(Obama endorser) Joan Baez: ‘I was right 40 years ago and I am right now!’

Times UK ^ | 8/28/08 | Will Hodgkinson

[pissant]

Time has been kind to Joan Baez. Over peppermint tea in the restaurant of a South London hotel, the queen of America’s folk scene in the Sixties appears extremely youthful for someone in the fifth decade of her career. “We’ll sit here until we get thrown out,” she says, firmly but quietly, after the manager protests at our not wanting dinner. She appears the model of calm, unwavering serenity, but something about her unblinking stare — and her swift dismissal of a fussy maitre d’ — suggests that you wouldn’t want to get on the wrong side of her.

Perhaps the company she keeps has maintained her youth. Day After Tomorrow, her new album, is produced by the much younger country singer Steve Earle and it features songs by her favourite songwriters, including the British singer Thea Gilmore, who is half her age.

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These days, the warbling falsetto that Baez brought to We Shall Overcome and Babe I’m Gonna Leave You in the Sixties has been deepened by age, but she’s still using the songs to get across her core messages of pacifism, social responsibility and, for the first time, party allegiance, saying of her endorsement of Barack Obama: “For years I chose not to engage in party politics. At this time, however, changing that posture feels like the responsible thing to do.”

[pissant]

All we are missing is Jane Fonda's endorsement at this point.....

[redstateconfidential]

Pacifism with an elitist glare at the maitre d’ .
Oh you noxious smug idiot hippies.

[Red Badger]

“We’ll sit here until we get thrown out,” she says, firmly but quietly, after the manager protests at our not wanting dinner.

Still free loading after all these years.......

[nikos1121]

Has anyone heard the CD?

[Red Badger]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/04/jane-fonda-endo.html

[nikos1121]

hahahahahahahahahaha!!

[hinckley buzzard]

This is the problem with the idiot Left. They haven't learned anything in forty years.

[EagleUSA]

The old commie generation of the sixties....pandering to probably one of the worst presidential candidates in history...

[San Jacinto]

"We’ll sit here until we get thrown out,” she says, firmly but quietly, after the manager protests at our not wanting dinner.

So she felt some entitlement to use someone else's property at her leisure without providing any compensation? Of course, she supports Obama.

It would take me 5 seconds after she said that to send the b*tch flying out the door.

[Melinda]

Proof that brain-washing has long-term implications.

[Mr. K]

"“We’ll sit here until we get thrown out,” she says, firmly but quietly, after the manager protests at our not wanting dinner"

Apparently she thinks the owner of the restaurant does not deserve to make money by actually SERVING DINNER but merely exist to provide free space for her to occupy and dawdle over tea.

Way to "stick it to THE MAN" Ms Baez. His wife and children should starve and then go on welfare to collect tax money that he could have paid if you had BOUGHT SOMETHING

[Kackikat]

ROFL...well said

[dragonblustar]

The title of the article should be, "From Carefree to Depends. Aging hippy folk singer keeps going."

[Kackikat]

Absolutely!

[happygrl]

“We’ll sit here until we get thrown out,” she says, firmly but quietly, after the manager protests at our not wanting dinner.

I see that time time hasn't dimmed the arrogance.

BTW, Joan Baez was alone, I believe, of the 60s anti-war activists to later condemn the North Vietnamese regime as a bunch of "Stalinist Generals", after they sent millions of South Vietnamese to re-education camps, and created the Boat People.

Unfortunately, she learned nothing from this tragedy, as she is willing to risk a genocide in Iraq were we to pull out when the anti-war movement and Obama was urging us to do so.

[Mr. K]

YES~! JANE FONDA!!! THAT’S What’s missing here!

Is their ANY world problem that wasn’t made worse by her idiocy?

Let’s see... no nuclear plants since that dimwit “china syndrome” movie..

Oh and those bothersome deaths in North Vietnam when we pulled out of there...

and don’t even get me started on 40-somethings in SPANDEX FOR GOD’S SAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!

[subterfuge]

For a brief moment in the early Sixties Dylan and Baez were the king and queen of the folk movement, the perfect couple to lead the young of America towards a new consciousness. But while Baez stuck to cover versions and causes, Dylan took off on a poetic journey all his own, hitching on the coat-tails of Baez’s fame and then leaving her behind to become the foremost songwriter of the 20th century.

DEFCON 5 BARF ALERT!!!!!!!

[Clemenza]

Even Dylan was smart enough to toss this hairy thing all those years ago.

Joan Bi-lez should do us all a favor and eat a carpet.

[Uri’el-2012]

Joan Baez

Another Marxist/Anarchist for O bomb A

[patriot08]

She was a trashy hippy fool 40 years ago and she’s a trashy hippy fool today.