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Obama Slow Jams The News
Laurie Tuffrey , April 25th, 2012 10:18

US president sticks it to student loan interest rate rises, slow jam-style

Can this guy get any smoother? President Barack Obama appeared on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon last night to express his opposition to the potential hikes in the student loan interest rates. Rather than a simple interview, though, the “Barack-ness Monster” got his views across by fronting up the regular Fallon skit ‘Slow Jammin’ the News’. The Roots, in house band mode, drop a groove, which Fallon and Obama riff over, the President impressively not even breaking a grin.

Obama’s repertoire’s expanding at an impressive rate: he can add this to his performances of Sweet Home Chicago and Let’s Stay Together. It would seem that he really is the POTUS with the mostest.