President Obama Sings ‘Sweet Home Chicago’ With B.B. King at White House
- Posted on February 22, 2012 at 1:10am by
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President Obama showed off his vocal abilities once again tonight, singing a few lines of “Sweet Home Chicago” during the finale of a blues concert at the White House.
“We were trying to get you to help us sing that because I heard you singing Al Green,” blues great Buddy Guy urged the president from the stage, referring to Obama’s infamous performance at the Apollo last month when he sang a few lines of “Let’s Stay Together.”
“So you’ve started something. You’ve got to keep it up,” Guy said.
A reluctant Obama ultimately obliged.
“Come on… Baby don’t you want to go,” Obama sang, mic in hand, as the crowd swayed around him and the first lady cheered him on. “Oh come on, baby don’t you want to go.”
The president then held the mic up briefly for the legendary B.B. King to sing the line “… that same old place,” before Obama brought it home “… sweet home Chicago.”
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Comments (153)
whereareyourbrains
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 6:13amWho was it….??? Wait….. who fiddled while Rome was burning? I think history is repeating itself.
Report Post »With Occupy working against its own citizens…………and Unions, and Seiu…………….we are going to have a POTUS who encourages American against AMerican………………
BehindBlueEyes
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 6:34amThat’s a fundamental part of his fundamental transformation of America strategy. Divide and conquer.
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 6:51amAbsolutely !
NERO FIDDLES WHILE ROME BURNS !
There’s the headline.
Report Post »America is SUFFERING and he’s partying and going on vacation after vacation after vacation after vacation after vacation after… I’m not going to type that SIXTEEN TIMES ! Which, by the way, is the number of vacations michelle has taken on OUR DOLLAR
– - TO DATE !
What is the total bill for their vacations?
How much is that per TAXPAYER (the ones who actually DO pay the taxes for the rest of us)
(note: I think it is silly to keep citing debt in terms of $/person instead of $/taxpayer, since only half of us are actually footing the bill for the rest of us.)
Guerrino_P
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 8:34amHe’s in for another four years. Get used to that idea folks. And remember, be happy.
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 8:36amPlease Obama, go to Hollywood and become an entertainer for that is all you really are now. People seems to love you, so you might become the best actor America has ever had.
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 9:04amI see Moooooochelle made it back from another taxpayer funded vacation just in time for the party at The Peoples White House.
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 11:02amHe seems to be a better vocalist than Mitt Romney – who cannot make it through America The Beautiful without his voice cracking. What a very appropriate way to recognize the important cultural contributions of BB King during Black History Month. If I were Glenn, I would get behind this story…
TEA
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 11:21amSUPERPACS PAY ATTENTION! I guarantee you independents are watching this and shaking their heads. Fuel prices rising, home prices plummeting, foreclosures up, inflation creeping up, people unemployed…while Obama sings and whoops it up. If this isn‘t an ad that demands to be made and aired I don’t know what is. The RNC and the superpacs need to do something with this.
Report Post »Maji
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 3:08pmThe man can’t Prez!
Report Post »The man can’t sing!!
Desert Dog
Posted on February 24, 2012 at 6:10pmAnd remember, you helped pay for all this!
Report Post »dissentnow
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 6:07amA Robert Johnson classic!
Report Post »ZABO
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 6:05amwatching my hero mick jagger stand in that place with those two idiots worries me greatly. damm
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 11:12amAbsolutely spot on! Your hero Mick has done more to make American black music popular world wide than anyone except Elvis.
Mick deserves a medal during Black History Month.
TEA
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 11:23amJeff Beck is my favourite guitar player..watching this is difficult.
Report Post »Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 2:07pmlol you just can’t STAND that the first family is black, Avenjerk.
Report Post »whereareyourbrains
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 6:05amHe wants to be popular again. The American Idol people will love him. Simon Cowl would probably tell him he is the best………………………..A new approach to become popular again. Forget about how he is ruining the world……….and us………….he can sing and that is the best campaign to run on.
Report Post »Stupid people will vote for him like Star Search……………..dah. Didn’t open it up either.
tiredofprogressives
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 5:45amPut this traitor on trial.
