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  • i dig this

  • It's things like this, poetry, jazz and such ambrosial matters, that will return the respect for America.

    Whether you agree with their policies or just think governments are a front for promulgation or any such "conspiracism" at least you will agree that they have approbation for intellect and culture.

    I don't know much about foreign policies or war, but i would say a little less shooting and a few more jazz CDs are a good thing.

  • what song is playing during the whole video??please answer this.or what video?with the trumpet

  • J I V E. They are not playing jazz but a watered down pisspoor imitation. Why not have someone who knows jazz explaining it? .

  • looked like james brown on the thumbnail lol

  • @lovemyhealthcare agreed! Viva the jazz ;P

  • I love this woman! She looks like honest and strong !

  • THEY WERE PLAYING SMOOTH JAZZ, NOT actual JAZZ!!!! WTF!!!

  • @DarthClam That's what I said! the man who made this must have been uneducated in the styles of music. This is funk. He must have been like "hey, I like this, and it has a trumpet!" the music at the white house was no doubt pure swing jazz. Wynton Marsalis wouldn't have had it any other way. Love the support of jazz but jeez, get the music right!

  • 1:3. wow they fuuuucked up

  • Jazz isn't like democracy, when was the last time a jazz leader punched his member for not playing the way everyone else was? Okay Mingus did, but it didn't make it right. Jazz is much more libertarian, non violent cooperation.

    Plus jazz doesn't need to be kept alive, it needs to evolve and change, trying to keep it alive is holding onto the past, and not learning from it.

  • @snoopyflick She's talking about pure democracy, democracy like we've never experienced. Democracy should evolve and change. Democracy shouldn't involve efforts to force people to believe one truth and one message. A perfect democracy would reflect what jazz is like. It's a sad state of affairs when democracy is not like jazz.

  • @JamesFarrkoff Pure democracy is mob rule everywhere. I don't think you understand democracy is a gun in the room held by the majority of the people. That is the essence of the State and there is no way to get around that. That is why democracy can never be like jazz. One was invented by barbaric Men who sough to leech of society, the other a group of men who sought to express themselves through a new language.

  • @snoopyflick I think you misunderstand what I mean by pure democracy. What I mean is how democracy should work in theory, governing society according to the wishes of society rather than those with large amounts of power/influence. I agree that democracy is in a dire state across the globe, but I also agree with Michelle Obama in saying that the way jazz operates is how democracy should.

  • The First Lady has class. I love her personality. She is a strong, smart woman. To top it off, she is beautiful. I love her.

    <3

  • Vote in November. Take America back.

  • how cool is this!

  • Finally a woman who truly deserves the title first lady....

  • I think she is one of the most pretiest first lady we ever had in the history of America!!!

  • This is awesome

  • That's Americana for the world. Classy.

  • It's official ! I'm jealous of Michelle. Great husband, great life, great home. My goodness, she is so incredibly beautiful.

  • And whoever you are, you probably look like the inside of a monkeys ass crack bitch

  • And you look like a punk bitch...no offense. But you really do.

  • Your an idiot!!

  • Is that Portland's Ben Wolfe standing behind the First Lady?

  • Wonderful! So thankful First Lady Michelle so eloquently expresses the music of Jazz.. Truly the music of freedom. Have even more respect for her & so pleased for the support of the music and the Jazz musicians (also singers) who make it so pleasureable to listen to & share with the types of audiences it draws.

  • Jazz does NOT have anything to do with democracy. Jazz is an emergent property of the anarchic principle of a balance of powers. If Jazz was like democracy, all of the musicians would have to be connected to some sort of constant voting construct where if a majority within a group decided didn't agree with something a musician did, they would have to have a way of stopping or changing what that musician is playing. Google freedomainradio and let reason and empiricism be your guide instead of

  • You go First Lady!!!

  • Michelle, your are awesome !

  • Michelle, you do a great job!

  • Personally, I find Hip-Hop, in general, to be a negative and irritatingly disgusting representation of the African American community, especially when we aren't the primary people to watch that crap (ironically, it appears to be whites).

