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78-yr-old woman sells tvs, sick of seeing Obama

hypocritexposer

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Carroll woman's answer to highly visible Obama: Selling her televisions

By DOUGLAS BURNS
Staff Writer

A 78-year-old Carroll woman says she's so tired of seeing President Barack Obama on the airwaves that she's selling her television sets - two of them.

Deloris Nissen, a retired nurses' aide and former Kmart employee who was raised on a farm near Audubon, placed a classified advertisement with The Daily Times Herald for Friday's paper.

[/b]In the $5.50 ad, Nissen tells readers she has two television sets for sale.

The reason: "Obama on every channel and station."

In an interview Nissen said she is serious about selling two TVs - and genuine about her disgust with what she believes to be an overexposed president.

"I just got tired of watching him on every channel," Nissen said. "I thought, my gosh, does he ever stay at the White House?"

Nissen, who voted for U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., in the 2008 presidential election, said she could live with seeing Obama come on television to make serious announcements. But he seems to be on all the time, Nissen said.

When the president does appear on a channel she happens to be watching, Nissen said, she quickly turns.

"I have the remote real handy," Nissen said. "I have the batteries. I'm ready for him."

Nissen's annoyance with the president as a frequent presence on her television doesn't mean she'll abandon the medium altogether.

She's keeping a bigger flat-screen television and selling an older 20-inch Sony and possibly a 13-inch set.

"It's too heavy," Nissen said of the 20-inch TV. "I can't handle it anymore."

That said, she doesn't plan on selling it for less than $100 - even if Obama was just on Tuesday pitching his health-care-reform plans.

Obama's own advisers and political observers across the ideological spectrum have for months debated whether the now popular president is overexposed.

For her part, Nissen said she expects to take some flack for the advertisement in her local paper. After all, Obama did win Iowa and Carroll County in the 2008 election.

But she's not worried about any criticism.

"I'm an old lady, and I don't care," Nissen said.


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aplusmnt

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I am tired of seeing him on TV also! You would think he would be in his office doing some work.

But the lady is either funny or a loon, selling your EXTRA tv's is not going to help you to see the President any less on the TV you are watching, unless you watch more than one TV at a time. :?
 

backhoeboogie

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Its a good thing she doesn't read this forum now that Writer/Rapper is back with a passion to vent. That old lady would put her puter up for sell.
 

redbrand

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It's a small world! I was surprised when I read this post and recognized the reporters name and the link. This story is from one of the local papers in my area :D !

Here's one of my favorite articles in their archive about our Congressman, Mr. Steve King, and his "greatest hits" from April of 2008; these are some classics, but the hits keep rolling out of our articulate representative's mouth! King was re-elected this past November, so there's the proof that the majority of us out here are pleased with his performance. Yes, I voted for him both times :wink: .

DOUGLAS BURNS
Daily Times Herald Columnist


In six short years, U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, has cultivated a national reputation for attention-grabbing remarks that delight his conservative supporters and appall liberal critics. The latter find his rhetoric fanatical, nativist, and at times racist. But even constituents troubled by the congressman's runaway mouth have to concede that that King has become something of a voice for western Iowa in the 24-hour news world.

King's recent rant that al-Qaida would welcome the election of Sen. Barack Obama with "dancing in the streets" was heard around the world within 24 hours. The remark echoed other Kingisms in its fact-free content, its casual impugning of the patriotism of people who disagree with him, and its careful delivery.

King's provocations, he admitted in a Downtown Sioux City Rotary Club meeting, covered by Bret Hayworth of The Sioux City Journal, are carefully contrived for maximum effect.

According to King, he plans everything he says, no matter how provocative -it's weighed ahead of time, never off the cuff and designed to stir discussion of key issues. "What kind of a nation are we if we can't have open dialogue?" King asserted..

The disarming, if not disingenuous plea, for "dialogue," coming from a man not known for his civility is another sign of King's style. One on one, King can be quite personable, even with critical journalists or liberal Democrats. Founder of a construction company, he knows the ways of rural Iowa and how to connect with a crowd. He got himself elected as a state senator in tiny Kiron before winning the mostly Republican 5th congressional district seat in 2002.

But with his conservative base seemingly locked in, King is eschewing the traditional path of conservative Iowa Republicans like Chuck Grassley and Terry Branstad, who rose in popularity as they migrated from the right-wing toward the political center. Just weeks ago, King opted not to run against Sen. Tom Harkin, the popular liberal incumbent. But he is widely believed to be eyeing the Terrace Hill gubernatorial mansion now inhabited by Democratic Gov. Chet Culver, who will be up for re-election in 2010.

