Obama's 50th Birthday bash: Stevie Wonder, Chris Rock, Tom Hanks, Whoopi Goldberg,

Chicago Sun Times ^ | Aug. 5, 2011 | Lynn Sweet

[COUNTrecount]

President Obama celebrated his 50th birthday Thursday night with a celebrity-filled bash, as entertainer Chris Rock reported on his Twitter feed: "Just left the Presidents birthday party at the White House. Herbie Hancock played, Stevie Wonder sang and yes they did the electric slide. A great night."

Daughter Malia, 13 just arrived home from summer camp in time for the Rose Garden party as she was joined by her sister, Sasha, 10, First Lady Michelle, grandmother Marian Robinson and their godmother, Eleanor "Mama Kaye, Wilson," who flew to Washington from Chicago on Air Force One with Obama when he returned from his Thursday fund-raiser back home.

Obama's party--paid for, the White House said, by the First Couple--was closed press and not on his official schedule. Obama's team was not eager for pictures of the bash, coming as the stock market was plunging and a new jobless report comes out Friday morning.

Eddie Gehman Kohan, put together a detailed report about the five-hour barbeque, based on interviews of people who were there. Read her entire article here.

From Kohan's article: "Stevie Wonder gave a "surprise" performance during the celebration; his hit "You and I" was the President and First Lady Obama's wedding song. Revelers included Jay Z; Tom Hanks; Chris Rock; hoops legends Charles Barkley and Grant Hill; Whoopi Goldberg; Dallas Cowboys Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith; and actor Hill Harper. He's one of the President's closest chums from Harvard law school, and star of CSI: NY. Jazz great Herbie Hancock and his ensemble played;

"The night was balmy, and when dinner was done, a DJ spun dance tunes--"like at a Bar Mitzvah," said one guest. The twenty tables for ten in the Rose Garden were pushed aside so guests could dance, led by the President and Mrs. Obama.

[Fresh Wind]

I think they’re all dead now.

[ETL]

I guess commie icon Pete Seeger couldn't make it.

"We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration At The Lincoln Memorial"

"We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration At The Lincoln Memorial"
http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/4Jfw6fON_zH/One+Obama+Inaugural+Celebration+Lincoln+Memorial/1NNi5cTZF2d/Bruce+Springsteen
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"[Pete] Seeger was antiwar during the period of the Nazi-Soviet Pact; pro-war after the Soviet Union was the ally of the United States; and anti-war during the years of the Cold War and Vietnam" --Ronald Radosh (former communist)
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=01133F31-CE9A-40BC-B797-47CBB0023EF4
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From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetwork.org:
Profile: PETE SEEGER

*Musician, folksinger, songwriter, and political activist

*Joined the Communist Party in 1942

*"I'm still a Communist" -- Pete Seeger, 2004

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1619
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Here's a must-see YouTube of Springsteen performing with communist icon, Pete Seeger, at Obama's inauguration. There's a flash of Obama singing along from his seat:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=obama+spingsteen+%22we+ae+one%22&aq=f

[SharpRightTurn]

The Obummers (including the old grifter mother-in-law), Stevie Wonder, Jay Z, Tom Hanks, Chris Rock, Charles Barkley, Grant Hill, and Whoopi Goldberg.

I’d rather spend an evening with a random selection from any bus station lobby waiting area.

[nerdwithagun]

Bleck! I see the humor, but those faces super imposed on those bodys make my eyes burn *_*

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

He will be going to camp david for a weekend birthday retreat

http://www.politico.com/politico44/wbarchive/whiteboard08052011.html

[Irishguy]

it would appear stevie wonder isnt the only one blind...

[libstripper]

FTA:

". . . flew in from Chicago, as did two of the President's closest pals: Dr. Eric Whitaker, University of Chicago Hospital Vice-President . . ."

My, my the VP of the outfit that give Moochelle a $100,000+ per yr. PR sinecure when the Illegal got elected to the Ill. State Senate and then upped her to a VP sinecure at $300,000+ per year when the Illegal was elected to the U.S. Senate. Naturally, this wasn't a bribe to induce the Illegal to get a $1,200,000 earmark for the U.C. Hospitals Corporation shortly after he was elected to the U.S. Senate. Still, there is that difficult little matter of former IL. gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was just convicted of bribery for doing the same kind of thing with his wife.

[patriotspride]

” Still, there is that difficult little matter of former IL. gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was just convicted of bribery for doing the same kind of thing with his wife.”

So true. But that would take some real investigation and desire for fairness.

A concept sadly lost on the MSM and many in the legal profession.

[FlingWingFlyer]

The usual suspects.

[rwa265]

I didn’t see Oprah’s name.

[dgkb]

No.....Hanks is a flaming liberal!

[dgkb]

No.....Hanks is a flaming liberal!

[stephenjohnbanker]

” OMG! If I were there I probably would have hurled all over the guests and spoiled their party. “

Then you should have gone to it....

[BelegStrongbow]

And obviously a brilliant actor. Few have played more patriotic, gentle, honest traditional people than he has...and just as obviously, he didn’t mean a word he spoke as any of those characters.

There is no need to go further than Tom to demonstrate that actors are fundamentally dishonest and the society that takes any of them in the least serious is far down the path of self-destruction.

[ScottinVA]

Aw, Emmitt... Say it ain’t so, man. Say it ain’t so.

Oh yea... he's been down with his boy from the start. Sorry to see that.

[dennisw]

These grasping fools love to be near our sorry loser of a socialista semi-Kenyan Presidente.

Chris Rock? He was funny years ago.
Tom Hanks.... over the hill his movies are bombs. Which Hollywood Obama voter gave the OK to make Hanks latest bomb “Harry Crown”?

[Pigsley]

I hate to say it but Tom Hanks is a complete dope, politically. He is a limousine lib like no other. Well, I think Ted Danson beats him out by a hair....

Great actor, seems like a nice guy...but he's bought the EVIL CONSERVATIVE mantra, hook, line and sinker. (Is that the fishing reference?—I don't fish!)

I stopped paying $$$ to see films with actors who are vociferous in their support of the Left, and who make their disdain of Conservatives known. Sean Penn, Alec Baldwin, Matt Damon, etc. Hanks is also on the list.

Too bad. I think he is such a moving and effective actor. Green Mile and Gump were just wonderful...he was perfect in those parts. Oh, well. I guess I and millions of other American’s will skip on his new movie with that old hagged out Julia Roberts. Oh! That's right! NOBODY is seeing that mess....not just the evil “tea ba**ers”. Bwahahahaaaa!

[maggief]

Duplicate:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2758952/posts

[Snickering Hound]

"Uhh, Secret Service? Looks like Tom Hanks hasn't left yet..."

[NEMDF]

From there, he’s off to Martha’s Vineyard for 10 days? Seems like that was the plan. ?? So it is just parties and vacations for a full two weeks? Just like the rest of us, right? (/s)