Obama: Singer Shouldn't Have Sung Black National Anthem

By Paddy


::stomp stomp stomp:: Ahem.

Good christo on a crutcho, jiminy piddle puff**!!! Is this man going to have to reject or embrace every damn thing that every African American person does for the next 8 years? What in the world does Barack Obama have to do with some goofy chick who thought she was striking a blow for her race by not singing what she was asked to. I mean, c'mon people, it was dumb, but not worthy of asking a freaking Presidential candidate about!!!!! /vapors

Candidate Says There's Only One National Anthem (ed note- Does he really have to explain everything to them?)

DENVER -- Barack Obama said there's only one national anthem, and a Broomfield jazz performer should have sung it when she was asked to, instead of another song sometimes called the black national anthem.

Rene Marie set off a wave of criticism throughout the state and the country when she sang the words to "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" instead of "The Star-Spangled Banner" before the mayor's State of the City speech this week.

Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, told the Rocky Mountain News on Thursday that "Lift Ev'ry Voice" is a beautiful song but Marie should have stuck with the national anthem.

**this is what you get when I can't curse.