Beyoncé to Belt for Obama's First Dance

January 16, 2009 | Today's Top Stories
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Superstar Beyoncé Knowles has been tapped to sing a song for Michelle and Barack Obama's first dance on the night of the inauguration.

The two-time Grammy nominee will take the stage at the official Neighborhood Ball in Washington D.C., along with her husband Jay-Z, Mariah Carey, Alicia Keys, Shakira, Sting, Faith Hill, Mary J. Blige, Stevie Wonder and Maroon 5.

The Presidential Inaugural Committee has remained tight-lipped about the melody that was chosen as the first dance for the 44th President and his First Lady. "It is our hope that we can keep the song secret until the moment," spokeswoman Linda Douglass told AP.

The Ball will also feature appearances by Hollywood's own Denzel Washington, Jessica Alba, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx, Queen Latifah and Kate Walsh, but the Inaugural Committee wants Americans to celebrate the historic inauguration on Main Street as well!

"We are encouraging people all around the country to have their own inaugural ball," explained Douglass. "All Americans are invited to take a moment and have a little party, and they'll be connected to the folks in Washington and the Neighborhood Ball through both broadcast and on the Internet."

The Neighborhood Ball will be televised on ABC. President-elect Barack Obama will take his presidential oath on January 20.

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Why dont u guys make an interview about jay z and the secret society in the entertaiment business????…..

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THAYNARA
February 12, 2009

Can we say spending bill…there is nothing here to help businesses…

Anonymous
February 1, 2009

how is preventing STD’S going to stimulate the economy?

how is preventing STD'S going to stimulate the economy?
January 31, 2009

$335,000,000 FOR STD PREVENTION IN ECONOMIC STIMULUS BILL
Wed Jan 28 2009 09:58:30 ET

Democrats may have eliminated provisions on birth control and sod for the National Mall in the “job stimulus” — but buried on page 147 of the bill is stimulation for prevention of sexually transmitted diseases!

The House Democrats’ bill includes $335 million for sexually transmitted disease education and prevention programs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

$335,000,000 FOR STD PREVENTION IN ECONOMIC STIMULUS BILL
January 28, 2009

NEWS FLASH - Obama Bipartisan my b*tt!

“President Barack Obama got the $825 (or $1.2 trillion over a decade) stimulus package through the House of Representatives but the 244 to 188 vote is a hollow victory indeed. Without a single Republican voting for the bill, his high-profile visit to Capitol Hill on Tuesday came to exactly naught - at least on the House side.

Obama vowed to change Washington and usher in a new post-partisan era. The the mood music and optics were pitch perfect as he trekked up to the Hill. Republicans praised his gesture, welcomed his sincere demeanour and appreciated his willingness to listen.

Problem was, he wanted only to listen and did not want to act on what Republicans said. When he was asked if he would re-structure the package to include more tax cuts, he reportedly responded: “Feel free to whack me over the head because I probably will not compromise on that part.”

He apparently added: ” I understand that and I will watch you on Fox News and feel bad about myself.”

That’s fine. No doubt Obama will indeed get beaten up on Fox News. But his failure to get even the squishiest moderate Republican - including the 11 entertained in the White House by Rahm Emanuel last night - to back him is not merely a big score for Rep Eric Cantor, Republican Whip, and the rest of the GOP leadership….

The Democratic leadership on Capitol Hill badly miscalculated by treating the bill as a victor’s charter. Not that it seemed to bother Nancy Pelosi (WHO DOESN’T CARE ABOUT BI-PARTISANSHIP…IN THE LEAST!), Speaker of the House, who grinned from ear to ear as she announced the result of the vote.

Obama said yesterday he did not feel he had ownership of the bill (BULL!!!!). Be that as it may, if it goes through the Senate in similar fashion and is signed into law then - the efforts of Pelosio and Senator Harry Reid notwithstanding - it will be his and his alone.

