This hilarious web commercial is Obama’s way of warning his supporters about the danger of celebrating before the race is won. Apparently, Obama’s camp got the idea from this video.

Obama turns away to go see his ailing grandmother and his camp turns his YouTube channel into BET. First Nas, now Jay. Either way, I respect their grind.

Hey, this guy Barack Obama is running for President and he wants you readers of VIBE to vote for him. But isn’t he preaching to the converted?

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Barack Obama’s critics always chastise him for pouting off rhetoric rather than offering specific plans on how to move this country forward. Well, here he spells out in specific, concrete, direct, and detailed terms how he plans to reform Washington on Day of his Presidency. Reminds me of why I supported Obama from Day 1, way back when most people thought his candidacy was a joke.

“John, you’re bugging the f*ck out, man” - Diddy

Diddy gives his $.02 on John McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin as V.P. choice. He makes a solid point without even mentioning the myriad scandals that are about to unfold in the coming days and weeks. America, get your popcorn and soda ready. This election cycle is about to get very exciting.

Oh, and in case you found the video confusing, here’s what Diddy was trying to say.

The part where Barack says “Is that the best you can come up with?” (apparently in response to McCain’s attempt to juxtapose Obama with celebretards like Paris and Britney) is classic.

You may now add Big Boi to the list of Obama’s radical associates.

Asked whether Obama should pick Hillary as his running mate, Big Boi gave this sexist, misogynistic, and politically incorrect answer: “I just think we need a whole fresh batch of lettuce for the salad.”

[Props: IllRoots]

I wonder why that sourpuss Hannity is cherry-picking when discussing Obama’s radical alliances. There are zillions others besides Ludacris, some even more outrageously offensive than Luda. Maybe he needs a primer, so I’ll try to help.

Obama’s radical associates (aka rappers who may have said or done something that Hannity’s middle America find politically incorrect):

Jay-Z
Common
Amanda Diva
Ti$a
6th Sense
Kanye West
Snoop Dogg
Russell Simmons
Naas
Naledge
Talib Kweli
Joell Ortiz
Michelle Obama

Hey, you know Hannity is entitled to his own definition of “radical associations.” I’m sure DMX understands where he’s coming from.

Some racist douche bag moonlighting as a state senator posted this on his website.

His response for putting up this hate-fueled picture is even more appalling than the picture itself:

“It was meant tongue in cheek. I’ve got some questions about Senator Obama’s ties to — such as his comment that we should negotiate with Iran. Iran’s a country that would like to destroy Israel, that bothers me. But is this picture appropriate? I don’t know.”

“You know, blogs are for satire and whatnot and, um, that’s why it’s up. It’s similar to the New Yorker picture. Maybe that’s why this has gotten so much attention, because of that thing that came out a couple days ago.”

Do Republicans not see that this sort of fear mongering will backfire in the fall?

I’ll spare you the anti-Jesse Jackson rant, seeing as my brothers from another mother khal and Enigmatik have already done a fine job of putting Uncle Jesse in his place.

For the uninitiated, I’m referring to Jesse Jackson’s remarks that he’d like to castrate Obama, because the brother was “talking down to black people” with his faith-based program suggestions. Jackson was probably reacting to Obama’s Father’s Day admonition to fathers, in which he charged them to take care of the seeds.

“See, Barack’s been talking down to black people on this faith-based—,” Jackson said off air on Fox News. “I want to cut his nuts off.”

As a black man who grew up without a father in the house, I’d like to cut Jackson’s nuts off, but that’s beside the point.

Suddenly everyone thinks that Jackson’s statements will somehow alter the way people view Obama and thus hurt his campaign. Question is, how many people do you know that still take the Jesse Jacksons and the Al Sharptons seriously? I’d rather take advice from Michael Eric Dyson than from Jesse-Sharpton.

Calm down, people. Let grumpy old men be grumpy old men. I’m sure he’s made worse off-the-cuff remarks behind the scenes. He’s apologized. His son apologized. Obama has accepted his apology.

We could get into all the reasons why Uncle Jesse wants to neuter Obama. But seriously, who even cares?