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    Obama: Butter Cow, yes, Bumper Cars, no

    By | The Ticket – Mon, Aug 13, 2012

    A child listens to U.S. President Barack Obama speak during a campaign stop at Bayliss Park August 13, 2012 in …President Barack Obama's Iowa state fair to-do list: Check out Butter Cow, see if this chocolate moose thing is real, but stay away from the fried Twinkies and the bumper cars.

    Obama launched a three-day bus tour through this heartland state--the place that helped propel his unlikely bid for the White House in 2008--with a stop in Council Bluffs. And he'll end it at Iowa's famous state fair.

    "Michelle has told me I cannot have a fried Twinkie. But I will be checking out Butter Cow, and I understand this year there's a chocolate moose," he said, adding that he would "take a look at that if I can." (Butter Cow is exactly what it sounds like. A cow. Made of butter. And the fair is famous for deep frying pretty much anything and everything.)

    "The last time I went to the state fair, Secret Service let me do the bumper cars. But they said this year…I wasn't president then so I could do that, but not this time," he said.

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