Posted on 07/07/2009 8:57:37 AM PDT by theruleshavechanged
"I think we saw it when Elvis died; in a different way you saw it when Frank Sinatra died; you saw it when John Lennon died," Obama told CBS. "There are certain figures in our popular culture that just capture our people's imaginations and in death they become even larger."
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while also ignoring that he is obviously a child molester. BHO has zer0 shame.
Except the other three liked GIRLS. And older than 6!
Then again, most music fans these days have (at best) only a vague idea who Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Ray Charles, and Jimi Hendrix were.
Obama is like FDR. He's like JFK. He's like Lincoln. He's like Jesus. He's like every great person who ever lived.
Michael Jackson? He's like Elvis. He's like Sinatra.
Why can't Obama be Obama? Why can't Michael Jackson be Michael Jackson? Isn't each individual special, unique, and worth cherishing? I don't think the Left can really go there because is starts to encroach on the "sanitized" view of abortion and the view of each human as just a bunch of cells.
The difference was that Presley, Lennon and Sinatra were not sexual deviates, pedophiles and perverts.
And I think that you could have hooked up a generator to Elvis' grave, when Michael Jackson married his daughter. Would have powered Graceland, easily.
John Lennon would have had another bong hit and said "Who?".
Plus they were a lot more talented.
What else would you expect from a clueless idiot?
Zero is a walking soundbyte....an empty suit. He has no substance.
Militant
Three of those artists were not pedophiles.
VOMIT. Obama is a POS.
It’s yet another form of black victimhood.
If Michael Jackson isn’t as big a legend as (pick your favorite legend - Elvis, Sinatra whatever) then that’s RACISM!
I’ve seen this very same opinion expressed on message boards.
I agree. Jackson wrote and produced many of his own songs and was more than a pretty boy who sang well like Elvis and Sinatra were. The latter two were little more than the Brittany Spears of their times
You're pushing that assertion in the case of Yoko Ono.
he forgot Polansky, Woody Allen, and others of the same ilk .....
“Judge a man by the color of his skin... not the content of his character”
LLS
MJ was warped probably starting from his own childhood and upbringing.
But then his celebrity, wealth, fame and power magnified it and made it all even worse than before.
It is the stuff Greek tragedies are made of.
Such an enormously musically talented man with a God given talent to entertain people and to sing so beautifully and then having it ruined by becoming a sexual deviate and not having a clear sexual identity and psychologically tortured tormented and twisted. It is a damn shame. But as talented as MJ was, he could not hold a candle to Presley, Sinatra and Lennon.
Personally I am sick of hearing about MJ.
I say the above because it is probably much, much easier to have Michael Jackson's birth hospital admit that Jackson was born there than it is have Obama's birth hospital in Hawaii publicly admit that Obama was born there.
Sad. So sad, this Prsident Obama.
How old was Bammy when Elvis died??
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