Watch: Obama-Linked Gospel Singer Performs At '04 GOP Convention, Sings About Bush

Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) is under heavy fire over the decision to invite gospel singer Donnie McClurkin on a South Carolina campaign tour this weekend.

McClurkin has vowed to battle "the curse of homosexuality," and insists that sexuality can be changed by religious intervention. "If this is a war, we are willing to fight. Not a war of violence, but a war of purpose," he told the Washington Post in 2004 before performing at the Republican National Convention.

Below, watch McClurkin's performance at the convention, which took place on the final night just hours before President Bush's speech.

At one point, McClurkin even includes Bush in the lyrics of his song, singing in the final verse:

After you've done all you can, you just stand.
Don't give up, don't give in, you just stand.
Oh, Mr. President, tonight, you just stand.

Comments

[PuffAndStuff]

Cute loggin ... Did you nick that nick from 'Too $hort', rapper from the early '90's?

[shag11]

Gaffs like this one show that Obama is not ready for prime time. He should be doing better vetting than this. I guess religion will "cure" all the gay animals also.

[JohnJames]

Is it really a gaffe or an attempt to win blacks from the Hillary camp with a little homophobic wink? I'm not sure, but I wonder.

[JohnJames]

Republicans have been using homophobia targeted at the black community for decades to add on just enough votes to win. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot on the part of black voters.

[TurnThePageGA]

It's okay for Hillary to accept the votes from Homophobic Blacks (your characterization not mine) but not okay for Obama. If the people going to these concerts are Homophobes that Obama is trying to win over why are you okay with Bigots supporting HILARY?

[Dalicious]

What gay animals, the ones on South Park? I defy you to show us a single example -- not one you heard about, but one you personally know to be gay.

Some male primates engage in homosexual behavior as a normal part of adolescence, but they grow out of it. They are not "gay". They don't even have bath houses, for crying out loud! So I defy you to even define "gay animal", much less show us one.

[AnotherTry]

There is an entire museum in Sweden dedicated to them. Google it.

[nycwahoodem]

I, living in New York, have personally seen gay penguins. There are hundreds of examples in zoological literature.

So, you're saying it's not nature? It's a choice to be oppressed and hated? Kindly move your viewing and commenting to Faux please.

[skeptique]

It's the creepy religious dogma that Obama occasionally spews that turns me off, but maybe he's just being calculated, and knows how to get those numbers up in the south, where it counts. There are a lot of people that believe in the whole God thing, and they vote. So pander away I say, or go over and stand next to Kucinich. If Obama weren't shrewd enough to appease the 'value' folks in this country, then he'd REALLY have no prayer.

[PuffAndStuff]

I've always wondered what an African-American Republican -- which sounds like an oxymoron, in and of itself -- was. I guess 'this' is the answer. Good Grief.

[JimR]

Why is it an oxymoron? Because you think all black people are alike?

[sarcasticennui]

You really stepped in it this tims, Barack.

You are definitely not ready for prime time.

[TWOSHORT]

Rep should be backing OBAMA on this one[Family Values]

[changehorses08]

Maybe Obama sees no problem with this because he is a Republican -- triangulation.

[TWOSHORT]

Let's see Black People believe in the Death Pen!Ban on Abortion!Better policing!Strong on defense!And loves them some America [white folk just live here]building a fence cool with them!Now one would ask how does this guy know these thing's?Well i don't,and you want to know why i don't know just like most white folk don't know?Who talk's to Black Men? Other than Bro Al Jesse Armstrong william's,The avenge brother is cut out of this conversation. Spokeman for Black Men of America my ass!Just another form of White entertainment that's all it is when they sit before any camara!BLACK MEN NEED A DEBATE SYSTEM LIKE THE WOMEN'S LEAGUE HAS.