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Four Minutes With Obama Girl

She has a crush on Barack. We have a crush on her.


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Published: Oct 24, 2007

Thanks to the type of publicity that more than 3 million hits on YouTube can generate, Amber Lee Ettinger remains Barack Obama's most-famous fan not named Oprah. Well, the man of this Hazleton native's dreams will take the stage at Drexel University on Tuesday night to debate his presidential-wannabe foes.

This week, I caught up with Playboy's reigning "Babe of the Month" to talk about the fame her sexy "I Have a Crush on Obama" video hath wrought and whether it's true that the love has faded. Even if she's been interviewed everywhere from ABC News to Maxim, she was so charming that we ripped up the planned Two-Minutes-With-feature format because neither a head shot, nor limiting her to three questions, seemed very fair, y'know?

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GOVERNING BODY: Ettinger

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Consider it CP's gift to the democratic process.

City Paper: How surprised were you by the reaction to the "Obama Girl" video?

Amber Lee Ettinger: To this day, it amazes me how big it became. Had I known it was going to end up like this, I probably would've been brushing my hair throughout the shoot. But it was a great time. Leah [Kauffman, the Temple student of "Box in a Box" fame who sang the Obama song that Amber lip-synched] and Ben [Relles, who came up with the idea and recruited Amber, who he'd seen as Miss Howard Stern TV] really did Philly proud. When Ben played me the song, I thought it was great and funny; a chance to act silly.

CP: So it was more of an acting job than a chance to get involved in politics?

ALE: Exactly, but because of it, I've been thrust into the political scene, and it's been awesome. I went to South Carolina for the YouTube debates, and was at Washington Square Park for a recent Obama rally. At YouTube, I sat and watched but afterwards, I got to go to the press room to interview a couple of candidates, Joe Biden and Dennis Kuchinich. But Obama didn't come in. Such a shame!

CP: Do you care about politics?

ALE: Well, I always cared, but I was never that involved or that into it. But doing the video, and being on the news, has gotten me more involved, which is great. I like it. I mean, it's not like I really have to talk about the issues, I'm just paying a lot more attention to what's going on than I did before.

CP: I got a press release this week from your Bikini Bandits friends who were dismayed that somebody had forced YouTube to take down the ["Obama Girl Was a Bikini Bandit"] video in which they congratulated you for your successes. (They intimated that the video, featuring a bevy of scantily clad gals, was taken down by "Obama's henchmen" and urged the candidate to not "alienate the Bikini Bandit vote!") What do you think about all that?

ALE: I just found out yesterday and yeah, I'm a little upset. I don't know why somebody would do that. They must be scared of us!

CP: They asked whether your man Obama is the "voice of liberalism or a draconian hard-liner." Which do you think he is?

ALE: Hmmm, I'm not sure.

CP: I saw the Steppin' Out interview you did in August that had everybody thinking you've ditched the Obama crush and were actually going to get on the Hillary bandwagon. I'm not going to ask you who you're voting for, of course, since it's your right to keep it secret, but say it ain't so!;

ALE: (Laughing) He asked me how I thought she did at the YouTube debate and I said, "Great!" Somehow, everybody else turned that into me voting for Hillary!

CP: Obama's coming to Philly next week. If you had a chance to get up and ask some questions at the debate, what would they be?

ALE: Now that's a good question. I'm not sure. I'd need to think about that one for a while because if I only get one chance to ask him something, I have to make sure it's perfect.

(hickey@citypaper.net)

Comments

Obama’s efforts to connect to the Republican Party, specifically Bush, and Dick Chaney, of the Halliburton Company, dates back to the Presidents Grandfather, Prescott Bush, and indeed Chaney was once an executive officer of Halliburton.

The American military pounds Iraq with Artillary, bombs, and the like, destroying large sections of cities, and infra-structures, then Halliburton comes in to rebuild. Halliburton and Halliburton associated companies have raked in ten’s of billions.