    The sooner our kids are re-introduced to actual music such as Jazz and Classical, the sooner I believe we can get more Barack and Michelle Obamas out there.

    I applaud Michelle and Barack for exposing their children to these brands of music. :)

  • Can't agree more with you Mike! Here in Canada for the last 50 yrs. Oscar Peterson has been my music of choice. I hope jazz isn't taken over by people being nationalistic. At Oscar's memorial in Toronto last year, the motto said "simply the best".

  • Unity for all Humanity

    master Lee Mochow

  • Really? What did you play? :)

  • I like Miles Davis and Wynton Marsalis !!!

  • michelle obama for president 2016 !

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  • Dig Mr. Funky-pants dancing at 1:07

  • you antisemite bastards!

  • wtf why are they playing halfass smooth jazz?

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  • unite nation under hope of world, strengthen government obama for future problems will be tough on America

  • Obama be strong for family and nation, though people will test your will remember your family and your born right to help others. Never stop trying to do right thing and help people is awesome.

  • America is not greek systems of communism, America land of free and government strong with great order

  • peace with Iran, and north korea, and world needs tons pre disaster relief programs , new disaster relief programs taught in schools, and for hole world

  • north korea peace issue from United states and world needs tons pre disaster relief programs

  • Blues is America's indigenous music.

    Jazz is more like the Greek classical period. :D

  • My dad says that Michelle Obama looks like Patrick Ewing! You know what....he's absolutely right!! HA!

    P.S.- Love the guy who calls someone "retarded" but doesn't even know how to spell it. Pure genius!

  • HAHAHA Negro your daddy funny

  • yes and mechelle wore a slevless shirt on the presedents pics

    whAT A HO FO SHO

  • Why is she a ho?

  • Since Michelle is a transgender chicken head, is Barack gay?

  • Yo mama must be named Michelle

  • word.

    p.s.

    the first lady says "berfdays"

    i love it so much

  • I think The White House needs a paint job next! I know, how about red, black & green?

  • Trivia: Michelle Obama sings second lead on Paul Anka's 1974 hit song: "You're Having My Baby."

  • Shes as dumb as her fucking husband, I wonder if shes proud of her country yet.

  • NewBelBum,

    You think john mccain loves his country yet?

  • i love the fake music. i saw like 3 kids playing instruments and you cant even hear them. shes ashamed of shitty jazz LAWL

  • Smartypants... The video was edited. Music was added to the background. While Michelle was talking. The musicians who were going to start the show off were standing and waiting for their cue.

  • How about kicking off the New Transparency Bill to Audit the Internal Revenue Tax and Audit Service, Inc (IRS)

    and find those billions of dollars?

    And make use of Executive Order 11,1110?

    The printing part of the Silver Certificate notes Executive Order 11110 was never repealed by any U.S. President to this very day and is still in effect. So where is the Constitutional American Money anyway?

  • YAY more black history!!! The whole fucking month of February isn't enough?

    Yah we get it, you made jazz and peanut butter. Cant wait till Diego Carlos Martinez Sanchez gets into office so we can watch this youtube video of SALSA MUSIC and appreciate everything a mexican immigrant has done!

    I'm fucking thrilled.

  • i hate how bush used to get slammed for every little word he mispronounced but not one person on here talks about michelle saying "buddying" instead of "budding" at 2:02

  • Best part of the speech was when she said: "I'm through talkin"

    But... then the bitch kept talking for another two minutes... that bitch can talk the paint right off the walls!

  • that's mainly because bush was the president and michelle isn't

    and he's pretty retarted

  • I love Michelle Obama shes such an inspiring, intelligent classy woman! Adore her!

  • I love how the majority of this video's comments are completely irrelevant to the message and purpose of the video. Leave it to the masses to think of nothing but the cruelest, most bigoted, most pointless things to say.

  • You know what everytime I click a white house video it makes me smile. Real talk.

  • Very nice music playing ,while Michelle spoke ,it was like musical poetry . I wish this sort of interaction was around when i was a kid ,she is great for America !

  • Hey Michelle, where's your teleprompter?

  • She left it in their bedroom.

  • I wish Bush had used a telepromter instead of EMBARRASSING himself and the entire country with his diction of a 9 year old.

  • Obama is nothing more than a tax and spend liberal.... I wonder how Obama is going to get all of the money for all of the spending he's been doing for the last 5 months...

  • Tax and spend liberal? I find that quite humorous. Most conservatives complaining will not even be affected by the President's proposed tax increase. The ones on TV complaining, such as Rush, have something most conservatives don't, that's millions of dollars.

  • I will be in that increased tax bracket and have no problem with it as long as it helps my country. You claim to be pro military, I think not because you're speaking negatively of the Commander and Chief. I have the creditability to say so because I served 23 years of active, honorable military service.

  • I just call it the way I see it.... Obama Commander and Chief? Give me a break.. you think  Obama gives a CRAP about you and me.. all Obama cares about is Obama...

  • Do you think Bush gave a CRAP about you??? Do you think that Rush, Hannity or Cheney cares about you? Give me a break! The joke is Bush, Commander and Chief. Really you have one of 2 choices, deal with it or move to another country. I dealt with it when Bush was in office, so get over it.

  • You didn't "deal" with shit, so get over it. You are an angry lowlife that wants to blame someone else for his own failure

  • I didn't use profanity but I see that less educated dickheads like yourself have no choice. Shut the hell up no one was talking to your hillbilly, GED ass anyway. Dipshit!!

  • Yes. I have a choice and I will make that choice in 2010 and 2012... Also you never answered my question.. Do you think Obama gives a crap about you?

  • Sure you'll have a choice to select another Republican candidate that will lose again. Plain fan I bet. She's a real winner, how clever. The President cares about his country. Enough that he will not screw up the military to the point where we are now allowing felons and non high school graduates in. Many do not want to serve now because of Iraq, a war we never should have entered. All these blow-hearts calling themselves patriotic, join the Army and go to Iraq.

  • Plain fan? I guess you mean Sara Palin? Speaking of Iraq. The government of Iraq violated 18 UN security Council resolutions in 11 years. The United Nations which was lead by the United States had a no fly zone in Northern Iraq and Southern Iraq. Sonner of later the world would have to deal with Iraq. What's worse serving with a person that has only a GED or a homosexual? Don't ask don't tell..

  • well i agree with you on everything except for entering iraq being bad tell me how was it a bad thing or are you trying to say we shouldnt have entered iraq after what happnd on 9/11 and no im not trying to use 9/11 as an excuse im just saying would you really let that slide by and not go to war? but other than that i agree with you completely

  • Agreed

    haha Nice

  • and what exactly do you care about. do you care about Americans suffering. i think not.

    so what gives you the right to be so hypocritical. and besides how could you possibly know what he's thinking.

  • Come chat with me when you are coughing up 50% of your salary for the deadbeats that DO NOTHING for my country

  • "My country" Shut your retarded ass up! Go play with someone else with a third grade educational level like yourself.

  • "My country" Shut your retarded ass up ! Go play with those losers you call relatives and get an education.

  • I'm glad our First Lady, Michelle Obama is focusing on the future and education just like Laura Bush did. Education knows no political party.

  • Tyrone,are you in there?

  • Christmas? Since when do muslims celebrate Christmas?

  • Wow. Bravo for sounding like a total jackass.

  • Jackass?  Is that the best you got?

  • They are not muslims. Even if they were you would still be better off than with bush.

  • Obama is no more Christian than the next muslim.... He did his first tv interview as president on a Arab tv station... Also Obama made his socalled BIG speech in Eygpt... Obama is nothing more than a lying fraud...

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  • Typical angry liberal!!!! All of you need to take your rose color glasses off..

  • you sound angry.

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  • I dont vote Liberal. I usually vote for the N.D.P. You need to put on a pair of glasses and read a newspaper.

  • Actually, I read the newspaper all the time. I also read numerous books mainly on end time Bible Prophecy.. So what's your point?

  • Well newspapers contain news stories and imformation that is usually fact checked with a small amount of personal opinion. Tabloids on the other hand containe more personal opinion and less factual news stories. Books based on the bible are highly subjective and are based on opinions. So you read other peoples opinions,not actual facts. You cannot base an argument just on others opinions. Fact;Barack Obama is not a Muslium. Fact check it and get on with your life.

  • Bible is based on facts and prophecy.

  • I guess its pointless to argue with you. Try reading books that have an objective and archeological base in history. And newspapers that report the news acurately.

  • I can't find a news paper that reports acurately... Seems all of the news papers are in the tank for Obama.. The news is suppose to challenge the president not kiss his ass...

  • Mabey its because he hasnt done anything wrong yet. Im sure if he slips up they will have something to say about it.

  • Barhunt1,

    What news do you listen to? Certainly not CNN, Fox, New York Post and so on.

  • Mslaydi, I'm very picky as to what I watch and read.. Most of the media is in the tank for Obama... To answer your question no I don't watch CNN, MSNBC, NBC, ABC or CBS... No I don't read the New York Post or the New York Times. I only read my local paper. The only books I read are on Bible Prophecy and I'm picky as to which books that I read I mainly read a author named Hal Lindsey..

  • Noah,his family,and a few animals were the only survivors on earth. After the water rescinded, they had a huge party where the sleep with each other and repopulated the planet.

    This might sound absurd, but according to the "factual" Bible, it really happened.

    Well, ok, I admit the Bible doesn't say what happened after the deluge but, I suppose God didn't create more people with clay. So there must have been a huge incestuous orgy going on at the time.

    -Don't question, Just believe,Says God

  • Sorry the jews while in exile picked up that story from their captors, the babylonions. And as well most of genises. These are stories writen in cuniform and past down from the summerians. You dont need to belive me, just read history.

  • No it's not

    the bible is based on old stories that preachers teach as historical facts which most of them are unprovable.

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  • and dont you think it's kind of funny that they mention people of all ethnicities right when they show the old white guy that cant dance at 1:05?

    Or maybe the old man is being facetious and making fun of Jazz.

  • I am a white person who dosent like obama for political reasons. People automatically assume i am a racist. Myabe thats why so many people voted for obama.. they didnt want people to think they were racist just couse they voted for mccain.

  • A) why did you need to announce that you're a, "a white person who dosent like obama for political reasons"?

    B) Why would anyone vote for Obama as to not seem racist when your vote is private?

  • I didnt actually mean the vote itself... just talking about it at work or in this forum. I live in the south and this is very touchy subject. I work with mostly black guys. I told them I was going to vote McCain they started calling me a racist. I had to give like a 10 min speech about why I like the republican party is better. I actually converted a couple guys. And then after the vote I asked them who they voted for and they said Obama anyway. Must have been the token factor. LOL

  • where can you see extended videos of this?

  • This is amazing stuff. They ARE amazing! I wish I was there. Come to Seattle, Michelle!

  • does she purposely paint her eyebrows at an angle to come across as an evil wicked witch?

  • AWW DAMN.. This is SO FRIGGIN COOL!

  • do you guys realize that BO is a slave to rich white people? How freaking funny is that. Talking about history repeating it self. BO is a slave. hahahaha Yes master Rockefeller, Yes sir Master Rothchild, Me and my slave family will do whatever you want so i can be rich like white people.

  • In response to all of those who commented not just on this video, but in several other videos I have viewed recently regarding politics: ENOUGH WITH THE NAME CALLING AND HATRED!!! People can disagree with each other without belittling and name calling. Instead, try using the good conversation skills that most of you have to respectfully debate and introduce alternate viewpoints. Calling names and resorting to racist comments is useless and just makes you look ignorant and uneducated.

  • I agree with you 100%.

  • Thank you! At least one other person on this site has some sensibility.

  • you are right greywyn and time will tell that.

  • iloveit4ever...

    "greywyn" is wrong and a racist ... and so are "YOU" ... for agreeing with her.

