Obama look-alike causes stir at Pepsi Center
By Lisa Bornstein, Rocky Mountain News (Contact)
Published August 25, 2008 at 5:15 p.m.
Updated August 25, 2008 at 5:15 p.m.
Ellen Jaskol © The Rocky
Gerardo Puisseaux, a Barack Obama impersonator from Cuba, signs his autograph for Deborah Dillon of Delaware inside the Pepsi Center Monday Aug. 24, 2008 on the first day of the convention. Gerardo is part of the press, working for CH. 41 in Miami. At left is Damian Romay, executive producer for the show, 'Pinch Me, I'm Dreaming,' the show that Gerardo is working for.
PEPSI CENTER -- Even if you know he's a fake, it's a little shocking to see Gerardo Puisseaux close-up.
The Cuban immigrant to Miami is a dead ringer for Barack Obama, from the broad smile to the close-cropped hair.
He was a construction worker in Miami until about six weeks ago, when he hooked up with online Spanish-language news channel America TeVe (www.americateve.com). Since then, he's been going where Obama goes and causing a stir in each location.
"We make something like a reality show," he said Monday evening, his thick accent proving he's not a soundalike. "We walk in the street with the people."
He draws attention everywhere he goes.
"Sometimes I get tired because everybody stopping me, a lot of questions, sometimes political questions," he says. "I am not Obama."
About a year ago, Puisseaux realized the resemblance. And while Cuban-Americans aren't the biggest faction of the Democratic party, Puisseaux responds, "A fan? Obama? I love him."
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August 25, 2008
5:56 p.m.
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Sensible writes:
My new BEST FRIEND... Bobby Jones.
Good one!
August 25, 2008
6:01 p.m.
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Sensible writes:
Along the same lines of Bobby Jones thinking...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crap
August 25, 2008
6:32 p.m.
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Hazardous_T writes:
Bobby, that is not be a look alike for Obama but he sure was a sound alike...
August 25, 2008
8:36 p.m.
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mountaingoober writes:
you guys are ridiculous! It is amusing that the impersonator is cuban and they are Marxist. But if you think Obama is a Marxist look alike, then G W Bush is Benito Mussolini.
August 26, 2008
11:11 a.m.
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xenala writes:
I suggest you folks raise the level of the debate. it's sad that some people are so uninformed that they equate obama with marx. can't ya'll come up with any reason you dislike him that actually pulls on facts about his stances on the issues. I can: He supported telecome immunity through FISA.