THIS GOES TO SHOW THAT OBAMA IS NOT INTERESTED IN HEARING WHAT 48% OF THE US POPULATION THINKS. THIS IS A SPENDING BILL FOR DEMOCRATIC PET PROJECTS. DON’T BE DECEIVED PEOPLE…THIS MAN IS MAKING AND ENDORCING BAD DECISIONS.

Anonymous
January 28, 2009

yeah, Obama did do something, he admitted he has muslim relatives. ———————————————————————————————————————————
“Obama called for a new partnership with the Muslim world “based on mutual respect and mutual interest.” He talked about growing up in Indonesia, the Muslim world’s most populous nation, and noted that he has Muslim relatives.”

yeah, Obama did do something, he admitted he has muslim relatives.
January 28, 2009

SARCASM, SARCASM, SARCASM, OBAMA HAS NOT DONE DIDDLY SQUAT!!!!!!!!!!NADA, NIL, NEIN.

OBAMA HAS DONE NOTHING
January 27, 2009

It’s not that, Kelly. We’re wondering what he’s DONE to have GOTTEN the job of president - PS to comment from 1/27/09 @ 8:06 and 8:13 (who posts to Kelly)Please, please, please, don’t tell me you were citing those ‘things done’ as POSITIVES. I’m hoping you were being sarcastic…

Anonymous
January 27, 2009

dear puzzled: you hit the nail on the head!!!! You don’t sound ‘puzzled’ to ME; but you’re right, anyway - it IS puzzling - AND VEXING to realize how people just lost it over the ‘face’ of things…

???
January 27, 2009

What’s with democrats attempting to sensor conservative talk show hosts?? Idiots…

Anonymous
January 27, 2009

If you folks would read my post correctly, you will see that nowhere did I say that he’d done nothing. What I said was that I couldn’t get over the fact that people posting expected everything to be accomplished in his first week of office. Pay attention.

Kelly
January 27, 2009

hey Kelly, this is something else he has done, President Barack Obama on Tuesday chose an Arabic satellite TV network for HIS FIRST FORMAL TELEVISION INTERVIEW AS PRESIDENT, delivering a message to the Muslim world that “Americans are not your enemy”——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————-CASTING PEARLS TO THE SWINE. HIS FIRST FORMAL TELEVISION INTERVIEW AS PRESIDENT IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN AMERICANS 1ST. WHAT KIND OF SHENNIGANS IS THAT?????????

CASTING PEARLS TO THE SWINE.
January 27, 2009

1st comes the muslims, 2nd dogs, 3rd the americans. americans should come first, what the hell is going on?

- 1st comes the muslims, 2nd dogs, 3rd the americans.

- 1st comes the muslims, 2nd dogs, 3rd the americans
January 27, 2009

Jan 27, 7:01 AM (ET)

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday chose an Arabic satellite TV network for his first formal television interview as president, delivering a message to the Muslim world that “Americans are not your enemy.”

The interview underscored Obama’s commitment to repair relations with the Muslim world that have suffered under the previous administration.

The president expressed an intention to engage the Middle East immediately and his new envoy to the region, former Sen. George J. Mitchell, was expected to arrived in Egypt on Tuesday for a visit that will also take him to Israel, the West Bank, Jordan, Turkey and Saudi Arabia.

“My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy,” Obama told the Saudi-owned, Dubai-based Al-Arabiya news channel.

Obama said the U.S. had made mistakes in the past but “that the same respect and partnership that America had with the Muslim world as recently as 20 or 30 years ago, there’s no reason why we can’t restore that.”

During his presidency, former President George W. Bush gave several interviews to Al-Arabiya but the wars he launched in Iraq and Afghanistan prompted a massive backlash against the U.S. in the Muslim world.

Al-Arabiya has scored interviews with top U.S. officials in the past, including Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

The Saudi-owned channel is seen by some in Washington as more balanced in its coverage than its Qatar-funded rival Al-Jazeera, which the previous White House administration complained had an anti-American bias.

