama-shi succeed in getting big international attention? How do you think about their sense of humor?

Video:

http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=JZOQFX2ozKQ

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skinph55
posted on Sunday, Jun 15, 2008 3:34PM [Report]

I believe Obama can change and will be a great president. I hope that civilization can see beyond colour.
francisluk
posted on Friday, Jun 13, 2008 10:30PM [Report]

Haha, Interesting : )
amy_sycheng
posted on Wednesday, Jun 11, 2008 11:52AM [Report]

So that's it. I wonder did Obama lived in Japan before, why they support them? Now I know the answer. Thks for sharing!
maggie.quanquan
posted on Tuesday, Jun 10, 2008 6:52PM [Report]

obama ~
:)
AQIU
posted on Tuesday, Jun 10, 2008 2:36PM [Report]

obama, haha. glad to know that.

Does banana mean something in Japanese ?
butter
posted on Tuesday, Jun 10, 2008 2:22AM [Report]

I think that Obama-shi will definitely garner some attention given that Obama is now the Democratic candidate. If he gets elected he should definitely thank them in his speech :)
Dreamy
posted on Tuesday, Jun 10, 2008 12:20AM [Report]

I kinda like Clinton.. but now that she's out of the picture.. I'll go for Obama.....

i can't see the video until i get home :(
gilgamesh
posted on Monday, Jun 9, 2008 12:22AM [Report]

Very harmonic dancing !!! I like it !!! :)
JoanneSanderson
posted on Sunday, Jun 8, 2008 6:55PM [Report]

aw I think it's quite sweet. No harm in a little bit of humor.
PPPIRJ
posted on Sunday, Jun 8, 2008 2:43PM [Report]

Fine.JIN CHEN WU is on tHE WARLORDS WITH JET lI AND andy liu. hE WAS IN HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGER WITH CHANG ZEI YEI
yenc
posted on Sunday, Jun 8, 2008 12:39PM [Report]

haha quite hard to link both together for me. Buthen can they use his img as logo? is there any copyright issue.... just wondering.. (^00)^)
elle
posted on Sunday, Jun 8, 2008 8:45AM [Report]

how timely for them, it could be a good way of making their group known outside their country =)
Etchy
posted on Sunday, Jun 8, 2008 6:13AM [Report]

yes, this was on the news all over the world. its just a funny coincidence, no harm. (luckily he won the nomination! otherwise the fun would be over!)

In Kyushu there is a town called Usa (宇佐市), same kind of thing... take advantage of the coincidence for some tourism attention. ;-)
Etchy
posted on Sunday, Jun 8, 2008 6:11AM [Report]

its spelled 'Hula' in English btw. ;-)