Factory Girl wrote on Apr 16^th, 2008 at 10:02am:





WHY?
WHY?
WHY?
WHY?
WHY?
WHY?

Ever notice, the best bands and musicians are almost totally liberal, Dem ect, almost across the board.

Is it a coincidence, or what?

Factory Girl wrote on Apr 16^th, 2008 at 11:58am:



Drugs get a bad rap, and get the blame too much. It's always the retarded kid who can't handle the acid, that gets all the parents and teachers in an uproar. Totally ruining for the cool kids who can get loaded and still manage to maintain...
Drugs do not explain this liberal artist phenomonon.

Here's a real thinker.

Ted had his moments for me, but when he was doing hippie drug music... Everytime I hear him talk, I know where Ann Coulter got her fashion sense, and big mouth spurting out reactionary junk, only meant to hurt and flame people!!!
Limp Wrists vs. Assholes!!! 2008 is gonna be great!
America... Fuck Yeah!!!

Pdog wrote on Apr 16^th, 2008 at 12:11pm:


Yes, he CAN! 

good news! Guess I'll have to go buy some of his albums to show my support.

OBAMA FOR THE WIN!

Oye Ve.       I shall not PM OBAMA.

And this should surprise anyone?

Bruce is pretty clear and vocal on his political beliefs.


He is an American just like you FG, so he has a right to support his candidate for President.


No biggy!!!!

I remember seeing an interview with Clint Eastwood, where he said that there's more Republicans in hollywood, but they choose to not come out and let it be known.  Who would of thought!?

CrazyDadda wrote on Apr 16^th, 2008 at 1:39pm:

Being a Republican in Hollywood is like being Gay at Nascar!!!!

How dare Bruce endorse a man who replects the message of his music...

At the moment, critics have tried to diminish Senator Obama through the exaggeration of certain of his comments and relationships. While these matters are worthy of some discussion, they have been ripped out of the context and fabric of the man's life and vision, so well described in his excellent book, Dreams From My Father, often in order to distract us from discussing the real issues: war and peace, the fight for economic and racial justice, reaffirming our Constitution, and the protection and enhancement of our environment.


This fall will be fun. We'll hear more whinging about "swiftboating" & crap like that. Even he can't defend Obama's "bitter/cling" words & he knows it. I just decided to donate funds to McCain's campaign. And I'm not bothering with those Giants shows in July.

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News flash,. he has different political opinions from you. For fucks sake, get over it

Just don't squeeze all the air out of me P..

Stay true to your beliefs as long as no one gets hurt by them.....
that is all you can do.....

Pdog wrote on Apr 16^th, 2008 at 6:29pm:



couldnt give a shite what his politics are..means little or nothing to me, personally. If I'm honest, I'd rather he didnt put it on his site, but thats his own business.

Just find it bizarre that people get upset by anyone in a democracy stating publicly who they choose to vote for. Even more so when their political opinions are already well known.

Riffhard wrote on Apr 16^th, 2008 at 6:45pm:



..and if he is, thats his problem. Hardly worth getting anyones knickers in a twist. Right?

Exactly. Perfectly reasonable for both of you in equal measures.


Just cant grasp the indignation in a free and civilised society some can have for someone expressing their support for a political candidate, regardless of who the candidate happens to be.

I am glad he waited until after Anaheim. I know he's a total Democrat but it still would have cast a pall over the evening.

Gazza wrote on Apr 16^th, 2008 at 7:54pm:


Well said, Gazza...

You saved me a lot of time writing out my opinion.

I'd rather not hear a political lecture at a concert, and to be honest I feel Bruce's comments have been pretty tame and limited.  I would not boycott an artist, whose music I love because of his political views.  That's just me.  It is his website and it is his right as a voter and citizen in this country to campaign for his candidate.  It is your right not to attend his concerts, if that fricken bothers you.

And I think this is a lot of brouhaha over nothing

PartyDoll MEG wrote on Apr 16^th, 2008 at 8:54pm:

I listened to that Live CD from the late 80's tonight. Even on that thing he gives some dreary speech before playing "This Land Is Your Land." Of course, I realize he has a right to state his opinion just like I have a right to comment on it. The thing is, he's got a bit of arrogance about him in spouting his nonsense. He emailed that screed out to his mailing list which is probably at least 2 million people. My sister is a huge DMB fan & she gets stuff from a mailing list including Dave Matthews's endorsement of Osama. She emailed back that she'd rather not receive partisan emails from a music site & in return she got a snide email from someone working  at his site. I know rolling stones.com isn't the best site out there but I'm grateful that they haven't sent any endorsements my way.

Pdog wrote on Apr 16^th, 2008 at 11:53am:

They can afford to pay high taxes - I can't.

Obammie is getting sleazier every week, now backed by that big money GD socialist, George Soros:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120787159467506509.html?mod=opinion_main_review_...

