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Ebony has landed Barack Obama’s first print interview as President in a special collectors edition:
He did it! Barack Obama has rightfully earned the historic title of President-elect! Ebony magazine conducted the first interview and photo shoot with Mr. President since his Nov. 4 victory. The exclusive interview is the centerpiece of Ebony magazine’s January 2009 special collector’s edition, which chronicles the rise of Barack Obama to one of the most powerful positions in the world.
“We won because the American people mobilized for change. We had a great campaign, great volunteers, great staff. But it really was people at a grassroots level who carried our campaign financially, who carried it organizationally, and we don’t want that to dissipate,” Obama said during a
Nov. 13 exclusive interview.
The historic issue, which will include never-before-seen pics of Obama, will hit the stands on December 9th. And naturally, ABC news relic Barbara Walters plans to name Barack “The Most Fascinating Person of the Year” on on her Thursday night special.
Yes We Did!!!!!
Shout out to Jeannine!
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cc 12/2/08, 12:23:PM
First
TIM TIM 12/2/08, 12:24:PM
@ cc – DAMN BITCH I THOUGHT I WAS FIRST!
Moanmyname( Swagger Jacking is their profession) 12/2/08, 12:24:PM
shit second then….
Moanmyname( Swagger Jacking is their profession) 12/2/08, 12:25:PM
damn tim tim…u swagger jackin my second spot….lol
Elm 12/2/08, 12:26:PM
Love some Obama, but he has been on every magazine every week since his historic victory. His face sells so many magazines and newpapers, its reediculous!
TIM TIM 12/2/08, 12:28:PM
@ MOANMYNAME: LOL MY BAD
Nina Knows 12/2/08, 12:28:PM
wow, what a amazing picture. very classy.
jays blazin 12/2/08, 12:29:PM
Top 10!!
That’s what I’m talking bout. And he FYNE!
jays blazin 12/2/08, 12:31:PM
Michelle betta watch out, we have plenty money hungry gold diggers out here that will want to his baby momma!
Flipper Purefoy 12/2/08, 12:33:PM
jays blazin
Michelle betta watch out, we have plenty money hungry gold diggers out here that will want to his baby momma!
LOL! Sydney being one of them.
Afiya 12/2/08, 12:33:PM
I’ll be picking this one up as well!
Sydney 12/2/08, 12:36:PM
So I wonder if he will be TIME magazine’s Man of the Year. That should be announced soon as well. . .
Man, I just don't care 12/2/08, 12:40:PM
@SYDNEY
what’s up? I was coming in here just to see if you were here. LOL.
Sydney 12/2/08, 12:41:PM
Mannnnnnnnn!!!!!
How are you? *hugs*
Don’t leave — I need protection.
Obama's Legal Representation 12/2/08, 12:45:PM
Dear Sydney
Consider this a friendly warning that your conatant hovering around these Obama threads constitutes stalking and will be dealt with accordingly.
If you persist in this disturbing behavior, you will leave us with no recourse, but to have a cyber-restraining order filed against you.
Very Truly Yours
Michelle Obama, Esq.
TIM TIM 12/2/08, 12:45:PM
I WANNA BE LIKE THIS DUDE WHEN I GROW UP
Obama's Legal Representation 12/2/08, 12:47:PM
Amended version
Dear Sydney
Consider this a friendly warning that your *constant* hovering around these Obama threads constitutes stalking and will be dealt with accordingly.
If you persist in this disturbing behavior, you will leave us with no recourse, but to have a cyber-restraining order filed against you.
Very Truly Yours
Michelle Obama, Esq.
Moanmyname( Swagger Jacking is their profession) 12/2/08, 12:47:PM
@Tim tim
its fine babes…
Zee! 12/2/08, 12:48:PM
This is one of the most ‘real’ looking covers of Mr. Obama.. Nice
BE 12/2/08, 12:52:PM
Well who else could it have been? This is just the beginning of things to come, I am sure he will not disappoint.
