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The White House is not feeling Benetton’s new UNHATE campaign, which shows President Obama locking lips with China’s Hu Jintao and Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez.

PHOTOS: Benetton’s New UnHate Campaign Shows World Leaders Kissing!

“The White House has a longstanding policy disapproving of the use of the president’s name and likeness for commercial purposes,” said White House spokesman Eric Schultz in an email.

In another rendition, Obama is shown smooching with Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. The campaign also features fictitious depictions of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu kissing Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel touching lips.

Benetton withdrew an image of Pope Benedict XVI and a top Egyptian imam kissing after the Vatican threatened to sue, according to the Associated Press.

Check out all the photographs in the gallery above. Does it make you uncomfortable to see Obama kissing another world leader? 

SOURCE: Yahoo!