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LL Cool J to Obama: 'You Must Deliver'

Rapper has stern words, advice for president in open letter

By Nick McMaster, Newser Staff

Posted Feb 18, 2009 12:42 PM CST

(Newser) – These are challenging times indeed for Barack Obama, but LL Cool J's got the answers, reports the Daily Mirror. The 41-year-old rapper offers some advice in an open letter cautioning the leader of the free world against disappointing those inspired by his message of hope: “You have shifted the cultural paradigm of America,” he wrote. “But now you have to live up to the ideal that fostered the shift and ensure that the paradigm doesn't shift back. You must deliver."

President Barack Obama speaks before signing the $787 billion economic stimulus bill at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science in Denver on Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2009. (AP Photo/Darin McGregor, Pool)

Musician LL Cool J appears on stage during Conde Nast's Fashion Rocks show, Friday, Sept. 5, 2008 in New York. (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen)

In this Oct. 2, 2008 file photo, musician and actor LL Cool J is shown on the set of the "Today" show in New York. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams, file)

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May 19, 2009 7:19 AM CDT

yes but the american people (LL included, have to realise that Obama is only one man and although he can lead the motion for change, its only the people who can actually make this change happen. If there's no shift in cultural mindset and people just expect the divine obama to wave a magic wand, the same ghosts will return to haunt, and you as a nation will be more disapointed with Obama than we are with Gordon "the let down" Brown, (though that is an unfair comparison considering Obama appears to be a truly inspiring, progressive, democratic man, whereas Gordon Clown is nothing but a spineless, bottom feeding, leach convulsing in the muddy footprints of Tony!)

riffran

Feb 20, 2009 12:37 AM CST

Ideology aside...LL has a point......Obama will be scrutinized with intensity, by everybody regardless of veiw...."No pressure".......Hey wait a minute,,,,,I thought LL was pretty cool in S.W.A.T.....he he

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Feb 18, 2009 5:28 AM CST

LOL !

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