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THE BOSS vs. BUSH: BORN IN THE U.S.A.
Contributed by
steeleyes
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Monday, 4th October 2004 @ 04:56:36 PM in AEST
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On Tuesday, the liberal activists of MoveOn.org and America Coming Together announced a 28-city concert tour to raise money and awareness to help Sen. John Kerry defeate President Bush in November.
The concerts — featuring Bruce Springsteen, the Dave Matthews Band and the Dixie Chicks, among others — will be in cities strategically targeted almost entirely in key battleground states, such as Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida.
'The tour has a very basic intent,' Springsteen said in an interview with Ted Koppel for tonight's Nightline. 'Its intent is to change the direction of the government, change administrations in November, to mobilize progressive voters, and get them to the polls come election time. So it's a very practical, practical purpose.'
--O//--
The man who wrote
'Born In the U.S.A.'
Has decided finally
to have his say
The Boss, Bruce Springstein
Turns in disgust
To the Pea-Brained president
Who lied to us
The Boss says it's time to
'Vote For Change!'
He's disgusted with Bush
And want's to rearrange
Change the mess Bush is making
Across this land
'Stop your lies!'
is his demand
Lying Swift Boat Men
And Cheney too
and the Thief-in-Chief
who misleads you
It's time to be released
from all this sleaze
The Republicans have you
on your knees
Hear me Bush!
Hear what I say!
I'm Bruce Springsteen
Born...
In the U.S.A!
--O//--
VOTE FOR CHANGE - JOIN WITH BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND RID OURSELVES OF BUSH!
A MESSAGE FROM BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
A few weeks ago at N.Y.U. Al Gore gave one of the most important speeches I've heard in a long time. The issues it raises need to be considered by every American concerned with the direction our country is headed in. It's my pleasure to reprint it here for my fans.
Signed
Bruce Springsteen
quote:
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Remarks by Al Gore
May 26, 2004
George W. Bush promised us a foreign policy with humility. Instead, he has brought us humiliation in the eyes of the world.
He promised to 'restore honor and integrity to the White House.' Instead, he has brought deep dishonor to our country and built a durable reputation as the most dishonest President since Richard Nixon.
Honor? He decided not to honor the Geneva Convention. Just as he would not honor the United Nations, international treaties, the opinions of our allies, the role of Congress and the courts, or what Jefferson described as 'a decent respect for the opinion of mankind.' He did not honor the advice, experience and judgment of our military leaders in designing his invasion of Iraq. And now he will not honor our fallen dead by attending any funerals or even by permitting photos of their flag-draped coffins.
How did we get from September 12th , 2001, when a leading French newspaper ran a giant headline with the words 'We Are All Americans Now' and when we had the good will and empathy of all the world -- to the horror that we all felt in witnessing the pictures of torture in Abu Ghraib.
To begin with, from its earliest days in power, this administration sought to radically destroy the foreign policy consensus that had guided America since the end of World War II. The long successful strategy of containment was abandoned in favor of the new strategy of 'preemption.' And what they meant by preemption was not the inherent right of any nation to act preemptively against an imminent threat to its national security, but rather an exotic new approach that asserted a unique and unilateral U.S. right to ignore international law wherever it wished to do so and take military action against any nation, even in circumstances where there was no imminent threat. All that is required, in the view of Bush's team is the mere assertion of a possible, future threat - and the assertion need be made by only one person, the President.
More disturbing still was their frequent use of the word 'dominance' to describe their strategic goal, because an American policy of dominance is as repugnant to the rest of the world as the ugly dominance of the helpless, naked Iraqi prisoners has been to the American people. Dominance is as dominance does.
Dominance is not really a strategic policy or political philosophy at all. It is a seductive illusion that tempts the powerful to satiate their hunger for more power still by striking a Faustian bargain. And as always happens - sooner or later - to those who shake hands with the devil, they find out too late that what they have given up in the bargain is their soul.
One of the clearest indications of the impending loss of intimacy with one's soul is the failure to recognize the existence of a soul in those over whom power is exercised, especially if the helpless come to be treated as animals, and degraded. We also know - and not just from De Sade and Freud - the psychological proximity between sexual depravity and other people's pain. It has been especially shocking and awful to see these paired evils perpetrated so crudely and cruelly in the name of America.
for more go here
http://www.brucespringsteen.net/news/
VOTE FOR CHANGE!
http://actforvictory.org/act.php/home/vote_for_change/
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Re: THE BOSS vs. BUSH: BORN IN THE U.S.A.
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by Dralion on
Monday, 4th October 2004 @ 09:26:11 PM AEST
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1. Stick to non-rhyming poetry.
2. I'm a good-sized fan of the Boss
3. This is still good but we'll see how well all this works in November. |
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Re: THE BOSS vs. BUSH: BORN IN THE U.S.A.
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by Sinned on
Tuesday, 7th December 2004 @ 10:28:09 AM AEST
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I agree with most of what you have to say. I commend your stating it--Too bad the little minded red states didn't listen--Oh--well perhaps we will all be SAVED now.The one thing I disagree with is that Richer M Nixon was a great president. Corpratinons and polical parties have always spyed on one another.
How about the Texas air national"Coward" I mean guard ?
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