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Obama's Ugly Cake

By Marcus Gilmer in Miscellaneous on Aug 5, 2009 7:00PM

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Image courtesy of the White House, via NBC Washington, D.C.

In case you somehow missed the news, yesterday was President Obama's birthday. But it seems someone played a joke on him. We're pretty sure he asked for a Transformers ice cream cake from Baskin-Robbins but instead he was presented with the above, a cake that's destined to show up on Cake Wrecks.