"shout a little louder if you want the president [Bush] impeached."
Bruce Springsteen
Posted on 11/10/2012 3:26:36 PM PST by Arthurio
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie may have worked closely with President Obama in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, but it appears he’s more emotionally invested in a different budding bromance. Christie admitted at a Monday briefing that he started “weeping” after he hugged Bruce Springsteen at NBC’s telethon for Hurricane Sandy victims on Nov. 2, the Record reported.
Christie is a longtime fan of his fellow New Jerseyan and has attended more than 130 Springsteen concerts over the past 37 years. The governor even sang a version of “Thunder Road” when he made an appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon in September. Although Springsteen has never hid his liberal leanings, the E Street Band front man set aside his ideological differences with Christie to chat with the Republican governor and his family at the Radio City event to benefit Sandy victims.
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“We hugged,” Christie said to a crowd of relief volunteers in Monmouth County on Monday, according to the Record. “Yeah, we hugged, and he told me it’s official: we’re friends.”
Christie and Springsteen had met twice before, but their interactions were limited to “formal pleasantries,” the Record noted. Their previously tense relationship may have stemmed from their opposing presidential preferences — Christie campaigned for GOP candidate Mitt Romney, while Springsteen was active in fundraisers for Obama. Hurricane Sandy’s devastation, however, managed to bring the two Jersey boys together.
“I told the President today actually that the hug was great and that when we got home there was a lot of weeping because of the hug,” Christie said. “And the President said, ‘Why?’ I said, ‘Well, to be honest, I was the one weeping. Everyone else was fine.’ ”
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I still don’t get the adulation for someone ho is famous for an anti-US song
After that he became overly commercialized and really hit the "big time." I haven't been much of a fan since then, and I can't imagine anyone other than my female high school classmates in the 1980s weeping over a hug from him.
“Born in the USA” is an anti-American, anti-War song
I wouldn’t walk next door to meet Springsteen.
Nothing’s quite as unattractive as a fat guy with a man-crush.
It’s all so beautiful it could almost be made into a chick flick.
Christie is politically DEAD to me and I hope to the rest of the Republican Party....
I met Michael Brecker, I didn’t weep.
Again?
Christie is politically DEAD to me and I hope to the rest of the Republican Party....
Tsch. Fag.
Got in a little hometown jam
So they put a rifle in my hand
Sent me off to a foreign land
To go and kill the yellow man
Born in the U.S.A...
So help me, I would sit out rather than vote for Christie Creme.
Springsteen the phony farmer turned left in 1976. Before his stuff was original, nonpolitical, tolerable.
Wonder what happened whed he hugged obomao....never mind.
Low T? What is it with all these weepy “leaders?”
"shout a little louder if you want the president [Bush] impeached."
Bruce Springsteen
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