Friday, May 17, 2013

THE EMPRESS OF SOUL GLADYS KNIGHT MUST BE SO DISAPPOINTED

Gladys Knight is known as The Empress of Soul. A superb example of this is this cover version of Help Me Make it Through the Night.
Gladys Knight & The Pips - Help Me Make It Through The Night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-8TUaY_dfg


Gladys Knight is a Mormon. But she loves Obama. In an interview last year she had this to say when she was asked if she wanted fellow Mormon Romney in The White House:
Not now. I have to be honest with you; it's not about your faith, even if the church itself in its structure is perfect, the people in it are not. That's not to say he's not a good person, don't get me wrong. But I would not vote for him just because he is Mormon. I want to know what he is going to do for the people. I want to see the compassion. I want to talk about something else besides the money. I know how hard it is to send two kids to college when you ain't got nothing. I know people may not think of me in that way, but this business gives you ups and downs. ... I am a Barack Obama fan, from head-to-toe, always have been. He's not perfect; nobody is going to be that way. Until you sit in that office, at that desk, don't tell me what you're going to do because you are going to come in and have some of the same problems as he did.

[source : Gladys Knight: I wouldn't vote for Romney, Politico, http://www.politico.com/blogs/click/2012/03/gladys-knight-i-wouldnt-vote-for-romney-118166.html, 21st March 2012]

Knight released this video for Obama.
Gladys Knight's Video for President Barack Obama & the world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tolvu3kjUTw


With The Pips she also made this cover version of Let There Be Peace on Earth (And Let it Begin With Me).
Let There Be Peace On Earth - Gladys Knight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLgwt-AgvbA


Here is Obama with his 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.


There is a growing campaign for this prize to be revoked.
The Nobel Peace Prize that President Obama received 40 months ago has emerged as the most appalling Orwellian award of this century. No, war is not peace.

George Carlin used to riff about oxymorons like "jumbo shrimp," "genuine imitation," "political science" and "military intelligence." But humor is of the gallows sort when we consider the absurdity and tragedy of the world's most important peace prize honoring the world's top war maker.

This week, a challenge has begun with the launch of a petition urging the Norwegian Nobel Committee to revoke Obama's Peace Prize. By midnight of the first day, nearly 10,000 people had signed. The online petition simply tells the Nobel committee: "I urge you to rescind the Nobel Peace Prize that was awarded to Barack Obama."

[source : Africa: The Growing Campaign to Revoke Obama's Nobel Peace Prize, AllAfrica, http://allafrica.com/stories/201304050267.html, 5th April 2013]

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