Last night’s gathering of poets and entertainers at the White House was a lot more serene than conservative pundits hoped for so it seems.

After much fervor and debate from talking heads over at news outlet Fox News over rapperCommon’s invitation to the First Lady Michele Obama’s White House Music Series, the hyped up drama was nothing more than political bombast and underscored that President Obama’s conservative and Republican opponents are perhaps scrambling for an advantage as the nation approaches another election year in 2012. Read more...

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