Kanye West For President? Obama Offers Tips

Barack Obama pokes fun at Kanye West’s presidential ambitions

PRESIDENT Barack Obama has offered Kanye West some tongue-in-cheek advice for saying he is planning to run for the White House in 2020.

“In case Kanye is serious about this whole POTUS thing – or as he calls it, ‘peezy’ – I do have some advice for him,” Mr Obama joked during a fundraising event in San Francisco at which the rapper was scheduled to perform.

The President offered three tips for the would-be candidate.

“First of all, you’ve got to spend a lot of time dealing with some strange characters who behave like they’re on a reality TV show. So you’ve just to be cool with that.”

The second piece of advice made reference to a popular West album: “Saying that you have a ‘Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’ – that’s what’s known as ‘off-message’ in politics. You can’t say something like that.”
And the final number three poked fun at Chicago’s south side, where both men have lived: “Do you really think that this country is going to elect a black guy from the south side of Chicago with a funny name to be president of the United States?

“That is crazy. That’s cray!”

West, 38, announced his ambitions for the White House when he gave a rambling speech at the MTV Video Music Awards in August.

Most people had written off his remarks as a joke, yet in an interview with Vanity Fair magazine last month, West said he would “definitely” go ahead with his plans. –SkyNews.com