Ludacris Obama Song Lyrics - Politics In Rap

If this guy gets in it's all over. We are doomed.

I think a "certain" group of people are hot. It's a rap song! Encouraging young minorities to vote for our first minority president. Yes Jessie was wrong, and yes Hillary was... anywho. People get mad when minorities speak thier mind it was a little rough but he's not a polititian; He's a rapper. If he put out another song about "them Ho's" it would not have even made the news because that is what is expected of him.

His rymes are like 3rd grade spelling bees-
hard enough to get the 2nd graders out before crowning a winner G
he talks about Black like he knows something about it
he grew up in a better house then most of my freinds did
He rippin on clinton like she the past not the present-
Without Hilary on his team he can't get enough Votes G
So realize you rappin to make a name for yourelf little hommy
and stick to topics you know about- lookin at little boys pee!

Its all good in the White house ludacris---
Life expectancy of obama would be about 3 ticks
shorter than that of a radio operator
in vietanam they were dead as soon as they jumped off the helicopter

h aha haha ha ha ha

His rymes are like 3rd grade spelling bees-
hard enough to get the 2nd graders out before crowning a winner G
he talks about Black like he knows something about it
he grew up in a better house then most of my freinds did
He rippin on clinton like she the past not the present-
Without Hilary on his team he can't get enough Votes G
So realize you rappin to make a name for yourelf little hommy
and stick to topics you know about- lookin at little boys pee pees!

Its all good in the White house ludacris---
Life expectancy of obama would be about 3 ticks
shorter than that of a radio operator
in vietanam they were dead as soon as they jumped off the helicopter

h aha haha ha ha ha

Why do some people feel the need to be offensive for the sake of offensive?

My mother always told me: "Better to be thought a moron than to speak and remove all doubt"!!!

Secretly, Obama smiles at these lyrics because he knows that this rap will generate support in ghettos and ignorant young people (including white youth). I wonder how white feminists and homosexuals will feel about this? Most would probably love it since Obama represents the complete absence of law, order, standards, and discipline. If Obama is not the antiChrist himself (who is supposed to come out of the European Common Market), then he is certainly the False Prophet. Ludacris is NOT just sharing his opinion as standardless humanists insinuate. He is hateful and is attempting to deliberately incite another liberal & socialists race- and class-war (recurringly defused by educated, black Americans as an unnecessary thing of the past).

His rymes are like 3rd grade spelling bees-
hard enough to get the 2nd graders out before crowning a winner G
he talks about Black like he knows something about it
he grew up in a better house then most of my freinds did
He rippin on clinton like she the past not the present-
Without Hilary on his team he can't get enough Votes G
So realize you rappin to make a name for yourelf little hommy
and stick to topics you know about- lookin at little boys pee pees!

Its all good in the White house ludacris---
Life expectancy of obama would be about 3 whole seconds
shorter than that of a radio operator
in Nam they were dead as soon as they jumped off the helicopter

so elect your buddy into the oval office
zero percent of 0 is still no ownership-
irrelevance is only to those who got elected
not to obama and his political death threats-
my hommies will pop him before he takesthe official oath
guranteed by my brothas in white hats and white robes
and if they fail to catch him on the night before the main event
we'll have a long rope hangin above the judge who swears him in for a good old fashion lynchin!

the guy rappin talking smack to luda gotta go... he can't rhyme for nothing... OBAMA '08!!!

Boy! That really scares the crap out of some white people dosen't it? Luda should know how mentally deficient most of white america is and that they cannot handle the truth and sure can't handle his lyrics...LUDA, IF YOU'RE NOT PLANNING ON RUNNING FOR OFFICE THEN KEEP ON PUTTING OUT GREAT LYRICS! BUT JUST REMEMBER...THE CONTROLLED MEDIA WILL TRY TO TAKE OBAMA DOWN DUE TO WHAT OTHERS SAY AND DO SO LET'S NOT MAKE IT ANY HARDER FOR A BLACK MAN TO GET THE PRESIDENCY...OK?

Ludacris should know how paranoid and mentally affected white people in this contry are and should realize that the controlled media will take what others say and do and use that against Obama. Well, Ludacris if you are not planning on running for politcal office ever, keep on writing great lyrics! But just remember...even though you are not a part of Obamas' campaign, AT ALL, there are still those out there who will look for any means at all to keep a Black Man from becoming President. We have seen the PRESIDENTIAL CROWN on "white skulls only" for long enough...IT'S TIME FOR CHANGE...LET'S SEE IF THIS BLACK MAN CAN REPRESENT ALLLLLL OF AMERICA...UNLIKE THE WHITE FOOL THAT HAS BEEN IN THE WHITE HOUSE FOR THE PAST 8 HELLISH YEARS!

Its very comment to be critized ...remember oprah,barbera streisand, bernie mac, chuck norris...they got involve in the race and got critized...now Ludacris got in..It is very offensice specially to those older women in their 80s n yes 90s that had their whole heart and devotion to having in 2008 the firts women president...just like the feeling that African American people have right now...I think we need to stop for a secound a think before we say something offensive because 08 is a historical year and everything that is being said and done this year will be recorded in history...and american girls that read this will be discourage and somewhat dissapointed if they read that the first women to seek presidency was being mistreated by media...and other things...we need to take a secound and think what we said..or course i think us middle class have more common sence than these rich folks that think they can say what they want...So i repeat this is why celebs should just be good for just taking pics. not in politics

YOU GUTLESS MORONS POST USING FICTICIOUS NAMES...I WANT THE WORLD TO KNOW HOW I FEEL AND WHAT I THINK AND I AM NOT AFRAID TO USE MY REAL NAME! I AM AN AMERICAN WHO STANDS TALL AND SOON...WILL BE PROUD(I HOPE)OF MY COUNTRY ONCE AGAIN! STICK THAT IN YOUR CRACK PIPE AND SMOKE IT A-HOLE :-0

This rap might as well have been written by the McCain camp.

