FR EXCLUSIVE: Springsteen Called For Impeachment of President Bush at DC Concert

Kristinn | September 13, 2003 | Krsitinn via Angelwood

[Angelwood]

Rock star Bruce Springsteen called for the impeachment of President George W. Bush at a nearly sold-out concert at FedEx Field just outside of Washington, DC tonight. During the introductions of his back-up band, The E Street Band, Springsteen said of saxophonist Clarence Clemons, "It's time to impeach the president and get a man in there to get us out of this mess." The audience cheered in response.

At a recent concert at Fenway Park in Boston, Springsteen touted liberal comedian Al Franken's new book and encouraged people to read it. In the Spring, Springsteen issued a statement defending the Dixie Chicks after they told a foreign audience that they were "ashamed that the President of the United States was from Texas."

At least Springsteen chose to make his statement about impeaching President Bush in the nation's capital. However, his timing just two days after the nation marked the second anniversary of the September 11 attacks is sure to make his remarks even more controversial than otherwise, especially because the nation's capital was a target.

Springsteen was silent during the eight years of Bill Clinton's presidency: A time when children were gassed and burned to death at Waco; our national security was betrayed to the communist Chinese government in exchange for millions of dollars for Clinton's campaign coffers; and when Clinton lied under oath and obstructed justice in a civil rights lawsuit filed by one of the "little people" that Springsteen champions.

Springsteen's current album and tour are based on the September 11 attacks and he has several songs about the bravery of those who gave their lives responding to those attacks. Springsteen's tour is scheduled to end at the beginning of October with three dates at New York City's Shea Stadium.

[Angelwood]

I've been busy with lots of family events -- my son was married on 8/16 and we gave my Dad a huge 80th birthday reunion party. I'm pinging the DC Chapter now.

[Rome2000]

Isn't it time for someone at the IRS to go over Stinksteen's tax returns with a finetooth comb?

Unlike the criminal Klintoon gang, this Administration doesn't use the IRS to intimidate their political enemies.

You'll also find that W didn't fire all of the US Attorneys in the country, unlike what the sick evil impeached pervert from Arkansas did on the unholy day he took office.

Just another example of what makes us better than them.

[Afronaut]

That's a very long list for you to teach your kids. I have three. Being a liberal is not even near the top of the list! And I have a very big List.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

No offense to Jersey.

Any state that elects Frank Lautenberg's corpse to the Senate deserves to be offended in the worst way.

[Rome2000]

Clinton Ends His Presidency as He Began It
Christopher Ruddy
Friday, Jan. 19, 2001
Bill Clinton’s last full day of his presidency ended as he began his first full day, with a subversion of justice.
Today Bill Clinton cut a deal with independent counsel Robert Ray that lets him off the hook for criminal prosecution.

We should not forget that Bill Clinton’s first act as president was to fire all the U.S attorneys across the U.S. – an unprecedented act by an American president.

At the time, critics of the president linked the firing to an effort to stave off the prosecution of House Ways and Means Committee chairman Dan Rostenkowski.

But the real truth became clearer as the scandal known as Whitewater unfolded.

The real reason Clinton fired every U.S. attorney was to save himself, not Rostenkowski.

As we now know, the U.S. attorney in Little Rock was closing in on Clinton for Whitewater-related matters and his and Hillary’s involvement in the defrauding of the Small Business Administration.

Clinton’s replacement for U.S. attorney in Little Rock was Paula Casey, a former law school student of his. She did much to protect her patron.

Clinton carried much criminal baggage before he arrived at the White House, and his administration soon opened his luggage to create an administration in his image: the most corrupt in American history.

Clinton is no dummy; he knew the Justice Department would be his Achilles’ heel.

This is precisely why he sacked all the U.S. attorneys.

This is why he put his "best" friend, convicted felon Webster Hubbell, over at Justice as associate attorney general.

This is why his administration secretly sabotaged the nominations of Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood to make way for Janet Reno, the prosecutor from Miami Vice who had almost a perfect record of never prosecuting white-collar criminals or politicians.

This is why he fired FBI Director William Sessions in an unprecedented and sudden act the day before Vince Foster was found with a bullet hole in his head in Fort Marcy Park.

