Posted on 07/23/2021 7:14:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama confirmed the publication of a book they’ve written together inspired by their Renegades podcast series.
Also titled Renegades: Born in the U.S.A., the “collection of candid, intimate and entertaining conversations” arrives on Oct. 26. A short promo clip shows the pair testing a sports car together.
“Over the years, what we’ve found is that we’ve got a shared sensibility. About work, about family and about America," the former president wrote in his introduction. “In our own ways, Bruce and I have been on parallel journeys trying to understand this country that’s given us both so much. Trying to chronicle the stories of its people. Looking for a way to connect our own individual searches for meaning and truth and community with the larger story of America.”
You can watch a trailer for the book below.
Renegades: Born in the USA by Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen - Teaser Subscribe to Ultimate Classic Rock on
“There were serious conversations about the fate of the country, the fortune of its citizens and the destructive, ugly, corrupt forces at play that would like to take it all down," Springsteen added. "This is a time of vigilance when who we are is being seriously tested. Hard conversations about who we are and who we want to become can perhaps serve as a small guiding map for some of our fellow citizens.”
In one episode of the podcast, the pair discussed how Springsteen’s classic song “Born in the U.S.A.” had been misused by people who didn't understood its meaning. “I think why the song has been appropriated: one is because it was so powerful; two is because its imagery was so fundamentally American," the singer said.
"But it did demand of you to hold two contradictory ideas in your mind at one time: that you could both be very critical of your nation and very prideful of your nation simultaneously. And that is something that you see argued about to this very day.”
Everyone get Your barf bags out for two douchebags.
C’mon, it’s Friday, a long week is done. It’s time to push some buttons!
Sorry, the Clinton’s had the most intense, state of the art opposition research machine that ever existed. If they couldn’t even prove the he was born in Kenya, then it’s not possible. Occam’s razor.
It doesn’t matter, his foreign father made him a British subject/Kenyan national at birth, no matter where he was born.
He is not a natural born citizen.
The children of foreigners are precisely who the founders were excluding because they themselves are foreigners even if we foolishly also give them citizenship.
🤮
I’m underwhelmed.
Bzzzzxt.
Who are two of my least favorite people?
“I’m just sittin’ ‘round here, tryin’ to write this book”
Oh, and what a book it must be! I’ll pass.
They can both go perform an anatomically impossible function.
/spit
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Barf alert implied.
Born in the USA? Yeah, like Alger Hiss was also born in the USA.
I was in college when Springsteen became popular on the radio. I could not see what was so great. But then at that time I was more into progressive rock and metal.
On one “date” in Minnesota she found out that I was originally from New Jersey, so she automatically assumed I was a Springsteen fan back then. She was disappointed. But then Minnesota expects people to follow whatever trends.
Now listening to Robert Fripp’s Music for Quiet Moments.
“Over the years, what we’ve found is that we’ve got a shared sensibility. About work, about family and about America," the former president wrote in his introduction. “In our own ways, Bruce and I have been on parallel journeys trying to understand this country that’s given us both so much. Trying to chronicle the stories of its people. Looking for a way to connect our own individual searches for meaning and truth and community with the larger story of America.”The Springsteen Sucks AND he is a Douchebag ping list! (and Barry, too)
Born in the USA was an anti-USA song. He pissed on our flag on the album cover.
Dear Aaron Lewis: I never sing along with F*cking Springstien. Never.
Driving The Boss around?
couple a good buddies right there ...
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