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Posted on 07/31/2004 4:31:57 AM PDT by weegee
Music is the soundtrack of our lives, so it only stands to reason that songs have become the subtext to our political campaigns. At the FleetCenter they ranged from the obvious --...
...and U2 singer Bono told a group of young City Year volunteers that when he was their age he joined a band because he wanted to do two things: change the world and have fun. "I'm a fan of America, one of those annoying fans that follows the singer into the bathroom and asks what happened on the last album," Bono said to explosive applause, hardly needing to explain that "the last album" was a euphemism for the last three years of the Bush administration.
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The ideal was embodied on Sunday by one Rock the Vote volunteer who was dancing wildly to the politically charged art-punk band Mission of Burma while holding a sign above his head that read "I'm Young, I'm a Democrat, I'm Voting." What's clear at this year's DNC is that music's role in the political process has come a long way since the liberal protest songs of the '60s.
MTV's Rock the Vote and rap impresario Russell Simmons's Hip-Hop Summit are rolling out unprecedented campaigns this year to register 18-to-30-year-old voters, and both have been enormously successful. Some 8,000 people registered to vote on Monday at the Hip-Hop Summit in Boston, and Rock the Vote has registered 400,000 new voters nationwide this year.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
501c3 volunteers are PROHIBITED from making poilitical endorsements (I'm a Democrat). DEFUND THE LEFT. Tax cheats, no wonder they want to "soak the rich", they steal the rest.
There will ONLY be tax audits of Republicans and FReepers.
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Am I the only one who found it deliciously ironic that the arch-appeaser Kerry walked up to the podium to Springsteen's "No retreat, no surrender"?
I'm wondering the same thing. There's just a cheapness about playing rock music at conventions I don't like. Live orchestras would be much better.
That's a sick blister on Clinton's lip! Wowza!
Herpes. And he looks a tad bit stoned.
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