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President gets down in front of daughters at lavish White House soul concert
Mail Online ^ | 10 April 2013 | Louise Boyle

Posted on 04/10/2013 1:20:13 PM PDT by LucianOfSamasota

President Obama showed off his grooviest 'dad dancing' on Tuesday night as he got down to the best of Memphis Soul at a White House show.

The President enjoyed a star-studded concert celebrating the sound of Soulsville as he and wife Michelle belted out the classics performed by artists including Queen Latifah, Booker T. Jones, Cyndi Lauper and Justin Timberlake.

He was also joined on the front row by daughters Malia and Sasha who giggled and shook their heads at their dad's dance moves.

Timberlake leaned in and serenaded the first couple from the stage with his version of the Otis Redding classic (Sittin' on) 'The Dock of the Bay accompanied by legendary guitarist Steve Cropper.

Obama opened the concert by saying: 'Let's face it, who does not love this music? These songs get us on the dance floor.

'They get stuck in our heads. We go back over them again and again. And they've played an important part in our history.

'Memphis, Tennessee, was segregated in the 1960s, but blacks and whites came together despite the institutional racism to create a soulful blend of gospel and rhythmic blues music that sought to 'bridge those divides, to create a little harmony with harmony.'

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: obama; whparty; whsequesterparty
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Looks to me like 24 performances in the series so far... 5 under Carter. 1 under Reagan. Hard to sort Bushes/Clintons.

Then 10 under Soetoro! Another Soetoro record!

http://www.ket.org/tvschedules/series.episode.list.php?id=IPWH

http://www.whitehousehistory.org/whha_timelines/timelines_musical-performances.html

1 posted on 04/10/2013 1:20:13 PM PDT by LucianOfSamasota
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To: LucianOfSamasota
Queen Latifah, Booker T. Jones, Cyndi Lauper and Justin Timberlake

If any of these performers songs got stuck in my head, I'm afraid I'd have to make myself just another statistic...

2 posted on 04/10/2013 1:23:22 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,)
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To: LucianOfSamasota

When is Barry building the minarets for four-part harmony?


3 posted on 04/10/2013 1:23:45 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: LucianOfSamasota

Being the Affirmative Action President is just one long party.


4 posted on 04/10/2013 1:27:23 PM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: LucianOfSamasota


5 posted on 04/10/2013 1:28:22 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (For me, I plan to die standing as a free man rather than spend one second on my knees as a slave.)
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To: LucianOfSamasota

Spring Break surf, or slopes? Hard 2 choose so they did BOTH.

Blue Angels and Thunderbirds grounded, no WH tours, but THIS..!

African potentate, I’d say.


6 posted on 04/10/2013 1:28:24 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: LucianOfSamasota

Glad I could help make his day. Our kids didn’t need to eat anyway.


7 posted on 04/10/2013 1:34:04 PM PDT by bgill
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To: LucianOfSamasota

That ball of slime is so low right now, that I don’t know how he can get any farther “down”.

Obama is slime.

Obama is sludge.

Obama is a dork.

A rock has twice the Obamadork’s IQ.

And, if it were a black rock, it could get into Harvard Law - and quite possibly head the Law Review - without even being able to type a single word...just like the dork.

Sorry, folks, this is not racist, it is an honest assessment of the truth.


8 posted on 04/10/2013 1:34:42 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

He dances the same way he gets off AF1, like he’s riding a pony.


9 posted on 04/10/2013 1:35:46 PM PDT by surrey
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To: LucianOfSamasota

President Pantload sure loves to live lavishly off the taxpayers money.


10 posted on 04/10/2013 1:35:52 PM PDT by Bullish (The little pantload can't even sink a basket for cryin' out loud!)
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To: gaijin

African Impotentate, you mean...


11 posted on 04/10/2013 1:41:49 PM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Vendetta))
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To: Da Coyote
Lots of people on this forum will tell you that Obama is very smart and cunning like a snake. I myself, agree with your assessment, that he is a product of affirmative action and the dumbest president in the history of the world.

57 states anyone?

12 posted on 04/10/2013 1:42:14 PM PDT by Bullish (The little pantload can't even sink a basket for cryin' out loud!)
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To: bgill
Our kids didn’t need to eat anyway.

So Let them Eat Cake


13 posted on 04/10/2013 1:44:43 PM PDT by YankeeReb
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To: LucianOfSamasota

Barry refuses to let the economic depression get in the way of a good time.


14 posted on 04/10/2013 1:48:33 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: YankeeReb
Versailles:


15 posted on 04/10/2013 1:51:01 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

+1.


16 posted on 04/10/2013 1:52:53 PM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: LucianOfSamasota

I will be SO GLAD when this ghetto trash leaves our White House and some adults move back in.


17 posted on 04/10/2013 1:59:41 PM PDT by grobdriver
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Good luck on that!

I won’t believe he intends to move ‘til I see him lose a round of golf in 2017.

Even then, the press is getting us ready for the Hildebeast.


18 posted on 04/10/2013 2:06:48 PM PDT by LucianOfSamasota (Tanstaafl - its not just for breakfast anymore...)
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To: YankeeReb

That would take one heck or a girdle to get her into that dress...


19 posted on 04/10/2013 2:07:05 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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“Fiona” from London wrote this in the comments section in the Daily UK:

“And Michelle a first lady? Looks like an overdressed Z-list wannabe or perhaps a female impersonator you see on Hollywood boulevard. What an embarrassment they are. The two of them really are the perfect zero substance couple to rule over the end of the United States. It’s apt. Too bad. They had an amazing legacy to fulfill and they just frittered it away with their shallowness.”


20 posted on 04/10/2013 2:40:25 PM PDT by Rodney Dangerfield ("Ban 'Assault Politicians' as they are assaulting our Constitutional rights!")
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