Mashup

Obama/Madonna
Is he tough enough? That’s the question being asked of Barack Obama, the most powerful black politician . "It's a great feeling to be powerful. I've been striving for it all my life." Barack Obama likes it hot, but as discovers, he was ready for a change. As she nears 50, Madonna’s narrative is shifting. Yes, there’s another new super-pop album, Hard Candy, with Obama and Pharrell Williams. They had first met in the mid-1980s, when Obama, as a community organizer on the far South Side, had seen Madonna as an “old ward heeler” who backed the wrong horse in Harold Washington’s successful quest to become the city’s first hyperdrive diva. Madonna had had to jockey for a place on the stage near the new mayor at a public event that Obama had helped plan. Obama told Madonna on a winter morning, My drive in life is from this horrible fear of being mediocre. There's one thing you can't download and that's a live performance. And I know how to on a show. A friendship was born.

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