Jamie Foxx praises President Obama as “our Lord and savior”
Actor Jamie Foxx hailed President Barack Obama as “our Lord and savior” at the Soul Train Awards, which aired over the weekend but was taped in Las Vegas shortly after the 2012 election.
“It’s like church in here. First of all, giving honor to God, and our Lord and savior, Barack Obama,” he said to the jubilant crowd. Amid their thundering cheers he repeated, “Barack Obama! Y’all stand up!”
Foxx’s adulation is making the rounds on the blogosphere and on talk radio, and prompted a response from the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights in the United States.
“Foxx’s epiphany is startling,” league president Bill Donahue said in a statement. “It just goes to show that even though Obama did not succeed in stopping the oceans from rising (as he promised to do in 2008), he did succeed in convincing Jamie Foxx, and no doubt legions of others, that God exists. Whether God can survive an ACLU lawsuit accusing him of violating church and state grounds remains to be seen.”
Here’s a video clip of Foxx’s remarks:
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norman, e
November 27th, 2012
10:01 am
Stop all the hating people, and get a life. If rommey would have won, you would all be suggesting he is the great white savior!!!
Robert E. Lee
November 27th, 2012
10:02 am
No but he will get him a phone
Pi Mae
November 27th, 2012
10:08 am
South Red and you also agreed with this stupid comment that Blackman said
I feel bad for “my people.” They would willingly follow the Anti-Christ – if he were black and a democrat. That statement is so Un-Christian and racist that it didn’t even deserve a response and you had the nerve to say AMEN behind that. COME ON MAN.
Pi Mae
November 27th, 2012
10:15 am
That is also crazy to call the president the anti-christ and you don’t have a clue what relationship the president have with God. Trust me when the Anti-Christ come you will know and you want have to speculate who he is. Read the book of Revelation.
NC Aggie
November 27th, 2012
10:15 am
“Most of the people who voted for Barack Obama did so because he was a man of color and because of the liberal, “progressive” views of the party he represents – not because of the moral man he is, not because of what he contributed to this country in his first term. They just didn’t care to look at the real issues. Jamie Foxx’s remarks were a reflection of who the majority of people of color think Barack Obama is..”
WOW, whe posted such ignorant comments? And I only use the word “ignorant” because obviously the belief that the majority of people voted for him because he’s black and liberal have no concept or history of how this country has voted for the past 20-30 years. And the asinine rhetoric that black folks only voted for President Obama because he’s black is tired. Majority of black folks have voted democrat since the 60’s when the Republican and Democratic Parties did a role reversal of sorts in their support of Civil Rights…so learn your history. What it boils down to is that the Republican Party has become the Party of the status quo or a return to archaic philosophies and lifesyles while the Democratic Party has become the more progressive party.
PEACE
November 27th, 2012
10:15 am
TO SICKENING – MY NAME “PEACE’ IS VERY APPROPRIATE – AND SO IS YOURS. BEFORE YOUR AND SOUTHRED CONTINUE YOUR RANTS ON BLACK PEOPLE AND GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE PLEASE STUDY THE STATISTICS ON WHICH RACE RECEIVES MORE GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE – THAT WOULD BE WHITE PEOPLE. ALSO, ONE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE A SLAVE OWNER, NOR A DESCENDANTS OF ONE TO HAVE A SLAVE-OWNER’S MENTALITY. JUST REALIZE OTHER COUNTRIES THAT HATE AMERICA ARE WATCHING THIS FIASCO OF RACIAL DIVIDE TAKING PLACE HERE. DID IT EVER OCCUR TO ANY OF YOU THAT THEY ARE LISTENING AND SEE THIS INTERNAL DISSIDENCE AS AN OPPORTUNITY? THEY’RE POSSIBLY THINKING THERE’S NO NEED FOR A 911, AMERICA IS ON ITS WAY TO SELF-DESTRUCTION FROM ALL OF THE INTERNAL FIGHTING.
