Well, if the moderator requests toning down the humor, I say go along with him.

One of the most famous black singers of all time and the first black President.

I didn't think you were that slow Steve. :DL

Actually. Mr. Obama is a bigger fan of Springsteen, I think.

Can't blame 'im, Bruce is the boss:yep:

So true. :yep: Given MJ's past recent history I guess BO doesn't want to touch him with a 10' pole politically. :har:

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Perhaps Obama doesn't want to offend anyone ... so he's just sitting on the fence till he can see how this plays out :D

Why id MJ so important to warrant any statement from the Whitehouse? This is tabloid material, not a national security incident! Anyway Ronald Reagan left office years ago.

Sailor Steve
Keep it up, the fools are the ones that listen with their eyes. See me on drums with Avalon Rising at www.flowinglass.com . 52 and counting.

Buddahaid

Do you hop around on the stage like a 20 year old? I hope not. If you play music, let it be rock'n roll for exmaple, fine. I saw a lot of good Jazz bands as well whose actors were senior and played well. They just did not pretend to be younger than they are.

I personally really hope that I do not behave as childish like a schoolboy anymore when meeting people. and I know for sure that thank God I have other things on my mind than I had back then. I also would not try that kind of "dancing" again that I did when being 14.

Behavior and style should match a person'S age. the bigger the discrepancy, the more ridiculous it often becomes. Just remember Tina Turner some months ago (let'S ignore that I never considered her to be able to sing anyway), I saw a vid from her on stage. She was "kokettieren" as if she were a young girl playing with a bar full of boys. It was disgusting. Or Grace Jones in a live interview that was on TV, some months ago - behaving as if she still was a sexy 20 year-old, and talking the same kind of rubbish girlies talk sometimes at that age. Hilarious.

We have an old show cock here in Germany, names Joachim Heesters, age 100+, who still sings of young love and romance on the stage and tries to hop around and just makes himself look like a complete fool. People are so much in love with him for still "standing in the full life" at his age - sin't that a fine example of that high age must not mean you have to give up on having fun? Bah, Bull, I must say I am just pissed by this idiot. And his singing is terrible with that old voice of his. At his age young girls is not what he should sing about, I think. that'S even worse than a 10 year old singing of love and passion.

Another example that brings me into arms is Hugh Heffner. Just that he does not sing. Thank God for that.

I have to agree MJ was a bit bizaar, but who isn't to some degree? To speak ill of the dead is poor form, in any case.

Oh, I am, I am. On the other hand, sometimes we make connections in our own minds that others don't see a easily.

@ Buddahaid: Cool! I love Celtic music. Also bluegrass, folk, the blues, certain kinds of country and of course good old rock 'n' roll, which is descended from pretty much all of the above in one way or another.

Exactly man... I always new he was weird but what do you expect from the way he was raised? He had no childhood like us.

Guess it's time for the conspiracy theories to emerge...

Who killed him and why?:x

Or is he dead?:hmmm:

The Law of Three deals out its terrible Justice, and Balance is restored to the Universe. :DL

I was never into MJ, but Thriller and Smooth Criminal were good. Anyone who can think up dancing zombies can't be all bad.

May he rest in the peace which eluded him in life.

That's easy, it was Obama :smug:

I say bush cheney halliburton rumsfeld

Britney Spears knocked him off so she can get the full spotlight when she begins her final descent into middle-aged madness and baldness. ;)