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Did Rapper Common Say God ‘Was Able to Barack Us’ at White House Event?

Rapper Common has sparked controversy since it was announced he was set to perform his poetry and rap at the White House on Wednesday. His pro cop-killing lyrics, as well as his song supporting a cop-killer, were chief among the critics’ arguments against his appearance. But despite drawing ire, Common ended up performing. And while there was no mention of cops, that performance wasn’t without at least one curious line.

(Watch Glenn react to Common’s past lyrics.)
(Read our initial story on the invite.)

The pinnacle of his performance was a poem set to a beat and more lyrical in nature. It’s untitled, but suffice it to say it references “shorties,” Noah, Moses, “the struggle,“ and then a curious ending that seems to suggest God ”was able to Barack us.”

First the video, which doesn’t include the first little bit of the song:

Call me crazy, but it sounds like he’s saying that God sent Barack as the fulfillment of Martin Luther King, Jr’s “dream.” Here are the full lyrics for you to decide yourself:

“I woke up with the sunshine. A sunshine I had never seen. There was light at the end of it. Reminded me to forever dream. I was dreaming I walked into the White House. With love on my sleeve. And love for each and every one of you. Reminding you to believe. These are the words of a believer achiever. Leader of the globe, feed the souls of those in need.  I bleed the blood of the struggle. Walking over troubled puddles. The hustle is in my chest. No hustle no progress. Extremities of life in this process. The birth of a son. The death of another. With love I caress both mothers. And told ‘em whose in control is the one that’s above is. I walk where money talks and love stutters. The body language of a nation. Going though changes. The young become dangerous. Spent into anger. Anger gets sent through the chamber. It’s tough when your own look like strangers. We are the sons of gangsters and stone rangers. If he could how would Ernie Barnes paint us? Look at the picture. It’s hard not to blame us. But time forgives in the shy where the young die often. Do they end up in a coffin because we haven’t taught them? Is it what we talkin’, we really ain’t walking. Dudes, hustlers, paid. How much did it cost them? I find myself on the same corner that we lost them. Real talkin’ in their ear like a walkman. My thoughts been around the corner to the world. So when I see them I see my baby girl. The Lord lives among us. The youngest hunger, recover. Means to get it by anyways necessary under pressure. Children feeling lesser with the spill upon the dresser. Killer, willer aggressors. Destiny’s children, survivors, soldiers.  In front of buildings their eyes look older. It’s hard to see blessings in a violent culture. Face against rappings. Sirens holsters – that ‘aint the way that Langston Hughes wrote us. So controllers on the shoulders of Moses. And Noah. We go from being precious to Oprah. Cultivated to overcome. Ever since we came over. Seize the day in the way that you can see the determined. The soul that keeps burning. Shorty’s know to keep learning. Lessons in my life are like stripes that we earning.  I took Grant’s advice that Christ is returning. Like a thief in the night. I write for beacons of light. For those of us in dark alleys and park valleys. Street hits spark valleys of the conscience. Conquerors of a contest. Even the unseen know that God watches. For one King’s dream he was able to Barack us. One King’s dream he was able to Barack us. One King’s dream he was able to Barack us.”

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  • Jenny Lind
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:04am

    One other thing-Obama is NO Dr.King!

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  • DesertRose1960
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:02am

    I saw this performance on “The Last Word” last night. I thought it was very moving and eloquent. I am no fan of Rap, but this is a poem about how African Americans have struggled for generations in a violent, urban culture. He’s talking about overcoming that. The last line isn’t some evil chant, it says God was able to raise a Black man to the Presidency and that Martin Luther King used to dream about that day, now, with God’s help, that is a reality. That isn’t an evil message, that is inspiring.

