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Friday 5 December 2008

Obama & the hip-hopper

Swampland's Michael Scherer thinks the candidate may be entering murky waters by "praising" rapper Lil' Wayne. Sample lyric:

I get her on top / She drop it like it's hot
And when I'm at the bottom / She Hillary Rodham

Very classy, I don't think. But some of Scherer's readers don't agree Obama was actually giving his seal of approval. Besides,  the rest of his campaign remarks are probably more interesting:

The presumptive Democratic nominee was speaking about high school drop out rates and the need for people to be committed to working hard in school so they can get a job after school. Obama said he knows some young men think they can't find a job unless they are a really good basketball player.

"Which most of you brothas are not," Obama, who played basketball in high school, a sport he continues to play to this day, said jokingly. "I know you think you are, but you're not. You are over-rated in your own mind. You will not play in the NBA."

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