Mr Potato Head Endorses Hillary Clinton And Barack Obama
ANDY Green has met Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.. He got them to take a photo with his Mr. Potato Head:
The story of the young man and his spudhead began in 2004, when Green inherited the toy from his dying grandfather. Grandpa Robert had kept the faux spud on his bedroom shelf, Green says, and treated it like nothing more than a decoration. Green, however, wanted to show the toy around. So wherever he went — and Green’s traveled quite a bit — so went the spudhead. To the Statue of Liberty, Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom, the Marine Corps War Memorial.
His parents and younger sister have a three-word explanation for this.
“That’s just Andy,” says his mom, Jenny Green, a secretary at Clinton Community College.
Says Andy:
He reserves his most intense reactions for Obama and Clinton, both of whom he’s seen face-to-face a few times.
Clinton, Green says, seemed “distant,” “cold,” “fake.”
“Look at her photo with Mr. Potato Head. She’s really smiling, but it looks like a really forced smile. It’s only because I told her she’s one of the last ones to have her photo taken.”
Meanwhile, Obama, Green says, was “engaging,” “open,” “just like one of us.”
“Look at his photo with Mr. Potato Head. He got into it. He’s really having fun.”
Posted: 6th, January 2008 | In: Politicians Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
