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Video: Obama beat boxes for Vietnam's 'queen of hip hop'
The London Telegraph ^ | May 25, 2016 | James Rothwell and Jirtme Cartillier

Posted on 05/25/2016 12:29:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Barack Obama has wrapped up his historic visit to Vietnam by throwing down some beats for a Vietnamese rapper.

The President was taking questions at a town hall-style meeting in Ho Chi Minh city when a young woman introduced herself as a hip hop artist before asking her question.

Mr Obama immediately invited her to show off her talent, asking "do you need a few beats?"

The woman, named Suboi and renowned as Vietnam's "queen of hip hop," then serenaded Obama with Vietnamese lyrics about whether people are really happy if they have lots of money.

Seemingly delighted with the exchange, Obama praised the journey of hip-hop "which started out as an expression of poor African Americans" and became a "global phenomenon".

The US President went on to field questions on everything from rap and weed smoking to his good looks at the lively meeting with young Vietnamese, who see the US leader as a far cry from their staid Communist rulers....

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Government; Music/Entertainment; Politics
KEYWORDS: bhoasia; obamavisit; vietnam
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1 posted on 05/25/2016 12:29:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He is like a living god. Why are we so blessed that we are led by this lord of light?


2 posted on 05/25/2016 12:32:39 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Nation States seem to be ending. The follow-on should not be Globalism, but Localism.)
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Cringeworthy is the only word I can think of.


3 posted on 05/25/2016 12:33:38 PM PDT by rdl6989
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The is no act, guesture, or mouth-vomit that is too demeaning for Obama to do in public if it makes his idiot fan base happy AND it diminishes America.


4 posted on 05/25/2016 12:35:29 PM PDT by WMarshal (Trump 2016)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The only “Hip Hop” I know of that’s related to Vietnam is 2 Live Crew’s ‘Me So Horny’


5 posted on 05/25/2016 12:35:50 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Oh, he’s so cool! Can we keep this celebrity for 8 more years. Heck! Let’s make it the rest of his life and give him Letterman’s old show too. Just cool... / sarc


6 posted on 05/25/2016 12:36:22 PM PDT by llevrok (Lies are born the moment someone thinks the truth is dangerous.)
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7 posted on 05/25/2016 12:36:38 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Is Obama an enlightened being? / Spiritual wise ones say: This sure ain’t no ordinary politician. You buying it?
By Mark Morford

http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/morford/article/Is-Obama-an-enlightened-being-Spiritual-wise-2544395.php


8 posted on 05/25/2016 12:37:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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I didn’t know he was in Vietnam.


9 posted on 05/25/2016 12:40:06 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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"which started out as an expression of poor African Americans"

I'm surprised he didn't say, "I invented it".

10 posted on 05/25/2016 12:40:16 PM PDT by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Dreadful.

11 posted on 05/25/2016 12:41:26 PM PDT by csvset ( Illegitimi non carborundum)
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To: dfwgator

You clearly have never done;

The Humpty Dance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y38Ec57yMG8


12 posted on 05/25/2016 12:41:48 PM PDT by Zeneta
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Yet another example of the national embarrassment that is Barrack Obama. And, for the record, there is only one Human Beatbox worthy of the name:


13 posted on 05/25/2016 12:44:40 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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I didn’t know he was in Vietnam......What? Are you asleep? He said to them “ You didn’t win that. The Democrats in Congress did that for you.”


14 posted on 05/25/2016 12:45:20 PM PDT by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
They left the picture out of the story:


15 posted on 05/25/2016 12:50:39 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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Earlier another young man began his question with: "Mr President, you're so handsome."

Alrighty then...

16 posted on 05/25/2016 12:52:39 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Who cares? Our president is half head of government and half head of state. Occasionally he will do “popular with the people” head of state things. And hip hop is no longer American culture but global culture.


17 posted on 05/25/2016 12:59:36 PM PDT by SleepySimon
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bush once pledged to restore dignity to the office of president. Obama has undone everything Bush did … and then some.


18 posted on 05/25/2016 1:05:04 PM PDT by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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The nobamas wouldn’t know dignity if it bit them on their a×××s.


19 posted on 05/25/2016 1:07:55 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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“Our president is half head of government and half head of state.”

Your pResident is a half-azzed halfrican.


20 posted on 05/25/2016 1:17:43 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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