Posted on 08/30/2008 11:30:13 AM PDT by pissant
Michael Stipe has told Sky News that he may leave America if John McCain wins the US election.
The REM frontman is an outspoken supporter of Barack Obama and said the Democrat's election would give his country the chance to move on from the aftermath of 9/11.
The 48-year-old revealed he had stayed up overnight because he wanted to experience Senator Obama's nomination acceptance speech live and said he hoped America would be ready to elect its first black president on polling day.
Speaking exclusively to Sky News ahead of the band's appearance at London's Twickenham stadium, Stipe also talked about the impact that illegal downloading has had on the music industry, warning that film companies will be next to face a huge fall in profits.
Asked what he felt it would mean for America if Senator McCain wins the election, Stipe smiled and said: "Well I'd have to move to England."
He went on to say that he admired the war veteran's record but criticised the Republicans' record since the turn of the century.
"It is unfathomable to me as an American and a world citizen that anyone would vote for that man," he said.
"He served his country and he did a good job as a serviceman, I will honour him for that, but he is not presidential material."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...
If only....
DON’T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU IN THE A##
I’m sick of your music anyway, get a real job
I’ll show up with a limo in Athens and offer him a ride to the Atlanta Airport.
Liar.
Time for the “Guess what? Nobody cares.” graphic with a tumbleweed on a dusty road...
He should take Alec Baldwin with him when he leaves. We’ll be just fine without the two of them.
This is tiresome. If they would actually make good on it then it could get interesting. But it’s just another empty promise. Hot air blowing out from an empty head.
Boy am I sick of this nincompoopery. If Obama loses, which I pray he will, it won't be because he's black it'll be because he is a creep who should never be at the helm of this nation.
“Like we would be so lucky?”
They never leave..........
Cuber would be a good place for him and Liberal America haters to go... another fine country would be Russia, I heard they got this under population problem, maybe they can help Russia.
Alice Cooper has a message for Mikey:
>If you’re listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you’re a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we’re morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal.<
I could see leaving the country for Bush—at least he was a metaphor for bad things, like cowboys ande royal dynasties. But McCain? McCain is basically a Democrat, Stipe. Absconding because of McCain is like me absconding because Barry Goldwater was elected instead of Murray Rothbard.
But...but...but they’re all so brilliant because they’re like famous & stuff. lol
“What the heck is a world citizen?”
It’s what I like to call a hobo.
Loosing his religion again?
Gawd,if only every asinine leftist who promises to leave if a Republican wins would keep their damn word and do America the favor.
One of my old favs,Nazareth,has a song called “Liar” on their latist disc.
It’s about Bush and I haven’t been so sickened since one of my guitar heros,Peter Townsend of the Who,came out of the pervert closet.
We always suspected Pete was a homosexual,but giving his hard rock fans the visual was a wet dream destroyer.
Another reason to vote McCain/Palin and get rid of the eldritch Stipe, the perfidious, pompous poseur and periwinkle.
Michael Stipe, the most pretentious, portentious, condescending, passive aggressive snob and narcissist is just another self indulgent nasty old queen.
Maybe he can rent Alec Baldwin’s and Robert Altman’s old unused house in France along with all the other treasonous leftist “celebrities” and traitors.
Good riddance to bad, smelly sissy rubbish.
These childish left-wingers really crack me up. If they don’t get their way, they either take off their clothes or threaten to leave the country. What is wrong with these morons? Marxism IS a mental disease.
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