Obama is just like the BIG HALIBURTAN. Haliburton has contracted to build detention centers in the U.S. similiar to the one in Quantanammo Bay, Cuba. Halliburton does nothing to earn the Two Dollars for each meal an American Serviceman in Iraq eats.

http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/

Halliburton was scheduled to take control of the Dubai Ports in The United Arab Emiirate. The deal was canceled when Bush was unable to affect the transfer of the American Ports.

Now we see what some might suspect as similiar financial escapading from the Democrats.

Two years ago, Iraq’s Ministry of Electricity gave a $50 million contract to a start-up security company - Companion- owned by now-indicted businessman (TONY REZKO) Tony Rezko and a onetime Chicago cop, Daniel T. Frawley, to train Iraqi power-plant guards in the United States. An Iraqi leadership change left the deal in limbo. Now the company, Companion Security, is working to revive its contract.
Involved along with Antoin “Tony” Rezco, long time friend and neighbor of Democratic Presidential hopeful Barack Obama, and former cop Daniel T. Frawley, is Aiham Alsammarae. Alsammarae was accused of financial corruption by Iraqi authorities and jailed in Iraq last year before escaping and returning here.

LIKE FATHER LIKE SON --
Recently, Obama's campaign staff have been vetted by the IRS to disclose his connection to the criminal money generating underworld. Besides, his connections to the REZCO MAFIA types, his up-coming tax fraud charges — Obama needs to disclose why he is a MUSLIM "PATWANG-FWEEE" and disclose Obama's MUSLIM Farrakhan mob connection to Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ. Its minister, and Obama's spiritual adviser, is the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. In 1982, the church launched Trumpet Newsmagazine; Wright's daughters serve as publisher and executive editor. Every year, the magazine makes awards in various categories. Last year, it gave the Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Trumpeter Award to a man it said "truly epitomized greatness." That man is Louis Farrakhan. Farrakhan and Chicago's Trinity United Church are trumpeting Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama as the second coming of the messiah. Obama should stop suppoting our intervention in IRAQ. It’s time to introduce this false, fake Xerox - X box Obama and invite the self-indicting thief plagiarizing pipsqueke "GLORK" Xerox - X box to meet the Buffalo "GAZOWNT-GAZIKKA" Police Department Buffalo Creek. He is MAD!!! --

OBAM YOU'RE NO JFK --

"GLORK" Obama looks like Alfred E. Newman: "Tales Calculated To Drive You." He is a MUSLIM "Glork" He's MAD!!! Alfred E. Neuman is the fictional mascot of Mad. The face had drifted through American pictography for decades before being claimed by Mad editor Harvey Kurtzman after he spotted it on the bulletin board in the office of Ballantine Books editor Bernard Shir-Cliff, later a contributor to various magazines created by Kurtzman.
Obama needs to disclose why he is a MUSLIM "PATWANG-FWEEE" and stop suppoting our intervention in IRAQ. It’s time to introduce this false, fake "GLORK" Xerox - X box Obama and invite the self-indicting thief plagiarizing pipsqueke Xerox - X box to meet the Buffalo "GAZOWNT-GAZIKKA" Police Department Buffalo Creek.

Michelle Obama should be ashamed.

"GLORK" Michelle Obama should be ashamed of her separatist-racist connection to Farrakhan and Chicago's Trinity United Church trumpeting Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama as the second coming of the messiah. If Michelle Obama new what her husband -- the Hope-A-Dope, Fonster Monster -- Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama did in Harlem, she would wash her wide-open, Hus-suey loving MUSILM mouth out, with twenty-four (24) mule-team double-cross X-boX-BorraX. He is a MUSLIM "Glork" It’s time to introduce this false, fake "GLORK" Xerox - X box Obama and invite the self-indicting thief plagiarizing pipsqueke Xerox - X box to meet the Buffalo "GAZOWNT-GAZIKKA" Police Department Buffalo Creek. He's MAD!!!

http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/

by Janet Reno on March 19th 2008 12:20 AM

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