on a last chance power drive...
The Boss weights in.
From the Huffington Post
The Boss Picks A Boss: Bruce Springsteen Endorses Obama
Legendary all-American rocker Bruce Springsteen has thrown his red bandanna into the political ring, today endorsing Barack Obama for President on his website. Wrote Bruce:
Like most of you, I've been following the campaign and I have now seen and heard enough to know where I stand. Senator Obama, in my view, is head and shoulders above the rest.
He has the depth, the reflectiveness, and the resilience to be our next President. He speaks to the America I've envisioned in my music for the past 35 years, a generous nation with a citizenry willing to tackle nuanced and complex problems, a country that's interested in its collective destiny and in the potential of its gathered spirit. A place where "...nobody crowds you, and nobody goes it alone."
The endorsement seems to have been prompted by Obama's recent comments about Pennsylvanians being "bitter" and "clinging" to guns and various prejudices, first reported by the Huffington Post — and seems to take a swipe at Hillary Clinton in his endorsement
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On the one hand, celebrity endorsements are kinda "Meh".
On the other hand, if this causes an uptick in people fearing my Awesome Delphic Powers, well that's all to the good.
23 comments:
That endorsement was pure poetry. Baby, we were born to run...
People would do well to fear you, but frankly, their fear is booked solid for the foreseeable future.
Still...Your powers are important to us. Please stay on the line and the next available cowerer will be with you as soon as they're released from the recovery room.
Hey Drift. .
You're a cool rockin' blogger in the U.S.A
sláinte,
cl
(with apologies to the much appreciated Bobby Muller)
I wish you would use your Awesome Delphic Powers on the folks who run things over in The Hague.
My first reaction to the announcement was, so wow, he's got a lotta celebrities readin' him these days. Bobo and now the Boss? Watch out, Drifty, Babwa Streisand finishes out the "B's"...
And btw rehctaw? Welcome to the jungle.
I've liked and respected Hillary for 16 years, defending her as the swift boats came after her time after time over non-issues that the right wing-nuts manufactured out of their fear of her.
But now that her time has come round at last, I think that her fear that the brass ring might not be hers after all of the shit she's taken has overwhelmed her, and she has allowed the spinmeisters to have her soul.
In my eyes, Obama hasn't laid a glove on her, but he didn't need to...in my eyes she has done to herself what the swift boaters were never able to do.
I'm for Obama now, casting my fate to the winds, and hoping...where our country is now, what else is there to do?
You know what this means.
Hillary will use a Boss song as her theme music. While completely misunderstanding the lyrics.
Just saying.
If this looks good to the "E Street" crowd, it is good enuf for kick-ass celebrity endorsement. (I mean we ain't talking Rehab Brittany here right? We're talking the Boss.)
Now, all Obama needs is the much-rumored weigh-in of Al Gore and/or Jimmy Carter ... telling Hillary Annie Oakley I-Was-For-Guns-Before-I-Was-Against-Them Clinton to STFU and stop pissing on the D party and the whole country in her mad power drive. THOSE are celeb endorsements. Meh? :)
Attaboy, Bruce!
Now, as Anon says; it's time for Al to get off his neutral ass, and help us sink the republican lifeboat; the SS Hillary.
Dang, Driftglass.
You're good.
Greetings From Asbury Park Drifty.
Celebrities are money. Money, is good.
The Boss is the common man (we know he ain't but he sings and writes for us).
I hope you and some kind of your own Crazy Janey are makin love in the dirt, sometime, somewhen.
Rock on, Obama, Rock On.
Shilary is wrapped up like a douche. You know, a runner in the night.
Meh for Shilary.
Harumph.
More like your Awesome Evokative Powers, Drifty. Now how about evoking a barefoot pilgrimage of the five Catholic Supreme Court Justices to Pope Ratzinger, where they all renounce their lives of sin to join a monastery in Andorra?
Oops -- also please conjure up more better spellchecking for your poor uncaffeinated commenters.
. . . Shilary is wrapped up like a douche(sic). You know, a runner in the night.
Meh for Shilary. . .
She might as well be cut loose like a deuce, because even if we look into the light of the sun (where the fun is!) we NOT going to be blinded by it. The Seeing Eye Dogs are for the DLC and MSNB, and neither side of that leash is housebroken.
sláinte,
cl
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I'm holding out to see who the Bonzo Dog Band endorses.
I don tink this celebrity stuff works NO HOW, cause..the boss? pheeh..operaha? umm..nope..cause.. the MAN, the guy who makes rivers run backwards and blots out the sun from z sky, and is also a karate expert....Chuck Norris..was fer Huckabee, and jebus cris, the huckachuck train..not even in the running..unless, maybe..Chuck is..planning..something..on a much..larger..scale.
one of the cool things the boss does when he tours in an election cycle is to make sure that there are places at the concert venue where one can register to vote.
good for you bruce.
they dress like light
oooooo
and they dance
like spirits in the night.
all night.
i do my best to live the right way
i get up every morning and go to work each day
but your eyes go blind and your blood runs cold
sometimes i feel so weak i just want to explode
explode and tear this whole town apart
take a knife and cut this pain from my heart
find somebody itchin' for somethin' to start
well the dogs on this street howl
'cause they understand
if i could take one moment into my hands
mister i ain't a boy, no i'm a man
and i believe in a promised land.
In the parking lot the visionaries dress in the latest rage
Inside the backstreet girls are dancing to the records that the D.J. plays
Lonely-hearted lovers struggle in dark corners
Desperate as the night moves on, just a look and a whisper, and they're gone
i think it might be time for someone else to be gone
Well, if Bruce Springsteen wants me to vote for Obama, I guess I have to.
Like really, who gives a fuck?
"It is what it is." What it is, is BARACK OBAMA, that's what it is when it is being what it is!
I'll take the Boss's advice--in November, if Obama is nominated.
However for now, I'll stick with da Boss's hero Mr. Zimmerman--"Don't follow leaders/Watch the parking meters". ;)
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