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James Taylor Hopes Americans Recognize Obama as ‘Remarkable Leader’
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Posted on 03/02/2011 4:56:34 PM PST by Sub-Driver

James Taylor Hopes Americans Recognize Obama as ‘Remarkable Leader’ Wednesday, March 02, 2011 By Fred Lucas

Washington (CNSNews.com) – James Taylor, recognized at the White House on Wednesday for his musical achievement, told reporters that President Barack Obama has been too modest about his accomplishments.

In a White House ceremony, Obama presented Taylor and other artists, authors, poets and entertainers with the 2010 National Medal of Arts. The announcer of the ceremonies said, “His distinctive voice and masterful guitar playing are among the most recognized in popular music and his expansive catalog of songs has had a profound influence on songwriters and music lovers from all walks of life.”

Taylor said he supported Obama in the 2008 presidential race.

“We did work in Massachusetts but mostly in North Carolina, back down in my home state, and worked down there for a while,” Taylor said after stopping in the press briefing room after accepting the medal. “Obama carried the state by only 8,000 votes. So those of us who worked on the campaign down there got a sense that we made a difference.”

A reporter asked about Obama’s 2012 reelection.

“I think that the administration has been almost too modest in their accomplishments,” Taylor said. “And it’s remarkable to me that they get blamed for the problems that the people we elect actually haven’t caused. I’m hoping the American public understands who we got here, what we’ve got in this president, a remarkable leader. It just makes me feel wonderful to see him in this White House. I don’t mean to get too political.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho44; dopeydems; music; remarkabledooshbag; remarkablepinko; remarkableputz; remarkabletraitor
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To: Sub-Driver

Stupid comments from a guy whose brains have been scrambled by heroin & cocaine addiction.


41 posted on 03/02/2011 5:36:42 PM PST by Cincinna ( *** NOBAMA 2012 ***)
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To: Sub-Driver

He must be hanging out with Charlie Sheen.


42 posted on 03/02/2011 5:38:07 PM PST by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (*********************End automatic pay raises for congresscritters**)
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To: Sub-Driver

I love JT’s music and he deserves this award as does Harper Lee. His politics however, suck. As for the Dali Bama being remarkable - he is that. Remarkably ill prepared, economically unarmed and remarkably incapable of being a true American leader. JMHO.


43 posted on 03/02/2011 5:45:02 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Sub-Driver

This guy had to be one of the worst singers of all time.


44 posted on 03/02/2011 5:47:30 PM PST by bwc2221
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To: Sub-Driver

Send Jimmy over to read Ruth Marcus’ ‘Where’s Waldo?’ bit on this President. By Jove, I think she’s got it!


45 posted on 03/02/2011 5:54:09 PM PST by griswold3 (The wolves are howling)
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To: Sub-Driver
They buried the lede:

Obama presented the 2010 National Humanities Medal citations to Library of America founder Daniel Aaron; historian Bernard Bailyn; educator Jacques Barzun; poet and novelist Wendell E. Berry; Spanish and Latin American literary critic Roberto González Echevarría; American Council of Learned Societies President Stanley Nider Katz; novelist Joyce Carol Oates; biographer and literary critic Arnold Rampersad; novelist Philip Roth; and author and historian Gordon Wood.

Jacques Barzun is still alive at 103, and apparently he went to the White House this week? Gordon Wood, Bernard Bailyn, Philip Roth, Wendell Berry, and even Meryl Streep have contributed more than Sweet Baby James.

The funny thing, though, is people who met Clinton came away impressed and gushing. I thought it was all bs, but there had to be something going on. By contrast, Taylor favored Obama in the last election and favored him now, but meeting Obama doesn't seem to have been a very memorable experience for him -- or for other people who've met him either, even if they're very much on his side.

46 posted on 03/02/2011 5:57:00 PM PST by x
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To: Sub-Driver

When he lost his hair he lost his mind.


47 posted on 03/02/2011 6:01:56 PM PST by ronnie raygun (V)
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To: Sub-Driver

Shut up and sing, douchebag.


