The following is a full transcript of President Barack Obama’s interview on “The Tom Joyner Morning Show” on Friday, Sept. 10, 2010

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PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA:  How you been?

TOM JOYNER: I’ve been good. How have you been?
 
You know, I’m doing fine. Michelle’s doing well. The girls started school this week. So we are truly blessed.

How’s your weight?  You look like you’re losing weight, man.

You know, I go up and down five pounds, but you know, I still fit the tux I was married in. Michelle doesn’t let me wear the tux anymore. She says it’s out of style.  

Oh, by the way, thanks for putting Donna on the fitness counsel. 

Absolutely. In fact, are they doing something next week?

I think they are. All I know is you got her off my back, so thank you so much. (Laughter) Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Just doing my job.

And how’s Ms. Robinson?

She’s doing fine. You know, she took August off. She leaves the White House, goes back to Chicago, back to her house.  Goes to the boats (Laughter) and does whatever it is that she does, and then she’s refreshed after being away from us for a month.

Can she come with us on the Fantastic Voyage cruise? Since she likes boats?

I’ll bet she might actually enjoy that.  I’ll find out if she wants to do that.  The only problem is she doesn’t like attention, and so if people knew it was her - and on that cruise, they would - I think she’d just feel like everyone was coming up to her.
 
No, no, no … we’re all family on this cruise. 

Yeah, well,  I’ll let her know that you invited her.

And maybe Michelle and the kids can come to the Family Reunion as well.

Well, I will let them know. I’ve been listening to you a long time, before I was president, Tom. I’ve been knowing you.

Well, thank you so much for calling home. We haven’t heard from you in a while.

Well, it’s good to talk to you. You know, I don’t get a chance to do much radio these days.  But one of the things I mentioned to my team was we’ve got to make sure that we’re not only talking to television, and especially in the African-American community, Tom Joyner and black radio is what people listen to.
 
Well, thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you.
 
So I want to make sure that folks are getting it directly from me.

Now, according to the polls, the general polls, you’re not doing so well. But according to my unofficial African-American poll, we still love you - with the exception of Tavis and a few other people. But anyway ... (Laughter)

(To co-host Sybil Wilkes) What, Sybil? I’m talking to the president here. 

(SYBIL WILKES to Joyner) I know, man to man, I know. Sorry.

But we’re coming up on November, and I’m not feeling that the African-American voter is fired up this year.

Well, look, here’s the situation in the country as a whole. We want to reach out to everybody and get our message out, and the fact is that we went through, over the last two years, the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. It started well before I took office. It was peaking right around the time I was getting sworn in. We were on the verge of going into a Great Depression. And so we had to take a bunch of emergency measures so that we didn’t go into a Great Depression. But we stabilized the financial situation, and stopped the bleeding, and so when we came in, we were .....

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Polly why? what have you ever done and the 8 years your hero Bush ran this country ,Your party
has no plan.Question to you are you making 250k a year? Karmer Please! Give it time to work ..and not more of the same..

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Trevino54
September 12, 2010, 11:36 am
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Two racist idiots talking on the radio. Wow is this the best America has to offer? Sad.

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Pollypocket
September 12, 2010, 1:16 am
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If you visit some of the more well known Black websites and blogs in MSM, you will witness that many Black folks are blaming the President for their current misfortunes. The republiCONS and the tea baggers know this. So they are pushing that 'what has Obama done for Black people" theme. If President Obama doesn't cure EVERY Black person's problem, they will not vote for him. Two years is long enough for him to have done his 2 fish and 5 loaves of bread miracle.

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Chastisement
September 11, 2010, 2:40 pm
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After listening to the President's interview with Mr. Joiner this should move every African American to go out and vote in the November election. Our president has worked so hard over the last eighteen months and it would be a shame to allow the republicans to walk in and tear down what he and his administration has accomplished so far. I am begging and pleading, please go out and vote. Our president need your votes in order to keep this country moving forward. Thank you, Mr. President for being a president for all America; not just some of America.

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Longah12
September 10, 2010, 1:13 pm
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After reading the whole script i'm even more enambled to pass the word to go vote. Let's get out there and vote these repigs right out of office, it's pertanant that we get out and VOTE.

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Ann38
September 10, 2010, 10:41 am
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Meet single, black and white personals O N "" B l a c k* . C o M"" that is the top one club for mixed love..

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Bellati12
September 10, 2010, 10:24 am
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