Many have wondered if President Obama would issue an official statement regarding the death of Michael Jackson. He does not intend to, but White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs did provide some information on the president’s thoughts.
“He said to me that obviously Michael Jackson was a spectacular performer, a music icon, and I think everybody remembers hearing his songs, watching him moonwalk on television during Motown’s 25th anniversary,” Gibbs said June 26. “But the President also said he had aspects of his life that were sad and tragic. His condolences went out to the Jackson family and to fans who mourned his loss,” he added.
On NBC’s Meet The Press June 28, host David Gregory asked White House Advisor David Axelrod why Americans haven’t heard more from Obama about this.
“The president has not spoken directly about the death of Michael Jackson, and yet, obviously, people around the world are talking about it,” Gregory said. “Before there was Barack Obama, before Tiger Woods and Oprah Winfrey, there was Michael Jackson crossing over, breaking barriers. Does the president see it that way?”
“The president obviously believes that he was an important and magnificent performer, and, obviously, he led a sad life in many ways, as well. But his impact is undeniable,” Axelrod said. “The president has written the family and has shared his feelings with the family, and he felt that was the appropriate way to go.”
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achile bashir ishaq
Location: dekina kogi state nigeria
29 June 2009 at 15:44 EDT
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micheal jackson is the beacon behind the flow of music of our time, his death is a great loss to the whole world
Osvaldo Oliveira
Location: B. Pinhal ( Rio Grande do Sul / Brazil )
30 June 2009 at 15:11 EDT
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” Never in story of this country, so much men to make in not much time, for very peoples with so much competence and responsibility “.
Congratulations, Barack Obama !
Thank you, for your dedication the american cause :” The progress of the nation”.
Osvaldo Oliveira, Brazil
lindas
1 July 2009 at 03:23 EDT
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micheal jackson is the beacon behind the flow of music of our time, his death is a great loss to the whole world
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Blessing
Location: Weppa Farm, Agenebode
2 July 2009 at 03:21 EDT
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Michael Jackson’s death touches everyone in the nation.
May his gentle soul rest in perfect peace.
Dr.Time
5 July 2009 at 10:51 EDT
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Michael Jackson,God bless his soul and another lady who also died in each other`s footsteps battling government and drug corporate superiority trying to produce a sign that everyone has been waiting for of who is the messiah were their victims sadly sacrificed as supposed proof of who to fear.Apparently Mr.Barack approves of these mindless sick creatures.Is he one of them himself in disguise?The wars of the world have to cease Mr.Barack-NOW!
Sadly submitted:Dr.Time
Panda
Location: China
6 July 2009 at 11:23 EDT
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Barack is good at taking a neutral stance where there is risk, however in doing so he misses an opportunity to address underlying issues in America such as the reasons why Michael Jackson’s father propelled him and his siblings to fame. Obama could say more on both the positive and negative aspects of Michael’s life.
N
Location: IL
7 July 2009 at 13:48 EDT
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I think it would be inappropriate for the President of the United States of America, to make any statement in support of Michael Jackson. I also believe that if President Obama wrote a personal letter to the Jackson family, it was a very inappropriate action and should be questioned. As far as Michael Jackson’s life he is no different than anyone else when it comes to life’s choices and life’s coincidences for those choices one makes. “As you make your bed, you must lie in it.” You cannot simply erase the bad decisions you make in life, because of the good things that you have also done. I just hope all the Tax Payers Money will be returned for all this drama for someone who died after living a questionable life. Money can buy your way out of a lot of things, but this time, in death , God alone will be the final Judge and Jury on how Michael Jackson made his bed, and how he will lie in it for eternity. President Obama should not comment, and writing the letter to the family I question as should we all. I hope every family of the Service Members, our Men and Women in service to our country, and who died for their country got a personal letter and not a form letter, for their sacrifice. We only hope the right thing is done in these situations, and that our President thinks, before he acts.
N
Location: IL
7 July 2009 at 13:53 EDT
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X - Strike - coincidences- X I ment Consequences.
Baurzhan
Location: A gift to Michael Jackson,
16 July 2009 at 00:47 EDT
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A gift to Michael Jackson,www.agwcompany.com
Ravinder Kumar
17 August 2009 at 01:35 EDT
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In top leadership, to make no official comment is sometimes better than making a comment because parallels exist for comparisons to reckon in both the negative and positive sense on the language and the official language of the leader is not meant to receive the feed back or involve in it through the consciousness that is seen in play at any given point of time. People should have that in view and to know more on the subject they should reckon in them the Supreme Judge of the Supreme Court recently installed with her honor. Remember, at one stage she had become controversial even on his clean professional record just through a casual comment that she did not know would assume proportions on her credibility? Likewise if Obama has made no official comment on the famous celebrity of the music world, his love certainly stands for him with his personal approach of sympathies for the family and therefore I feel there should remain no issues at the level of public or learners of their UN manifested states that they see as manifestations in them? “To catch thief in one is to see the thief retiring through wisdom as in that lies the essence of becoming – this applies for one and all of life and therefore is the universal truth”.
Dremartous
8 October 2009 at 14:13 EDT
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MJ is symbolic icon for music, his passion to music is just like a mother expressing her love to a child. I real like him a lot. Let his music ever last in world……… Thank u MJ
sunny
8 October 2009 at 14:19 EDT
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Thanks Jackson for everyrthin you did to this world. thank you very much.