He's still fairly popular, inspite of it all he still has an image as an all-American guy, and he's from Indiana (the Colts are playing in Detroit today), get over it. This attempt to make political statements into some sort of scarlett letter is assinine and makes us look like provintial morons. People are allowed to speak honestly, he honestly thinks Bush lied, he's wrong but that's what he thinks. He's moved on, so should you, and neither CBS nor the NFL should ban people just because they campaigned for the guy that lost the election. While freedom of speech include rebuttal this is getting past ridiculous.
You're naive. The NFL has a repsonsibility not to shove political sh^t in our faces and we have every right to object.
That performance was not "moving on" from the election and it made a mockery of their "Celebrating One America" theme when the purpose of the song is to bash half of America and what Mellencamp clearly sees as a Jesus-war bring fought by morons in Iraq.
I'm sorry, I must have missed whatever it was he's done or said that shows that he's "moved on". Judging by the things he's said in the recent past I seriously doubt it.
...neither CBS nor the NFL should ban people just because they campaigned for the guy that lost the election.
CBS and the NFL are both organozations that are run by adults who are capable of exercising judgment and restraint. They know when they're taking "shots" and do it on purpose.