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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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The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve
September 22, 2009 8:46 AM in reply to hawaiian
I love it when people who can't spell or form grammatically correct sentences accuse Obama of being an intellectual lightweight.
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DonDavis
September 22, 2009 9:17 AM
Surprise on Letterman! Obama Does 'Stupid GOP Pet Tricks'
http://satiricalpolitical.com/?p=8948
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