# Obama Sings Al Green
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-sings-al-green/610940
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [January 28, 2012, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-sings-al-green/610940 "2012-01-28T02:04:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2012, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-sings-al-green/610940/1 "2012-01-28T02:04:52Z")
[Here.](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/obama-al-green-lets-stay-together-sales-spike-285258)
I enjoyed this on a level that is hard to explain. Just hard to describe _why_ this is so awesome.
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### Author:  [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2012, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-sings-al-green/610940/2 "2012-01-28T03:45:07Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#):
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> I enjoyed this on a level that is hard to explain. Just hard to describe _why_ this is so awesome.
Because he sang so awesomely. I was still surprised at the beauty of Obama’s singing voice, even though his speaking voice is wonderful too.
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### Author:  [@foxymoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foxymoron)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2012, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-sings-al-green/610940/3 "2012-01-28T03:58:51Z")
Saw the clip a few days ago. I swooned.
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### Author:  [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2012, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-sings-al-green/610940/4 "2012-01-28T04:31:26Z")
Going to move this over to Cafe Society.
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### Author:  [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2012, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-sings-al-green/610940/5 "2012-01-28T04:43:45Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#):
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> [Here.](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/obama-al-green-lets-stay-together-sales-spike-285258)
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> I enjoyed this on a level that is hard to explain. Just hard to describe _why_ this is so awesome.
Seriously. Why was that so cool? Must be my Obamatron programing.
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### Author:  [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2012, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-sings-al-green/610940/6 "2012-01-28T04:46:25Z")
I saw the clip unexpectedly the other day on The Daily Show and didn’t know what to make of it. I was like “wait, what?” but it was over.
Today I heard it on the radio and I too was all _swoon_.
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2012, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-sings-al-green/610940/7 "2012-01-28T04:54:26Z")
I was really surprised at the quality of his singing voice.
What’s incredible is how apeshit angry some conservative talking heads are about this. Apparently until the economy is fully recovered Obama should only be appearing in sack cloth and ashes and if he sings at all it should be a dirge. It really is amazing at just how little he has to do to piss off right wingers.
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### Author:  [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2012, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-sings-al-green/610940/8 "2012-01-28T05:07:11Z")
OBAMA IS NOT ALLOWED TO LOOK COOL. Especially not during a campaign season, god dammit.
OK, but seriously, how cool was that? At the Apollo, too!
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### Author:  [@Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runs_With_Scissors)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2012, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-sings-al-green/610940/9 "2012-01-28T05:10:32Z")
I wish he had done a few more lines. Not the entire song. Just a few more lines.
Crikey, what a great time to be an American 🙂
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### Author:  [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2012, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-sings-al-green/610940/10 "2012-01-28T05:30:01Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#):
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> OBAMA IS NOT ALLOWED TO LOOK COOL…
Then he would be in real trouble, wouldn’t he? I mean, this cat is _made_ of cool.
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2012, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-sings-al-green/610940/11 "2012-01-28T06:21:44Z")
> [@Biggirl](#):
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> Seriously. Why was that so cool? Must be my Obamatron programing.
No, it’s your Al Green programming. I’m still singing along. When a president gets a white dude singing along it has to be righteous.
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2012, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-sings-al-green/610940/12 "2012-01-28T06:24:01Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#):
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> Then he would be in real trouble, wouldn’t he? I mean,\*\* this cat is _made_ of cool.\*\*
I’m stealing that.
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### Author:  [@PeacePlease](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PeacePlease)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2012, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-sings-al-green/610940/13 "2012-01-28T06:43:09Z")
That was bitchin’ on sooooo many levels!!!
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2012, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-sings-al-green/610940/14 "2012-01-28T07:11:55Z")
A pity Cee Lo wasn’t there; I’d love to hear him sing a couple of bars of _Forget You_, preferably the original, just to watch Hannity, O’Reilly, Santorum, and Glenn Beck all spontaneously combust.
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2012, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-sings-al-green/610940/15 "2012-01-28T08:22:33Z")
Phbttt! Let me know when he starts playing the saxophone, then we’ll talk about cool.
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### Author:  [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2012, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-sings-al-green/610940/16 "2012-01-28T14:38:48Z")
He could have had a bad singing voice and it still would have been cool.
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### Author:  [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2012, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-sings-al-green/610940/17 "2012-01-28T14:55:09Z")
Obama sings Al Green at the Apollo.
Why?
He was at the _Apollo_.
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### Author:  [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2012, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-sings-al-green/610940/18 "2012-01-28T14:57:10Z")
And suddenly Al Green’s greatest hits album is back on the charts.
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### Author:  [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2012, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-sings-al-green/610940/19 "2012-01-28T15:14:21Z")
He is the coolest ever. I saw this days ago and I’ve watched it numerous times. How can people not like him? I truly don’t get it.
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### Author:  [@DonLogan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DonLogan)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2012, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-sings-al-green/610940/20 "2012-01-28T15:26:35Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#):
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> How can people not like him? I truly don’t get it.
He’s black, smart, and The Boss of Everything.
Any one of those things is enough for some people to not like him.
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