Obama Girl: Crush on the President Fading
Amber Lee Ettinger tells Fox News she would vote for Huckabee in 2012.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31, 2010— -- Better known as "Obama Girl," Amber Lee Ettinger, the actress and model who appeared as the sexy star of the Web video "Crush on Obama" that went viral during the 2008 presidential election, now says she no longer has a "big crush" on Obama.
Ettinger said on Fox News on Friday that when the video's creative director Ben Relles approach her to appear in his video, she agreed to do it because she did have a crush on Obama then. But Ettinger now says that her crush has faded.
"Yes, I mean, it was two years ago. If I had this crush on him the same way as I did in the beginning, I'd be the fool. You know, it's like a relationship. When you get into a relationship with somebody they're all great and perfect, they say all the right things," Ettinger, 27, said on FOX. "And then once you're in the relationship it's like, OK, they're not that perfect."
Ettinger said she wasn't impressed with his State of the Union address he gave last Wednesday.
"I think it was a lot of recycled talk," she said. "People like -- talk is cheap; actions speak louder than words. And even with a relationship, you know, once people -- your boyfriend, girlfriend doesn't do what they say they're going to do, you kick them to the curb."
When asked if she would vote for President Obama today, she said, "Right now I can't say for sure."
Obama Girl Now for Huckabee?
Given an option between voting for Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee as president in 2012, Ettinger said on Fox she would choose former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.
"He's the one that stood out to me, for some of the things he said when he was campaigning. He has great values. I like him, and I thought he was a good guy," Ettinger said to ABCnews.com in a phone interview.
But, she said, her infatuation with Obama wasn't completely gone.
"I graded him a B-minus, and I don't think that's that bad," she said.