Obama on MJ: 'I still have all his stuff on my iPod'

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Obama gave a wide ranging interview to the Associated Press today, where he finally spoke about Michael Jackson's death."I'm glad to see that he is being remembered primarily for the great joy that he brought to a lot of people through his extraordinary gifts as an entertainer," Obama said, adding that his briallinace "was paired with a tragic and in many ways, sad personal life." He brushed off the notion that African Americans were disappointed that he hadn't issued a formal statement after the entertainer's death last week. "I know a lot of people in the black community and I haven't heard that," Obama told the AP. He also mentioned that has a lot of Jackson tunes on his iPod.

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Posted By: bojack27 (July 6, 2009 at 1:32 PM)

You can roll your eyeballs all you want but it is a habit of this president. He didn't even comment on the soldier that was killed by a Islamic terrorist here in the United States of America.

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Posted By: Indigo7 (July 5, 2009 at 1:26 PM)

In the midst of wrapping up a war that broke many of our hearts and trying to clean up foreign and domestic policy, we get a tag-line out of Obama that sounds a little haphazard and forced. What is he supposed to say here? He has got a lot of real American problems diverting him from the Neverland tragedys. Rolling my eyeballs here.