Never heard of them. No band I've never heard of is going to draw 70,000+ people.
“The Decemberists” - must be one hell of a popular band to draw 70K.
Another freeper pointed out the other day that this band are so far gone as communists that they open their shows with the Soviet national anthem. This should be another Obama scandal.
The band may have drawn a few people there but I think it was still just a vast majority of idiots.
One report I heard said there were only 55,000 there. Even that number is probably exaggerated.
Oh my, I even know about the Decemberists and I’m a middle aged woman, LOL. That explains the turn out. This group is very popular with the college crowd (their politics are liberal and they have a couple anti-war songs.) Some of their ballards are interesting to listen to. Here’s a sample of one of their more “famous” songs...The Mariner’s Revenge.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYgs2dnLBsA&feature=related
Self-absorbed politician promoted my self-absorbed media and rock band. This is news?
15 years ago you might have said the same thing about Dave Matthews. 25 years ago you might have said the same thing about U2.
Sinatra hate the Beatles and Elvis too.
That's what happens when a collection of determinate liberals descends upon any locale. Things get hellish and hot. Had they stayed home the planet would have cooled a bit. Like December.
The Decemberists were heard to comment to their manager “I saw NO MORE PUPPET SHOWS!!!”
Obama is supposed to show up in St Petersburg tomorrow. The press is really pushing it, all the tkts are gone.
What a lot of people don’t know is that St. Petersburg has a large minority population.
The idiotic St Petersburg Times has a story about elephant herds in Africa for their front page headline (I guess nothing important was happening today)
Here is the page for the Tampa Tribune.
http://www.newseum.org/media/dfp/jpg20/lg/FL_TT.jpg
For all the people that can’t get tickets, I will save you the money.
Obama will come out. He will say:
Hope, Change, Hope, Change, Hope, Change. Not much else.
The MSM and some people will swoon. And nobody will be able to tell you anything concrete he’s talked about.
I bought a Decemberists CD last year. I didn’t like it; I sold it back.
Left that part out did they? Shocked, I am.
This post (<-click), while addressing taxes, helps to explain why government "leaders" like Obama are actually in contempt of the Constitution that they have sworn to defend, foolishly following in the footsteps of FDR's dirty federal spending politics.
In fact, the article referenced below shows that Obama is the #1 federal spending proposer in the Senate for '08; Clinton is #2.
Obama, a big-shot federal spenderAnd this post (<-click) exposes how corrupt justices then began using FDR's politically correct license to ignore the 10th A. to unlawfully stifle traditional family values, including the USSC's scandalous legalization of abortion in Roe v. Wade. Note that the post first references two non-abortion cases in order to show Roe v. Wade in a different, troubling perspective.
In fact, consider that the states have the constitutional power (10th A.) to authorize public schools to lead non-mandatory (14th A.) classroom discussions on the pros and cons of evolution, creationism and ID, as examples, regardless that atheists, separatists, pagan-minded judges and the MSM are misleading the people to think that doing such things in public schools is unconstitutional.
The people need to reconnect with the Founder's division of federal and state government powers. The people then need to wise up to the major problems that, since the days of FDR's dirty politics, Congress has not only not been operating with the restraints of the federal Constitution, particularly where constitutionally unauthorized federal spending is concerned, but the USSC has wrongly been ignoring the 10th A. protected power of the states to address religious issues.
The bottom line is that the people need to get in the faces of judges, demanding that judges uphold their oaths to defend the 10th A. protected powers of the states to address religious issues - or get off the bench. The people also need to send big-shot, Constitution-ignoring federal spenders like Obama home as opposed to trying to send people like him to the Oval Office. The people need to get in the faces of members of Congress, demanding a stop to constitutionally unauthorized federal spending while appropriately lowering federal taxes - or get out of DC.
Lincoln put it this way.
"We the People are the rightful master of both congress and the courts - not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." --Abraham Lincoln, Political debates between Lincoln and Douglas, 1858.
Kinda reminds you of when Bruce Springsteen played at a Kerry rally in 2004. Of course as soon as SPringsteen stoped playing and Kerry started talking most people left.
