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Stevie Wonder Working on Three Albums, Wants to Go to North Korea to Talk About Love
WFGA Radio ^ | 4/8/13

Posted on 04/09/2013 9:29:13 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

If Dennis Rodman can go to North Korea and hang with leader Kim Jong-un, then why can’t Stevie Wonder? As tensions rise on the Korean Peninsula, and Kim threatens nuclear war against the U.S. and its allies in the region, the music legend says he’d like to travel there and talk some sense into the young Supreme Leader.

Speaking about unity and love with reporters backstage at the Academy of Country Music Awards on Sunday night, Wonder said, “Listen, we could not be here without love. I wish I could say to the president at this very moment, ‘President Obama, will you let me go to North Korea to talk to the leader?’ Because he must not know the people that are helpless, that’ll be killed, if there were war.” His voice breaking, Stevie added, “It’s emotional to me.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: idiot; korea; music; mycherieamour; nkorea; northkorea
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To: fieldmarshaldj; jurroppi1

Old joke and this is a Stevie Wonder love thread, so it fits right in.


61 posted on 04/09/2013 11:11:21 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (For Jay Carney - I heard your birth certificate is an apology from the condom factory.)
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Tired Of FReepathons That Last Longer Than A Month?
We Are Too

Donate and End It In April

62 posted on 04/09/2013 11:11:52 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (My faith and politics cannot be separated)
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To: Made In The USA

Stand corrected.
It was 47 or 48 years ago...


63 posted on 04/09/2013 11:19:30 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (NRA Life Member)
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To: GOPJ

“He would be totally ineffectual on the Streets of Chicago”

Well, not entirely, because they’d show him some respect just as a matter of course. His free concert in Grant Park was about the only concert I can remember in Grant Park where there wasn’t a gang shooting, and not because the gang bangers stayed home.

Kim, on the other hand, isn’t going to extend him that kind of respect, I think.


64 posted on 04/09/2013 11:20:49 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: dfwgator

He will go to NK and sing him “Part Time Lovers”


65 posted on 04/09/2013 11:22:35 AM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: Boogieman
Free concerts in Grant Park are good... and I'm sure the folks attending didn't kill anyone while they were attending... but I doubt Stevie Wonder's generosity had much of a long term effect. Incentives for gangs runs deeper...
66 posted on 04/09/2013 3:51:03 PM PDT by GOPJ (New AP term for Illegal Aliens IS Undocumented Democrats.... Jay Leno)
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To: GOPJ

Sure, I don’t doubt they went right back to their usual behavior once the show was over. Still, the savages at least showed a little respect for the man while he was there, which is more than they show for most.


67 posted on 04/09/2013 4:25:17 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman
Many many years ago a Blackstone Ranger ( an old Chicago gang from the 60's) walked me and my 5 year old niece out of an area where a gang battle/war was going to be taking place. I assured him we would leave and we were fine - but he walked us out anyhow. No one's bad 24/7. That said a few months later the same group killed a 15 year old girl who lived on my block in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood... Gangs are complex.

Maybe too complex and varied for Stevie Wonder's magic - even if they respect him. But Wonder's magic might work with the guy running North Korea... It just seems a fit to me - seems I'm alone on this one...

68 posted on 04/09/2013 7:59:29 PM PDT by GOPJ (New AP term for Illegal Aliens IS Undocumented Democrats.... Jay Leno)
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To: SoFloFreeper

moron. blind in more ways than one


69 posted on 04/10/2013 3:50:20 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (All statist/dictatorial/commie leaders worldwide should be hunted down, beaten, & hung by the masses)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Obama should assemble a cadre of distinguished black athletes and entertainers who are willing to fly to Iran, North Korea and other hellholes to make peace

Danny Glover and JayZee are available I hear. And Roberta Flack will come out of retirement. Ben Vereen is ready to roll


70 posted on 04/10/2013 4:06:47 AM PDT by dennisw (too much of a good thing is a bad thing - Joe Pine)
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To: GOPJ

Me too. I think Stevie Wonder and Kim Jun Un are a natural fit. We should send other Hollywood stars there too on one way tickets. The NK leaders seem to be hung up on Hollywood.

When (idiot) Madeline Albright went to NK all that Kim Jung Il would talk about was Hollywood movies


71 posted on 04/10/2013 4:10:41 AM PDT by dennisw (too much of a good thing is a bad thing - Joe Pine)
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To: SoFloFreeper

72 posted on 04/10/2013 4:13:57 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
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To: dennisw
When (idiot) Madeline Albright went to NK all that Kim Jung Il would talk about was Hollywood movies...

Yep, words like infantile and shallow come to mind...childlike... narcissistic...

73 posted on 04/10/2013 4:35:09 PM PDT by GOPJ (New AP term for Illegal Aliens IS Undocumented Democrats.... Jay Leno)
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