Obama's Switcheroo

April 11, 2008

Barack Obama declared this week that he has created a "parallel public financing system." Come again? Let him explain: Under parallel public financing, "the American people decide if they want to support a campaign, they can get on the Internet and finance it."

Up to this moment, "public" financing has meant taking money from the federal government for the general Presidential election. Senator Obama's new system is public, because "the public" sends him the money.

Here's the translation: In November, Mr. Obama said he would accept public financing for the general campaign if John McCain committed to public funds. Now he doesn't want to be tied down by the spending limits attached to public funds. This is embarrassing. Solution: Call his Internet contributors a "parallel public financing" system.

What he is proposing sounds pretty much like what the system would look like if campaign-finance restrictions didn't exist. But they do exist, thanks to reformers like him. Shortly after the candidate made his remarks, a spokesman hurried to say it "was not a policy statement," but merely a description of the nature of his donor base. Barack Obama raised $40 million in the month of March – twice the $20 million Hillary Clinton's campaign took in. His totals are now more than $230 million.

Good for him. But Mr. Obama is unmistakably talking about abandoning the virtuous world that campaign finance reformers have in mind. The reformers' agenda has always been to limit "the influence of money" in politics, and do so by capping the amount candidates can spend. This naturally appealed to Mr. Obama when he was the underdog. But now that he's top dog, standing on principle isn't as appealing as the prospect of a colossal war chest.

Mr. Obama has also made much of his campaign's pledge not to accept money from political action committees, raising the majority of his funds from small private donations. PACs typically make up less than 1% of overall election donations to Presidential candidates, so that's no sacrifice.

Industry PACs may not give directly to his campaign, but employees of industries may do so, and many of his contributors have come from executives and their spouses. For example, Mr. Obama leads all candidates in donations from the pharmaceutical industry and commercial banks, among other industries. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks fundraising in elections, Mr. Obama has received $528,765 from people in the pharmaceutical industry and $1,380,108 from commercial banks. He comes in second to Mrs. Clinton in donations from lawyers with $13,690,170, just over a million shy of her total.

There is in fact a real parallel financing system already in place and ready to support Mr. Obama. It's called George Soros and so-called 527 groups such as the Democrat-supporting Fund for America or the newly named Progressive Media USA.  Progressive Media recently announced plans for a $40 million, four-month campaign against Mr. McCain, and that's only one group in the game.

Mr. Obama once said he would "aggressively pursue an agreement with the Republican nominee to preserve a publicly financed general election." Mr. McCain has already taken steps toward public financing in the general election. So now Mr. Obama wants to preserve his reputation as a reformer while exploiting his new financial advantage. We are all beginning to learn how expansive the meaning of "change" is.

Wild Bill wrote on Apr 16^th, 2008 at 10:54pm:




socialist george soros's fund made him about 3 billion more last year

mojoman wrote on Apr 16^th, 2008 at 11:55pm:



Just like any good socialist he believes that what's good for the goose isn't necessarily good for the gander. The man is one of the most dangerous people to the future of this nation, and the sooner people wake up to his globalist view of the world the better we will all be. He openly states that he wants the USA to drop it's sovereignty and embrace an open borders policy in every aspect of our lives. He is a limousine liberal by his very nature, and anyone who believes a word he says is an idiot with zero sense of this man's socialist/Marxist views.



Riffy

I endorse Obama.

Endorse Obama 


There I hope this post swings the primary election in PA.

Riffhard wrote on Apr 17^th, 2008 at 9:16am:



What happened when you met them two?

I am sure Bruce knows as well as anyone that when a Republican is in the White House, THE RICH GET RICHER. (See Born In The USA and The Rising tour 2002-2003)

Wild Bill wrote on Apr 17^th, 2008 at 12:13pm:



Feel free homey!!! While you're at it, you might wanna look at how The Stones have endorsed Clnton. Without saying it outright, it's pretty clear they have a relationship. Don't talk about it too much, my Republican friends are in denial, and some even think The Stones aren't liberal!

I'm not surprised by said endorsement but I hate that these idiots (and whether or not you like his songs, Brucie ain't all that bright) use their mailing lists for partisan reasons.

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Wonder if he could figure out how to make his avatar work?

And as far as "partisan" motivations for sending out this "screed" - as opposed to, what, trying to sell something?  I'd much rather get the personal thoughts and ideas of the artist I'd signed up to get info about than I would someone trying to sell me "Sympathy for the Devil" wine or lighters or renew my subscription for $200 . . .

My inability/disinterest in getting my old avatar is an indication of my intelligence? LOL

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You should do the same with The Stones. Don't let your convictions and ideal keep you from your true calling, of the Republican party! I'm sure there'll be a Big Oil Tour with great headliners soon enough!

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Have fun... don't let the benefits for liberal causes or endorsements keep you away from good music. Let the music keep you away... There's tons of suckiness in rock and roll... and voting records and what not, don't make a good song or album.
Have fun, hope it's warm!

The Boss should run.
I endorse the Boss.