The problem with many Obama supporters is that they know nothing about politics -- they are completely new to the process. You gotta love the newbies, b/c ultimately they will help put Obama over the top. But their exuberance gets ahead of them, and disasters like this are the result.

It's unfathomable to anyone with any knowledge of politics how Luda thought this would help. A simple rap praising Obama and criticizing Bush would have been fine.

"Paint the White House black?" Yeah, that's EXACTLY what the 80 percent of country that is white wants out of an Obama presidency. Obama attracts white supporters and needs them to win; this must not be forgotten. African Americans make up 12.3 percent of the population.

And no good for Obama can result from Luda calling a woman who garnered 18 million Democratic votes an "irrelevant b---h."

Luda's time would be much better spent organizing voter-registration concerts in Georgia, a potential swing state.

Shows how educated Ludadork is. He wants to vote for Obama
fine, He did more damage to Obama than anyone else could have. Ludadork is so racist and his lyrics are so stupid that who really cares. It doesn't scare white people at all, in fact it just proves their point about how some people don't know how to act like adults.
OH, and seeing OBAMA is BI RACIAL, and everyone keep saying he's black, shows how dumb some people are. I guess America isn't ready for a president like him, because many peoples true colors ARE showing.

i think it is wrong to say he should be ashamed. he is just expressing a need to elect obama in the only way he knows. no one forces children to listen to rap music or the obama song but for those of us who do enjoy the genre i think it is great. obamas campain should have said somthing a little less offensive about somthing ludicris wrote to help win the presidential election.

Myself i am in the United states Marine Corps and i am African American. I love the hell out of Ludacris he is by far my rapper. His lyrics were good but i think it is a shame that people take lyrics from a song so seriously. Music is for Entertainment and believe it or not people do listen to it. I would love to see the first black president but neither of the candidates are interesting enough to vote. I am in Iraq but this shit is rediculous. Im not votiong because this whole thing is a Joke

This garbage is "Ludacris" just like the performer!!!!!!!

I am not taking sides but you need to understand a couple of things. Its hard enough to make lyrics rhyme yet get your feeling across. Everyone will never agree with everything that someone says. If luda feels this way he feels this way. Can't knock him. But for someone to critize him because of what he said is wrong. He has the freedom and right to express his self. Everyone needs to accept the part of the song you agree with and forget the rest. Obama always says its time for change either a woman or a black man its time for a change. I support both to a certain extent. Every person needs to ask themselves is America where it needs to be or is it time for someone to accept all of its failures and try to make a change instead of following DADDYS footsteps.

WELL, IN MY OPINION LUDACRIS DIDN'T DO A THING WRONG...HE'S IS A RAPPER SETTING OUT TO PUT OUT A MESSAGE...HE'S ENCOURAGING PEOPLE TO VOTE THAT ARE PRO-OBAMA... IT MAY NOT HAVE BEEN THE SMARTEST THING TO DO BECAUSE MANY PEOPLE WILL CRITISIZE OBAMA DUE TO THE FACT OF THE STRONG LANGUAGE PRESENTED, BUT ALL IN ALL IT IS LUDACRIS'S SONG! HE WROTE THROUGH LYRICS OUT OF HIS OWN THOUGHTS THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH OBAMA... AND BLACKS SHOULDN'T BE LOOKED DOWN UPON BECAUSE OF THE SITUATION EITHER... WHAT WAS SAID WERE THINGS THAT MANY AMERICANS IN GENERAL WERE THINKING, BOTH WHITE AND BLACK AMERICANS, MEXICANS AND ASIANS ALSO. BEING AFRICAN AMERICAN, I SOLEY DON'T WANT TO BE PUT IN THE CATEGORY OF AN ANGRY BLACK PERSON BECAUSE OF THE LYRICS, BUT I DON'T SEE ANYTHING WRONG WITH HIM VOICING HIS OPINIONS.

IF U ASK ME, HILARY, OBAMA, AND MCCAIN SEEM LIKE VERY DECENT PEOPLE...AND MANY AMERICANS ARE LOOKING FOR CHANGE SO MCCAIN IS OUT BECAUSE HE AGREES WITH BUSH'S TACTICS. BUT BACK TO THE SONG, PEOPLE NEED TO GET OVER IT! YES OBAMA WILL HAVE IT IN HIS IPOD, HILARY MIGHT EVEN HAVE IT IN HERS...ITS JUST ENTERTAINMENT! PEOPLE NEVER SAY ANYTHING ABOUT THE BLOG VIDEOS WERE OBAMA IS BEING PUT DOWN..BUT SINCE LUDA IS A HUGE PUBLIC FIGURE EVERYTHING IS OVER DONE!

PEOPLE NEED TO LOOK PAST RACE AND SEXUALITY AND EVEN GENDER AND JUSS FOCUS ON THE PERSON! YES, BLACKS ARE COMING UP! YES, MEXICANS WILL BE THERE TOO...AND WHO KNOWS WHAT RACE IS TO FOLLOW!

