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Obama picture sparks controversy at Peterson

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The head of the Colorado Springs NAACP is crying foul after a picture of President Obama was removed from a sign at the Peterson Air Force Base commissary.

The picture accompanied a sign near the entrance saying the government-run military grocery store would be closed on Presidents Day.

The Defense Commissary Agency, which oversees the store, says employees took it down after customers complained that the holiday is about Presidents Washington and Lincoln, not Obama.

Rosemary Harris, president of the Colorado Springs branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, says the commissary’s decision “bodes poorly for the progress that we hoped we would see in this country.”

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Information from: The Gazette.