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‘Burn a Bush’? Michelle Obama invites rapper Common to a poetry reading

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First Lady Michelle Obama has scheduled a poetry evening for Wednesday, and she’s invited several poets, including a successful Chicago poet and rapper, Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr., AKA “Common.” However, Lynn is quite controversial, in part because his poetry includes threats to shoot police and at least one passage calling for the “burn[ing]” of then-President George W. Bush.

Back in 2003, First Lady Laura Bush held a poetry evening, and she invited several poets to reprise the work of Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes and Walt Whitman.

Read more: Michelle Obama | Burn Bush | Poetry | The Daily Caller
It's idiotic to put it mildly, but it seems Michelle is doing her part to secure their base for 2012.

Change you can believe in.

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Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

:scared::scared::scared:

Was also in the Yes We Can song thingy
Big wopdie dooo!
 
Gotta watch out for those people exercising their First Amendment rights. Could be dangerous....
 
Michelle Obama seems to be more worried about being a celebrity, dancing, having parties, showing off her chiseled arms and reading poetry with rappers than anything else. As Laura Ingraham said today, she just looks unserious.
 
I don't have a problem with it and am a huge Common fan:cool: He is a wordmaster and a skilled poet.
 
Now what would be funny if she invited Ice-T and Bodycount to perform "Cop Killer" now that would be funny.
 
Michelle Obama seems to be more worried about being a celebrity, dancing, having parties, showing off her chiseled arms and reading poetry with rappers than anything else. As Laura Ingraham said today, she just looks unserious.

Confirmation bias driven by partisan ideology. Next month you'll be complaining about how she's always getting involved in our FREEEDOMS by trying to promote healthy habits in children.

Again.
 
Now what would be funny if she invited Ice-T and Bodycount to perform "Cop Killer" now that would be funny.

I have always felt bad about the coverage that song got. First off, it was not an "Ice-T" song, nor was it, as most people believe, a rap song. It was a song done by Bodycount(a metal band fronted and formed by Ice-T), from an album that portrayed the attitudes of inner city youths. This is something any number of bands have done and still do to this day, portraying attitudes that they do not agree with by doing songs from the point of view of those with that attitude. One classic example is the song "Jordan Minnesota" by Big Black, which tells the story of 5 year old children being sexually molested by their school teachers, and tells it from the point of view of one of those teachers. Like "Cop Killer" it is actually more effective for being from their point of view.
 
Michelle Obama seems to be more worried about being a celebrity, dancing, having parties, showing off her chiseled arms and reading poetry with rappers than anything else. As Laura Ingraham said today, she just looks unserious.

Weird how the "stay out of my body" people are all for the government telling them what to put IN their body.

Here are my thoughts on the topic:

People are fat because they CHOOSE to be. Everyone knows that broccoli is good for you and Cheetos aren't. We don't need to be educated on healthy choices. It's common sense.

It's not the federal government's job to say "Hey, you really should eat healthy and exercise for the betterment of yourself." NAAAAHHH, REALLY? Gee, I wouldn't have known that if some beaurocrat hadn't told me. Spending millions and billions of dollars on programs to ENCOURAGE eating healthy is a waste of money, IMHO. People are already aware of what is healthy and what isn't. It's a matter of CHOICE.

Now then, I do agree that schools should serve healthy food. There doesn't need to be soda machines or vending machines of any kind at school. The school lunch should be healthy and not loaded with carbs like most school lunches I've seen are. However, I'll give you a dollar if you can get more then 10% of third graders to eat their peas on their tray.

I'm also a HUGE advocate for health education in schools: weighing in, physical tests, P.E. structured more toward fitness than playing games, etc.

Here are Mellie's thoughts on Michelle Obama and her obesity campaign. One minute? Big government. Now? "Unserious". She's quite the politically dyslexic Beck follower if you've ever seen one.

Oh and btw unserious is not even a ****ing word.
 
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Michelle Obama seems to be more worried about being a celebrity, dancing, having parties, showing off her chiseled arms and reading poetry with rappers than anything else. As Laura Ingraham said today, she just looks unserious.

What else is she meant to be worried about?
 
I have always felt bad about the coverage that song got. First off, it was not an "Ice-T" song, nor was it, as most people believe, a rap song. It was a song done by Bodycount(a metal band fronted and formed by Ice-T), from an album that portrayed the attitudes of inner city youths. This is something any number of bands have done and still do to this day, portraying attitudes that they do not agree with by doing songs from the point of view of those with that attitude. One classic example is the song "Jordan Minnesota" by Big Black, which tells the story of 5 year old children being sexually molested by their school teachers, and tells it from the point of view of one of those teachers. Like "Cop Killer" it is actually more effective for being from their point of view.

