Bruce Springsteen for Obama
By John Amato Sunday Oct 05, 2008 11:00amObama played in a Philly voter registration event. An American Reclamation project.
Springsteen: After the disastrous administration of the past 8 years. What we really need is, we need somebody to lead us in an American Reclamation project.
I've continued to find where ever I go, that America remains a repository of America's hopes and desires and that despite the terrible erosion of the standing in the world accomplished by our recent administration we remain for many, many people this house of dreams and 1000 George Bushes and 1000 Dick Cheney's will never be able to tear that house down.
(H/t Scarce)
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He's the man...
Just trying out the comments. I like the new look. Subtle, but different.
still brings 'em in. Over 50,000 people there!
*blink*
I love Bruce and all but does the new format hurt anyone elses eyes?
But I think you are wrong Bruce. It will take real leaders to dig nations of the globe out of this economic mess created by the rich and greedy. I don't see them. Anywhere. Not in my nation, not in the US of A.......sometimes successful nations overextend their spending and military to the point that it can't be fixed. This is it.
This is the "REAL" John McCain in living color seen belittling Delores Alfond, head of the National Alliance of POW/MIA whose brother went missing in action in Vietnam . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CazKanlYDg
http://vietnamveteransagainstmccain.com/
Shakira has come out and endorsed Obama too. Wingnuts everywhere are enraged. Damn musicians and artists, who the hell do they think they are to have an opinion?
Well that should seal the deal for voters! I mean, anyone that has seen a Shakira video, should melt at her endorsement! Perhaps the Joe Six Pack is waiting for Brangelina to endorse. Or Opie Winnie. Or Larry King.
In the US, the powers-that-be have promoted an anti-intellectual climate that not only makes Bushes and Palins possible, it also cynically dismisses intellect and wisdom for opinion.
Artists are at the FOREFRONT of philosophy and idea development, an inherent anathema to "conservatism", and often our most imposrtant philosophers are in a real-time conversation with artists and vica-versa.
Mercenary capitalists want consumers to "feel" as qualified as artists to "opinionate" despite the vast difference in commitment and depth of research and ideas...
Lastly, artists continue to be curiously dismissed despite history and present. Just ask Adolph, Ron, or Arnold...
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...by a great artist!
The world DOES love America, the America WE love that is, not this usurped corporate-fascist military industrial parody of a democracy...
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Here's a little ditty, that covers the bail out...I mean handout.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcZSh1diQRQ
http://i330.photobucket.com/albums/l426/mwjam...
Look what unca Bush taught me... :)
better than Rudy's kid.
Got a link to that one please?
(is the calculation always the same? Three replies and it always asks me 2+2).
Believe me, I looked. I wanted to link it. He put on quite show during the 93 inaugural address. Jumping up and down pulling faces -- a laugh riot.
Bruce says it all. Obama needs our help. We need to do our part to make change happen. Go to BarackObama.com and volunteer today. You will be glad you did.
Sarah Palin, in her wildest dreams, could not even imagine being as articulate as this great American performing artist.
And he's not even a politician.
Patriot.
unless DC is brought to a standstill from demonstrations soon I think it will have only taken 1 bush/cheney to destroy America and its' dreams.
Certainly palin/mcsame will put the final nails in the coffin if elected.
If you lie down and die who needs nails?
Bruce said it, this country made it through the Revolutionary & Civil Wars and the war/depresson ridden 20th Century. We will survive this mess, but not if people lay down in despair and do nothing.
"Obama played in a Philly voter registration event."
what did he play?!?
Indeed: Springsteen, not Obama, played.
Anyway, new design, with the exceptioon of text sitting flush with the left edge of the window, is great.
bad look old! as in mccain...
bruuuuuce immortal, always good lookin'!
I love that Bruce is such a great Democrat. I love that he pours his heart into his songs and speaks truth to power. But, I can't help but seeing him on that stage, all alone with his guitar, singing songs that are profound enthusiasm killers -- it makes me feel like I am back in 2004 watching a Kerry event. The crowds adore him, but BOY is it boring. I would love him to play from the steps of the capital as Obama is being sworn in as our next president. Until then, unless he brings the E-Street band with him and really BRINGS IT, I would rather that we not be reminded of Kerry's boring campaign.
That's funny. I was struck with the exact opposite impression. His voice did not even need the guitar. He could have sung that with his hands folded alone in front of the mic.
The quiet power of Bruce is even more interesting than his explosive rock and roll side.
If you have not listened to Nebraska (an album he did in the early 1980s) i highly recommend you give it a listen.
Here is what Rolling Stone had to say:
After ten years of forging his own brand of fiery, expansive rock & roll, Bruce Springsteen has decided that some stories are best told by one man, one guitar. Flying in the face of a sagging record industry with an intensely personal project that could easily alienate radio, rock's gutsiest mainstream performer has dramatically reclaimed his right to make the records he wants to make, and damn the consequences. This is the bravest of Springsteen's six records; it's also his most startling, direct and chilling. And if it's a risky move commercially, Nebraska is also a tactical masterstroke, an inspired way out of the high-stakes rock & roll game that requires each new record to be bigger and grander than the last.
Until now, it looked as if 1973's dizzying The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle would be the last Springsteen album to surprise people. Ensuing records simply refined, expanded and deepened his artistry. But Nebraska comes as a shock, a violent, acid-etched portrait of a wounded America that fuels its machinery by consuming its people's dreams. It is a portrait painted with old tools: a few acoustic guitars, a four-track cassette deck, a vocabulary derived from the plain-spoken folk music of Woody Guthrie and the dark hillbilly laments of Hank Williams. The style is steadfastly, defiantly out-of-date, the singing flat and honest, the music stark, deliberate and unadorned.
Read on... http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/brucespri...
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