Obama on saggy-pants ordinance: "Brothers should pull up their pants"

A couple months ago, Gardena Councilman Steve Bradford proposed an ordinance against saggy pants. It went nowhere.

In a recent interview with MTV, Sen. Barack Obama stated his opposition to such laws:

I think people passing a law against people wearing sagging pants is a waste of time. We should be focused on creating jobs, improving our schools, health care, dealing with the war in Iraq, and anybody, any public official, that is worrying about sagging pants probably needs to spend some time focusing on real problems out there.

Smack. Steve shouldn't feel too bad about being dissed by Barack, though:

Having said that, brothers should pull up their pants. You are walking by your mother, your grandmother, your underwear is showing. What's wrong with that? Come on. There are some issues that we face, that you don't have to pass a law, but that doesn't mean folks can't have some sense and some respect for other people and, you know, some people might not want to see your underwear -- I'm one of them.

To sum up: Bradford and Obama agree as a matter of fashion, but not as a matter of law. Now let's hug it out: