Mid Day Zen: President Obama Sings A Few Lines of 'Sweet Home Chicago'

Mid Day Zen: President Obama Sings A Few Lines of ‘Sweet Home Chicago’

By: Sarah JonesFeb. 22nd, 2012more from Sarah Jones

Last night in your White House, the President and his gorgeous First Lady hosted a star-studded night of blues music for PBS’ “In Performance at the White House”. B.B. King was in the house and he urged the President to take a turn at the mic, saying, “You can do it…Come on, now!” Who can say no to B. B. King? POTUS finally took the mic from Mick Jagger and gave us this moment of zen.

Watch here courtesy of the White House blog:

The President talked a bit about the origins of the blues, noting its root in slavery and hard times. Obama said, “(T)his music speaks to something universal. No one goes through life without both joy and pain, triumph and sorrow. The blues gets all of that, sometimes with just one lyric or one note.”

The President easily tied the blues to the tough times Americans face today, “(T)heir music teaches us that when we find ourselves at a crossroads, we don’t shy away from our problems. We own them. We face up to them. We deal with them. We sing about them. We turn them into art. And even as we confront the challenges of today, we imagine a brighter tomorrow, saying, I can do it, just like Muddy Waters did all those years ago.”

In case you missed your President singing Al Green (seriously?), check it out courtesy of the Obama Diary:

Some people like a fake cowboy cutting brush because he’s afraid of horses, others like their President a bit more real.

I’ll take the guy singin’ the blues, thanks.

The performance will air on PBS Monday, February 27.

Mid Day Zen: President Obama Sings A Few Lines of ‘Sweet Home Chicago’ was written by Sarah Jones for PoliticusUSA.

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14 Responses to Mid Day Zen: President Obama Sings A Few Lines of ‘Sweet Home Chicago’

Deborah Montesano

Feb. 22nd, 2012 at 1:09 pm

Sweet! Thanks for posting.
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A Walkaway

Feb. 22nd, 2012 at 1:36 pm

My opinion of President Obama just keeps going up and up.
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- Tom
  
  Feb. 22nd, 2012 at 6:18 pm
  
  He’s so damn charming.
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- 1voice1vote
  
  Feb. 22nd, 2012 at 7:59 pm
  
  Mine too, A Walkaway. I’m proud and grateful to have President Obama representing our country. :) Sing it, Mr. President!
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Sugapea

Feb. 22nd, 2012 at 2:34 pm

Love it! And the American Voters will fall in love with Obama as well. He really should do more out of the ordinary things like this.
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j

Feb. 22nd, 2012 at 4:09 pm

Just noticed the man handing the mike to the pres, none other than Mick Jagger.
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- Shiva (Moderator)
  
  Feb. 22nd, 2012 at 4:25 pm
  
  BB King and Walter Trout are there too. Look up Trout on youtube, the guy can play the blues big time.
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Conservative Heart

Feb. 22nd, 2012 at 5:02 pm

Just F’N great…you two-faced liberals swooning Nobama.

The country is going to hell in a Democratic handbasket and you guys are cheering for a president who sings in a time of crisis.

Note to Nobama–why don’t you fix the economy that you wrecked first? Why don’t you really, earnestly talk to the Lord for once in your god-damn life and stop attacking religion?

No, instead of all this, you go singing.

You brainless libtards just salivate and dance right along. At least Bush never left the country in a lurk and go guitar strummin’ when the nation was in crisis!
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- desraye
  
  Feb. 22nd, 2012 at 5:46 pm
  
  Yawn.
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- Ryan Troseth
  
  Feb. 22nd, 2012 at 6:20 pm
  
  Why set yourself up like that?
  
  www.huffingtonpost.com/da...
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- get real
  
  Feb. 22nd, 2012 at 10:38 pm
  
  Hello, and welcome!
  
  You just can’t cure Republican stupid. They are easily their own worst enemies. They prove it over and over with their insane moron comments. Too funny, thanks for the laugh.
  
  Btw, President Thomas Jefferson must have been a TOTAL jackass too for spending so much time playing the violin, learning about music and singing and dancing in the White House.
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Shaw Kenawe

Feb. 22nd, 2012 at 10:39 pm

“You brainless libtards just salivate and dance right along. At least Bush never left the country in a lurk and go guitar strummin’ when the nation was in crisis!”

I have to say, whomever this commenter is, he or she is the best parody of an unhinged idiot winger I’ve ever read. Comedy gold. You hit all the right points and with such convincing stupidity. You should write for Stephen Colbert, he’s just as funny and right on target in his impersonation of a clueless, mindless Obama hater.
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- Shiva (Moderator)
  
  Feb. 22nd, 2012 at 11:16 pm
  
  He has been up to it for several years. Very creative at times
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Shaw Kenawe

Feb. 22nd, 2012 at 10:41 pm

Oh, I forgot to say that Mr. Obama can sing the blues to me any day. Can anyone in their right mind imagine any of the stiffs in the GOP doing what our very cool, very smooth president did? LOL!
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