Obama On Letterman: "I Was Actually Black Before The Election"

Eric Kleefeld | September 21, 2009, 6:17PM

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In his appearance today on the David Letterman show, airing tonight, President Obama brushed off the talk that opposition to his agenda is motivated by racism. Watch the video below.

"I think it's important to realize that I was actually black before the election," Obama said.

The audience laughed, and Letterman followed up with another question: "How long have you been a black man?"

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Moose49

September 21, 2009 6:34 PM

Pitch perfect.

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Lestatdelc

September 21, 2009 6:36 PM

I have heard a rumor that the President has fathered two black children.

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NobleCommentDecider

September 21, 2009 6:48 PM in reply to Lestatdelc

Do you have a link on the birth certificates? Oh and davidfarrar will want the time, doctor and hospital of birth.

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Lestatdelc

September 21, 2009 7:16 PM in reply to NobleCommentDecider

I have a couple of them from Kenya, but they are being examined in London by Scotland Yard. ;-)

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Will work for shoes

September 21, 2009 8:57 PM in reply to Lestatdelc

While married...to the same woman.

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Gopherit

September 21, 2009 6:46 PM

Don't believe anything that commie says.

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Xantar

September 21, 2009 7:12 PM in reply to Gopherit

If this is supposed to be snark, you're going to have to work on your sarcasm because there are people around TPM who actually say this sort of thing and mean it.

And if this isn't supposed to be snark...HAHAHA! Oh man you almost had me going. Of course it's snark.

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Gopherit

September 21, 2009 6:50 PM

Don't believe anything that commie says.

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Hobartcat

September 21, 2009 9:43 PM in reply to Gopherit

Still hilarious.

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Kevin Cassidy

September 22, 2009 12:08 AM in reply to Gopherit

Gopher -

are you really DICK Cheney? Because that thing where you just keep repeating the same nonsense? DICK Cheney does that.

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ru4862

September 21, 2009 7:33 PM

Boy...conservatives hate anyone that isn't Anglo-Saxon or Waspy.
The hate and vitriol from conservatives only strengthens our resolve and our love President Obama even when we disagree with him from time-to-time.

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Hobartcat

September 21, 2009 9:59 PM in reply to ru4862

I get frustrated with him, but I have to acknowledge that he's a real leader. That's a great breath of fresh air which both the U.S. and the world needs.

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Lalo35adm

September 21, 2009 11:27 PM

Paging Jimmy Carter.

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hawaiian

September 22, 2009 1:30 AM

Thanks for all your mindless support and don't worry if you don't agree with what I'm doing, most of the time I don't know what the heck I have just read, I am just reading what Rahm as typed on the telaprompter. Oh and I will try to get my own show and be on 24/7. Don't forget tonight me and Dave have a special joke for all you late night racist outthere.

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fpie

September 22, 2009 4:56 AM in reply to hawaiian

Just dawned on me that Lalo and hawaiian use the same photo of Obama.
Another thing that just occured to me is that (as much as the trolls rail about the trashing of Obama being the same as the trashing of Bush) to make a photo of Obama look silly it seems necesary to deface it whereas almost any shot of W looks stupid just the way it is. Just sayin'.

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