When Michael Jackson first died, Obama didn't even issue an official public statement that could be put in history's archives.  He hemmed and hawed to his assistant that Mike was a great entertainer with a "tragic sad life".

Obama waited to see which way the wind would blow. Now Obama has seen the outpouring of love for MJ and suddenly now he claims  Michael Jackson's number one fan, (yeah right) 

I voted for Obama but his actions in this are shady.  He is treating us like he is treating the people protesting in Iran. He has to be shamed into supporting them.  Does this bother anybody else?

NY Post Article (barf alert)WASHINGTON -- The King of Pop had a fan in the White House.

President Obama described himself as an aficionado of Michael Jackson, who died June 25 at age 50.

"I grew up on his music -- still have all his stuff on my iPod," Obama said yesterday, adding that Jackson "will go down in history as one of our greatest entertainers."

At the time of his death, the pop icon was preparing a series of comeback concerts in London to overcome years of sexual scandal and financial calamity.

"I think that his brilliance as a performer also was paired with a tragic and, in many ways, sad personal life," Obama said.

The president expressed pleasure that the public is celebrating Jackson for his talents instead of dwelling on his personal tragedies.

"I'm glad to see that he is being remembered primarily for the great joy that he brought to a lot of people through his extraordinary gifts as an entertainer," Obama said.

I thought that I was the only one who felt this way. There is deffinately something not right with the way he comes across with his black supporters. It seems to me that Barack can't recognize blacks while he is in the white house. Michael is huge know matter what some may think about him. Hell Elvis might have been huge also, but Michael touched every race, and changed the way blacks were treated on television. Elvis, well he had a huge white audience, not so much a huge black one. Michael reached everyone, and the President didn't immediately come out with a statement. That sucks, and I am loosing respect for him quick, very quick. I hope that he realize that it's his own people that also helped push him into that White House seat.

I hear you.. Yeah.. you're world is very small.. It could be that you are just young..  If so, just keep living.

Obama is not the Student body president, he is the president of the United States.. He's dealing with a war on two fronts, a world-wide economic collapse, a crazy korean dictator that is threatening to target hawaii with his missles, etc, etc, etc.  He literally has the weight of the world on his shoulders.  I don't think that MJ's death is that important to him.  Does that make him a bad president?  Bush issued a statement about James Brown.. Ok.. Look at everything else he did.  He ran the world into the ground.  I, personally, would rather have a president focused on whats really important than one glued to to entertainment news.

How come whenever black people question Obama about anything pertaining to black people or what black people care about, someone always says, "he has more important things to worry about".. you can now see that this is a running theme in the black community when it comes to him.

Well, sadly they can't think of any other excuse, so they are sticking to this one...even though it's absolutely ridiculous. Pathetic, isn't it?