Obama cites Michael Jackson as ball icon

WASHINGTON – Admiral Barack Obama has alleged Michael Jackson a abundant amateur and says "I still accept all his being on my iPod."

But in an account with The Associated Press Thursday, Obama said he didn't see any altercation in the actuality that he did not affair a academic accessible account aloft Jackson's death. Obama said, "Look, you're the aboriginal being who's absolutely asked me about it."

The admiral said that Jackson, who died aftermost anniversary at 50, will "go bottomward in history as one of our greatest entertainers. I grew up on his music."

Obama said that at the aforementioned time that he acquainted Jackson had accomplished "a adverse and in abounding means sad claimed life."