    Conclusion:

    TWO UNEDUCATED RACIST MORONS !!

  • it is kind of funny though

  • why michele obama is racist.....

    Scan to 1:06 and you can hear that michele clearly makes fun of white guys that cant dance.

    Dont believe me? watch for your self!!

  • Haha! That's my band teacher you're referring to.

    No. Really, it is. And yes, I do believe that he can dance. :]

  • Ughhh, I hate jazz, but kudos to the white house for getting some culture after 8 years of nothing.

  • How refreshing to see the arts, jazz in particular, embraced on such a level and have the importance of the arts in education stressed.

    Smartassawhip, I knew I liked you for a reason! ;0)

  • I liked the way this video was put together, with some smooth jazz playing in the background while the First Lady speaks; very cool!

  • that white bassist look bored as ever among the blacks

  • Mrs. O , is one classy lady ...

  • Nice, but why didn't they put on the performances!?!?

  • Love this jazz...what talented kids.

  • That fat bastard got me hooked on crack.. LOL I have been wondering where he vanished to.. looks like he is making his rounds. Lock the doors! Looks like he is on the run....

  • You go Michelle! Someone FINALLY brings some class to the White House! Right ON!

  • You call this jazz? I saw sheet music! In all seriousness, love this -- keep up the good work

  • Don't understand how anyone can hate Jazz!

    Good for our First Lady, Michelle Obama,

  • respect da obamas

  • Individual Freedom with a Responsibility to the Group 1:42.

  • People just don't know what American music is. Jazz=American music. It was invented by Americans. But it was sadly overrun by rock and rap. I asked a few people what American music is. They said rock and rap. CMON people! Rap=African music! Rock=I really don't know, but I think British. Thumbs up if you support jazz and you really want rap to go away (it really is causing today's issues).

  • I like Rap and Jazz and some Rock. I disagree with you that Rap is causing todays issues.

    Its bad parenting and lack of people taking responsiblity. Not Rap musics fault or any form of musics fault.

    Just like you couldn't blame Marilyn Manson for Columbine or Va. Tech shooting

  • Jazz = African Americans Rap = African Americans Blues = African Americans Soul = African Americans Rock n' Roll = African Americans Funk = African Americans Latin Music = All Inspired by ... African Americans Gospel Spirituals = African Americans etc, etc, etc. Country & Western = Whites Classical = Whites THANK GOD FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS !! What a boring country the USA would be without their immense influence & contribution !! AMEN.
  • "Music is the language spoken by the angels."......Mozart

  • Amen! Thank God for the music of Africa; it gave birth to the music of African Americans, and deeply influenced music throughout the Caribbean and South America .

  • ushadrons ... I see that you caught my small mistake ..."Latin Music = All Inspired by ... African Americans"...

    I was on a roll and got carried away. Ha! Ha!

    Maybe these "Africans" ended up on the Caribbean Isles & in South America by way of America ?? No !!

    Oh well I tried. lol

  • Yeah, they've never done anything really important have they?

  • Greywyn..."they've never done anything important"...

    Your own racist statement goes directly against what your own rules on your profile page. This means that you will have to delete your own profile page.

    African Americans have contributed IMMENSELY in all Fields of Science, Medecine, Litterature, Sports.

    A NON-RACIST person would have taken 5 minutes & GOOGLE to research that FACT !!

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  • Actually, my profile says witty racism is fine. Being that my comment was sarcastic, it is completely in the bounds of my own standards.

    Perhaps you should look at the context of the response rather than prematurely opening your big mouth.

  • You sound just like those people way back when who thought Elvis Presley was corrupting the youth. It's all good though.. Maybe Elvis did corrupt us.. first his pelvis.. and now look at the videos.. I say we blame everything on Elvis from now on! Dammit.. Elvis just drank the rest of my soda now I have to go get another one. lol

  • The First Lady looks phenomenal as always

  • that's Obama's wife...

  • This is cool

  • And by the way: jazz is very cool and it´s very fine that the Obamas are sharing the love for music like Bill Clinton did. :)

  • agreed