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Bruce Springsteen endorses Obama for president
AP ^ | April 16, 2008 | Joan Lowy

Posted on 04/16/2008 7:54:40 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement

WASHINGTON - Rock star Bruce Springsteen endorsed Democratic Sen. Barack Obama for president Wednesday, saying "he speaks to the America I've envisioned in my music for the past 35 years."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008endorsements; endorsement; music; obama; rockandroll; rockmusic; springsteen
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Me, I won’t decide until the Bruce’s drummer endorses someone!


61 posted on 04/16/2008 9:07:31 AM PDT by Revolting cat! ("I am like...Dude......do you really....like want the Sex?")
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To: PGR88

Or Born in the USKKK


62 posted on 04/16/2008 9:08:14 AM PDT by fml (So?)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

And Terry Jacks endorses who?


63 posted on 04/16/2008 9:08:38 AM PDT by Revolting cat! ("I am like...Dude......do you really....like want the Sex?")
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To: PGR88

That was “Born in the USA”, Springsteen mocked President Reagan for using it as a patriotic song during a campaign because Springsteen meant it to be anti-American.


64 posted on 04/16/2008 9:09:46 AM PDT by Son House (Democrat High Tax Rates Suppress Opportunity and Jobs..)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Has Ted Nugent endorsed anyone yet?


65 posted on 04/16/2008 9:14:36 AM PDT by knittnmom (...surrounded by reality!)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Who??????

WTFC anyway?


66 posted on 04/16/2008 9:14:37 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Typical white person, bitter, religious, gun-owner, who will "Just say No to BO.")
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To: MartinStyles; EDINVA

Posts 44 and 45

Proof that either FREEPERS are either telepathic,

or just masters of the obvious.


67 posted on 04/16/2008 9:15:47 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Just saying what 'they' won't.)
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
Never, ever got the whole Springsteen thing.

If you're from New Jersey you already know, and if you're not no amount of 'splaining will help. -C. Lauper

68 posted on 04/16/2008 9:19:28 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

That’s funny, I don’t recall hearing any of Mr. Springsteen’s songs espousing race hatred and Marxism.

I guess I’ll have to give them a closer listen.


69 posted on 04/16/2008 9:28:22 AM PDT by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan; All

70 posted on 04/16/2008 9:29:16 AM PDT by rlmorel (Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
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To: 80 Square Miles

Actually, IIRC, Nuge was a Huckabee guy.

}:-)4


71 posted on 04/16/2008 9:42:14 AM PDT by Moose4 (If you get robbed, raped, or killed in Durham County, NC today, thank a probation officer.)
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To: RightWhale

Oh please - I’m not from Tupelo, Liverpool, or Texas either, and that hadn’t stopped me from getting Elvis, Beatles and Stevie Ray to name but a few.


72 posted on 04/16/2008 9:43:00 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: OKIEDOC

Obama is FAR more dangerous than Gore or Kerry. He is disarmingly charismatic and has a sophisticated marketing machine like no other selling him to the people. And they are still buying, in spite of the numerous times his true agenda has slipped out. If Springsteen thought for a moment that it would be HIS money and mansion that would be divvied up in fairness to the people, he’d run the other way. But as one of the elite, he has no worries.


73 posted on 04/16/2008 10:01:46 AM PDT by informavoracious (God BLESS America)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

They both suck - - but Obama sucks to infinity.


74 posted on 04/16/2008 10:58:40 AM PDT by Beckwith ('Typical White Person')
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To: informavoracious

sophisticated marketing machine like no other - - MOVEON.org people are running his campaign.


75 posted on 04/16/2008 11:03:00 AM PDT by Beckwith ('Typical White Person')
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To: RexBeach
RexBeach Wrote:
Bruce, please be quiet and sing.


That is where we differ, RexBeach. I'd rather him make absurd endorsements if that is what it takes to keep him from "singing".
76 posted on 04/16/2008 11:15:28 AM PDT by Verbosus
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten

I am with you. I have always raced to change the channel the minute I hear a Springsteen song. He sings like someone trying to sing while taking a dump.

And this was before I knew of his commie politics.


77 posted on 04/16/2008 11:20:47 AM PDT by ohioman
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

“Bruce Springsteen endorses Obama for president”

Well that does it then.