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    • Rational Minds Will Prevail
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:15am

      A diamond in the rough

      Thank you for not being insane

      Saddened, but not surprised, that The Blaze is STILL trying to make something of this

      Desperate times, desperate measures, I suppose

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    • ArtieR
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:25am

      MLK’s dream was that all men be judged by the content of their character. Not that one man gets a pass due to his hue. God didn’t put Obama in the Oval Office…. A liberal press, white guilt, and 60 years of creeping socialism did it. Had the genetic dice given Barack his mothers skin tone he would of never of been elected to the Illinois Senate. It is just as insulting to like a man because he looks black as it is to hate him for it. You have an affirmative action president…. How is that working out for you?

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    • Tony
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:29am

      Rather than God raising up a “black man” to become president, He allowed us to chose a man proclaiming near messiah powers to rule over us because we had lost faith in our ability to continue as a “self governing” people.

      If we recall Israel initially existed, for 400 years, as a loosely self governing people under “judges” appointed by God. Against God’s admonitions, God allowed the Israelis to put themselves under a king (Saul) because they lwanted to be like others and grew tired and fearful of governing themselves. The Israelis split as a people after 120 years of rule under kings.

      Have we as a people grown tired and so fearful of our neighbors that we too demand a king?

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    • Teleologicus
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:34am

      Blacks deserve and can do better than this. If a white person created and performed such pitiful stuff and called it poetry and art they would be accused of satirizing and parodying blacks and promoting negative racial stereotypes – and the accusation would be just. Yet blacks do this to themselves and are actually applauded by other blacks and some whites! There is a deep current of self-loathing in such behavior – although a handful of people grow rich off of it. Whites who cheer and praise such rubbish are guilty of the soft bigotry of low expectations. Goethe: When we take men as they are, we make them worse. When we treat them as what they are capable of becoming, we help them to attain it.

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    • DesertRose1960
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:47am

      @Tony and Artier, Sorry, I don’t see Obama as a king or a tyrant (in the ancient Roman sense) nor do I see him as a messiah. I don’t know a single Liberal who sees him that way. However, it is a very common complaint amongst Conservatives. It’s these same Conservatives who get so indignant because they feel they are unfairly being accused of being racist. I didn’t vote for Obama because he was Black. I voted for him because he was the nominee of the Democratic party. In the primary, I went back and forth for weeks before I decided at the polling stand, to vote for a woman, a wife and mother before a man my own age. When he won the party ticket, I voted for him. I am a deeply religiuos person, but this is a secular nation. Bringing up the Bible in relation to Obama’s Presidency is a little weird and very sad. I find it offensive when some “Christians” stroke the Bible and use it as some sort of Ouija board. And tribes of Israelites, three thousand years ago, don’t have much parallel with us today. Obama is a middle class kid, the son of a single mother, he has a lot more in common with the average guy on the street than the son of a President, the grandson of a Senator and the scion of a very long established wealthy elite who used his family legacy connections to get into Yale because his grades were, at best, mediocre. And Artier, he isn’t an affirmative action President, but he’s not doing half bad consider the economy he was saddled with.

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    • Lloyd Drako
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:50am

      Barack you, Desertrose.

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    • Lloyd Drako
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:13am

      @Desertrose:
      Thanks for pointing out how people see Obama as a messiah!
      The idea that lots of people do, is simply a canard floated by the right wing.
      It is Obama’s enemies, not his followers, who with obvious sarcasm call him “messiah,“ ”anointed one,” etc.

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    • Teleologicus
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:24am

      Of course Barack Obama is an affirmative action president! A white man with his resume’ would have been laughed out of the running as soon as he announced. There is absolutely nothing that we know about Barack Obama that should have made anyone think he was qualified to perform the duties of the presidency. No experience. No accomplishments. No demonstrated talents or abilities. Family background dubious – to say the least. Lots of Marxists, radical, un- and anti-Americans in his murky and largely secret background. He has never shown success or achievement at anything in his life, despite having been given a free ride by others. If he has ever held anything resembling a real job, we have yet to hear of it. Jack Cashill has proved to all reasonable people that ‘Dreams From My Father’ was written by William Ayers. (Read ‘Deconstructing Obama’ if you think I am exaggerating. Ayers wrote that book.) Barack Obama was given the presidency by Americans as a gesture of good will because he is 1/2 black, talks like he knows what he is doing, was massively supported by the MSM, and people thought it would be nice for America to have its First Black President. His presidency is an example of racism and has done what anyone might have foreseen, caused all kinds of problems and fomented MORE racism. Being black is not a qualification for anything any more than being white is a qualification. The only real racists in America today are on the Left. The Left is obsessed with race.