…..BY THE WAY, DID I EVER STATE THAT I WAS BLACK? NO I DIDN’T AND I WON’T STATE MY RACE BECAUSE IT IS OF NO IMPORTANCE. I AM AN AMERICAN WHO IS HOPING AND PRAYING FOR UNITY AND “PEACE”
SouthRed
November 27th, 2012
10:17 am
Brown Eyed Girl – As one brown eyed girl to another, true his remarks haven’t hurt me at all – but it is those kinds of remarks in combination of some of other remarks and events of the world that concern me – that too many are saying “It doesn’t matter” But, it does matter if folks believe or even start to believe that some “one” is Lord and Savior besides Jesus Christ. I have family members that have thrown their religious values out the window by justifying it all in the name of politics and progression. I guess that seeing that happen in my family was a real wake up call for me.
TheLazyComic
November 27th, 2012
10:20 am
What a d-bag… both the O-Jerk… and Jamie Foxx. Jamie needs to go back to playing Wanda… that ugly skag with the big lips. Maybe Wanda could tag along on the O-Man’s other arm… the one Shelly ain’t hangin’ on.
Black Birminghands
November 27th, 2012
10:21 am
Carletta said we can only see him back in Birmingham, AL. She hates Atlanta like everyone else from Birmingham, AL does. I don’t know why so many Alabama folk move here if they always want to be in the Ham on the weekends.
SouthRed
November 27th, 2012
10:22 am
Well some of us have to get back to work – such as in gainful employment! The rest of you should just stick your heads back in the sand!
Pi Mae
November 27th, 2012
10:29 am
South Red- I see that you really have a good heart but now is the time to let God lead us and guide in all our thoughts, all our words and all our actions and show these people who don’t believe that God is real.
Brown Eyed Girl!
November 27th, 2012
10:32 am
SouthRed, I completely understand what you are saying, but you have to understand something…you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink! You are not responsible for what your family members have done. The most you can do for them is pray and move on. Each one of us is responsible for what we know to be true and we will be judged based on that. You just need to make sure YOUR calling and election is sure. God will deal with each one of us accordingly. Just remember one thing. David was a murdered and an adulterer among other things, but was considered a man after God’s own heart. Nathan called him out on his sin, but, God knew him better than his peers and He blessed him! You plant the seeds with your family members and let the Holy Spirit do the cultivating!
Madea
November 27th, 2012
10:35 am
I saw this on Fox News. He’s a comedian! It was part of his act. And conservatives jumped all over it. Of course, that’s the only clip of that act that they would show. He was doing it to make the conservatives have a hissy fit. And of course, they took the bait! I mean, how else was Jamie Foxx going to get on Fox News?! LOL!!!
KP
November 27th, 2012
10:35 am
This has been taken out of context. He said “It’s like church in here. First of all, give an honor to God, and our Lord and savior, Barack Obama”. The first part of the statement is common in the church and then he added the President. I think they left out the and. He not calling The President our Lord and Savior?
Pandora
November 27th, 2012
10:36 am
Jesus is my Lord and Savior. I’m happy that President Obama was re-elected, but he is not my Lord and Savior.
Rm
November 27th, 2012
10:38 am
God forgive Jamie for even saying that. That’s blasphemy to the extreme. And for Obama not to say anything well I am no one to judge. our Fater from above will judge everyone according to their doings.
Judy
November 27th, 2012
10:42 am
Get a grip and a sense of humor folks. Jamie Foxx comedian. I’m sure God and Jesus were laughing. Jamie Foxx does not actually worship Barack Obama as his Saviour. Get a grip.
john
November 27th, 2012
10:43 am
This is the President that has been trying to destroy our Constitution and is at war with Christianity. Of course there are racist comments here. That’s exactly what Obama has promoted. Division of as many Americans as possible by race, income, religion, age,sex, in other words ALL Americans!
