Posted on 04/16/2008 12:44:41 PM PDT by pissant
Rock superstar Bruce Springsteen on Wednesday endorsed Democratic Senator Barack Obama for US president, saying he stands "head and shoulders above the rest."
In a message posted on his Web site, the musician and songwriter known as the Boss said the Illinois senator has "the depth, the reflectiveness and the resilience" to be the next US president.
"Like most of you, I've been following the campaign and I have now seen and heard enough to know where I stand. Senator Obama, in my view, is head and shoulders above the rest," he wrote.
Many of Springsteen's rousing rock anthems and haunting ballads celebrate working class Americans. His endorsement in the November presidential election comes as Obama fends off charges he is out of touch with working class voters.
The Obama campaign welcomed the endorsement. The America of Springsteen's songs - with its hardworking people and big dreams - is "a story I know and a vision I share for our future, and that's why I'm so honoured to have his support in this journey," Obama said in a statement.
Then he's very well hung and peeing sideways.
This may be the case, and he has definitely gone around the bend politically, but you really can't make the point that the guy can't sell tickets. I believe his arena shows still sell out pretty much immediately. Talk of him being washed up is premature. Many of his contemporaries are on the indian casino circuit.
I recently got a freebeie to see him (decided before I was done giving him my money). I wasn't that enthused, but he did manage to bring me back several decades. I just don't remember all those old people there before. Absolutely nobody there in their twenties. Quite a few teenagers; there with their parents. Literally saw two people with walkers, both well into their 80s.
It was pointed out here a few years back by someone else...
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