# RNC responds to Obama's slow jam
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-responds-to-obamas-slow-jam/620028
**Category:** Politics & Elections
**Created:** [April 26, 2012, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-responds-to-obamas-slow-jam/620028 "2012-04-26T15:25:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2012, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-responds-to-obamas-slow-jam/620028/22 "2012-04-26T22:41:05Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#):
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> Might as well ask here…
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> What does it mean to use ‘slow jam’ as a verb?
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> Is this a Jimi Falon thing? Something wider I’ve missed all along?
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> A slow jam is an umbrella term for music with R&B and Soul influences. Slow jams are commonly R&B ballads or downtempo songs. The term is most commonly reserved for soft-sounding songs with heavily emotional or romantic lyrical content.
]([Slow jam - Wikipedia](http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_jam))
To use it as a verb would be akin to telling a band to jam, except you want the jam to be in an R&B vein.
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### Author:  [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2012, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-responds-to-obamas-slow-jam/620028/23 "2012-04-26T23:19:44Z")
Which (to me) makes absolutely no sense in the context of “Obama slow jams the news.”
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2012, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-responds-to-obamas-slow-jam/620028/24 "2012-04-27T00:32:18Z")
Would “Obama raps the news” make sense? How about “Obama rocks the news?” Same principle.
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### Author:  [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2012, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-responds-to-obamas-slow-jam/620028/25 "2012-04-27T01:11:24Z")
It looks like the GOP is trying to present Mitt as serious and formal while Obama is singing songs and playing around. That will probably play with some people, but to me it looks a little bit like sour grapes that their candidate isn’t someone who would pull a big audience on a talk show or news comedy bit. Obama is the POTUS, so he has gravitas coming out of his ears already, plus he can communicate in all these modes to which the GOP appears to be deaf. Which guy looks more able to put on a game face to speak to the Colombian leader, or the Russian or French or whatever leader?
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### Author:  [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2012, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-responds-to-obamas-slow-jam/620028/26 "2012-04-27T03:48:39Z")
> [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#):
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> Obama is the POTUS, so he has gravitas coming out of his ears already, plus he can communicate in all these modes to which the GOP appears to be deaf.
As Obama explained, “POTUS stands for President of the United States”. 😃
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2012, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-responds-to-obamas-slow-jam/620028/27 "2012-04-27T05:52:49Z")
> [@](#):
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> Which guy looks more able to put on a game face to speak to the Colombian leader, or the Russian or French or whatever leader?
Which is probably part of why the Republicans have been trying to portray talking to other world leaders as a bad thing.
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2012, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-responds-to-obamas-slow-jam/620028/28 "2012-04-27T20:32:18Z")
[The GOP’s Fear of a Cool Obama.](http://www.thenation.com/blog/167617/gops-fear-cool-obama)
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