Chris Christie Wept over Springsteen Hug

Time ^ | Nov. 07, 2012 | By Emma O'Connor

[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.’ ”

[Mozilla]

But did he weep over Mitt Romney’s loss? I’d say No.

[dfwgator]

Bet he weeps when McDonald’s runs out of bacon.

[supremedoctrine]

Thanks for that vivid story-—but I don’t know whO Robert Lockwood Jr, is/was and Why! You’re white! means.
One fond memory of mine is being part of a created-on-the-spot group (called The CHicago Boxcar) to perform only one time and open for Chuck Berry
at the Washington U. homecoming concert right around this time FORTY ONE YEARS AGO. Most of us were from the original production of Grease in Chicago that ran almost the entire year prior to this C Berry concert-—this concert was the brainchild of two Wash U students who fancied themselves as budding rock producers, We had in addition to the Grease members one vocalist who was a leftwing storefront attorney in Chicago who has been part of a locally well-known doo-wop group in Brooklyn about 10 years earlier. We had to drive down to St. Louis and perform on virtually no sleep, in addition to having all of 24 hours to put together and rehearse enough songs sufficient to be called an opening act. Our lawyer diva, (who was also a friend of mine at the time) said he would come down but demanded to have roundtrip airfare paid. That was granted, and we finally put on the opening act, having no choice but to stand there, try to smile and sing, as we ducked catcalls and a couple dozen beer cans thrown at us, because after all they were there to see the Merry Mr. Berry, and not The Chicago Boxcar. Ahhhh, good times!

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Chuck was notoriously hard to work with! The stories are amazing! Yours sounded like a very tough gig, and you didn’t even have to play with Chuck, which would have made it worse!

Here’s Robert Jr.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Lockwood,_Jr.

I was sitting in the acoustic section of Sam’s Music, around the corner from the front desk. So I couldn’t be seen by anyone at the desk. I was playing some hard-core Delta Blues. I finished up, and this old Black guy with a goatee and a beret leaned around the corner. His eyes bugged out, and he exclaimed, “Why you’re White!” I held out my arms and answered, “Shit! I’m screwed!” The old guy was Robert Jr. Shoulda quit playing pedal steel in the Country band, and started hangin’ with him. From him? My best compliment ever!