TBogg on Springsteen and politics:
“I really appreciate his music, but I wish he wouldn’t interject his music with politics,” said [Republican Governor Tim] Pawlenty, co-chairman of Bush’s re-election campaign in Minnesota.
Where do I start?
American Skin (41 Shots)
Balboa Park
Brothers Under the Bridge
Born In the USA
Car Wash
Factory
Galveston Bay
Land of Hopes and Dreams
Mansion On the Hill
My City of Ruins
My Hometown
Sinaloa Cowboys
Souls of the Departed
Streets of Philadelphia
The Ghost of Tom Joad
YoungstownTim Pawlenty is the guy who talks over the music to his friends all through the concert until he hears the one song that he knows and then stands up and pumps his fist and yells “Yeah!”.
You know. An asshole bandwagon-jumper.
(Yes. I know I probably missed a half dozen other songs.)
I always got a kick out of the Reagan campaign using Born in the USA (Or was it Bush I. I forget.) Anyway, some Republican or another used Born in the USA as a walk-on-stage anthem, apparently focusing on the repetition the title rather than the rest of the lyrics, which were incredibly bleak and angry. I guess conservatives don’t get irony.