Nyah Molineaux 12/2/08, 12:52:PM
My baby is doing so well. And it is a pleasure to see his gorgeous face for the next 8 years.
I dont get it! 12/2/08, 12:53:PM
Damn that man is so smooth and cool! I hear jazz everythime I see a pic of him….Congrats Mr. President!
Man, I just don't care 12/2/08, 12:54:PM
@SYDNEY
there have been rumors the Obama’s want a little boy and are even considering adoption. Wouldn’t that be a great example if they adopted???
Oshie - Is Your Dixie Wrecked? 12/2/08, 12:55:PM
*pinches Sydney on the booty*
*runs away giggling*
SMDH 12/2/08, 12:59:PM
OH good for him!! I am SO proud of this STRONG BLACK MAN and his family!! Ican’t wait for him to take office.. I am so glad blacks finally have something other than some race destructive monkey rapper to look up to!!
Sydney 12/2/08, 01:05:PM
@Man
“there have been rumors the Obama’s want a little boy and are even considering adoption. Wouldn’t that be a great example if they adopted???”
Yes, I think that would be a great example — There are many children who are in need of homes. I think more people should adopt.
Hi BE, Oshie
I saw that, Osh!
Sawyer 12/2/08, 01:06:PM
Finally the black family has someone to look up to thats not fictional or a character on a tv series! Fools out here need to wake up and be more like Obama and less like Plaxico “shoot my dumbass self in the leg and do possible time in jail” Burress!
Get educated, have some goals and help out the community…make a difference!
SMDH 12/2/08, 01:18:PM
“Finally the black family has someone to look up to thats not fictional or a character on a tv series! Fools out here need to wake up and be more like Obama and less like Plaxico “shoot my dumbass self in the leg and do possible time in jail” Burress!
Get educated, have some goals and help out the community…make a difference!”
AMEN!! How many more black males with white sluts hanging off their arms are black children supposed to look up to and take pride in..
BE 12/2/08, 01:24:PM
@Sydney – Hey!
Actually I thought Michele was considering having another baby!
L.A. Chic 12/2/08, 01:27:PM
HOT!
HOPE WON 12/2/08, 01:30:PM
I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! I also just bought the TIME’s Special Edition with nothing but President Obama. It is a “keepsake”.
VTechGirl 12/2/08, 01:31:PM
Geez,just be the darn president, why all of these photo magazine covers and tv shows. Yes, yes he made history, now lets move on and get this country back. He will have enough exposure being president in the coming years. We have read his books, seen him every day on the news during the primary and during the election, and his many magazines the last couple of years and yet still more…let’s move on. Get to the business of the land.
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DAR 12/2/08, 01:34:PM
He gives me hope.
☆ Lola A♏ ★ 12/2/08, 01:43:PM
Sydney!!! *waves frantically*
I will definitely be picking up my issue!
Pynk 12/2/08, 01:49:PM
I need to start collecting these magazines. I keep forgetting
Sydney 12/2/08, 01:52:PM
Lola!! I was just getting ready to post again and saw you. How are you? Your gravie is beautiful!
@BE
Michelle is considering having another baby? That would be cute.
Just read that Bill Richardson will be named Commerce Secretary tomorrow, btw. And I think Chambliss may win the runoff today in Ga.
BZME 12/2/08, 02:24:PM
It is great that Obama will be prez. But, we don’t need him
(rappers or fictious show) “to look up to.” Each individual’s determination and hard work should be the sole source of inspiration. More importantly, each Black parent should be their kids’ inspiration. It is so sad that we (Blacks) need self validation from someone else. I hate to hear grown men tell their sons that Obama should be their role model. In other words, that man is failing as a parent …so he needs Obama to inspire his kid.
People we don’t need role models! Just do the RiGHT THING! Obama didn’t have anyone one (especially Black males) to “look up to.” He just did the right things -worked hard, marry well and strive to be a good dad. These are things we all can do. We didn’t need the GREAT OBAMA to come along part the red sea and show us the way to the promise land.