TO SUM THINGS UP, LUDACRIS DID NOTHING WRONG BY WRITING HIS OPINION...HE USED NOTHING TOO OFFENSIVE LIKE RACIALS OR EXTREME SEXIST SLURS! IT IS TIME FOR A CHANGE, I WOULD LOVE TO SEE A BLACK PRESIDENT! I WOULD LOVE TO SEE A FEMALE PRESIDENT!

I'M GLAD I VOICED MY OPINION ON THIS WEBSITE! JUST TO LET PEOPLE KNOW, I AM A TEENAGE BLACK MALE... NOT ABLE TO VOTE THIS YEAR. AND FOR THOSE THAT THINK MY OPINION DOESN'T MATTER I WOULD LIKE TO LET U ALL KNOW THAT IT DOES BECAUSE POLOTICS WILL AFFECT ME JUSS AS MUCH AS EVERYONE ELSE!

*PLEASE EXCUSE ANY MISPELLING OR GRAMMATICAL ERRORS BECAUSE I AM USING A MOBILE DEVICE!

PAINT THE WHITEHOUSE BLACK AND WE WILL NOT HAVE A MAJOR ATTACK. THE AIR AND HEAT BILL WILL ALLOW THE GAS PRICES TO GO DOWN. WE CAN FORGET THE WELFARE AND PRACTICE ON WARFARE. IF YOU AMERICANS THINK BACK, THE BEST PRESIDENT WAS IN A WHEELCHAIR. SO, DO NOT THINK TOO HARD, I WILL TELL YOU IT WAS RONALD REAGAN. REMEMBER, HE WAS SHOT.

I think personly that Obama is trying more than the race card here. He just trying to get every little vote and when mccain or some body else says that he is wrong he go back to his gold card "they wont you to be scared of me becouse Im diffrent" i say bull$%#!

h aha haha ha ha ha at your attempt with rap.

go die please

gina says:
ALL yall ppl cant just chill on tht. SHUT THA F*** UP!!!!!
yall sum B**** HATAS!!! OBAMA IS BLACK AND IS HERE AND IS OUR NEXT PRESIDENT. and if u dont like tht U CAN FLEE THA F***ing COUNTRY. it's time 4 a freaking change and OBAMA is tht change.
BLACK PPL R MAKING A COME BACK!!! and it's about time.
u can say all u want about this message cuz i really dnt give a RAT'S A**.

doom doom doom ur post was funny
But I think u had 2 much sex wit ur mummy
U never wore I white robe or a wht sheet
U like black music and u like black meat
I know u personnally u don't have 2 hide
Remember when when dat black dude put it 2 ur backside
The news broke out all over school
Then u had hatred for all of those who were cool
Its ok til this day ur name's still sweet cheeks
So wipe the cum off ur mouth next time u speak
Richard Ponoski!

seriously guys leave the rhymes to th proffesionals. Sure this is definitely not the best stuff Ludacris has come out with but its still better than certain things posted on here. and Dont hate if a minority wins an election.

I came here to check out Luda's lyrics.
Huge waste of time. BHO by way of his campaign spokesman, has already thrown Luda under the bus, just like his pastor, Jesse, his Grandma and the list goes on and on. I know some of you won't know the definition of "political expediency" but you can go to dictionary.com and try to figure it out. And for the poster who said painting the White House black would save on energy bills......ahem....the color black absorbs heat so, in theory, it would take more~~not less~~energy to keep it cool in the heat of the summer.
I challenge any one of you McCain haters to come up with just one thing; ONE THING that BHO has accomplished that would make him White House material, specifically, Commander and Chief. God help us if we get someone in power who has the views of the likes of most of you or even is able to 'see where you're coming from'....and Luda for that matter. Notice that I have been able to reply to your posts without using the offensive language and hate rhetoric that is seething from your posts. I feel good about how I feel. It's plain to see that some of you who are defending this song are some very angry and violent and ignorant people. Get well soon.
Oh, and check out JohnRich.com for a free download of a more positive political song.

obama wont do anything but make our country better than it is right now. im sure he wont change everything that he said he will, but hey, you gotta do what ever it takes to get elected. i mean sure, he might not be the best president, he probably wont come even close, but he is the only thing we have right now. john mccain will probably do the same thing as bush did, nothing. at least obama will try to make a difference in this country. hiliary clinton would have probably run this country into the ground if she was chosen instead of obama. i really hope that obama wins. maybe he will do us good.

its amazing how one man can cause all this hype within afew months. instead of focusing on some black man running for presidend we should worry about fixing everything else thats going on. this election is going too far. of course this song is going to sture up some news and make more black people vote for him (most of which have no clue about whats going on let alone what obama is actually going to do for the USA). its true that he will do some good things but most of the stuff he plans/says he'll do to IMPROVE the USA are mostly myths. vote for who you want but please make an educated decision and dont vote for race, unless its mccain lol jk... but seriously

Talk about being mentally handicapped...Ludacris should take a long look in the mirror and listen to himself and how unintelligence he sounds...he should stick with what he calls "rapping"...Praising Obama is one thing but to belittle others is another..Obama isn't obviously worth praise or Ludacris isn't smart enough to do it and focus on the posotive..Obama should be ashamed of himself for even speaking of Ludacris in the first place...he's suppose to be so intelligent then he wouldn't have associated or promoted Ludacris in anyway...Obama said he was a "talented artist" if thats Obama's judgement of people who put down, belittle and insalt others then maybe Obama should rethink his possition..scary thought if he thinks Ludacris is a talented person, I can't wait to see who he picks for jobs in the "WHITE" house....think about it.....

