You may be wondering why President Barack Obama stopped at the famous Roscoe's Chicken 'N Waffles in Los Angeles but the answer is simple, he was hungry.

The U.S. pres is on a run in L.A to gather some ends from friends and decided to grab a meal-to-go but he also surprised the guests inside the eatery with some hello time.

It was reported that he ordered a Number 9 labeled the “Country Boy” which consists of three wings, with the choice of waffle, potato salad and French fries.

Not a bad combo meal for the nation's leader on a campaign run. That run was sparked by a dinner held at the home of James Lassiter and his wife, Mai where over 40 celebs including Hillary Duff, Magic Johnson and Will Smith came through at $35,880 per head to raise funds for Obama's re-election.

Check out some pics and video of Barack grabbing grub in the hood.

]]> http://hiphopwired.com/2011/10/25/barack-obama-makes-presidential-grub-stop-at-roscoes-chicken-n-waffles-photos-video/feed/ 0 http://hiphopwired.com/2011/10/21/hip-hop-n-politics-obama-announces-total-iraq-troop-withdrawal-by-year%e2%80%99s-end/ http://hiphopwired.com/2011/10/21/hip-hop-n-politics-obama-announces-total-iraq-troop-withdrawal-by-year%e2%80%99s-end/#comments Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:03:00 +0000 C. Vernon Coleman II http://hiphopwired.com/?p=122889 American Forces Leaving Iraq

After nearly a decade of occupation, with thousands of lives lost on both sides, President Barack Obama announced Friday (October 21) that U.S troops will be out of Iraq by the end of the year.

This announcement comes nine years since U.S troop entered Iraq and will signify the end of the long and turmoil filled war that cost the U.S $1 trillion and more than 4,400 lives.

Obama officially made the announcement at the White House that the remaining 39,000 troops will be home for New Year's. Both Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki believe this is the best way moving forward.

“After a decade of war, the nation that we need to build and the nation that we will build is our own,” Obama said earlier in a brief speech.

The relationship of the U.S and Iraq will now become that between two sovereign nations. The only American troops that will remain in Iraq into the New Year will be the 150 troops that guard the U.S embassy in Baghdad.

Tavis Smiley and Cornel West were guests on The O'Reilly Factor and got into a heated argument with Bill about what he believes to be a cry for socialism.

On Fox's show The Five, the co-hosts went in on West and Smiley who feel like Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain "trivializes" race in America.

Juan Williams, Greg Gutfeld and the rest of the co-hosts of the show get at the two activists saying they feel like Cain poses a threat to them because he doesn't focus solely on race.

Juan says, "These are the same people who criticized President Obama." He feels they are underestimating and insulting Cain by assuming he's a token candidate for the republicans.

Should Herman Cain focus on his skin color even though he said he would destroy Obama in a debate because he's never been a part of the "black experience?"

View the clip.

The Martin Luther King Memorial dedication ceremony in D.C. was supposed to happen on August 28th but due to Hurricane Irene, it is being pushed back to October 16th.

President Barack Obama was scheduled to speak on the August date which is also the 48th anniversary of King's "I Have A Dream" speech.

Instead the ceremony will take place on the 16th anniversary of another historic event, The Million Man March.

Obama is on deck to speak again at the memorial in Washington D.C according to Executive Architect Ed Jackson.

We're going to need President Barack Obama to get his people under control...

According to reports, President Obama's uncle was stopped on suspicion of drunken driving, told police he planned to arrange bail through the White House and was being held without bail by immigration officials.

Reports state that Onyango Obama was arrested last week in Framingham, Massachusetts, just outside of Boston, after police said he made a rolling stop through a stop sign and nearly caused a cruiser to hit his sport utility vehicle.

MSNBC.com reports:

Police said that after being booked at the police station, Obama was asked whether he wanted to make a telephone call to arrange for bail.

"I think I will call the White House," he stated, according to a police report filed in Framingham District Court.

Police said Obama, who's originally from Kenya and is the half-brother of the president's late father, pleaded not guilty Friday and was being held without bail on a detainer from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

In a court document, ICE said he had an earlier deportation or removal order.

Obama, 67, was charged with operating under the influence of alcohol, negligent operation of a motor vehicle and failure to yield the right of way.

Onyango must have thought namedropping the President would be a "get out of jail free" card.

Rush Limbaugh is continuing his mission to soil Obama's name but this time he's wondering why dirt hasn't been slung already.

Limbaugh pointed out on his radio show, "

This one is, 'Where are all of Obama's former girlfriends?' It's a takeoff on where are all of the students Obama taught who claim to have been inspired by him when he taught law at the University of Chicago. Where are all of the former classmates of Obama who can tell wonderful stories about their experience with Obama on campus or in the classroom?"

