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Oct 3, 2008 12:41 pm US/Central

Walgreens Pulls Presidential Candidate Dolls

Some Were Offended By Representations Of Obama, McCain, Clinton

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) ― Election-year novelty dolls of Barack Obama, John McCain and Hillary Clinton have been ordered off the shelves of Walgreens drugstores nationwide because of customer complaints.

The battery-operated figures moved as they sang parodies and recited messages that weren't approved by the presidential candidates.

A spokeswoman for Deerfield-based Walgreen says some customers were offended by what the dolls said or did.

The Clinton figure referred to itself as a "broad" in one song parody. And the Obama doll was sold in a box that proclaimed, "The senator from Illinois gets down and funky!"

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