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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.
In the $5.50 ad,
Nissen tells readers she
has two television sets
for sale.
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The reason:
“Obama on every
channel and station.”
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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.
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“I just got tired of
watching him on every
channel,”
Nissen said.
“I thought,
my gosh,
does he ever stay
at the White House?”
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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.
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When the president does
appear on a channel she
happens to be watching,
Nissen said,
she quickly turns.
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“I have the
remote real handy,”
Nissen said.
“I have the batteries.
I’m ready for him.”
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Nissen’s annoyance with
the president as a frequent
presence on her television
doesn’t mean she’ll abandon
the medium altogether.
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She’s keeping a bigger
flat-screen television and
selling an older 20-inch Sony
and possibly a 13-inch set.
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“It’s too heavy,”
Nissen said of the 20-inch TV.
“I can’t handle it anymore.”
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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.
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Obama’s own political advisors
and political observers across
the ideological spectrum
have for months debated
whether the now popular
president is overexposed.
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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.
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But she’s not worried
about any criticism.
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I’m an old lady,
and I don’t care,”
Nissen said.
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