Tracey 12/2/08, 02:30:PM
Of course people need role models.
Aries Chica 12/2/08, 02:39:PM
Everyone has a role model dude. ESPECIALLY if you believe in JESUS so get over it and give the dude his props… and for the record before some religious NUT gets on here saying I am comparing him to Jesus I am NOT just making a reference.
@ VTechGirl – I mean WTF he is NOT president yet so he is NOT supposed to be doing ANYTHING but gearing up his administration so nothing wrong with the BOOKS, PHOTO OPS, etc. I mean getting back to the LAND isn’t that was PRESIDENT BUSH is for? I mean it STILL is a big deal and when it is ACTUALLY president it will be even bigger. I DO think it is sad that people are capitalizing off of him though. But hey they still capitalize off Kennedy, Martin, Malcolm hell even Elvis…it’s a compliment to their integrity..
Him adopting..I see nothing wrong with it ESPESCIALLY if Michelle no longer wants to bare children give a deserving child a chance.
I LOVE THE COVER!
Necy 12/2/08, 03:00:PM
He is my man of the year!!!!!!
toocute 12/2/08, 04:36:PM
he looks great on the cover,he has inspired everyone that you can be anything you want to be in life,its possible because he did it.
Playlist 12/2/08, 07:30:PM
This is what you call PROGRESS
B 12/2/08, 07:51:PM
Thought you might find this interesting, excerpt of an interview with Judge Joe Brown I came across while reading the Jamaica Gleaner. I can’t believe the arrogance and pettiness of this man!
Here it is:
So many people of all ages with whom I have spoken since Barack Obama won the election, have said they did not expect a black man to win the White House in their lifetime. Do you share this view?
No, I thought it probably would happen. I don’t know the young man, so I can’t say much about him.
But even if you can’t speak about him personally, what do you say about the fact that a black man is going to run the most powerful country in the world?
He is half African, half American; he does not qualify as the typical African American. He has no black-American ancestors; he’s a mulatto who spent a lot of his years living in another country. So, I don’t know anything about him, he does not match any of my background and he does not have any relatives who have anything in common with mine, so I don’t know him and I don’t know what to expect.
memchee 12/2/08, 09:33:PM
can’t wait for this to hit the stands
1TruDiva w/The PlatinumVocals!!! 12/2/08, 09:59:PM
Joe Brown said that????
Damn!!!!
Triple T 12/2/08, 10:02:PM
For all the haters who thought he was an Uncle Tom, he lets our own black magazine get the first officially interview.
He has always supported us, he had to do what he had to do to get into office and now he is really going to show us love.
Love you Barack and always will.
Bohwe 12/2/08, 11:22:PM
Of course Barack didn’t have the same life as an african American man. When most black men make money leave the community, he actually got an Ivy league education and went to improve the lives of inner city black people. Now, how is it that a man that lived his life in the white world, lived in Indonesia, actually sought out the black community. As a child he read books about Malcom and other black people, sought out the black culture, he identified himself as a black man. He married a black woman and when he became financially secured, him and his wife stayed on the Westside of Chicago, because as they put it,they wanted black kids to see an important black man living next door to them.
So, all that Brown is saying is pure Haterism. Obama is more of a black man than the majority of black men who leave the community, seeking a better life.
Jealousy is something else. Why don’t Brown worry about his acting career and his talk show.
So sad, black folks tearing down another black man.
JOEY B 12/3/08, 12:45:AM
i wish martin luther king jr. was here to see this and to see his work wasnt a waste
bb 12/3/08, 08:22:AM
Joe Brown is not tearing down Obama
He is stating the truth.Obama is a first generation african, born of a white mother.
He has descendants that are white and are Kenyan and has visited Kenya in the past(even though he had a dead beat dad)and ther lies the difference.He does not have descendants that are slaves which shows the difference.Even Michelles demeanor is different to Obamas.The swagger and confidence comes from knowing who you are and where you come from i.e. your culture