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Posted on 06/17/2026 9:40:20 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Bruce Springsteen, Eddie Vedder and U2's Bono and the Edge are among the music stars who will perform on Thursday at the grand opening of the Barack Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, where the former president spent years working as a community organizer and politician.
"We are bringing together some of today's most prominent voices and global icons for the Obama Presidential Center Grand Opening Ceremony," the Obama Foundation announced in a Wednesday social media post, which you can see below. "The festivities will livestream globally at 11 a.m. CT, Thursday, June 18 — don’t miss it!"
Other performers helping to open the library, museum and educational center include Stevie Wonder, Christina Aguilera, Common, Jennifer Hudson, John Legend, Marc Anthony and the Roots. The ceremony will also feature remarks and special appearances by actor Marsai Martin, Obama Foundation CEO Valerie Jarrett and board chair Marty Nesbitt, as well as an invocation led by Pastor Joel Hunter and spiritual leader Joshua DuBois.
These Rockers Have Long-Running Ties to Obama
The rockers tapped to perform at the Barack Obama Presidential Center's grand opening have plenty of history with the former president. In 2021, Springsteen and Obama published Renegades: Born in the USA, a book comprising "candid, intimate and entertaining conversations” inspired by the duo's Renegades podcast series.
Obama is also a noted fan of U2, having frequently used their "City of Blinding Lights" as walk-on music throughout his presidential campaign and two terms in office. And Vedder, who was born in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Illinois, performed ahead of the president's farewell address in 2017.
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Hahahahaha what a bunch of losers!
If I had hair, I’d wash it..................
Rockers? Yeah, no.
Are the contractors that got stiffed going to be there to worship “The One”?
LOL! Wouldn’t it be a hoot to see them picket outside, but...the media would never cover it.
Disgusting. They probably expect them to eat their expenses for the “privilege” of losing their money on this hideous travesty.
It is amazing to me. This is emblematic of anything the Leftists do: poorly planned, underfunded, over budget, and late.
But oh, they will do it all right when we let them run the government. And suckers keep falling for it.
It is things like that that cause me to to have nothing but contempt and disrespect for anyone who votes Democrat.
,,, has someone checked that the toilets are flushing?
Wrong part of town for a bunch of White boomers to sing.
So many washed up losers for a washed up hand puppet.
They need to insist on being paid first.
I’ll be sure to miss it.
Good. Serves everyone right.
Springsteen, Vedder, Bono, and The Edge?
None of those were on my bingo card.
That bunch sounds like donor picks.
Right? No chance of any vibrant and colorful celebration happening that night!
I thought for sure that I would be invited to the festivities, but somehow they missed me.
I am heartbroken.
Attention Chicagoan’s ….flush twice, it’s a long way to Obama’s concrete porta potty library.
Is there anyway to keep Springsteen there permanently?
WHO GIVES A CRAP???
“We are bringing together some of today’s most prominent voices and global icons for the Obama Presidential Center Grand Opening Ceremony,”
NO ONE CARES.
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