Gazza wrote on Apr 17^th, 2008 at 5:44pm:





Pdog wrote on Apr 17^th, 2008 at 2:15pm:




Can you imagine what a bitch it must be for Right Wing Christians?!?! - If the devil hasn't got 'em the DLM does!

I think Bruce should run for political office in New Jersey.  I'm serious.   

Apparently, the Terminator is doing a bang up job in Cali.

Factory Girl wrote on Apr 18^th, 2008 at 7:13am:



He's doing the best he can, with what he has to work with. The retard has fucked over the entire country and Calif. has a strong economy, but it is also not biz friendly and housing, food and gas are the highest. I've been really surprised, he really cares about poor people and social issues like no other Republican.

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The only thing that would be more difficult would be being punk and screaming for federal government bailouts...which, of course, makes you about as punk as a right wing christian...any way you look at it, they're both faking the funk

Thoughtless comments often piss me off. I'm an adult.

Imagine indeed. If you can, Asswipe.

Nasty Habits wrote on Apr 21^st, 2008 at 2:38pm:


Yeah, he should his true intellegence on this thread.  Come on, who the fuck did he think the boss was going to endorse.  What an idiot.  Now ashamed, he must resort to name calling.  Just proves he reactive instead of provactive. 

Also his beloved party might outsource his job to another country or an automated system.  Which totally sucks in my book.  Maybe he will ge his head out of his ass and stand up, but you know its so far up there that is impossible.  And his types are far to foolish to admit they were wrong (See voting GW Bush in twice).  What a hippocrate and an asshole.  I'm voting for Hillary tomorrow, just there is still a chance he will pick up his bags and leave the country he hates so much.

Fiji Joe wrote on Apr 21^st, 2008 at 2:14pm:



Well, at least in your eyes I'm still punk. B/c I think bailing out the homeownners is just as retarded as bailing out all these corrupt companies who have been breaking laws and fucking over investors, employees and the country. All the Republicans who support this corporate welfare need to check themselves, free market capitalism? Jeez... what next, socialized medicine!!!!

Pdog wrote on Apr 21^st, 2008 at 3:57pm:


True enough...but hey, I'm not against all forms of bailouts...if that's what we want to call them...especially in those areas where the feds regulate to begin with...there are certainly examples where business have been regulated into failure...but for the most part, let em' crash and let em' burn...as for homeowners, we're going to be bailing out those nincompoops whether we want to or not...and the damn of it is, it's just a matter of time before some knee-jerk leftist comes along and calls us heartless and callous for bitching about having to bail them out...ain't that something?

And we can come full circle, for my perspective. How dare Bruce endorse someone, after years of Bruce donating his money to help people in need. This is so retarded. We live in a country where powerful, well funded groups endorse candidates, buy commercial time to help, lobby politicians, we have newspapers endorsing, we have networks who obviously are slanted, yet a man ,who puts his money where his mouth is, is self made, owes no one a favor, endorses a [size=12][/size]man he agrees with, and people here won't buy his music anymore. Can someone loan me three letters, i'm all out!!!
"W" "T" "F"

and this outrage... well, I'm sitting here asking myself, how does a guy, whose family got rich from oil, sent an army into a land with the 2nd largest oil reserve, and we've had the price of oil qudruple during his term, not even get more than a passing, he made a few mistakes from certain people? And let's not even discuss that 40% of the cost of the war, is spent on outsourced contractors, and their offshore reg. biz addy's, who outnumber soldiers in Iraq!!!
Let's not buy Bruce's music, or go to his concerts, it might break your fucking denial, that you voted for this retard, and really need to blame yourself, for supporting the fear, that got us this fucked up. Remember, rome fell apart, it wasn't destroyed by outside forces. They ran out of money and let the corrupt leaders get away with zero accountabilty.
our current state of affairs is basically a plagerized accounting of past collapsed empires. History repeats b/c people are too stupid to read the books, I guess!
and Penn & robbins are acting unAmerican... OMFG!!! How about spending millions to have a Pizza Hut in Iraq, while millions are suffering!!! That would've been like setting up a Ice Cream shop on the Normandy beaches while men were still coming off the boats!!! This isn't a question of patritism, it's about a false nationalism, created using fear to support greedy oppurtunists! Why didn't Afghansitan get a Green Zone and a Taco Bell? Wasn't that where A.Q. was Headquartered? No oil? Is it really so obvious that you can't see it?

Pdog wrote on Apr 21^st, 2008 at 4:59pm:


BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I miss your countdown clock, P.
Thankfully I have a magnet on my Fridge reminding me of the day the 8 year nightmare will end!!!!

LJ.

Starbuck wrote on Apr 21^st, 2008 at 7:53pm:


I don't know, but let's find out.

PartyDoll MEG wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2008 at 5:09am:


http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0523/p25s02-stss.html

PartyDoll MEG wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2008 at 8:18am:

You spin mw right round baby right round like a record baby round right round

Nasty Habits wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2008 at 11:46am:


Ain't life grand....