I have read all the above comments and I cannot figure out where you get all your ignorance! EVERYONE of us are immigrants in this great nation of ours to begin with! And how DARE you speak with disrespect, dishonor, and treason against our president!! This is WHAT is wrong with the US! It is people like YOU that bring immoral mind-sets, disrespect, violence and corrupt attitudes into our society! Men (Black, White,Mexican, Irish, Indian, Scottish, English, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, etc>!!!) FOUGHT for this country in every war we have ever had! EACH one of us has earned a right to keep this country free and without hate! It is people like you that make comments that ARE racial, by your intense hate that bring us down to your level. Don't you think that it is time to let go of 100 year ago tragedies and mistakes. My people were Irish and were brought to the USA as indetured slaves by the ENGLISH because of the potatoe famine. Our women were raped and our men and children beaten as we were slaves to our own race. Well..boo-hoo! WE got over it and forgave and made a BETTER life for ourselves! We are NOT raising criminals in slums, living off of welfare, and raising our children to be full of hate and violence! We pulled OUT of and rose ABOVE all the injustice done to us! We are giving our children MORE and giving them HOPE!! Isn't it time to STOP blaming what happened to "your people" hundreds of years ago, forgive them, forget it, and QUIT letting it rule and ruin your lives?? If not, just keep going until all of your generations become so full of hate and unforgiveness that you become NOTHING and will never be ANYTHING! So what if a white man or a black man becomes president?? It won't benefit you. Politics isn't about you...it is about them and their money and power. THEY are rich not you. It is a game honey, so quit thinking you are going to benefit here. They are counting on you all playing their game for their gain! The "Ha"! will be on you...And you want some TRUE FACTS?? Read below:
Hey guys...facts are facts!!

This has to make you think a little bit, if not then keep your blinders on!

George Bush has been in office for 7 1/2 years. The first six the economy was fine.

A little over one year ago:
1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high;
2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;
3) the unemployment rate was 4.5%.

4) the DOW JONES hit a record high--14,000 +

5) American's were buying new cars, taking cruises, vacations o'seas, living large!...

But American's wanted 'CHANGE'! So, in 2006 they voted in a Democratic Congress & yep--we got 'CHANGE' all right. In the PAST YEAR:

1) Consumer confidence has plummeted ;
2) Gasoline is now over $4 a gallon & climbing!;
3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);

4) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $12 TRILLION

DOLLARS & prices still dropping;

5) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.
6) as I write, THE DOW is probing another low~~11,100--

$2.5 TRILLION DOLLARS HAS EVAPORATED FROM THEIR

STOCKS, BONDS & MUTUAL FUNDS INVESTMENT

PORTFOLIOS!

YEP , IN 2006 AMERICA VOTED FOR CHANGE!...AND WE SURE AS HELL GOT IT!!!....NOW OBAMA, the DEM'S CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT--AND THE POLLS SAY HE'S GONNA BE 'THE MAN'--CLAIMS HE'S GONNA REALLY GIVE US CHANGE!!....JUST HOW MUCH MORE 'CHANGE' DO YA THINK YOU CAN STAND???.....
~And for all you BLACK people that think that IF Obama gets the presidency that you are somehow on top...this man isn't only black he is muslim, the SAME people that bombed the twin towers and hundreds of others. Oh... AND there were hundreds of BLACKS killed in the twin towers incase you have forgotten. Just read this:
Obama's 50 Lies

Claim: E-mail lists fifty lies told by Barack Obama.

Status: Multiple — see below.

Example: [Collected via e-mail, May 2008]

1.) Selma Got Me Born - LIAR, your parents felt safe enough to have you in 1961 - Selma had no effect on your birth, as Selma was in 1965.

2.) Father Was A Goat Herder - LIAR, he was a privileged, well educated youth, who went on to work with the Kenyan Government.

3.) Father Was A Proud Freedom Fighter - L IAR, he was part of one of the most corrupt and violent governments Kenya has ever had.

4.) My Family Has Strong Ties To African Freedom - LIAR, your cousin Raila Odinga has created mass violence in attempting to overturn a legitimate election in 2007, in Kenya. It is the first widespread violence in decades.

5.) My Grandmother Has Always Been A Christian - LIAR, she does her daily Salat prayers at 5am according to her own interviews. According to the New York Times: "I am a strong believer of the Islamic faith," Ms. Obama, 85, said in a recent interview in Kenya.' Not to mention, Christianity wouldn't allow her to have been one of 14 wives to 1 man.

6.) My Name is African Swahili - LIAR, your name is Arabic and 'Baraka' (from which Barack came) means 'blessed' in that language. Hussein is also Arabic and so is Obama.

7.) I Never Practiced Islam - LIAR, you practiced it daily at school, where you were registered as a Muslim and kept that faith for 31 years,until your wife made you change, so you could run for office.

8.) My School In Indonesia Was Christian - LIAR, you were registered as Muslim there and got in trouble in Koranic Studies for making faces (check your own book).

9.) I Was Fluent In Indonesian - LIAR, not one teacher says you could speak the language.

10.) Because I Lived In Indonesia, I Have More Foreign Experience - LIAR, you were there from the ages of 6 to 10, and couldn't even spea k the language. What did you learn, how to study the Koran and watch cartoons.