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    • DesertRose1960
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 12:25pm

      @Teleologicus, And what exactly were Ronald Reagan’s qualifications to run for Governor of California? A B-movie actor with union connections, who had to be told what to say as union president. He then went from B-movies to the rubber chicken speech circut when his career stalled, and yet he was elected to the governorship of California. Eisenhower may have been a fine general, but what made him qualified to be a political leader? And Harry Truman was a failed business man who got into politics through a dirty city machine, and yet, he was a fine President. Oh, and what about Richard Nixon, who got into the Senate by the use of the anti-Semitic “Whispering Campaign”. Maybe the reason Barack Obama overcame a middle class background, a funny name, and a broken family is because he is that much brighter and more ambitious than the average guy. No one seems to have given him anything, he earned it by overcoming negative little minds, like yours.

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    • ArtieR
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 12:51pm

      You seem to be skipping over the points. Rose are you saying that if Barack Obama had been a freckled high yellow mulatto that he would of still been elected president? Are you saying that he was as qualified than a Governor of one of the most populous states in the union?

      Point two Obama’s solution to economic problems is to spend our county into oblivion and to degenerate those who want a limited government and tighter purse strings. Are you really of the mind that Keynesian spending and bigger government are the antidote to big spending of previous administrations….. (keep in mind that democratic congress spend more and created the fred/fannie Mae.) ???????

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  • Jenny Lind
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:02am

    He may well have been right-we have been slowly sliding into socialism-Obama was sent as a wake-up call,I really believe that. We got sent a slap in the face and a call to get it right. We better heed the call if we want our country. Time is running out. I’m taking two stands-one for the the constitution and this country, and one for Israel.

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  • Vixvenom
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:01am

    Didn’t make it through the whole thing….whatever “common”…not my kinda thing….don’t care what you say, but not embracing your culture doesn’t make me a racist, you sure as heck don’t embrace mine….haven’t seen you complimenting bluegrass….different strokes, but that’s OK…..just don’t judge me if I dislike your music, it’s not your skin, I just think it sucks.

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  • Jimtt500
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:01am

    Its not only advocating killing cops; Common has advocated burning President Bush, and has spoken against interracial relationships.

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    • TRUTH
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:47am

      So you take everything you hear/read literally? If you literally thing he means we should burn President Bush, there’s something wrong with you.

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    • Bob_R_OathKeeper
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:00am

      Truth – You’re pathetic to even try to defend this crap. I personally am looking forward now to open season on ANYONE who is against this country and idiots like yourself will start it, that’s crystal clear. If you agree with this crap being in the people’s house, you are the enemy and anyone who thinks or should I say, doesn’t think, like you. Bring it on punks, muslimes, commies, socialists, liberals, etc. You are all one in the same, America’s enemy.

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  • LastAmerican
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:00am

    Common racist, cop killing, moslim. Way to go Osama.

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  • beckwill
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:00am

    Unless Barack us means to lie, cheat, jeopardize liberty and freedom, seek to ruin a republic and act with a condescending manner then I‘m unsure what he’s talking about there.
    I pray PRAY to God Almighty that this sickness that occupies the WH is voted out in 2012 and we can finally have a respectable President, namely…Allen West.

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  • Ironeagle
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:59am

    It’s all a bunch of unfocused, stream-of-consciousness, mumbo jumbo, blather. What a crock of crap.

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  • siebegorman
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:59am

    Common, the only reason you were allowed to mouth of at the White House last night is because Michelle would have stomped BHO for cancelling you. You may have had a fiendly audience, however in the rest of America “We are not amused.”

    You are a TWIT.

