Watch: Obama Busts A Move On "Ellen"

Barack Obama stopped by "Ellen" today to chat it up with the daytime host and woo her soccer mom demographic. He showed off some dance moves that just might rival MC Rove.

Comments

[citizenforobama]

Why don't you get your FACTS correct regarding Rev. McClurkin. He had one Gospel singer at ONE event that the LGBT community led by the minions of the Clinton camp made into a big deal on the Internet. For YOUR INFORMATION, Hillary has 3, count them 3 ANTI-GAY ministers on her campaign staff. And your comments regarding Senator Obama's dance moves showss just how racist you are! I am a white woman who has interacted with the African American community all my life, and I have seen how Black men tend to at times be reserved when dancing with a white woman, and even on Ellen's own show. So stop making this into bash Obama thing, and ask this, why did Hillary demand she didn't have to dance? Perhaps because she couldn't move? Or shall we discuss her "affinity" to Ellen's lifestyle? Want to go there? Would be happy to enlighten you. I thought the Huffington Post was better than this. Allowing such garbage to be posted is just plain insulting to a legitimate Presidential candidate. That man has more class than you could ever hope to have and most certainly more intelligence. Or do you want "Robot" Clinton? Serves you right if this is the way you bash someone who was trying to go along with that silly, dance with Ellen, part of her show. He is a serious man, running for a serious position, or aren't you even concerned with that, just bash a black man. Feel good about it? Go to the Druge report and do your thing. Next time I see Arianna Huffington on TV I am going that have that much less respect for her for making this into a place where any troll can come and post stupid comments.

[dora rice]

another myth that all black men can dance. Far from it.

[SeanGardner]

Here everyone:

A great link with you about the hypocrisy regarding Obama and McClurkin: http://www.thebarackobamareport.com/the_barack_obama_report/2007/10/is-human-rights.html.

Check this link out too: http://mydd.com/story/2007/10/24/162436/74

[Qbear]

LYING sack-O-sh*t Sean ad his goon Zhonni
like o tag team posters

[Juno912]

Give him a bikini and put him in a little cage and Barry can be a go-go boy at Hillary Clinton's inauguration.

[NotaBeliever]

For a presidential candidate, he doesn't dance half badly ... which is kind of damning with faint praise. I just wish he could have played the saxophone or done something *cool*. Dancing with Ellen is about the farthest thing from *cool*.

[dora rice]

you got it. Bad judgement . lololol.....wonder if he would show bad judgement like that in the White House.

[Arvin]

Oh boy. That was painful. It was like watching an elderly relative who you cheer on just for trying. Unfortunately, its embarassing when you're not 80+ years old. And since this whole thread is pretty frivolous: I might as well add, his pants were too short, as was the jacket (it looked like a woman's pantsuit), just look how high his cuffs rode up! Just like the rest of his campaign, he was not very well put-together....

[Marlyn]

Arvin, you are so out of it. Obama is setting a new style trend, short pants, small light weight jacket, ...

No more jailin' in you big brother's clothes.

[studioh!]

Looks pretty stiff for a black man - he is black isn't he?
Can hardly wait to see all the inaugural balls!

[callie]

OMG! Who cares if he can dance? What earthly difference does it make? He's running for President, not for Prom King. Geez.

[starrianna]

judging from that dance,

he's running for Prom QUEEN!

[Brettster]

This is by far the most shameful reporting I've ever seen on huffingtonpost. This is worthy of drudgereport. A blatant fucking smear. I thought this was supposed to be a progressive site?? This is disgusting. Comparing him to Rove, are you kidding me?? I wonder how the hell some of you have watched that video. He's dancing absolutely fine, it's just a reserved laid-back politician dance. It's absolutely night and day from Karl Rove. Most people who aren't just totally blinded by partisan (and in this case, intra-partisan) attack politics would be rather impressed by that. A guy like him who clearly could get looser and break down is just fucked no matter what he does. A politician could never dance good enough, especially a black one. If he really went for it and got down and funky, it would be blasted all over the place and used against him somehow (apparently at this site too). If he's reserved, he's blasted as a bad dancer. I think he was smooth, Ellen even commented that he had some moves. It's really quite rude of her to pressure every guest to dance in the first place.

You people out on the attack for Obama, and just conjuring this up to attack him with should be absolutely ashamed of yourselves. You are Rush/Hannity/Drudge in progressive clothing. You are what's wrong with this country, you are why George Bush gets elected. You are no better than Drudge Report. This is a disturbing pattern I've been seeing on Huffpost, and this is one of the worst. Absolutely meaningless bullshit being posted with a negative headline, trying to damage a GREAT candidate.

[starrianna]

Girlfriend can't dance! Deal!

[CammyV]

OhgodIlovesterotypes.

[future]

I thought Obama looked sexy. Kinda made me think of Bill Clinton's saxophone performance.

[barackoblogger]

And like the other poster said, if you're over the age of 40, and you're at a "professional" event dressed up in your work clothes, you're not going to get down and get funky. You don't want to sweat and get your clothes/hair all messed up.

You've got to do the restrained professional dance so that you're not the talk of the office watercooler the next day.

[barackoblogger]

If you're dating a ballerina, wouldn't you find it obnoxious if she went into full-on "dancer" mode every time you danced? She would hold back (hopefully).

[barackoblogger]

I meant to say "in front of a white crowd"

[barackoblogger]

I'm black, and Obama did what most of usually do when we're dancing with white people or in front of a white, he held back his "moves" out of respect for the other person. As the poster said, no one likes to be seen as a "showboater."

Plus, if you're black and you get out on the dancefloor in front of a white crowd, everybody is staring at you, expecting to see you break out like MC Hammer.

But you could tell there were some moments when he got his groove on, and it's there.

And the whole anti-gay thing is ridiculous. Every presidential candidate in this race, including Hillary Clinton, has shared the stage with someone from a church that has its OWN views about gays that some would consider homophobic.

Stop trying to blow this up into something.

[cuthbertallgood]

Show me one example from any candidate in history, a Democratic cadidate, that has allowed a preacher to give a message against a singled out group of people at an official campaign event.
You can't because until Obama, such things were exclusive to the GOP. But do go look for one.
Honest talk is the only way out of this. Ridicule and dismissive attitudes will not win votes for your candidate. Do you seriously think that they will?

[OneWoman]

Are you kidding me?! Does misogyny not even enter your mind?! The things I've heard said about women...