11.) I Am Stronger On Foreign Affairs - LIAR, except for Africa (surprise) and the Middle East (bigger surprise), you have never been anywhere else on the planet and thus have NO experience with our closest allies. You seek to disarm America while our avowed enemy, Iran, will not subject itself to a nuclear ban. Top Hamas politica l adviser Ahmed Yousef said the Hamas terrorist group 'supports Obama's foreign policy vision'.

12.) I Blame My Early Drug Use On Ethnic Confusion - LIAR, you were quite content in high school to be Barry Obama, no mention of Kenya and no mention of struggle to identify - your classmates said you were just fine.

13.) An Ebony Article Moved Me To Run For Office - LIAR, Ebony has yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn't, and never did, exist.

14.) A Life Magazine Article Changed My Outlook On Life - LIAR, Life has yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn't, and never did, exist.

15.) I Won't Run On A National Ticket In '08 - LIAR, here you are, despite saying, live on TV, that you would not have enough experience by then, and you are all about having experience first.

16.) Present Votes Are Common In Illinois - LIAR, they are common for YOU, but not many others have 130 NO VOTES.

17.) Oops, I Misvoted - LIAR, only when caught by church groups and Democrats, did you beg to change your misvote.

18.) I Was A Professor Of Law - LIAR, you were a senior lecturer ON LEAVE.

19.) I Was A Constitutional Lawyer - LIAR, you were a senior lecturer ON LEAVE.

20.) Without Me, There Would Be No Ethics Bill - LIAR, you didn't write it,introduce it, change it, or create it.

21.) The Ethics Bill Was Hard To Pass - LIAR, it took just 14 days from start to finish.

22.) I Wrote
A Tough Nuclear Bill - LIAR, your bill was rejected by your own party for its pandering and lack of all regulation - mainly because of your Nuclear Donor, Exelon, from which David Axelrod came.

23.) I Have Released My State Records - LIAR, as of March, 2008, state bills you sponsored or voted for have yet to be released, exposing all the special interests pork hidden within.

24.) I Took On The Asbestos Altgeld Gardens Mess - LIAR, you were part of a large group of people who remedied Altgeld Gardens. You failed to mention anyone else but yourself, in your books.

25.) My Economics Bill Will Help America - LIAR, your 111 economic policies were just combined into a proposal which lost 99-0, and even YOU voted against your own bill.

26.) I Have Been A Bold Leader In Illinois - LIAR, even your own supporters claim to have not seen BOLD action on your part.

27.) I Passed 26 Of My Own Bills In One Year - LIAR, they were not YOUR bills, but rather handed to you, after their creation by a fellow Senator, to assist you in a future bid for higher office.

28.) No One Contacted Canada About NAFTA - LIAR, the Candian Government issued the names and a memo of the conversation your campaign had with them.

29.) I Am Tough On Terrorism - LIAR, you missed the Iran Resolution vote on terrorism and your good friend Ali Abunimah supports the destruction of Israel. You state you will open friendly communication with the Leader of Iran who is attempting to develop nuclear weapons to destroy us, but refuse to speak to FOX news. You are against provisions of the Patriot act which would all wiretapping of the phones of suspected terrorists in the USA.

30.) I Am Not Acting As President Yet - LIAR, after the NAFTA Memo, a dead terrorist in the FARC, in Colombia, was found with a letter stating how you and he were working together on getting FARC recognized officially.

31.) I Didn't Run Ads In Florida - LIAR, you allowed national ads to run 8-12 times per day for two weeks - and you still lost.

32.) I Won Michigan - LIAR, no you didn't.

33.) I won Nevada - LIAR, no you did not.

34.) I Want All Votes To Count - LIAR, you said let the delegates decide.

35.) I Want Americans To Decide - LIAR, you prefer caucuses that limit the vote, confuse the voters, force a public vote, and only operate during small windows of time.

36.) I passed 900 Bills in the State Senate - LIAR, you passed 26, most of which you didn't write yourself.

37.) My Campaign Was Extorted By A Friend - LIAR, that friend is threatening to sue if you do not stop saying this. Obama has stopped saying this.

38.) I Believe In Fairness, Not Tactics - LIAR, you used tactics to eliminate Alice Palmer from running against you.

39.) I Don't Take PAC Money - LIAR, you take loads of it.

40.) I don't Have Lobbysists - LIAR, you have over 47 lobbyists, and counting.

41.) My Campaign Had Nothing To Do With The 1984 Ad - LIAR, your own campaign worker made the ad on his Apple in one afternoon.

42.) My Campaign Never Took Over MySpace - LIAR, Tom, who started MySpace issued a warning about this advertising to MySpace clients.

43.) I Inspire People With My Words - LIAR, you inspire people with other people's words.

44.) I Have Passed Bills In The U.S. Senate - LIAR, you have passed A BILL in the U.S. Senate - for Africa, which shows YOUR priorities.

45.) I Have Always Been Against Iraq - LIAR, you weren't in office to vote against it AND you have voted to fund it every single time, unlike Kucinich, who seems to be out gutting you Obama. You also seem to be stepping back from your departure date - AGAIN.

46.) I Have Always Supported Universal Health Care - LIAR, your plan leaves us all to pay the 15,000,000 who don't have to buy it.

47.) I Only Found Out About My Investment Conflicts Via Mail - LIAR, both companies you site as having sent you letters about this conflict have no record of any such letter ever being created or sent.

