[JewishRighter]

Same guy who got rich singing:

Poor man wanna be rich,
rich man wanna be king

I used to really like him in his early days. Sometime in the 90’s he started getting political. He was finished for me completely when he came out with 41 shots, the song about the New York cops who were charged with the shooting of Amadou Diallou, a tragic case where the guy fit the description of a violent felon and did not immediately respond to the police commands to show hands. They were acquitted, but Bruce joined the rabble screaming for the cops’ blood with that song.

Since those days, he’s been campaigning for Dem candidates and inserting political rants into his songs and concert speeches. On top of that, he really hasn’t written a decent song in years. Some of you who never liked him will crack wise, but his early stuff was good, hard pumping rock, poetic, gritty lyrics, soulful ballads and that awesome sax.

[PrkChps]

I enjoyed the early stuff...and quit completely after the “41 Shots” crap. I don’t take political advice from a man with a 10th-grade education.

He should be glad and grateful to live in a country that allows him to be successful in spite of his lack of education. He could be actually working in a dead-end, manual job...like the ones he sings about.

[andy58-in-nh]

Agree with your assessment. Springsteen's politics are typically mindless and hypocritical...which, perhaps would be slightly more forgivable if he had produced a single decent album since 1982. To my ears, Nebraska was the last one that consistently combined musical originality with poetry, heart or soul.

As to his liberal hypocrisy, I suppose any true "working man" like him has to find some little corrugated tin shack in which to hole up and brave the elements...:

[submarinerswife]

He was on a John F’n Kerry fundraising tour with the Dixie Chicks in ‘04 shooting his mouth off about Bush and the “illegal war in Iraq”.

Same sh*t, differant day. This sonofabitch is never happy is he?