Obama can't say no to Farm Aid invite

Chicago Tribune ^ | 9/14/2005 | Jeff Zeleny

[Mike Bates]

Barack Obama may be no great lover of country music, but when Willie Nelson calls to ask a favor, how can you say no?

The junior senator from Illinois is scheduled to appear at Farm Aid's 20th anniversary concert Sunday at the Tweeter Center in Tinley Park. He joins a lineup that includes Nelson, Kenny Chesney and Neil Young.

[Mike Bates]

Yet another reason to stay out of Tinley Park on Sunday.

Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp

[dts32041]

Like other celebrity scams such as aficaaid, BTW wonder how much osama Obama is going to skim for the daley mob?

[Mike Bates]

I think there are legitimate questions about how many farmers actually need aid. I recall reading years ago a piece by James Bovard, who's done a lot of research on the subject, that the average full-time farmer is a millionaire. And that was a decade ago.

[dead]

Nobody ever holds fundraisers for guys who can't make a go of their gas station or shoe store business.

[texianyankee]

I went to a couple of the early Farm Aid shows, one being held just outside of Austin.
I recall Jesse Jackson being invited & when it was his time to come on stage, the crowd booed loudly. No one wanted to hear him speak - they just wanted to hear some good music.

[From The Deer Stand]

And what song will Obama be singing?

[funkywbr]

How do you say no?

No!

But they got their plantation Sheep trained real well.

[Calpernia]

celebrity scams


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It is a pay to play

[Izzy Dunne]

And what song will Obama be singing?

"Walkin' to New Orleans" ???

[jimbo123]

[Niteranger68]

[Mike Bates]

He'll not sing, but do a dramatic reading. The "I'm the king of the world" part from Titanic.

[Mike Bates]

No wonder Teddy Bare Kennedy gets 'em mixed up.

[quack]

Not only that,but the government doesn't subsidize them if they have "too many" or "too little" shoes or gas stations.I elect we start with landscapers.:D

[Snardius]

Barack Obama may be no great lover of country music

Obama is the single most dangerous Democrat in politics today. He's an empty suit with a personality. A black Bill Clinton without the baggage but with the ego.

[mrsmel]

Dang that's eerie.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Like Willy, I too am a ex cotton picker from hard times, but, I am not the guitar picker or the commie he has evolved into.

[Mike Bates]

I'll be surprised if Osama Obama isn't in the White House one day. And I'll not look forward to it.

[Mike Bates]

. . . but, I am not the guitar picker or the commie he has evolved into.

Nor the tax evader, I trust. I love libs. They want all these social engineering schemes, but they want someone else to pay for them.