André Cassagnes, the 86-year-old creator of the popular kid’s toy the Etch-A-Sketch, died in Paris on January 16, it was revealed Thursday. The toy that managed to fascinate and then totally bore kids everywhere, was first introduced at a toy fair in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1959. It fell out of the public consciousness until this past election season, when someone on Republican candidate Mitt Romney’s team was quoted as saying that the campaign was like an Etch-A-Sketch: “I think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign,” said Roney spokesperson Eric Fehrnstrom. “Everything changes. It’s almost like an Etch-A-Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and restart all of over again.”
I don't have much problem with etch-a-sketch candidates. They are, theoretically, "representatives." Better an "I'll be what you want me to be" than getting any more teabats who say "I don't care what you want, I'm going to muck it up my way."
O Really wrote:I don't have much problem with etch-a-sketch candidates. They are, theoretically, "representatives." Better an "I'll be what you want me to be" than getting any more teabats who say "I don't care what you want, I'm going to muck it up my way."
But that's what the Etch A Sketch candidates do once they get elected.
