Friday, September 28, 2007

The Anti-Bush

No, it's not any politician. It's The Boss:

“This is a song called Livin’ In the Future. But it’s really about what’s happening now. Right now. It’s kind of about how the things we love about America, cheeseburgers, French fries, the Yankees battlin’ Boston… the Bill of Rights [holds up microphone, urging crowd to cheer] … v-twin motorcycles… Tim Russert’s haircut, trans-fats and the Jersey Shore… we love those things the way womenfolk love Matt Lauer.

But over the past six years we’ve had to add to the American picture: rendition, illegal wiretapping, voter suppression, no habeus corpus, the neglect of our great city New Orleans and its people, an attack on the Constitution. And the loss of our young best men and women in a tragic war.

This is a song about things that shouldn’t happen here—happening here.”

Citizen Bruce lays it plain up and down a very extraordinary Today Show, playing rock & roll havoc with their format, stopping work in Rockefeller Center, asking (per John Kerry who he supported with concerts in 2004), "Who'll be the last to die for a mistake?"

Yep,
The wise men were all fools
What to do
The sun sets in flames as the city burns
Another day gone down as the night turns
And I hold you here in my heart
As things fall apart
Now is that so hard to understand?

Stop this fucking War. And stop the next one before it starts.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Can we propose legislation to ban Republicans?

Mark Netter said...

You propose, I'll approve!