Yea i know im just saying then the right would really have a hay day on the event... :lol::lol::lol:
 
What else is she meant to be worried about?

Oh, I don't know. Tornado victims? Family members of those murdered on the border? Kids that have to go to the horrible school down the street instead of the great school in another city? The nearly 50% of adults that are functionally illiterate in Detriot?

I guess her toned arms and throwing parties are much more important. She's like the Mary Todd Lincoln of our time - too concerned with her image to care about anything else.
 
Oh, I don't know. Tornado victims? Family members of those murdered on the border? Kids that have to go to the horrible school down the street instead of the great school in another city? The nearly 50% of adults that are functionally illiterate in Detriot?

I guess her toned arms and throwing parties are much more important. She's like the Mary Todd Lincoln of our time - too concerned with her image to care about anything else.

I know what you mean. We elected her to do a damn job! How dare she only spend part of her time working for causes she believes in, and getting **** on by conservatives every time she does. What a complete and total bitch she is.
 
It's idiotic to put it mildly, but it seems Michelle is doing her part to secure their base for 2012.

Change you can believe in.

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Eric Clapton sang about shooting the sheriff. Freddie Mercury sang about putting a gun against a man's head and pulling the trigger. John Lennon sang that a girl should run for her life if he ever caught her with another man. Stephen Tyler sang about a girl shooting her abusive father and throwing him in front of a train. Sorry, you fail.
 
Eric Clapton sang about shooting the sheriff. Freddie Mercury sang about putting a gun against a man's head and pulling the trigger. John Lennon sang that a girl should run for her life if he ever caught her with another man. Stephen Tyler sang about a girl shooting her abusive father and throwing him in front of a train. Sorry, you fail.

The Obamas invite a man to the house of the President who sings about shooting a President of the United States. You don't think that's maybe a LITTLE bit inappropriate? What would you say if the tea party had a band who sang a song about the assassination of Obama? That wouldn't be inappropriate?
 
The Obamas invite a man to the house of the President who sings about shooting a President of the United States. You don't think that's maybe a LITTLE bit inappropriate? What would you say if the tea party had a band who sang a song about the assassination of Obama? That wouldn't be inappropriate?

Why do you hate the first amendment?
 
Why do you hate the first amendment?

LOL! Saying it's inappropriate for the First Family to invite this man to the White House to perform is now equivalent to wanting this man to be forced to shut up? LOL!
 
The Obamas invite a man to the house of the President who sings about shooting a President of the United States. You don't think that's maybe a LITTLE bit inappropriate? What would you say if the tea party had a band who sang a song about the assassination of Obama? That wouldn't be inappropriate?

Ronald Regan invited Eazy E to the White House. Were you mad about that too?

Gonna point this out in other thread too if it has not already been pointed out.
 
LOL! Saying it's inappropriate for the First Family to invite this man to the White House to perform is now equivalent to wanting this man to be forced to shut up? LOL!

You missed the joke, no worries.

It's funny, I don't have a problem with the president doing whatever he wants for fun as long as no one gets hurt. I prefer to get upset about things that actually ****ing matter, not whine about trivial ****. I did not care when Bush for example took vacations, and felt those who whined about it where being stupid. I did not care when Reagan took his wife out to dinner, and think those who complained about it, or Obama taking his wife out, are being stupid. I did not bitch that Barbara Bush was not constantly in the news working on big issues because she was under no obligation to.

We have had threads now bitching and whining about Michelle Obama's shoes, her going into town, he going on a date with her husband, her staff, her garden, he weight, and he choice in music. The threads speak far more about those who would actually whine about these things than it does about the first lady.
 
John Stewart just spent the first 10 minutes of his showing talking about this "issue". It is worth watching either on the reshow later on or online tomorrow when the episode posts. It ends with a really bad, but entertaining rap :)
 
Ronald Regan invited Eazy E to the White House. Were you mad about that too?

Gonna point this out in other thread too if it has not already been pointed out.

Since I was a baby when he become President, I'm thinking I probably didin't care too much.
 
John Stewart just spent the first 10 minutes of his showing talking about this "issue". It is worth watching either on the reshow later on or online tomorrow when the episode posts. It ends with a really bad, but entertaining rap :)

Yeah I saw that, just goes to show you, even though I knew before hand, that amount of ignorance, bias and hypocrisy there is in crying over meaningless things like this are made off. Its astonishing how in the dark and partasin people can be at times and are totally blind to the fact. Hell just read these thread, anybody smart and objective just laughs and then feels sorry for those types of people, then maybe laughs again :)
 
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