Posted on 11/07/2012 6:22:05 PM PST by drewh
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie may have worked closely with President Obama in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, but it appears he’s more emotionally invested in a different budding bromance. Christie admitted at a Monday briefing that he started “weeping” after he hugged Bruce Springsteen at NBC’s telethon for Sandy’s victims Friday night, the Record reported.
“We hugged,” Christie said to a crowd of relief volunteers in Monmouth County on Monday, according to the Record. “Yeah, we hugged and he told me it’s official-we're friends!'
Christie and Springsteen had met twice before, but their interactions had been limited to “formal pleasantries,” the Record noted. Their previously tense relationship may have stemmed from their opposing presidential preferences—Christie campaigned for GOP candidate Mitt Romney, while Springsteen was active in fundraisers for President Obama. Hurricane Sandy’s devastation, however, managed to bring the two Jersey boys together.
“I told the President today actually that the hug was great and that when we got home there was a lot of weeping because of the hug,” Christie said. “And the President said, ‘Why?’ I said, ‘Well, to be honest, I was the one weeping, everyone else was fine.’”
Obama gave Christie another chance to interact with his musical hero on Monday, when he handed Springsteen the phone while discussing storm relief with the N.J. governor, the AP reported.
Christie hinted at the briefing that his newfound friendship with The Boss will continue to blossom in the near future.
“Bruce has said he’s going to be here to help the community in New Jersey as soon as he gets off tour,” Christie said. “So I’m looking forward to spending some more time with him as we go forward.”
Christie joked it was “even better” to talk to Springsteen on Monday than it was to talk to Obama.
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There was a time, well, never when I would cry about meeting Bruce, but maybe when I would have thought it was kind of cool, when I would have even asked him, “Courteney Cox...did you hit it?”. That time is probably almost twenty years in the past, it it’s not there already. Basically anything since he decided he was permanently the new Pete Seeger is not of interest to me.
Springsteen is a no-talent sweathog. He’s only written about three original songs in his “career”, the rest are just derivatives of those, mostly trying to relive high school and how great it was.
It wasn’t. And I didn’t even have to go to school in New Jersey to know that.
Fat SOB
F Christie his wife and children.
F Christie his wife and children.
f his dog, cat and any goldfish.
I hope he has a heart attack to nite in his sleep.
Pray for NJ. now, snow is falling, up to six inches in areas still without power. Others aces where power has been restored, are losing power again, as trees and branches weakened by Sandy are falling everywhere.
This is Obama’s Katrina, but these folks are getting no media coverage.
It is a disaster, unprecedented in such a densely populated area.
Maybe Bruce gave him a friendly goose while they were hugging.
“...I never did get Springsteen...”
His first two (maybe 3) albums are great, after that it is all cr*p.
What is funny to me is that nobody is making the connection with the name of this storm and Springsteen’s song “Sandy” which I think is actually called “Asbury Park 4th of July”.
It’s one of his best, but even hubby wasn’t getting it when I asked “do you think he’ll sing “Sandy” during the fundraiser?”
Oh yeah, and to borrow a phrase from the ONION, back in the McGreevey days - it looks like we have another tearful homosexual as gov. of NJ {sigh}.
“...he decided he was permanently the new Pete Seeger...”
Seeger is a stone cold communist but he is a much better singer than Bruce could ever dream of being. I think Seeger is less of a phony as well.
I read a piece on him in the New Yorker and it told of him standing on the road by his upstate home, holding a sign protesting the Iraq war (or whatever); all alone at whatever great age he is, in his 80s or something.
You won’t catch “the boss” doing that, now or ever.
Your post made me barf just now.
Don’t bother to thank me. ;-)
Lol. :)
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