Rush wants to know where Obama's former girlfriends and classmates are and states that the public knows very little about a man who has written two autobiographies.

"Media hasn't dug 'em up. It is interesting from the standpoint that the guy has not been vetted yet. Look what they're trying to do to Michele Bachmann, what they're planning on doing to [Rick] Perry and so forth."

Listen to the audio below.

Texas Governor Rick Perry, who recently announced he would be running for president in 2012, might want to choose his words a little more wisely.

According to reports, when speaking of President Barack Obama, Perry referred to the President as a, "big black cloud" hanging over the country and also added that there is a "big black guy running the country and I'm not too happy about it."

From Loop21.com:

When talking about the state of the economy and how President Barack Obama is handling it, he chose some rather colorful language.

"He says he's on a listening tour, so I'm going to talk to him," said Perry with this Texas twang.

"Mr. President, you need to free up the employers of this country to create jobs...I'm a pro-business governor, I don't make any apologies about it and I will be a pro-business president."

After that he said that a "big black cloud" was hanging over the country. In Perry-speak that means there's a "big black guy running the country and I'm not too happy about it."

But Obama wasn't the only person in Perry's crosshairs. He also attacked the real president Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.

In response to whispers of Bernanke possibly printing more money, Perry quipped, "If this guy prints more money between now and the election, I dunno what y'all would do to him in Iowa but we would treat him pretty ugly down in Texas."

Does this sound like someone that should be the next U.S. president? Doubt that.

Fox News, who has a history of taunting President Barack Obama, were back to their old tricks when FoxNews.com affiliate site The Fox Nation published an article on Friday, calling Obama's 50th birthday celebration a "Hip-Hop BBQ" and stating that the event "Didn't Create Jobs."

The New York Times reports:

“Obama's Hip-Hop BBQ Didn't Create Jobs,” read the headline on an article on The Fox Nation, a conservative arm of FoxNews.com, which is owned by the News Corporation.

Below the headline were photos of Mr. Obama and, separately, three black celebrities who attended the party, the basketball player Charles Barkley, the comedian Chris Rock and the rapper Jay-Z.

Not pictured were any attendees of other racial backgrounds, like the actor Tom Hanks or Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago.

The article, published Friday morning, generated more than 2,000 comments and substantial objections from people who found it to be inaccurate at best and racist at worst.

Media Matters for America, a progressive group that campaigns against Fox, asserted that the article was part of a pattern of “race-baiting headlines and content” on the Web site.

It's obvious the editor's motives in this article were racially charged.

Was using photos of Chris Rock, Charles Barkley and Jay-Z, and singling them out as guests supposed to be funny?

Although anything that's familiar with Fox News shouldn't be surprised.

They're known for their juvenile reporting and one-sided opinions when it comes to matters in reporting of Obama (well, when it comes to reporting, period).

How do you feel about the "Hip-Hop BBQ" comments?

Is this another racial jab at President Obama by Fox News? Or are people being too sensitive?

Barack Obama Sr. was planning to give up our nation's president for adoption back in 1961 according to The Boston Globe.

President Obama's father was studying at The University of Hawaii and had an interview with an immigration official who recalled the conversation on April 12th, 1961.

“Subject got his USC wife ‘Hapai' [Hawaiian for pregnant] and although they were married they do not live together and Miss Dunham is making arrangements with the Salvation Army to give the baby away,'' according to a memo describing the conversation with Obama written by Lyle H. Dahling, an administrator in the Honolulu office of what was then called the US Immigration and Naturalization Service.

The president himself admits in his memoirs, “Dreams from My Father," that his mother Ann Dunham did in fact, think about giving him up but his mother's family and friends deny that she ever considered adoption.

Well it all could have turned out very different if they had decided to let little Barack fall into the hands of the system.

While speaking at a recent Manhattan fundraiser President Barack Obama all but verbally co-signed the idea of legalizing gay-marriage, asking people in the gay and lesbian community for patience as lawmakers work out the issue through the democratic process.

“I believe that gay couples deserve the same legal rights as every other couple in this country,” the president said.

 

New York lawmakers are in the process of debating whether to make a legislation that would legalize gay marriage, making New York the sixth and largest state to do so.

In his speech Obama noted that his feeling on same sex marriage were “evolving” but that he still supports civil unions as opposed to same sex marriages.

He assured New Yorkers to remain steadfast through the process and said he is confident that there will come a day, “when every single American, gay or straight or lesbian or bisexual or transgender, is free to live and love as they see fit.”

The Senate ended its Thursday session without voting on the “same sex marriage” bill and plan to take it up again Friday (June 24).

“Yes, we have more work to do,” Obama said. “Yes, we have more progress to make.

Whether or not Obama will support gay marriage in the upcoming election is unclear.