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 5:39amCouldn’t even watch it. He makes my eyes bleed. Looks like he has a secure career as an entertainer, but NOT a president.
Report Post »Jeff1000
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 5:11amWith all the problems, an actual unemployment rate over 16%, the Arab Spring being a cruel joke, Iran preparing for war, exploding gas prices, on and on, and Obama can’t find a better way to spend his time? He guts the military and parties on our dime.
Report Post »TurboCat
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 5:20amAbsolutely sickening! I noticed from the first when he got in office that he was constantly hobnobbing with the Hollywood elite. What a spectacle! Can you imagine what would happen if Bush or Reagan had constantly behaved in this way. He is campaigning for the past several months, vacationing all the time, and partying like a fool: Nero fiddles while Rome is burning!
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 5:08amImpeach and jail the bastard
Report Post »WPtG
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 4:55amToo bad Mick couldn’t get him to sing a few verses of “Sympathy for the Devil”.
Report Post »oldwmn
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 3:57amoh goody I can hardly wait till he starts tap dancing wowzer the Manchurian candidate was programmed to sing sweet while he rounds us up and puts us in all those empty fema camps..
Report Post »TRIBUTE TO NONE…
TRUTHandFREEDOM
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 4:46amNovember 2012! Send him back to that same old place. Sweet Home Chcago!
Not even with Jeff Beck,BB King, Warren Haynes and Buddy Guy in his band can he inspire me to support communist and fascist principles!
I’d like to know more about this event. What was it for? Was it an event that the collectivist attended or was it in his …. “honor”?
Report Post »kathystone
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 3:52amSo, how much did his Kareoke adventure cost us? I wish Glenn or someone would add up all the vacations, trips Jaunts etc this man and his family have taken and bill him! From the Disney vacation to the night at the theater, to the ski trips and the shopping trips out of the country much less out of Washington! I bet it ads up to a pretty penny and all the while we the people are suffering high gas prices and unemployment!
Report Post »Golfendude
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 3:45amNOW IS THE TIME FOR ALL GOOD MEN AND WOMEN TO COME TO THE AID OF THEIR COUNTRY! HONORABLE AMERICANS VOTE THEM OUT!
The future does not belong to the faint hearted it belongs to the BRAVE RWR 40.
Report Post »Diane TX
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 3:28amHey, I’m all in for Obama being a song bird instead of President. It suits him well.
Report Post »horsefeathers99
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 3:24amHe should have thought about a different career change back in 2004 when he didn’t know what he was doing (oh! he still doesn’t).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BnLozS-TnM
Report Post »Paul
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 3:02am“Come on… Baby don’t you want to go,”
Yes we want you to go home to “Sweet Home Kenya!”
Report Post »cantbelieveallthisgarbagecouldhappenwhodoislap
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 2:33amI cant stand more than two minutes of him talking anymore,let alone his singing,I have curse words roaming my mind.
Report Post »cloudsofwar
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 7:31amyou can take up to 2 minutes of him talking? how? what is your secret.
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 2:15amJust what I want a Jive Singing President.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 2:11amHere is what they need to sing (Obama especially)
Sweet home, Chicago,
Jail awaits for me
No bail there will be
I no longer will be free
Life behind bars for me.
Now that the US is free
His crimes clear for all to see
The nation once again is free
Do to you and me…
Sweet love of Freedom
Gods blessed us again
We stood true against the dark,
True to the very end.
2012 we win the nation back
2013 the restoration commences
2013 the trial of Obama and cronies for their crimes commences.
FREEDOM FOREVER.
Report Post »LeadNotFollow
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 1:54am…
Obama only acts like “the guy next door”, when it’s an election year.
Remember folks, it’s only an act, just like in 2008.
I can’t believe, that he still has so many people under his spell.
Snap out of it people. He’s dragging us all into H*LL.
Hope he gets a one way ticket back home to Chicago, in November.
Report Post »This man parties more than Clinton. He’s fiddling while America burns.
GO-FOR-LIBERTY
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 8:50amSpell=Devil~~~~~Got it?
Report Post »TheObamanation
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 1:48amMaybe he will quit his day job.
Report Post »Sue J.
