Sir Paul McCartney: I politicised the Beatles

The Guardian UK ^ | Monday 15 December 2008 10.36 GMT | Sean Michaels

[weegee]

Another article here:

Sir Paul McCartney: I was the anti-war Beatle. (The Times (UK) December 14, 2008 Maurice Chittenden)

[weegee]

Rock and Roll Pingko.

[mnehring]

Taking credit for John Lennon’s work again?

[trisham]

He’s senile.

[MahatmaGandu]

Oh, I see. John Lennon the Commie had nothing to do with politcising the Beatles. Uh, huh. Right.

[pray4liberty]

Typical liberals...always living in the past and in the world of ought to be, because the reality of now, which they helped to create, is unpalatable.

[gundog]

Well, if you can’t believe Bill Clinton’s favorite Beatle, who can you believe?

[Loud Mime]

Paul is a pothead with no appreciation for those who fight evil. He lives above the problems of society. As a ki-nigget, he lives in the dark....a night instead of a knight.

Sorry sirpaul, evil needs to be fought, not surrendered to.

[TonyStark]

This is what a lifetime of vegetarianism does to the brain.
“One leg short of a trophy wife”.

[skeeter]

"He told me about the Vietnam war – most of us didn't know about it, it wasn't yet in the papers – and also that it was a very bad war."

Thats deep, man.

[Reagan79]

Who cares? The Beatles suck! I’m not a baby boom weenie so I don’t care.

[70th Division]

You would have been a lot better off Paul, if someone would have told you about GOD!

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Exactly - I share your admiration for Sir Paul’s incisive powers of inductive and deductive reasoning.

[trisham]

You're right, I'd forgotten about his past drug use. I'm sure all the drugs he did haven't helped his brain to function.

Is he still using pot?

[staytrue]

Taking credit for John Lennon’s work again?

Have to agree. Ringo was obviously the least political. But George was also from an alternative lifestyle.

I will add that "it must be nice to make silly statements, when the two other Beatles who would disagree are dead and buried."

[jaydubya2]

Remember recently he was trying to rearrange the credits on the Beatles work to read “by McCartney and Lennon”.

[Tallguy]

One of the advantages of living a long time is that you eventually get your say.

[MrLee]

“One of the advantages of living a long time is that you eventually get your say.”

Even if it is a lie and foolish.....

[skully]

...Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da as a commentary on American neo-colonialism....

and here I always thought this song was just drug induced babble. But then again I grew up in the real world, not in the 60’s. so maybe I missed something groovy in the translation...man.