This is why he had Janet Reno hand-pick Robert Fiske as Whitewater special counsel – a man who as U.S. attorney in New York never found one politician who had committed a crime.

This is why he accepted Robert Fiske’s recommendation of Louis Freeh as the FBI director.

This is why he consented as Freeh quickly removed, retired or transferred out the entire executive committee of assistant FBI directors in a most effective coup d’etat that got no press ink.

No doubt Clinton knew that by controlling the Justice Department and the FBI, he and his administration would have a free hand.

His minions could blackmail U.S. congressmen, the IRS could engage in witch-hunt audits, his head of White House security could gain custody of 1,000 confidential FBI files of Republicans, his Pentagon appointees could illegally release the personnel files of Linda Tripp, and so on.

So powerful was Clinton’s control over the judicial and law enforcement apparatus of the country, the communist Chinese could illegally funnel more than $10 million to help his 1996 re-election campaign.

At the same time, the president could give away the most guarded secrets of our nation to China, an avowed enemy, including supercomputer technology to build nuclear weapons and ballistic missile technology – technology that now allows China’s missiles to hit our cities with pinpoint accuracy.

And all of this could be done in silence and with the complicity of the highest officials in the land.

It comes as no surprise that on Clinton’s last day in office he has again cut a "deal" that lets him off the hook.

"I tried to walk a fine line between acting lawfully and testifying falsely, but I now recognize that I did not fully accomplish that goal and that certain of my responses to questions about Ms. Lewinsky were false,'' the president said in a statement issued today.

Basically Clinton admits he committed perjury, got caught at it, but feels he’s been punished enough. He has decided his punishment, not an independent legal authority such as a jury or court.

Robert Ray, like his predecessor Starr, has taken the low road. Perhaps he believes it is in "the best interests of the country," a phrase often used by cowardly men.

I disagree strongly that Clinton should walk and that somehow this is in the interests of the country.

The country may well see the fruits of the Clinton corruption and acquiescence of people like Starr and Ray to Clinton’s corruption, as domestic problems and foreign crises emerge in the months and years ahead.

[Mo1]

This sickens me....My husband just called from Balad tonight...he's dodging mortar attacks daily, sometimes several a day....and now I read this....

Me too mystery-ak .. I am so sick of these LOSERS yapping this crap.

Prayers to you and your husband

[mathurine]

Bruce is a very gay sounding name and a peach of a fellow he may be, but whether he is a musician, comedian, or a boy or girl, I neither know nor care--nor do I care about his or her political views and I doubt he will be politically important beyond the usual realm of the left-wing radical electoral imagination which never amounts to more than a fart in a whirlwind anyway.

[ConservativeMan55]

Bruce is a no talent hack.

[mystery-ak]

I hate him, too!

[Afronaut]

Baloney. Looks to me you didn't read what I wrote.

If I said let impeach the President and get Jim Robinson in there; at a FR Bar-B-Q would that be a FR Scoop? While I was introducing my band?

"Springsteen Called For Impeachment of President Bush at DC Concert"

Yea sure.

[Happy2BMe]

As the old saying goes . . "Soliders go off to die for the liberty that gives protestors the right to burn the flag."

[Coleus]

Offense not taken.

[Coleus]

Where in Jersey?

[Eva]

bump to spread the word. No more Springsteen in this house.

[mystery-ak]

He wants to take me on a cruise when he gets home.....LOL

[Afronaut]

Who do you like is the best question, I bet they are liberal also. Or else Lee Greenwood... LOL!

[Paul Atreides]

I always feel like I need a shower after reading leftist crap

It's like walking through a cow pasture barefooted and blindfolded.

[3catsanadog]

I could never understand the big to-do over Springsteen. Except for Born in the USA, I found his music boring, his voice too nasally, and the words to his songs maudlin. And now, apparently, he's a bit stupid.

10 Springsteens couldn't hold a candle to one Bob Segar, in my humble opinion.

[Coleus]

Any state that elects Frank Lautenberg's corpse to the Senate deserves to be offended in the worst way.>>>

Hey, we tried our best, there are more dems out there than us.

[Timesink]

The country may well see the fruits of the Clinton corruption and acquiescence of people like Starr and Ray to Clinton’s corruption, as domestic problems and foreign crises emerge in the months and years ahead.

Prescient.