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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Stupid comments from a guy whose brains have been scrambled by heroin & cocaine addiction.
He must be hanging out with Charlie Sheen.
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.
This guy had to be one of the worst singers of all time.
Send Jimmy over to read Ruth Marcus’ ‘Where’s Waldo?’ bit on this President. By Jove, I think she’s got it!
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.
When he lost his hair he lost his mind.
Shut up and sing, douchebag.
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."
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...
True; so very true. Useful idiots; all. . .
What a pair of stooges!
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.
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. . .
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. . .
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.
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.
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!
That's the key, ignore it at your peril. Uninformed, comfortable, feelin' the feelins, that's why they vote the way the vote.
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