48.) I Am As Patriotic As Anyone - LIAR, you won't wear a flag pin and you don't put your hand over your heart during the Anthem. There is a Cuban Flag with Che Guevara Displayed at Barack Obama Campaign Office which you allow to be displayed. You voted against making english the official language of the United States. You voted to give illegal aliens social security benefits, which would bankrupt the social security system for Americans legally paying into it.

49.) My Wife Didn't Mean What She Said About Pride In Country - LIAR, your wife's words follow lock-step in the vain of Rev. Wright and Louis Farrahkan, in relation to their contempt and hatred of America.

50.) Wal-Mart Is A Company I Wouldn't Support - LIAR, your wife has received nearly a quarter of a million dollars through Treehouse, which is connected to Wal-Mart.

Origins:

Selma Got Me Born - LIAR, your parents felt safe enough to have you in 1961 - Selma had no effect on your birth, as Selma was in 1965.

This criticism is based on an overly-literal interpretation of Barack Obama's 2007 speech in Selma, Alabama, which we covered in a separate article.

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Father Was A Goat Herder - LIAR, he was a privileged, well educated youth, who went on to work with the Kenyan Government.

These attributes are not mutually exclusive: Barack Obama's (biological) father was all of these things at different times in his life, as Obama described in his book, Dreams from My Father:
[My father] was as African, I would learn, a Kenyan of the Luo tribe, born on the shores of Lake Victoria in a place called Alego. The village was poor, but his father — my other grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama — had been a prominent farmer, an elder of the tribe, a medicine man with healing powers. My father grew up herding his father's goats and attending the local school, set up by the British colonial administration, where he had shown great promise. He eventually won a scholarship to study in Nairobi; and then, on the eve of Kenyan independence, he had been selected by Kenyan leaders and American sponsors to attend a university in the United States.

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Father Was A Proud Freedom Fighter - LIAR, he was part of one of the most corrupt and violent governments Kenya has ever had.

We are unaware of Barack Obama's ever having claimed his father was a "proud freedom fighter." Obama has written (and spoken) at length about his father's returning to Africa from America to work for the Kenyan government, with that country's political turmoil eventually leaving him a "bitter drunk" and "a defeated, lonely bureaucrat."

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My Family Has Strong Ties To African Freedom - LIAR, your cousin Raila Odinga has created mass violence in attempting to overturn a legitimate election in 2007, in Kenya. It is the first widespread violence in decades.

As we discussed in a separate article, Kenyan politician Raila Odinga has recently claimed to be Barack Obama's cousin, but there is no substantive evidence documenting his claim, and the two men share no meaningful familial connection.

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My Grandmother Has Always Been A Christian - LIAR, she does her daily Salat prayers at 5am according to her own interviews. According to the New York Times: "I am a strong believer of the Islamic faith," Ms. Obama, 85, said in a recent interview in Kenya.' Not to mention, Christianity wouldn't allow her to have been one of 14 wives to 1 man.

The author seems to be unaware that Barack Obama, like most people, has two sets of grandparents. Obama was speaking of his maternal grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, not his paternal grandmother.

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My Name is African Swahili - LIAR, your name is Arabic and 'Baraka' (from which Barack came) means 'blessed' in that language. Hussein is also Arabic and so is Obama.

The author seems to be unaware that many Swahili words and names are of Arabic origin (just as many English words originated with other languages). "Barack" is a Swahili name that entered the language via historical trade and cultural ties with Arabia.

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I Never Practiced Islam - LIAR, you practiced it daily at school, where you were registered as a Muslim and kept that faith for 31 years, until your wife made you change, so you could run for office.

The topic is already covered in our separate article about the (false) claims that Barack Obama is a Muslim.

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My School In Indonesia Was Christian - LIAR, you were registered as Muslim there and got in trouble in Koranic Studies for making faces (check your own book).

The author seems to be unaware that Barack Obama attended more than one school in Indonesia, one of which was a public school that included Islamic religious instruction among its curriculum, and one of which was a private Catholic school.

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I Was Fluent In Indonesian - LIAR, not one teacher says you could speak the language.

We are unaware of Barack Obama's ever having claimed he was "fluent" in any Indonesian language (beyond the level of competence that could reasonably be expected of the non-native child speaker he was at the time he lived in that country). He did acquire (and apparently still has) a passable command of Bahasa, as Time magazine noted in a 2007 article:
When prominent Indonesians visit the U.S., the first person they want to meet is Obama, says Parnohadiningrat Sudjadnan, the Indonesian ambassador to the U.S. "Back home people think of him as one of us, or at least one who understands us," he says, adding that they are delighted to find that Obama speaks passable Bahasa, the language spoken in Indonesia and Malaysia.

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Because I Lived In Indonesia, I Have More Foreign Experience - LIAR, you were there from the ages of 6 to 10, and couldn't even speak the language.

Barack Obama did live in Indonesia for four years as a child, and he could in fact speak the local language passably well. Whether his time in that country provided him more "foreign experience" is argumentative, but Obama himself is far from the only person to suggest that it might:
Some would argue that his childhood experiences, as well as his mixed heritage (his father was Kenyan, his mother from Kansas), gives him a better inner compass on foreign policy than most Americans. They cite the pioneering work of Ruth Hill Useem, the late sociologist of Michigan State University, who spent her career studying what she called Third Culture Kids — the millions of U.S. children (an estimated 20 million since the advent of mass air travel) who have been carted abroad by their missionary, diplomatic, corporate or military parents. These frequent-flier kids don't spend enough time in their adopted countries to become fully bicultural, but they take pieces and add it to their home values and traditions — creating millions of "Third Cultures." Studies have shows that kids who have spent time abroad are more likely to go to college, to relate to one another despite the influences of vastly differing cultures, and to latch on to one aspect of their culture — in Obama's case African Americanism.
I Am Stronger On Foreign Affairs - LIAR, except for Africa (surprise) and the Middle East (bigger surprise), you have never been anywhere else on the planet and thus have NO experience with our closest allies.