The question for King is whether his catalog of outrage can sell outside of his reliable conservative base in western Iowa.

You be the judge. The following is a list of Steve King's Greatest Hits - Volume 1:

1. He idolizes Joe McCarthy

King on Sept. 27, 2005, King referred to widely disgraced red-baiter Sen. Joseph McCarthy as a "great American hero" and continues to defend the statement - as late as this Monday at the Sioux City Rotary meeting in which he said forthcoming information on McCarthy will prove the Wisconsin Republican right - and by extension, King's comments.

2. King likens illegal immigrants to animals

In July of 2006 King went to the House floor to display the model of a wall the Kiron Republican said he personally designed for the U.S. border with Mexico and likened illegal border crossers to the farm animals.

"We need to do a few other things on top of that wall, and one of them being to put a little bit of wire on top here to provide a disincentive for people to climb over the top or put a ladder there." King said in displaying his design. "We could also electrify this wire with the kind of current that would not kill somebody, but it would be a discouragement for them to be fooling around with it. We do that with livestock all the time."


3. The Obama slam

In an interview in Spencer, Iowa, King said, "I'll just say this, that when you think about the optics of a Barack Obama potentially getting elected president of the United States - and I mean, what does this look like to the rest of the world? What does it look like to the world of Islam? And I will tell you that, if he is elected president, then the ... the radical Islamists, the ... the al-Qaida and the radical Islamists and their supporters will be dancing in the streets in greater numbers than they did on September 11."

4. King compares homosexuals to unicorns and leprechauns

In a Dec. 12, 2003, news release about Sioux City Judge Jeffrey Neary's decision to grant two lesbians a divorce King said the following: "Unless I am mistaken it was in Vermont, not Iowa, that Howard 'The Coward' Dean slyly signed midnight legislation making same sex unions legal. Unicorns, leprechauns, gay marriages in Iowa - these are all things you will never find because they just don't exist. But perhaps Judge Neary would grant divorces to unicorns and leprechauns, too.'"

5. King says Iraq is safer than Washington, D.C.

In the summer of 2006, on the floor of the U.S. House, King says it's more perilous for civilians in Washington, D.C., than Iraq. He made the argument at least twice.

"Well, by now, I have a feel for the rhythm of this place called Washington, D.C., and my wife lives here with me," King said. "I can tell you, she is in far greater risk being a civilian in Washington, D.C., than the average civilian in Iraq." (In fact, an estimated 21,000 civilians died violent deaths in Iraq in 2006. That same year there were 169 homicides in the nation's capital.)

6. King makes fun of an old lady

In 2006, King suggested that iconic journalist Helen Thomas, then 85 years old, was ugly in a joke about radical Islam's belief that martyrs will be rewarded with virgins in the afterlife.

"There probably are not 72 virgins in the hell he (Abu Musab al-Zarqawi) is at," King said at the Iowa GOP State Convention. "And if there are, they probably all look like Helen Thomas."

In a rare display of civility, King apologized.

7. King endorses backseat baby-making

How should Iowa deal with the worker shortage in towns that have relied on Hispanic workers, legal and illegal, since the 1980s?

Make more Iowa babies, King told the Greater Des Moines Partnership, according to Jane Norman of the Des Moines Register. "What about the 'grow your own' plan?" King said.

When former Republican Lt. Gov. Art Neu, asked King to elaborate King singled out Singapore's plan to increase pregnancies which he said included the injunction, "put newspapers in your car (windows) to get more privacy," Added King, "I remember those things when I read them. They kind of stand out in my mind."


8. Congressman claims John Kerry would have lost World War II.

In summer of 2004 King issued a statement about the just-dedicated World War II memorial in Washington, saying, "Can you imagine if John Kerry had been president during WWII? We'd all be speaking Japanese and German right now!"

9. King defends "hazing" at Abu Ghraib.

"The dismembered and charred corpses of American contractors dangling over the Euphrates River in comparison to the abuse committed by a few soldiers at Abu Ghraib are like the crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer compared to those of Heidi Fleiss," King said in a statement. "What amounts to hazing is not even in the same ballpark as mass murder."

10. King as a king

Visiting Iraq, King could not resist opportunity to sit in one of Saddam Hussein's former palace thrones. King later sent the photo to the media prompting some to wonder if he hopes to become a power-mad dictator. If western Iowans, often feeling like the red-headed stepchild of the Hawkeye State, ever secede, would King be content with the governor's chair of a new state or would he want a throne - for real?


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