Iowa's Butter Cow Lady, Duffy Lyon, Endorses Barack Obama

[flpoljunkie]

Listen to radio ad: http://obama.3cdn.net/222ead4b84b7a0d0c2_3hm6bt52d.mp3

A buttery voice for Obama

by John McCormick

Norma Duffield Stong Lyon does some of her best work in 40-degree temperatures, so she is certainly hardy enough to deal with January's Iowa caucus weather.

Strong, who goes by "Duffy," is something of an Iowa icon, where she is known as the "Butter Cow Lady" for her work on such art forms as butter cows, a butter Elvis Presley, a butter Garth Brooks and a butter Smokey the Bear.

Yes, Ms. Lyon is a butter sculptor. She is also a new public voice for Sen. Barack Obama, whose campaign announced this morning that she is speaking in a new radio ad airing in the first-in-the-nation-caucus state.

“You know, you see a lot of manure in our line of work,” Lyon says in the ad. “It’s a lot like politics. You got to know what’s bull and what’s for real.”

During the 60-second ad, called "For Us," Lyon praises Obama’s commitment to standing up to Washington special interests and for supporting rural America.

“Barack Obama’s got a real plan for rural America,” Lyon says. “And it’s gutsy because it looks out for us, not lobbyists. It ends huge payments to factory farms that drive family farms out of business and gets rid of income taxes for most Iowa seniors.”

Born in Nashville, Tenn., in 1929, Lyon's father was a newspaperman and the brother of Philip Stong, who wrote the popular novel "State Fair," according to a Des Moines Register biography on her. She started creating the Iowa State Fair's butter cow in 1960 and has done one every year since.

When she isn't sculpting, Lyon raises dairy cows and beef cattle with her husband on a farm outside Tama, Iowa.

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2007/10/by_john_mccormick_norma_duffie.html#more

[BigDDem]

1. First Master P......

and now the butter cow lady, wow, way to go BO!

[aquart]

2. I hope that cow's in a refrigerator.

[YOY]

3. Well that seals my vote

Her stance is just that critical to Americans like me...

[flpoljunkie]

4. Perhaps not to you, but Duffy Lyon is big in Iowa.

“You know, you see a lot of manure in our line of work,” Lyon says in the ad. “It’s a lot like politics. You got to know what’s bull and what’s for real.”

[youthere]

7. This Iowan could give a shit less who the butter cow lady endorses...

but I gotta'admit...it is kind of cute it made national news.

[YOY]

8. Frankly it weighs up there with a number of the XXX endorses Hillary stunts

As if my vote would go to any candidate based on someone else's endorsement. Despite the OPs post about the political sway of the Butter Cow Lady, I am pretty sure most Iowans who actually vote aren't that thick and can decide things on better basis.

If not god help us...(Not that Obama is all that bad...)

Personally, I'm still on the Anyone but Hillary unless I absolutely have to vote for her bandwagon and little is going to shake me.

[IA_Seth]

12. I've never heard of her...

The butter cow, maybe it ran a 10 sec clip on the evening news during the state fair, but I never knew her name until now.

It's a cutsie story, not a lot else.

[flpoljunkie]

14. The butter cow lady does a damn good radio ad--which you just might hear living in Iowa.

[ShortnFiery]

5. Awesome! That endorsement is *udderly mooving* when the *steaks* are so high!

:blush: :yoiks:

[Perky]

10. okay you get the Anti-Duzy for that.

[ShortnFiery]

6. Kick for bovine freedom!

I like moo! moo! :P

Yes, Go Obama!!!

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/193346/crazy_cow_i_like_to_muh/

[William769]

9. Nice of her to try to save a drowning rat in a sinking ship.

[ShortnFiery]

11. Awe, my best country livin' bud says, "Don't count your chickens before they hatch, sonny!"

;) :hi:

[youthere]

16. delete...never mind.

[watercolors]

13. Like who really gives a cares!

Useless post

[youthere]

15. Duffy is yesterday's news...The new butter sculptor made a Harry Potter at the state fair this year.

Now that endorsement will carry some weight.

[Debi]

17. I will be impressed

when I see a butter-Obama!

Like the butter-Superman she did a while back


Good for Obama - it's one more 'one' on his list of caucus attendees.

[gorekerrydreamticket]

18. Waiting to see who Mr. Pork Chop endorses.....n/m

[rinsd]

19. Nothing says hip like a bovine artisan who works in the medium of butter!

:evilgrin:

[AtomicKitten]

20. Awesome endoresement!!!

Here are some butter voters:

[BigDDem]

21. Obama's toast...

pass the butter.

[FlaxieB]

22. Obama is going to take Iowa and move on to NH

[FlaxieB]

23. Delete