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    • OhSuzieQ
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:18am

      Just take those old records off the shelf

      I‘ll sit and listen to ’em by myself

      Today‘s music aln ’t got the same soul

      I like that old time rock ‘n’ roll !!!

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    • MidWestMom
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:32am

      @OhSuzieQ

      Spot On!

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    • mill
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:40am

      I don’t see how Obama is still standing.. He is insulting our country on a minute to minute basis…

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  • kyredneck
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:59am

    Ahhhhhh sooooooo much TALENT! Just incredible…………Im blown away here. Of course we have a history of giving grammy awards to such artists as ice cube whose early lyrics included “jerk dem white ladies out they mercedes” “bust a glock crackas gettin shot”. One of my recent favorites is the young group of blacks that rap about how “white gurls fun cause all of’em swallow”. Google these lyrics to read even more about the racial peace and harmony black culture brings to the table with whites!

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  • TRONINTHEMORNING
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:57am

    So, this guy is having his 15 and our prez is confirming his insideousness. Probably spelled that last word wrong, darn it.

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  • BONETRAUMA
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:57am

    Not sure how much talent da rapper has but the dude with the turn table has got it goin on! Way to degrade the black house.

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  • gdbhusker
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:56am

    I have written better poems about the two hours I have spent on the toilet after bad Mexican food!!!!!!!!!!

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  • powhatan
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:56am

    This crap is “talent”? Please say it isn’t so!!!! Pathetic…like the people in the WHite House right now.

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    • Ron Morris
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 2:03pm

      America, This goes to show you the MENTALITY of this Dictator Barack Hussein Obama!!!!

      Were did Obama get his education? Harvard-Columbia????

      Who paid for Obamas education????

      Ever hear the name: AL-WALEED BIN TALAL????

      More Information later !!!!!!

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    • dizzyinthedark
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 7:07pm

      I heard somewhere Moochelle was a ‘fashion icon’!!! Well now this crap, I mean rap comes to town. As they say beauty is in the ‘eye’ of the beholder and well, it’s just darn awful ugly, all of what’s in the White House! Time to clean it up!

      Seriously, low class moved in in 2008. Sad, low class or no class and Obama (judge me by the people I surround myself with) will go hand in hand. That’s what you, the ‘smart’ voter gets for voting your conscious instead of your voting with your brains!

      You have one more chance to make ammends in 2012.

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  • kdzndogdad
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:54am

    If this is “talent” that the White House wants to showcase, and the American people will tolerate, then America deserves everything that it gets.

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  • NuffSaid
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:54am

    You are a moron. You speak like a third grader. Who are you angry now loser?

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  • CarolinaGirl
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:53am

    “Ever since we came over.” So, go back if you are not satisfied with what has been done for you. Affirmative action. Entitlement. Dumbing down of the schools.

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    • starman70
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:05am

      Unfortunately, young adults and teens, the products of the dumbed down schools consider this kind of tripe as good entertainment. These “Performers” (And I use the term very loosely) who are not happy with America are free to leave any time they want to. GO AWAY – - – there are many Communist countries who would welcome you.

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    • TexasCommonSense
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:08am

      Well said. No doubt, Africans being used as slaves was tragic and should have never happened. People like this clown live in the greatest, most prosperous country in the world as a result of the suffering of their ancestors. They should deeply appreciate their sacrifices or they either wouldn’t have been born or would still be living in Africa. Not many countries in Africa look that great to me. No one alive today was ever a slave or a slave owner. Get over it.

      I’m partially of Irish ancestry; Irish people were also captured and used as slaves. It’s a tragic part of history, but I don’t dwell on it.

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  • JWD
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:52am

    Common and Jill Scott have been vocal opponents of mixed race relationships. I’m an opponent of their ignorant thinking. If they were white they would be called exactly what they are, racist. Instead they both were invited to the White House last night to read poetry. Mind boggling considering the President is bi-racial.