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 1:37amThese constant parties and vacations are disgusting !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »When are the DUMB liberals going to see how “out of touch with their pain” their leader is?
Between him and his loud mouth wife, it’s hard to determine which one has the most contempt for the American people. To be constantly partying in light of the economy, is terribly insensitive.
He’s hamming it up as usual.
But let’s face it….this family could care less!
Wake up LIBERALS…the pres is not your friend.
Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 3:20amAre you kidding? Liberals eat this crap up. They think he’s so cool. Liberalism is a mental disorder. Obama being president with approval around 50% is the proof.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 7:15amThat’s what gets me Hadenough, 50% approval and the likelyhood of reelection. This country may well deserve exactly what’s headed our way. Unfortunately it will take the other 50% down as well.
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 11:10amCongress is slipping to 9% and O’Bummer has a 50% approval without even being attacked by terrorists! That is truly amazing. President Bush was slipping to the thirties before 9-11 made him popular.
TEA
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 11:25amTrue..Liberals do eat this crap up. It makes them all warm and fuzzy and is a great propaganda device for liberals to see how “normal and one of the guys” Barry is. But I assure you independents are watching this while fuel prices go up, foreclosures go up, people unemployed and home prices are falling and they’re seething.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 11:27amGONZO….I’m pretty confident that 50% approval is a reflection of the distaste for the bloodletting the GOP has been doing in finding a nominee. As soon as there‘s a mominee and it’s mano a mano you‘ll find Obama’s numbers will fall again.
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 1:29amANother party while American’s suffer!! These two beat the Marco’s by a mile! God help us!
Report Post »Plan B
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 1:18amOh baby I wish Obama would go-Sweet home Chicago
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 1:20amDitto!!!!!!!!!!!
OMG 2012
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 1:25amTrust me, Obama will be more dangerous after he is gone from the presidency.
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 1:15amhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLk4Ia0otko
Report Post »cantbelieveallthisgarbagecouldhappenwhodoislap
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 2:14amI would hope! that you care! that wasnt a great link.If you think who cares?I have a really good idea,you will !! I hope not though.
Report Post »If you dont care,why are you here with a comment? you dont pass the smell test.
cantbelieveallthisgarbagecouldhappenwhodoislap
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 2:24amsorry didnt see your other posts.my bad! Yes you are right! who flippin cares oslime sang with a real earned respectible, hard working person who earned there pay and made this world a little better with the life they were given by god.
Report Post »Could be B.B.needs to check his friends
booger71
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 1:13amAs Barry and MOOchelle party down with taxpayer dollars, the rest of us “sing the blues”
Report Post »Sue J.
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 1:27amAmen!
Report Post »MEANS2RESIST
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 1:30amlivin large,…I’m the Prez of the Fraternity dude……we partyin in the White House now…
Report Post »chamshari
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 3:45amDITTO!! I am so Sick of their King and Queen Life style!!! However I don’t know what makes me sicker, their in our face Extravagance or the fact that there are still a bunch of IDIOTS falling all over them!!
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 6:25am“And Laura and I had some incredible entertainers and Americans sing for us and our friends. We’ve had Eartha Kitt, Patti Austin, B.B. King, Irwin Mayfield, Aaron Neville, just to give you a taste of what happens here at the White House.” George W. Bush 2007
But of course it doesn’t matter that every other President has always done this kind of thing, because people who hate Obama will turn everything he does into an excuse to express their hate for him, whether it’s anything different from what every other President has done or not.
Report Post »SoupSandwich
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 8:33amChetHampster
Report Post »The western whitey house was there for the use of all, while the biddnes of the country continued. Joe Biden still charging the SecServ for housing? We would need to clear out all of Chi-town for there to be any real security, which in itself is odd, because he purpordly already organized them? Oh, and now DC is seeing a 40% rise in violent crime on the heels of…well, damn but math sucks when you are drunk on coolaide. Carry on there Chetty.
Freedomtomakeupmyownmind
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 9:52am@Chet, a voice of reason. Didn’t think that was possible HERE. Totally agree with you the hate is blinding. The hypocritical HATE is deafening. Glad to see someone is fighting the good fight.
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