Posted on 06/02/2010 9:32:19 PM PDT by kristinn
President Obama may be hitting new lows in the polls these days, but he’s hitting high notes with British music royalty — in the form of Sir Paul McCartney, who sang Obama’s praises tonight and slammed George Bush.
“After the last eight years, it’s great to have a president who knows what a library is,” McCartney quipped at the end of a star-studded ceremony in the White House East Room where he picked up the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song — a lifetime achievement award given by the Library of Congress.
“Getting this prize would just be good enough, but getting it from THIS president …” Sir Paul gushed, to big cheers.
And he assured the mostly American crowd that even though there are “lots of really difficult issues” in the United States, “You have billions of us who are rooting for you and we know you’re going to come through.”
The President got some local props as well from D.C. native and Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl, who declared “Paul: You’re definitely my hero. And Mister President, you’re definitely my other hero.”
For his part, Obama professed that McCartney helped write the soundtrack for a generation.
The former Mop Top did tread into some mock dangerous territory by regaling the First Lady with a tune he said he’d been “itching to do at the White House.”
“I hope the President will forgive me,” McCartney said, then launched into the Beatles hit “Michelle.”
Pool reporter Christina Bellantoni couldn’t see the President’s face, but as she was escorted out heard McCartney joke he’d be “the first guy ever to be punched out by a president.”
Her full pool report is after the jump.
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I guess Paul fails to see that the reason he's been able to revitalize his career by traveling the world playing concerts since 9/11 is because President Bush put global terrorism hard on the defensive. He's on his fourth U.S. tour since 2001.
Paul's not a total puddinghead. He told the Israel boycotters to buzz off by playing Tel Aviv in 2008:
Sir Paul McCartney's decision to play in Tel Aviv was not without controversy, with the singer telling an Israeli journalist: "I was approached by different groups and political bodies who asked me not to come here. I refused. I do what I think, and I have many friends who support Israel."
Apparently, end-stage senility has set in.
Knew there was a good reason I don’t own any Beatles albums.
He should stick to singing and songwriting. As a political philosopher he’s an utter bust.
Real classy there, “Sir Paul”. I’d be willing to let you compare GWB’s college grades with that of the current resident, if that resident weren’t too embarrassed to let the world see his.
Marxists are fond of telling each other how much they love each other.
As the nice lady said: “Shut up and sing!!!”
Paul, shutup and sing.
OKAY....someone post that pic of Obomba carrying that book about the Destruction of America or something like that....and like someone else said....if Obomba is such a "reader/scholar"....lets see THOSE GRADES!
What one should expect from a Brit!
Too much Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds has fried Sir Paul’s brain.
Maybe the Mahareshi can help him
It’s now official for me - nothing good came out of the 60’s.
Move back to the UK SIR BONEHEAD.
A tune writing jerk.
Paul McCartney, a brown noser with money.
He married a nutcase so he’s no judge of character.
Sir Paul is in dire need of some red meat to feed his addled brain. I mean it’s not like Dubya isn’t married to a librarian. Oh wait, he is.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/060817/17bushbooks.htm
McCartney is obviously ignorant of the fact that Bush was an avid reader. And the books he read weren't just lightweight stuff. Karl Rove described the ongoing contest he and Dubya had going, to see who could out-read who. They were plowing through books left and right. It was quite a reading list. I'll bet Bush outreads the boy king five to one.
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