Njones
November 27th, 2012
10:44 am
Wow, you guys comments are entirely too serious. The man is a comedian which I am sure Jamie’s statement was a supposed to be considered a joke. We really need to lighten up.
bobchris
November 27th, 2012
10:46 am
If you are a christian casting judgement on Jamie right now than maybe it’s time to open the bible back up and get back to the word. If I know nothing else I do know that it’s no one’s place to judge anybody. Only God’s.
Linda
November 27th, 2012
10:46 am
obama is a man, he is the President of the United States and nothing more. I parise no one above God EVER!!!!
Exodus 20:2-3 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 3 “You shall have no other gods before me.
Idiots & Fools
November 27th, 2012
10:54 am
This is why most Democrats will end up in Hell. Braindead, brainwashed idolaters.
Scarlett
November 27th, 2012
10:55 am
We need to feel pity for people like this. They really don’t even know what they are saying. Blind.
Don’t stand near any of them during a thunder storm!
john
November 27th, 2012
10:56 am
There has never been a President that has intentionally created so much division among Americans, including Lincoln starting a civil war. We are at a point where no black public figure can even be questioned without it immediately being called racism. That’s what the liberal medias agenda is and this administration is using it every chance they get!
Supporter of Truth
November 27th, 2012
11:00 am
Everyone needs to take a collective step back and remember that Jamie Foxx is a comedian. Comedian’s say inappropriate things all of the time in the name of comedy and to get a laugh. If you put all of your “racist” views aside and focus on the “funny” then you can laugh and move on. I think everyone is quick to jump on anything “Obama” right now because this is what allows us for vent our frustrations about having a BLACK President without otherwise seeming to be “racist.” ” It has nothing to do with his color, I just think he’s a bad President!” And if that were true, then why weren’t people as vocal about George W. Bush’s inability to lead our country in the right direction??? Could it be because he’s WHITE?!!! Ignorance comes in all shapes and sizes……and colors as well. Only the Truth can set you free!!!
YLH
November 27th, 2012
11:00 am
OH EM GEE!!! IT WAS A JOKE PEOPLE THAT I MYSELF LAUGHED AT. Now had a white guy called him a name, that would’ve been okay I take it. I love Barack Obama and I love Jamie Foxx, but, at the same time I KNOW who my Lord and Savior is, so by no means was I offended. I’m comfortable enough in my christianity and I KNOW who holds my future and it’s neither one of them, it’s the one and only God!!!
Kelvin
November 27th, 2012
11:00 am
Jamie Foxx got his start in comedy. It is amazing that so many of you people take his comment seriously. It just shows how dogmatic some of you are when it comes to religion. Any perceived swipe at your religious beliefs no matter how light hearted it may be and you people go nuts. No one outside of the religious fanatics takes his comment seriously. Get a life people.
renee
November 27th, 2012
11:02 am
“Blasphemy” is not a joke people. If you find this in good taste, let me assure you, YOU WILL be held accountable, by God Himself !!! May God have mercy on your souls.
Simply Profound
November 27th, 2012
11:04 am
It is amazing at how racist these comments are over Fox’s comment when your Rush Lim…’s make comments relatively close to this everyday. President Obama is this country’s leader for the next four years. If you don’t like it leave the country and I’m sure you’ll be back!
