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Obama in Butter

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/27/obama-in-butter/?scp=1&sq=obama%20butter&st=cse

TOLEDO, Iowa – He’s like buttah.

Barack Obama arrived at the South Tama County Middle School auditorium tonight to deliver the stump speech that he debuted this morning, and to woo Toledo’s undecideds. But the bonus of this stump stop – both for the candidate and his weary press corps – was what he called a “butter bust of Obama:” a likeness of his distinctive head in butter, perched on a table underneath a basketball goal.

Before launching into his speech, Mr. Obama made sure to thank the artist, Duffy Lyon, known in these parts as the “Butter Cow Lady” for her life-sized butter cows at the Iowa State Fair that draw presidential hopefuls for photo ops. In October, Ms. Lyon, who was in the crowd tonight, endorsed the senator and appeared in a radio ad for him.

Tonight, Mr. Obama pointed her out in the crowd and called her an “important dignitary.”

“I hope you didn’t make my ears too big,” he said.

She didn’t.