President Reaches Out to Jackson Family

president Obama Michael JacksonPresident Barack Obama has written a note to Michael Jackson's family, a top White House adviser said today.

David Axelrod says Obama expressed his condolences to the Jacksons. He said Obama saw the pop star as a spectacular performer whose life had sad and tragic aspects.

The Prez did not issue a statement following Jackson's death.




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61. LMAO Elliot!! SO true

Posted at 2:16PM on Jun 28th 2009 by MiaBella29

62. What about Farrah Fawcett and Ed McMahon?!

Posted at 2:14PM on Jun 28th 2009 by Kabs

63. Blah blah blah Bob S. Kiss a little more a@@ there, pal. What about the lies and deceit that Osama...oops...Obama has ALREADY put this country through?! And I think that is he is going to write a letter to ANYONE, it should be the Farrah's family! She suffered for years with cancer, something that touches us all, NOT MJ who only touched little boys, All you morons who voted for this douchebag are slowly waking up to a rude awakening.

Posted at 2:16PM on Jun 28th 2009 by MiaBella29

64. Has Obama ever written to the families of Farrah Fawcett, Ed McMahon, and the murdered children of the past few weeks? He is an efffing racist, a neo marist muslim, and he just plain makes me sick.

Posted at 2:15PM on Jun 28th 2009 by bam0's cigs

65. @ Bob S,

I appreciate quacks like Bob. Reading posts from Liberals make me thank God for giving me a brain. Anyone with a lick of sense realizes the economy WAS not nearly as bad as the liberal media made it out to be during Bush's last remaining months in office. Economies run in cycles, but the housing mess created by Barney Frank (who should be in jail on child molestation charges along with his former male prostitute bf) and Chris Dodd are solely responsible for. Obama has already proposed more spending than EVERY previous administration COMBINED. So please, spare us your moronic liberal talking points and get some new material. Socialism has failed everywhere else it has been tried. Why do you think Carter is the worst President in American history? Obama will see the same fate with his Socialist ideologies as well.

So grow up

Posted at 2:22PM on Jun 28th 2009 by Tatie

66. Does this cigarrette huffin palooka ever do his job instead of running around the world burning jet fuel, appearing on late night comdey shows and going to townhall meeting set up with easy questions for him? Does he ever sit down in the Oval Office and actaully work besides give speeches from a teleprompter ? He is the manchurian candidate created by George Sorres and Hollywood. HE even has a Hollywood relations working in the White House? When was the last time Hollywood was significant in running the country? An industry that makes terrible movies nowadays not worth crap, and obviously has an agenda from the Left?

Don't count on this guy being gone in 2012....Think Iran just a fraudent election?? IN fact, don't count on having anymore elections with this phony Holllywood Deity in office.

Posted at 2:27PM on Jun 28th 2009 by my pet goat

67. WOW #6
THE WHITE PEOPLE THAT JUST DIED! YES RIP FARRAH and ED...BUT they did NOT CHANGE a CULTURE ! DID YOU not HEAR Walter Yetnikoff and want he did for MTV...MTV would not Exist today...Music video would not exist are you kidding. You don't know what the President does in private or public

Posted at 2:30PM on Jun 28th 2009 by Gladys

68. I'm sure Obama will be writing to Farah's family, Ed MacMahon's family and the family of Billy Mays as well. NOT.

Posted at 2:33PM on Jun 28th 2009 by Janet

69. My pet goat,

Sadly you are right. And his Hollywood relations staff has the Muslim jackoff from the Harold and Kumar bombs on the payroll. That ugly moron actually put his acting career on hold to join the Obama cult. You are dead on about the Dems stealing the election in '12. They know good and well after 4 miserable years with this headcase in office there's no way they'll win reelection, so why do you think they put the White House and Acorn in charge of the Census? They're going to redraw every red county in the nation.

Posted at 2:34PM on Jun 28th 2009 by umgalitcan

70. Big deal, the President doesn't care about non-African Americans. Why should he?

Posted at 2:35PM on Jun 28th 2009 by Clair

71. Did all the White Presidents only represent white people??? How idiotic some of you are...not everything is race based. Whether you like it or not Michael Jackson is an international superstar...no one old enough to read or understand music or video, does not know who he is. Get a life!

Posted at 2:36PM on Jun 28th 2009 by Tracey

72. If I have to see Michelle O squatting in the White House garden with an arse as big as a southern veranda, grinning that bucktooth grin with brownmarks all over her legs I'm going to hurl.

Posted at 2:37PM on Jun 28th 2009 by bamo'scigs

73. "You don't know what the President does in private or public ."

That's exactly the problem you goob!! As citizens we have every freakin' right to know what our President does in his private and public life. Espeically the public part for crying out loud!! This is the most closed off, secretive administration ever. If Bush had been an 1/8 this stand-offish the media would have gone nuts demanding he resign ASAP!!!

Posted at 2:39PM on Jun 28th 2009 by Erin

74. Did he write a note to Ed McMahon's family, or Farrah Fawcett's family, or Bea Arthur, or David Carradine. Will he to Billy Mays family? Is it only black performers that Obama cares about? What about non-celebrities who die early? Will they get a Presidential note? Why not?

Obama didn't want to anger the black community by not making a statement, but he also knows it is inappropriate to make a statement because it is not the President's place to decide who in pop culture merits acknowledgment, and also because of Michael Jackson's behavior.

With everything going on in the world, this should not have occupied one precious moment of the President's day to consider what to do, or to ultimately compose a note.

Bad move Obama. Typical politician's move.

Posted at 2:39PM on Jun 28th 2009 by So lame

75. All you haters shut up!!! Give the man a chance. I mean, he's 47 years old and this is his first real job of any sort, so let him figure out how this whole working thing goes. :)

Posted at 2:47PM on Jun 28th 2009 by jarls

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