Barack Obama has lived in, traveled to, or otherwise spent time in countries in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Whether his experiences make him "stronger on foreign affairs" is argumentative, but again, Obama himself is far from the only person to suggest that it might:
"Living abroad does give you a wider view of the world," says Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security Adviser under Jimmy Carter, and a Polish-American who spent four years as a child living in Germany with his diplomat father. Obama is "a person with genuine sensitivity of world affairs," says Brzenzinski, who is supporting Obama. "It's not the conventional mouthing of culture sensitivities." Brzezinski points to Obama's greater willingness to meet leaders of hostile nations and his early resistance to the war in Iraq as examples of his superior intuition on foreign policy.

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A Life Magazine Article Changed My Outlook On Life - LIAR, Life has yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn't, and never did, exist.

In Dreams from My Father, Barack Obama writes of a childhood experience occurring on a day when his mother dropped him off at a library on her way to work, and he began thumbing through issues of LIFE magazine:
Eventually I came across a photograph of an older man in dark glasses and a raincoat walking down an empty road. I couldn't guess what this picture was about; there seemed nothing unusual about the subject. On the next page was another photograph, this one a close-up of the same man's hands. They had a strange, unnatural pallor, as if blood had been drawn from the flesh. Turning back to the first picture, I now saw that the man's crinkly hair, his heavy lips and broad fleshy nose, all had this same uneven, ghostly hue.

He must be terrible sick, I thought. A radiation victim, maybem or an albino — I had seen one of those on the street a few days before, and my mother had explained about such things. Except when I read the words that went with the picture, that wasn't it at all. The man had received a chemical treatment, the article explained, to lighten his complexion. He had paid for it with his own money. He expressed some regret about trying to pass himself off as a white man, was sorry about how badly things had turned out. But the results were irreversible. There were thousands of people like him, black men and women back in America who'd undergone the same treatment in response to advertisements that promised happiness as a white person.

I felt my face and neck get hot. My stomach knotted; the type began to blur on the page. Did my mother know about this? What about her boss — why was he so calm, reading through his reports a few feet down the hall? I had a desperate urge to jump out of my seat, to show them what I had learned, to demand some explanation or assurance. But something held me back. As in a dream, I had no voice for my newfound fear. By the time my mother came to take me home, my face wore a smile and the magazines were back in their proper place. The room, the air, was quiet as before.
That no matching article may yet have been found in the pages of LIFE magazine does not mean that Obama saw no such article; it may simply mean that, writing decades after the fact, he misremembered the title of the magazine he was viewing.

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I Won't Run On A National Ticket In '08 - LIAR, here you are, despite saying, live on TV, that you would not have enough experience by then, and you are all about having experience first.

Senator Obama never stated categorically that he would not run on a national ticket in 2008. He at one time said that he had "no plans" to run for national office in 2008, the standard response virtually all politicians give to press inquiries when they have not yet formulated (or do not wish to reveal) their plans for upcoming elections.

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I Was A Professor Of Law - LIAR, you were a senior lecturer ON LEAVE.

Barack Obama was indeed a professor at the University of Chicago's Law School, a fact verified by that institution itself:
The Law School has received many media requests about Barack Obama, especially about his status as "Senior Lecturer."

From 1992 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004, Barack Obama served as a professor in the Law School. He was a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996. He was a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004, during which time he taught three courses per year. Senior Lecturers are considered to be members of the Law School faculty and are regarded as professors, although not full-time or tenure-track. The title of Senior Lecturer is distinct from the title of Lecturer, which signifies adjunct status. Like Obama, each of the Law School's Senior Lecturers has high-demand careers in politics or public service, which prevent full-time teaching. Several times during his 12 years as a professor in the Law School, Obama was invited to join the faculty in a full-time tenure-track position, but he declined.

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I Was A Constitutional Lawyer - LIAR, you were a senior lecturer ON LEAVE.

Between 1993 and 2002, Barack Obama worked as a civil rights lawyer with the Chicago law firm of Miner, Barnhill & Galland.

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I Didn't Run Ads In Florida - LIAR, you allowed national ads to run 8-12 times per day for two weeks - and you still lost.

In August 2007, major Democratic candidates signed a pledge to not campaign in Florida because that state had moved its primary election up to 29 January 2008, one week earlier than the Democratic national rules allowed. In January 2008, the Obama campaign launched national television advertisements on CNN and MSNBC that were also shown in Florida. Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton maintainted that they had asked CNN and MSNBC to pull Florida from the ad buy, but those networks said they could not.

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I Won Michigan - LIAR, no you didn't.

Senator Obama never claimed to have "won" Michigan, save for an interview in which he misspoke and mentioned the wrong state name. In accordance with the agreement mentioned in the previous entry, Barack Obama's name didn't even appear on the Michigan ballot.

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I won Nevada - LIAR, no you did not.