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    • gofigureinternational
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:08am

      Didn’t you get the memo, only white people can be racist? Reference grandma being a “typical white person”…The main stream media shapes so much public opinion and unfortunately most of the base is unaware it is even happening! You are exactly correct though…If a Caucasian person said the same things some of the Latinos or black people have said recently, they would be proverbially crucified. Let alone if the white candidate for President made the comment, Grandma thinks like the “typical black person”…You would never hear of them in politics again. Nor should you.

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    • Vickie Dhaene
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:24am

      I think we should all embrace the “White” side of Barack. Force him to accept it. I don’t understand that if they are against interracial relations, how they could worship our MONGREL in the White House. (mixed breed) I am waiting for Barack to start calling the White House the Black Shack.

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  • Libby Tarian
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:52am

    http://www.debbieschlussel.com/37107/obama-cop-hater-common-is-muslim-attacked-churches-treatment-of-women/

    Another Muslim who hates the USA

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  • ArtieR
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:51am

    Barack is a verb……. I can feel the pain. More like Marx dream though.

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  • StevenL1955
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:50am

    Roses are Red
    Violets are Blue
    This is so stupid
    How about you?

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  • Cemoto78
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:49am

    This country is in soooooooooooooooo much trouble

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    • stoptheliesbho
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:01am

      You are sooooooooooooo right. It’s scary.

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    • Wilma
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:15am

      President and First Lady Obama have sent a message loud and clear that anything said in the form of poetry is acceptable and appropriate.

      My poem starts with “His momma was ho”

      Feel free to fill in the rest.

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    • Wilma
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:25am

      Gave us baby BO
      Loves the Takers
      Hates the Makers
      Yo, yo, yo

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    • Jenny Lind
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:40am

      amen and amen.

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    • Ailene Wright
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:58pm

      Is this the new lingo for a sexual act? When he says“ sent here to Barack us” does that mean sent here to f*** us?

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  • KINGRUDDY
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:47am

    American Idol would have voted him off

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    • GEW
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:59am

      Ain’t that the truth. But that’s because they are racist. Everyone’s a racist that does not embrace this group. So I have been told.

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    • lillymckim
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:16am

      What’s next? Che Guevara story night at the White House?

      Who doesn’t like bigotry, racism, validation of cop killing, and hate filled lyrics in their poetry!
      what’s not to like?

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    • fixer
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:31pm

      brb…I need to take a barack!

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  • randy
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:47am

    Oh God! Just threw up in my mouth

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    • Highland
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 11:38am

      Like a bridge over troubled puddles ….

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    • dizzyinthedark
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 1:04pm

      Haaavaaad can feel really proud of it’s graduating class–Obama Sr., bigamist and Obama Jr., Worst American President Ever!

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:55pm

      @dizzyinthedark
      Yeah, well, modern dictators love to run for president. Seems to me Carter still owns the title of “Worst American President Ever.”

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    • ConservativeMomofFour
      Posted on May 14, 2011 at 12:10am

      THOMAS 81………….You sound like all the other progressives….if we don’t agree we must be racist….that tactic isn’t going to work anymore. I DO NOT AGREE WITH YOU and I have the right to say so and you will not shut me up. I THINK COMMON IS A RACIST, I THINK OBAMA IS RACIST, I DON’T THINK RAP MUSIC HAS A PLACE IN SOCIETY, IT IS MISOGYNISTIC. ITS RACIST, IT LACKS SUBSTANCE AND VALUES AND TEACHES KIDS THAT MATERIALISM IS THE ANSWER TO EVERYTHING, FAMILY VALUES ARE LACKING IN RAP MUSIC, YOU HAVE A BUNCH OF WHORES DANCING AROUND IN THEIR VIDEOS, OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST AND IF COMMON UPHOLDS OBAMA TO SUCH A HIGH STANDARD THEN HE MUST BE A COMMUNIST AS WELL AND IF HE ADVOCATES KILLING COPS AND IF COMMON ADVOCATES KILLING COPS AND OBAMA HONORS HIM THEN OBAMA IS ADVOCATING KILLING COPS. AND ANOTHER THING O.J SIMPSON IS GUILTY THE ONLY REASON HE GOT OFF WAS BECAUSE THEY PLAYED THE RACE CARD AND CALLED THE COP RACIST WHICH JUST DOWN THE DEBATE JUST LIKE YOU TRIED TO DO IN YOUR STATEMENT BY SAYING IF WE DONT AGREE WE MUST BE REDNECK RACISTS WELL THAT USE TO WORK IN THE PAST BUT US WHITEY’S CAUGHT ON WE HAVE YOUR NUMBER NOW AND THE RACE/IST CARD WILL NOT WORK ANYMORE