48 posted on 03/02/2011 6:02:51 PM PST by Feckless (I was trained by the US Government to Kill Commies and Radical Moo-slims. Now ain't that irOnic?)
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To: Sub-Driver
As a Taylor fan, can only say it's painful; really painful. But, when these folks go there; they become a 'cause' that invites an effect.

Guess no one asked Taylor to name even 'one' of Obama's accomplishments, since taking Office. . .

49 posted on 03/02/2011 6:07:39 PM PST by cricket (Osama - NOT made in the USA. . . .and Obama, not made in the USA either.. .)
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To: cricket
Guess no one asked Taylor to name even 'one' of Obama's accomplishments, since taking Office. . .

For moonbats, there's only one accomplishment that matters to them..."He's Not Bush."

50 posted on 03/02/2011 6:08:35 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Sub-Driver

JT was on Imus a few years ago and he admitted that his drug use had caused severe memory loss. When Imus asked about several well documented concerts or duets, JT said he had no recollection at all.

Fried...


51 posted on 03/02/2011 6:14:21 PM PST by Andy from Chapel Hill
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To: dfwgator
For moonbats, there's only one accomplishment that matters to them..."He's Not Bush."

True; so very true. Useful idiots; all. . .

52 posted on 03/02/2011 6:16:43 PM PST by cricket (Osama - NOT made in the USA. . . .and Obama, not made in the USA either.. .)
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To: LostInBayport
Mrs phat ass mabelle michelle & commie pig 0dumbo both look like they need 6 union workers to figure out how to get the umbrella on the other side of the gate!!!

What a pair of stooges!

53 posted on 03/02/2011 6:17:39 PM PST by rcrngroup
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To: Sub-Driver

Is this the same James Taylor who wrote his most famous song while in a loony bin and who for years was a hopeless heroin addict whose addiction cost him his wife and kids? Yes, I thought so.


54 posted on 03/02/2011 6:19:26 PM PST by KevinB (We'll stop treating Obama like a dog when he stops treating us like a fire hydrant - Fred Grandy)
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To: Huck
I laughed today when I heard JT was getting an award. What for?

Well, like him or not; think Taylor reveals the 'why' of his award. . .

[Taylor said he supported Obama in the 2008 presidential race.

“We did work in Massachusetts but mostly in North Carolina, back down in my home state, and worked down there for a while,” . . .]

Elections do have consequences. . .

55 posted on 03/02/2011 6:24:17 PM PST by cricket (Osama - NOT made in the USA. . . .and Obama, not made in the USA either.. .)
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To: Huck
I laughed today when I heard JT was getting an award. What for?

Well, like him or not; think Taylor reveals the 'why' of his award. . .

[Taylor said he supported Obama in the 2008 presidential race.

“We did work in Massachusetts but mostly in North Carolina, back down in my home state, and worked down there for a while,” . . .]

Elections do have consequences. . .

56 posted on 03/02/2011 6:24:24 PM PST by cricket (Osama - NOT made in the USA. . . .and Obama, not made in the USA either.. .)
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To: Sub-Driver

He’s seen fire and he’s seen rain, and he’s seen decades of syringes filled with heroin, all of which scarred his ability to think.


57 posted on 03/02/2011 6:26:27 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: dps.inspect

Spot on. You’ve made an astute observation about our ebony ectomorph. And sad to say, Obama actually believes he’s achieved something. He hasn’t. He’s had millions of malleable morons prop him up his whole life. He’s the biggest nonentity to ever occupy the White House. Disgusting. He’s a man of the times for the times and that says it all.


58 posted on 03/02/2011 6:28:30 PM PST by donaldo
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To: Sub-Driver
Hey James, I will recognize Obama as a "Remarkable Leader"...

But first we must wait for the monkeys...

What Monkeys you ask?

The monkeys that must depart from my nether regions first before I recognize Obama as anything other than he truly is which is a clueless manchild who wishes to change our Constitutional Republic into some whacked out Socialist Utopia!

59 posted on 03/02/2011 6:29:13 PM PST by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: Sub-Driver
"It just makes me feel wonderful to see him in this White House."

That's the key, ignore it at your peril. Uninformed, comfortable, feelin' the feelins, that's why they vote the way the vote.

60 posted on 03/02/2011 6:30:07 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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