D.L. Hughley on Obama
LOS ANGELES (AP) -June 25, 2008 "He does look like the dude from 'Mad' magazine," Hughley
joked of the Democratic presidential nominee in an interview with
AP Television. "It's so funny because he ain't a cool dude to me.
He's like a tall Urkel dude (the bespectacled nerd from the '90s
sitcom 'Family Matters'). But for the first black president, I'll
take him. ... Like, how bad a president is George Bush, when the
country goes, 'You know, we'll try the black guy'?"
Obama's competitors are also possible targets for the
44-year-old actor-comedian, who recently starred on TV's "Studio
60 on the Sunset Strip."
"I dug Hillary (Clinton) and I dug him," Hughley said. "I
didn't have to not like her so I could like him, and not like him
so I could like her."
Hughley didn't reserve his barbs for just the Democrats.
"And then you've got John McCain. And it's so funny, because
you've got a guy who's half-black running against a guy who's
half-dead."
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