Obama called for a new partnership with the Muslim world “based on mutual respect and mutual interest.” He talked about growing up in Indonesia, the Muslim world’s most populous nation, and noted that he has Muslim relatives.

The new president said he felt it was important to “get engaged right away” in the Middle East and had directed Mitchell to talk to “all the major parties involved.” His administration would craft an approach after that, he said in the interview.

“What I told him is start by listening, because all too often the United States starts by dictating,” Obama told the interviewer.

The president reiterated the U.S. commitment to Israel as an ally and to its right to defend itself. But he suggested that both Israel and the Palestinians have hard choices to make.

“I do believe that the moment is ripe for both sides to realize that the path that they are on is one that is not going to result in prosperity and security for their people,” he said, calling for a Palestinian state that is contiguous with internal freedom of movement and can trade with neighboring countries.

Obama also said that recent statements and messages issued by the al-Qaida terror network suggest they do not know how to deal with his new approach.

“They seem nervous,” he told the interviewer. “What that tells me is that their ideas are bankrupt.”

In his latest message on Jan. 14, al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden said Obama had been left with a “heavy inheritance” of Bush’s wars.

Shortly after the election, the network’s number two, Ayman al-Zawahri used a demeaning racial term for a black American who does the bidding of whites to describe Obama.

The message suggested the terror network was worried Obama could undermine its rallying cry that the U.S. is an enemy oppressor. ————————————————————————————————————————————————MAYBE SOMETHING GOOD CAN COME OUT OF SOMETHING BAD, PRESIDENT DID SAY HE HAS MUSLIM RELATIVES. MAYBE THAT WILL BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN MUSLIMS AND AMERICANS???????????


- “Americans are not your enemy.”

hey kelly this is something else Obama has done- "Americans are not your enemy."
January 27, 2009

HEY KELLY, HE HAS DONE SOMETHING ALREADY, READ UP ON THE FACTS AND YOU WILL FIND OUT WHAT HE HAS DONE. LET ME GIVE YOU A CLUE, HE DID SIGN ORDERS TO CLOSE GUANTANMO BAY WITHIN A YEAR. WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN UNDERNEATH A ROCK? THAT IS ONE THING HE HAS DONE. YOU NEED TO READ TO FIND OUT WHAT ELSE HE HAS DONE. YOUR WORDS ARE BANKRUPT, NOTHING THERE.

HEY KELLY
January 27, 2009

OMG…I can’t believe half the things I’m readin gon here. The man has been President for exactly one week….were you all expecting everything to be accomplished within that short time? If so, you’re completely delusional.Change takes time….helloooo!!!

Kelly
January 27, 2009

well like the ole saying goes “TELL ME WHO YOUR FRIENDS ARE AND I WILL TELL YOU WHO YOU ARE”

TELL ME WHO YOUR FRIENDS ARE AND I WILL TELL YOU WHO YOU ARE"
January 26, 2009

I’m still trying to figure out if there were any “white” entertainers whom performed at any of his several BALLS that night? Beyonce, Aretha Franklin, Kanye West…

The media has established that this was an “Historical Election”, and a “Historical moment”… What about the job as President? Is he “qualified”?? Does he have the time and knowledge invested to have the know-how to perform the duties as President?

Obama = three year Senator, Community Organizer.. Military time = Zero.. Exactly what has he done for his country…? (no not that one, this one).

McCain = 26 year Senator.. 23 years of Military experience, a 5 year POW…

Just comparing resumes made up my mind, …so why when I express discontent for our “President” do I become dubbed a racist? And, that said, if I am racist is it against his Black Father, or his White Mother?? (because the reality is, racism is a two way street).

Experience - matters
Associations (the company you keep) - Matters
History - matters

Apparently too many saw “color” and the opportunity to “make history”. Instead of doing the right thing….

puzzled
January 26, 2009
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