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  • IMPEACHBHO
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:44am

    That would be Satan, not God

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    • Obama Bin Lying
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:52am

      Yet another medium corrupted to brainwash and indoctrinate the young. I believe Stalin, Mao, Hitler, and Mohammed did this before BO

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:54am

      That omne king’s dream was the King of lies. Not MLK as Obama has never lived his life judging by the content of character no Obama has always judged by skin tone even in his own existance as he himself said he identified with his fathers race as opposed to his mothers. This is inspite of the FACT his father abandomed him as an infant. No Obama and MLK are oil and water on a political and social level they are nothing alike. King despised black liberation theology and Obama subscribe to it. Common hasn’t the common sense that God gave an idiot.

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    • gofigureinternational
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:58am

      And this passes for talent, worthy to be recognized by the POTUS? I must be getting old, but it seems like in the dust bin of history, this guy would not really stack up too well as a “brilliant” poet.

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    • jeffyfreezone
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:58am

      Celebrate mediocrity!

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    • AmeriWoman
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:00am

      Wonder if he tingles now?
      Sure sounds like it, but he probably can’t tell with all that brown stuff, built up around his nose……

      Love how he uses the words of the bible like tools after the way he‘s ’rapped’ on killing, police and women.

      Guess a lot of people out there can’t find their …Common Sense?

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    • Stuck_in_CA
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:00am

      @ IMPEACHBHO
      I’m with you! BO’s actions and beliefs prove it.

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    • Jimtt500
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:01am

      Its not only advocating killing cops; Common has also advocated burning President Bush, and has spoken against interracial relationships.

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    • DimmuBorgir
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:02am

      You want to know why i hate rap or these new age “poets”

      that line right there, “he was able to barack us”

      Yeah that’s lyrical, that’s genius, that’s so amazing.(dripping with sarcasm)

      so let me get this right. he took the word ‘rock’ and made it ‘barack’ to match the pres’s name.
      GENIUS!!!!! almost something a 5 year old would come up with

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    • MidWestMom
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:06am

      shaking my head in disbelief….. there are no words

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    • huufarted
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:06am

      OMG I just “Baracked” my pants !!!

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    • Conservative Hippy
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:16am

      This is awful.. it has no lyrical rhythm to it and it doesn’t even rhyme!..

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    • Unix
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:21am

      all i see in this punk is a dithering idiot, all i read is hate, all i see is death in him – this man is no poet, he is a REVOLUTIONARY, inciting his people to war!

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:24am

      @ImpeachBHO

      Agreed.

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    • JayCee
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:28am

      I didn’t think it was possible, but the lowlife Obama has sunk even lower.
      This lifelong Democrat is ashamed of this president, this party, and everyone who voted for him.

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    • Gold Coin & Economic News
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:29am

      This man is an absolute fool! He’s part of the make me feel good society, only he was hired by the POTUS to make the POTUS feel good about destroying the country.

      “For one King’s dream he was able to Barack us”

      Really, I’m going to hurl! The whole friggin country is bending over getting Baracked! Pleeeeeese!

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    • MidWestMom
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:30am

      @huufarted – Now that was funny!

      Thanks for a great laugh to start off my day!!

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    • TXPilot
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:33am

      Obama probably isn’t the Anti-Christ, but he likes to play him on tv. Support our men and women in law enforcement, and not this disgusting, evil traitor and his minions that we now have in the White House.