All the guys over 50 that are still driving their 69 Camaros, with the orginal 396 engines, and living with their parents will go for Obama.


78 posted on 04/16/2008 11:24:59 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland ("We have to drain the swamp" George Bush, September 2001)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Definition of rock journalism:

People who can't write, interviewing people who can't speak, for people who can't read.

-- Frank Zappa

79 posted on 04/16/2008 11:46:48 AM PDT by Darth Hillary (we're both liars - but he's a racist.)
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To: informavoracious
Courtesy Comment:

Somehow Obama and his elitism remind me of Lenin and the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution of Russian.

Way too many people are casting their allegiance to the materialistic side of America and not its traditions.

Obama like Lenin has no use for America's traditions as they only impede his real reasons for wanting power.

Please allow me to post and item snippet from the Internet and see if you to think that it reminds you of what can happen in America and a parallel to Obama and Hillary and liberalism.

http://www.historyguide.org/europe/lecture7.html
Lecture 7

The Aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution

The initial triumph of the Bolshevik Revolution at the end of October, 1917 (see Lecture 6), did not mean that the entire population of Russia had been converted to Bolshevism. Lenin was aware of this. To gather national support, Lenin resorted to slogans for the masses. The most important of them was “Bread, Land, Peace and All Power to the Soviets.”

SNIP

There are parallels between 1917 and the French Revolution. Those who guide the revolution feel responsible for the success of the revolution. They know that their failure is also the failure of the revolution as a whole. The revolutionaries are the prophets and martyrs of social and political change. They bear the responsibility.

SNIP

Those who were not Bolsheviks were indignant when they witnessed this unconstitutional act. Just the same, there was no public outburst. Why the delegates did no more than weakly protest is clear: the Bolsheviks had already taken action on what interested the people most — Bread, Land and Peace. Were the Russian people ready for democracy? Regardless of how we can answer this question one thing is clear — Lenin made it impossible for the Assembly to meet.

SNIP

Meanwhile, the government subjected the countryside to severe requisitioning. It mobilized the poorer peasants against the kulaks (wealthy peasants). Bitter class hatred resulted in the villages and stimulated a civil war in the countryside. Lenin knew he had to act.

SNIP

This much said, what about totalitarianism? This is clearly a 20th century phenomena. A totalitarian regime is one in which the state has absolute power over its people. It does not mean one man rules all. It does mean, however, the absolute and total rule by one group of men or party. Total control in this case is based upon propaganda, the creation of myth and the CULT OF PERSONALITY. What made total control possible was technology, specifically communications and transportation. You cannot maintain total control unless that control reaches out to every individual, whether subject or citizen. Furthermore, whereas fascism sits to the right of right and is therefore considered reactionary, totalitarianism sits to the left of left. In the case of Soviet Russia, this meant communism.

SNIP

Under NEP, the government stopped its policy of requisitioning the peasants’ entire crop and instead began to take only what was needed to meet the minimum requirements of the army and urban workers. The peasants were still forced to pay a heavy tax in kind but they were now allowed to sell the remainder of their crop. They could sell either privately or to the state. In a word, peasant agriculture became capitalist and the profit motive reappeared. With NEP, the earlier policy of war communism was abandoned. In the end, NEP helped the rich peasant at the expense of the poorer peasant, who now became a hired, landless laborer.

SNIP

In opposition to Trotsky, Stalin maintained that socialism was possible within one country. An independent socialist state could indeed exist. This did not mean that Stalin abandoned the idea of a world revolution. What it did mean is that until the world revolution did take place, Russia would have to serve as the world's shining example of socialism. In international affairs, this doctrine allowed the Soviet Union to pursue a policy of “peaceful coexistence” with capitalist states when necessary. Of course, this also meant that the Soviet Union would support socialist revolutions whenever possible. Stalin's idea of “socialism in one country” gave inner strength to those communists who had doubts about the prospects of a world revolution. And while Trotsky continued to argue a western Marxist version of the future revolution, Stalin convinced everyone that the revolution in socialism that he himself had helped to create was a Russian idea, thereby bolstering his overtly nationalist posture.

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80 posted on 04/16/2008 12:12:56 PM PDT by OKIEDOC (Kalifornia, a red state wannabe. I don't take Ex Lax I just read the New York Times.)
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