Well, actually he didn’t really sing loudly and fully. President Obama crooned a few words of Al Green song at a fundraiser night, at the the Apollo Theater in New York. He was standing on stage greeting and thanking folks for coming when he sang a bar from the Green classic “Let’s Stay Together.” Yap, Obama sounded good, but the performance was only for a line or two.
People agree to consider it as more than an intermezzo, they pretend to overanalyze the political implications of this act in order to suck out the spontaneity and refill it with the sawdust stuffing of punditry. Obama just like tried to send a message to his base with his choice of song.
‘Let’s Stay Together’- The audiences and media had this as the conclusion: He’s pleading with his core liberal supporters to remain faithful and energized in the coming election even though he has not delivered all they want. Yet this approach shows his political weakness. It was cool, analytic, and not passionate enough. There will be different mean if he makes a more forceful choice, such as Green’s “You Ought to Be With Me?” or Green’s “Full of Fire”. That would have showed more fire in the belly for the coming campaign.
Public and especially admirer saw the leader of the free world took a singing a bar from “Let’s Stay Together” as a rare moment. Let’s forget about the public reaction, assumed whether it is a veto message or a Thanksgiving Proclamation, actually he is not the first president to show his tuneful side to the public. Through the years, commanders-in-chief have turned musicians-in-chief, with varying results. RICHARD NIXON, He played “God Bless America” at the Grand Ole Opry, and the same tune when he accompanied singer Pearl Bailey in the East Room of the White House. The two also conspired on “Home on the Range” and “Wild Irish Rose.”
The next was Thomas Jefferson. He played the violin, and not just to meet women. When he wasn’t writing the Declaration of Independence or rewriting the Bible or inventing a four-sided music stand for string quartets, he made music. Bill Clinton, not yet president, took a giant step in that direction in June 1992 when he showed up with a saxophone and wraparound sunglasses to play “Heartbreak Hotel” on “The Arsenio Hall Show”.
Many other chief executives performed, John Quincy Adams played the flute, Chester Arthur the banjo, Woodrow Wilson the violin, Franklin Roosevelt liked to sing. And the latest, “…I’m so in love with you,” sang the President Obama. Is there any difference with the previous performances? You conclude.
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