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    • Lloyd Drako
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:33am

      Y‘all are tergerversitating over nothin’.

      “Barack” is the Arabic equivalent of Hebrew “Baruch,“ which means ”bless.”

      Hence, “God was able to bless us.”

      Does anybody have any questions?

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    • Obama Snake Oil Co
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:33am

      Yep, we have been Barracked, the Barracked the economy and the debt. I like at least to be kissed first before I am Barracked. Most of the people in my small town, as soon as they heard Barry was going to be elected they said; “Well, we’re Barracked”. Ever since, we continually get Barracked. Pretty soon, people will be throwing up single fingers and tell us to get Barracked….well, we all feel that way. All I can say to the president, thanks for Barracking up this country…..OSOC

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    • Dahart
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:36am

      This is not about the talent of this man. Obama is in full campaign mode, Common was invited because he appeals to the black youth.

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:40am

      “And love for each and every one of you.”-unless you are white.
      “I bleed the blood of the struggle”-Struggle, what struggle? With Affirmative action, welfare, food stamps, blacks are about the most helped minority in the US.
      “I walk where money talks and love stutters.”-Meaning, he will do anything for money?
      “We are the sons of gangsters and stone rangers.”-What is a stone ranger?
      ” It’s hard not to blame us.”-Perhaps because you are the sons of gangsters?
      “Children feeling lesser with the spill upon the dresser. Killer, willer aggressors. Destiny’s children, survivors, soldiers.”-???????
      “One King’s dream he was able to Barack us.”-So now Barack is a verb. Not how I’d use it. The US got Baracked is how I would use it. Man, he is Baracked up.

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    • lillymckim
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:06am

      who doesn‘t like Mister Souljah’s poetic validation of cop killing? right?

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    • DirectlyUnPCman
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:17am

      This is what you get for electing a black President. I told a black guy I worked with that if Barack Obama got elected President, we would see a big “get even” attitude from the black community. They would turn to him and demand everything they could get under the guise of being paid back for all the wrongs they thought were done to them, real or imagined. And he would bend over backwards to do it. He told me I was nuts. I needed to curb my racism, because I didnt know the guy. I think I was dead on. What do you all think?

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    • Gas137
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:21am

      “We are the sons of gangsters…”

      Now we know why rapper Common was invited to the WH. He’s an Obama sycophant and truly a useful idiot for the administration to get the gangsta wannabe vote.

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    • Unix
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:38am

      @Lloyd Drako
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:33am
      Y‘all are tergerversitating over nothin’.
      ————
      nope, not for you progressive amoeba, but you’ll be having plenty to think about soon enough – when the economy crashes, and it will, look no further than the ‘blessed’ Marxist in the WH, and the progressive who preceeded him for all your answers.

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    • hauschild
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:42am

      If by “Barack us” common meant “violate us”, then he hit the nail on the head.

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    • keaton
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:50am

      Just in case nobody has noticed, there has been a wave of cops being killed in the last few months. When popular “ Poets” glorify killing police officers, the results are predictable! To have the president “honor” this aaaaaassssshole tells you everything you need to know about him!

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    • Unix
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 11:04am

      @DirectlyUnPCman – you were dead on, but you left out the fact BHO is a Marxist agitator and would also bring the country to its knees, which is where we are now!

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    • Clive
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 11:39am

      a non story. since baracks approval is up to 60% and people are freaking out, grasping at straws to find some problem with him, to stop his impending re-election. a better idea, would be to focus on the issues, and get a decent republican to run for the job. but neither of those things will happen.