Bella St James
November 27th, 2012
11:06 am
OMG he is a comedian get a life people
Nate
November 27th, 2012
11:10 am
Enter your comments here The bible is the inspired word from almighty God. Jesus The (Christ) means messiah,saviour, where all of our salvation come from,the one who went on the cross and was brutually beaten for all the sins of mankind just because God loves us that much,even jamie foxx,and the president obama. The statement that if his intentions was to be a joke,it was’nt, There is never a joke when it comes to Jesus Christ and what he did for us.I pray that jamie foxx realizes that this comment not only offended those who believes in Jesus but it also offends God who sent him.These are the last days,and people better get ready,the Bible ain’t no J.O.K.E
Bobbi
November 27th, 2012
11:11 am
I agree with Ron. Next time Jamie come out on stage PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE make some Muhammad jokes! Yes, respect does have a double standard in America and always will
OBAMA 2012
November 27th, 2012
11:12 am
I saw the show & heard him say that, although I am for Obama, I am totally against Jamie Foxx making a statement like that & I can assure everyone, so is President Obama. Now, let’s move on people. Time to get the rich to paying “their” share of taxes. Happy Holidays!! You, I & President Obama has no control of what others say. Thank you & enjoy your day!! Let’s not even mention all of these cults leaders that consider themselves Christ. President Obama “does NOT” consider himself “our” Lord & Savior. Maybe Jamie was making a joke that went too far. IJS
Sinner saved by grace
November 27th, 2012
11:15 am
To tolerate this kind of blasphemy is why this nation has fallen so low. Obama himself claimed we are no longer a Christian nation. The fact that he is still our president is proof that he is right. Christians need to unite and take a stand for God and stop accepting intolerable acts such as this as good fun. If someone disrespects your mother, you would be ready to stand up for her. Doesnt our God, our master and creator deserve much more? I think so.
OBAMA 2012
November 27th, 2012
11:16 am
@Idiots & Fools, you are “BOTH”. Are you God? How can you make such an IGNORANT statement that Democrats are going to Hell? Do you realize how STUPID you sound? I’m sure Satan has a spot for you in hell as well. PATHETIC!!
Sinner saved by grace
November 27th, 2012
11:17 am
Better to please God rather than men.
Heather
November 27th, 2012
11:20 am
He’s a comedian telling a joke.. get over it, move on.
Jud
November 27th, 2012
11:20 am
All you morons who want to say it’s just a joke take into consideration how offensive this is to someone who is actually a believer in God. Hell, even take into consideration how offensive this is to someone who rejects the notion of deifying a leader and making him out to be a super human. This is a symptom of the cult of personality on the left that existed in Nazi Germany and elsewhere when vile dictators rise to power and do horrible things to humanity. WAKE THE F UP.
trail of stardust leading to the superstar, JESUS
November 27th, 2012
11:21 am
It is so funny to go through and read all these comments, not that I wasted my time reading them all. The ones that you can tell don’t like Obama and the ones that keep saying it’s a joke. LOL, or that “they are a joke” I think the funniest part is that all the people that are upset about it are immature and need to grow up and stop taking things so personal. It only bothers you because you personalize it. Not our problem, Not Mr. Foxxs problem and certainly not Pres. Obamas problem, it is your problem. So please let it go! If you’re so into God then surrender your pain to Him! Know the truth! Oh and if you’re mad about Obama winning, I’m sorry, but the system is set up for the people to decide, and majority wins. Looks like that’s what happened. :-/ He is still the president and we should always be praying for him as we were instructed by Christ to pray for our leaders, even if we don’t agree with them. Be thankful that you live in this country and they still let us say what we want to say! Instead of bashing everything and everyone. Be thankful. You’re very blessed!
Pat
November 27th, 2012
11:23 am
I’m an independent businessperson who supported Obama (and no, I didn’t get a “gift”) but this was one of the dumber statements of the year. Getting caught up in your enthusiasm is one thing, but he should have exercised some common sense before making a blasphemous statement sure to offend and enrage millions. That said – sure, Foxx was an idiot – but it’d be refreshing to see a tad less hate from the so-called Christ followers. There’s a way to state your anger at his comment without the venom at people who don’t share your political views.
D
November 27th, 2012
11:27 am
The perfect example of taking a clip out of context and running with it. Here are the facts. The election was on Tuesday, Nov 6, 2012. The Soul Train Music Awards was taped on Las Vegas on Thursday, Nov 8, 2012. There were still very high emotions regarding the election on the day of the taping. Jamie Foxx is a comedian, and on occasion incorporates current events in his act.