Senator Obama didn't claim to have "won" Nevada (a state that holds caucuses rather than direct-election primaries); he noted, correctly, that although Senator Hillary Clinton tallied more overall votes at the Nevada caucuses, he actually picked up more national delegates from that state:
Mitt Romney took Nevada's Republican caucuses, while Democrats debated whether their party had rendered a split decision. New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton won the vote count among those at the caucuses, but Illinois Sen. Barack Obama claimed a slight advantage in national convention delegates on the strength of his showing in rural areas.

Obama said in a statement released by his campaign that he came from 25 points behind and nearly beat Clinton today because he did well across all of Nevada — "including rural areas where Democrats have traditionally struggled."

Obama's campaign said his performance in rural areas of the state helped him win a total of 13 national convention delegates, versus 12 for Clinton.

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I Don't Take PAC Money - LIAR, you take loads of it.

Senator Obama didn't say that has never accepted money from political action committees. (He used PAC money in his previous U.S. Senate and Illinois state Senate races.) He pledged that he would not accept PAC money for his 2008 presidential bid, a pledge that he has upheld.

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I don't Have Lobbysists - LIAR, you have over 47 lobbyists, and counting.

Senator Obama did not claim that he doesn't "have lobbysists" [sic]. He stated that he does not employ federally registered lobbyists, and that if he were elected President his administration would not include any such lobbyists.

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My Campaign Had Nothing To Do With The 1984 Ad - LIAR, your own campaign worker made the ad on his Apple in one afternoon.

A widely-circulated spoof of Apple Computer's famous 1984 television advertisement for their (then-new) Macintosh computer was not created by an Obama campaign worker. It was, as explained in a statement issued by the managing director of Blue State Digital (a firm contracted to provide technology services to the Obama Campaign), created without authorization by an employee of that company:
Statement from Thomas Gensemer, Managing Director, Blue State Digital

On Wednesday afternoon, March the 21st, an employee at our firm, Phillip de Vellis, received a call from Arianna Huffington of "The Huffington Post" regarding the "1984" video currently circulating online. Initially, de Vellis refused to respond to her requests. He has since acknowledged to Blue State Digital that he was the creator of the video.

Pursuant to company policy regarding outside political work or commentary on behalf of our clients or otherwise, Mr. de Vellis has been terminated from Blue State Digital effective immediately.

Blue State Digital is under contract with the Obama Campaign for technology pursuits including software development and hosting. Additionally, one of our founding partners is on leave from the company to work directly for the campaign at headquarters.

However, Blue State Digital is not currently engaged in any relationship with the Obama Campaign for creative or non-technical services.

Mr. de Vellis created this video on his own time. It was done without the knowledge of management, and was in no way tied to his work at the firm or our formal engagement [on technology pursuits] with the Obama campaign.

I have spoken with David Plouffe, Sen. Obama's campaign manager, to inform him of this action and am appreciative of his understanding and ongoing support of our work.

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I Have Always Been Against Iraq - LIAR, you weren't in office to vote against it AND you have voted to fund it every single time, unlike Kucinich, who seems to be out gutting you Obama. You also seem to be stepping back from your departure date - AGAIN.

Senator Obama expressed opposition to the war in Iraq well before he gained a seat in the U.S. Senate in 2004. (The vote that authorized U.S. military action in Iraq was held in 2002.) He has since voted in the Senate to authorize funding for that war, for reasons he defended in a February 2008 Democratic debate:
The two Democrats exchanged pointed words over each other's records on the war in Iraq, which contrast sharply even as economic and domestic concerns become dominant in the race. Clinton voted in 2002 to authorize the invasion, which Obama opposed from the start. After Obama again touted a high-profile antiwar speech he gave in Chicago before the war, Clinton pointed out that he, like her, had subsequently voted for war funding, and that their records on Iraq were similar since he came to the Senate in 2005.

"When it wasn't just a speech, but it was actually action, where is the difference?" she said. "Where is the comparison that would in some way give a real credibility to the speech that he gave against the war?"

Obama shot back: "Once we had driven the bus into the ditch, there were only so many ways we could get out."

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Well, I have said my peice and thank God we live in a free nation where you CAN speak the truth without dying for it! You all should remember that. And IF you can't stand it here in the great USA...go to Iraq, Iran, India, China or maybe Africa and see how much better you have it there!! PLease!! Wake up and grow up and STOP this garbage. And to all you "rappers"....you make me sick.
Anne

Ludacrous is neither talented or intelligent...go read about his education on wikipedia...high school and didn't even graduate from Georgia State College...and Obama stated his 3 year old was listening to Ludacrous lyrics...before he dumped Ludacrous for political expediency...I can't wait for the Obama presidency...it will make Jimmy Carter look brilliant

A TOTAL DISGRACE.

To all the haters and supporters in case you didn't know: Obama is half white. So stop preaching white power and stop preaching black pride. He's just another politician and just like any other politician he'd sell his mother for a vote.

I am not a liberal nor a fan of rap, BUT this song is not what the press is trying to make it out to be. Ludacris is speaking a language that the political press does not speak, so how can they evaluate it. Some have gone as far as to say the McCain comment could be a federal offense, get real. And as for Hilary, she is a bitch....Broad In Total Control Here! As for Reverend Jackson and President Bush, far worse have been said. As for parenting choices, excuse the hell out of me, if it wasn't for the trouble making press my family would not have even known this song exist. Now let's do the possitive suggestion, 'So get off your ass, black people, it's time to get out and vote!'