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    • Unix
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 11:47am

      @Clive
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 11:39am
      a non story. since baracks approval is up to 60% and people are freaking out, grasping at straws to find some problem with him, to stop his impending re-election. a better idea, would be to focus on the issues, and get a decent republican to run for the job. but neither of those things will happen
      ————————-
      Wrong, this poll you cite is bogus – AP took a poll of 35% Democrat and 18% Republican, those numbers are skewed! As to putting up a good contendor, you are right. But ALL of the issues COUNT, right down to the Marxist in the WH…

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 12:33pm

      Hey Clive I wonder how Obama’s numbers jumped so high
      http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2011/05/11/poll-cooking-ap-obama-approval-60-46-29-dem-rep-split
      http://startthinkingright.wordpress.com/2011/05/12/latest-appoll-giving-obama-60-approval-assumes-there-are-17-more-democrats-than-republicans/
      Maybe they should just poll harlem so Obama can have a 90% approval

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    • geigergag
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 1:50pm

      exactly

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    • The Big Pickle
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 1:55pm

      The monkeys have taken over America!

      Say Goodnight White people!

      The country that was created by your ancestors was given away by the idiot, bleeding heart greatest generation morons that thought it would be wonderful to take all the subhuman third world savages and intermingle them with American human people!

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    • THE-FINAL-ACT
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 2:15pm

      These writing are 110% demonically influenced. Commons sunshine, light, dream and messiah are completely false. He believes that Barrack Hussein Obama is the Leader of the Globe sent by God and Martin Luther King Jr. was the mediator.

      There are witches among the People’s House and if you watch that whole presentation you can witness these so called poets casting spells with their tongues.

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:22pm

      DirectlyUnPCman
      This is what you get for electing a black President.
      ————-
      “Cultivated to overcome. Ever since we came over.”

      I get censored for saying that Obum now has an official court rapper and that their intention is to enslave whites? Doesn‘t Obum’s man sound like a Black Supremacist? Maybe I got censored for saying I wouldn’t vote black post Obama. Never mind the polls that show that 90-92% of blacks continue to support the Maarxist. The New Blaze should let us know which ideas are forbidden on this forum, so we don’t waste our time speaking truth or common sense.

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    • Libertyluvnmomma
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:35pm

      Well, Common sorry about losing your hair- that’s never fun.

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    • DTOM_Jericho (escaped PA)
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:48pm

      MLK was a philanderer while he was spitting out “content of character”. Stop turning this man into a hero.

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    • Professional Infidel
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:58pm

      I got 1 word for that black.

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:01pm

      “B*rack” is foul language.

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    • HUGGINGMYBABIES
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:20pm

      If you assume that Barack = screwed, then he’s spot on!

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    • jhaydeng
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 5:15pm

      Freedom of speech my friends! He will realise later in life that he may have been wrong!

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    • Thomas_81
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:28pm

      This whole “controversy” has been manufactured simply to score political points against Obama. In no way is Common a “gangsta” or a “thug” or “misogynist”, or one who condones the murder of police officers. He simply disagrees with a court decision in a particular murder trial, which is not all that dissimilar from how 99% of you believe that O.J. Simpson is guilty of killing his wife, despite being found not guilty by that same justice system.

      The truth is that your racism and/or ignorance prevent you from appreciating anyone, or anything that doesn’t fit neatly into your little lily-white box of acceptable things. What common wrote for that White House event was certainly deeper and more rhythmic and more culturally relevant, than anything that some low IQ redneck like Toby Keith has ever created. If you disagree, then you are obviously a bigot, or simply a terrible judge of talent.

      You people do nothing but hinder the advancement of the conservative/libertarian movement. All you do is burn bridges, and fail to demonstrate that you have any level of cultural understanding at all. At his core, Common promotes personal responsibility and the importance of faith in his community. If you fail to understand the relevance of that, then you should probably turn off your computer, and stay away from political activism, because you obviously have no idea what the hell you are doing.

      Jon Stewart’s take on the matter was ABSOLUTELY right.

      http://www.mediabist

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    • AOL_REFUGEE
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:27pm

      This guys crap sucks!

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    • Agnes
      Posted on May 13, 2011 at 12:00am

      Great comments.

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    • Who would Jesus bomb?
      Posted on May 13, 2011 at 3:25pm

      Yes, that would be Satan, and he sent Barry to fulfill Karl Marx’s dream.

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