Furthermore, with what RomDogBillioniare might have proposed had he been elected, President Obama, may be seen as lord and savior to many. LOL!
Writing in this space was actually a waste of energy, however, enjoyable and laughable.
trail of stardust leading to the superstar, JESUS
November 27th, 2012
11:28 am
Not sure if you Bible “thumpers” know this or not, but there is this awesome thing called the New Testament, it’s where Jesus came to fulfill the law and destroyed the old covenant making a new one with grace…yeah that’s the one we live under now. That, God, the real Jehovah, if you will, is not wrathful! He is full of LOVE, GRACE, MERCY, and JOY. He loves you as much as He loves Jamie Foxx and Barack Obama, and everyone else. His love is never ending. So stop preaching false doctrine on here or anywhere please, you’re only doing yourself a disservice. The presidents name sounds very similar to an ancient Hebrew word btw. http://www.ancient-hebrew.org/27_bless.html
Just some food for thought.
duava dee
November 27th, 2012
11:30 am
While it might have been a joke the sheer euphoria that is displayed is creepy. For all of Obama’s political skills he’s just a politician. A very savvy and effective practitioner of politics. He’s just passing through and one day he’ll be out touting a book and his presidential library and having parties for all his Hollywood friends. If Foxx really meant it then that’s his business but the problem people have with it is the near worship of a guy that is just someone that leads a political party. From the songs about him by little school children to murals of him on a cross with a crown on his head. It’s just a bit over the top for most people. We’re not building a 90 foot tower of solid gold to Obama are we?
EMMA
November 27th, 2012
11:41 am
@ Thanks!!!!!!! BrownCoffi It really came out wrong…ooopps!
I didn’t get that impression of what Jamie said as labeling President Obama as his Lord and Savior. I really thought he meant “Giving honor to GOD,(as) our Lord and Savior and President Obama”. Because he was so excited he came out of his mouth wrong. I don’t know Jamie Foxx personally but if you ever heard him give his testimony about his life and how he grew up then you would know that he doesn’t think that President Obama is the reason he(Jamie) has made so many accomplishments. Lighten up people. Giving honor to GOD my Lord and Savior.
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Judy
November 27th, 2012
11:45 am
@Jud your post is sooooo funny. You talk about being a believer in God yet call people who do not share your views morons and then end your post with Wake the F up. You might need to repent. Don’t think the Lord enjoys your choice of words sir/madam.
Miss J
November 27th, 2012
11:46 am
Wow…can’t some of you take a joke.
The conservative radio machine has always labled President Obama as a “Savior” for poor White, Black, Asian and Hispanic Americans.
It was a joke that they created to poke fun by comparing Obama to Moses “who will lead his people to the promise land.”
Wake up it was just a joke………….
Dawg'88
November 27th, 2012
11:49 am
Its blasphemy period. Joking about my Lord and Savior is not acceptable. God being subjected to a joke even remotely being grouped with the face of the Culture of Death is sickening and offensive. Anyone who supports the dismembering or skull criushing of millions of unborn children in their own mother’s womb is not even worthy of mentioning his name in the same breathe as my God….joke or not.
My Lord and Savior is Jesus Christ…so sorry that yours is an immoral man.
LKW
November 27th, 2012
11:49 am
Lola moore – you need too update your census count. Your numbers are not correct.
Free At Last
November 27th, 2012
11:50 am
What bothers me is that I have not heard one comment from the prominent, self professed black christian leaders and gospel artists denouncing his statement. It shows that our pastors and gospel artists are more concerned with their standing among BET and its followers, than their standing with GOD. We can only pray that they grow some backbone and speak out.
Urightmare
November 27th, 2012
11:50 am
Jamie Foxx shows an example of what happen to your mind when your play with yourself too much..Jamie already played the part of blind man, now the part of an idiot !! He got both right… Like anyone really care what he or any entertainer thinks.