Grateful Dead band members for Obama

[RecycleMichael]

3 Living Members of Grateful Dead Endorse Obama, Concert in SF

3 living Members of The Grateful Dead, Phil Lesh, Bob Weir & Mickey Hart will play at a "Deadheads for Obama" concert Monday at the Warfield in San Francisco.

Weir & Hart, especially, are longtime environmental activists. Lesh was an opponent of the Iraq War and signed the "Not in Our Name" statement before the war started.

DEADHEADS FOR OBAMA
BOB WEIR, MICKEY HART, PHIL LESH & FRIENDS
The Warfield Theatre
Monday, February 4, Doors 6:00 PM/ Show 7:30PM
Tickets are $35.00 general admission (main floor) and
$35.00 reserved seating (balcony) plus applicable service
charges...all ages
Two-ticket limit per person.
Tickets will be available through Ticketmaster.com ONLY
Will Call only event

Deadheads for Obama

Grateful Dead Members to Reunite for Barack Obama

(San Francisco) Members of the Grateful Dead will host a get out the vote concert in support of Democratic Presidential candidate Barack
Obama on Monday, February 4th at The Warfield Theatre in San Francisco.

Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh, and Bob Weir, joined by Jackie Greene, John Molo, and Steve Molitz, will play a show together in support of
Barack Obama.

The video website Iclips will be producing a live simulcast streamed via the Internet on www.iclips.net at approximately 7:30pm PST.

This will mark the first time that the members of the legendary band have performed together since 2004. They have agreed to reunite for
this one-time-only event in order to lend support to Senator Obama leading into the crucial "Super- Tuesday" series of primaries held on Tuesday, February 5th.

[FOTD]

"Choosing the lessor of two evils is still choosing evil." Jerry Garcia

Barack Obama is not evil.

[we vs us]

quote:Originally posted by FOTD

"Choosing the lessor of two evils is still choosing evil." Jerry Garcia

Barack Obama is not evil.

"I have chosen not to lease either evil."

--We Vs. Us

[we vs us]

But seriously.

Paul Volcker, former Federal Reserve Chairman, has just endorsed Obama.

quote: "After 30 years in government, serving under five Presidents of both parties and chairing two non-partisan commissions on the Public Service, I have been reluctant to engage in political campaigns. The time has come to overcome that reluctance," Mr. Volcker said in a statement today. "However, it is not the current turmoil in markets or the economic uncertainties that have impelled my decision. Rather, it is the breadth and depth of challenges that face our nation at home and abroad. Those challenges demand a new leadership and a fresh approach."

He concluded: "It is only Barack Obama, in his person, in his ideas, in his ability to understand and to articulate both our needs and our hopes that provide the potential for strong and fresh leadership. That leadership must begin here in America but it can also restore needed confidence in our vision, our strength, and our purposes right around the world."

I'm impressed.  Obama's really racking 'em up.

[tim huntzinger]

Clearly, Volker and the Deadheads have no female children or grandchildren, or they would have voted for The Witch. []

[guido911]

quote:Originally posted by RecycleMichael

3 Living Members of Grateful Dead Endorse Obama, Concert in SF

3 living Members of The Grateful Dead, Phil Lesh, Bob Weir & Mickey Hart will play at a "Deadheads for Obama" concert Monday at the Warfield in San Francisco.

Weir & Hart, especially, are longtime environmental activists. Lesh was an opponent of the Iraq War and signed the "Not in Our Name" statement before the war started.

DEADHEADS FOR OBAMA
BOB WEIR, MICKEY HART, PHIL LESH & FRIENDS
The Warfield Theatre
Monday, February 4, Doors 6:00 PM/ Show 7:30PM
Tickets are $35.00 general admission (main floor) and
$35.00 reserved seating (balcony) plus applicable service
charges...all ages
Two-ticket limit per person.
Tickets will be available through Ticketmaster.com ONLY
Will Call only event

Deadheads for Obama

Grateful Dead Members to Reunite for Barack Obama

(San Francisco) Members of the Grateful Dead will host a get out the vote concert in support of Democratic Presidential candidate Barack
Obama on Monday, February 4th at The Warfield Theatre in San Francisco.

Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh, and Bob Weir, joined by Jackie Greene, John Molo, and Steve Molitz, will play a show together in support of
Barack Obama.

The video website Iclips will be producing a live simulcast streamed via the Internet on www.iclips.net at approximately 7:30pm PST.

This will mark the first time that the members of the legendary band have performed together since 2004. They have agreed to reunite for
this one-time-only event in order to lend support to Senator Obama leading into the crucial "Super- Tuesday" series of primaries held on Tuesday, February 5th.

That coveted endorsement should put Barack over the top...

[sgrizzle]

quote:Originally posted by we vs us

quote:Originally posted by FOTD

"Choosing the lessor of two evils is still choosing evil." Jerry Garcia

Barack Obama is not evil.

"I have chosen not to lease either evil."

--We Vs. Us

Post Of The Day

[jne]

quote:Originally posted by RecycleMichael

3 Living Members of Grateful Dead Endorse Obama, Concert in SF

3 living Members of The Grateful Dead, Phil Lesh, Bob Weir & Mickey Hart will play at a "Deadheads for Obama" concert Monday at the Warfield in San Francisco.

Weir & Hart, especially, are longtime environmental activists. Lesh was an opponent of the Iraq War and signed the "Not in Our Name" statement before the war started.

DEADHEADS FOR OBAMA
BOB WEIR, MICKEY HART, PHIL LESH & FRIENDS
The Warfield Theatre
Monday, February 4, Doors 6:00 PM/ Show 7:30PM
Tickets are $35.00 general admission (main floor) and
$35.00 reserved seating (balcony) plus applicable service
charges...all ages
Two-ticket limit per person.
Tickets will be available through Ticketmaster.com ONLY
Will Call only event

Deadheads for Obama

Grateful Dead Members to Reunite for Barack Obama

(San Francisco) Members of the Grateful Dead will host a get out the vote concert in support of Democratic Presidential candidate Barack
Obama on Monday, February 4th at The Warfield Theatre in San Francisco.

Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh, and Bob Weir, joined by Jackie Greene, John Molo, and Steve Molitz, will play a show together in support of
Barack Obama.

The video website Iclips will be producing a live simulcast streamed via the Internet on www.iclips.net at approximately 7:30pm PST.

This will mark the first time that the members of the legendary band have performed together since 2004. They have agreed to reunite for
this one-time-only event in order to lend support to Senator Obama leading into the crucial "Super- Tuesday" series of primaries held on Tuesday, February 5th.

Man, if I didn't have deadlines at work, I would probably already be on the search for a plane ticket.  Uh-oh, now I'm going to be labeled a liberal commie like Aox

[FOTD]

Dead heat!


Clinton lead dwindles ahead of Super Tuesday
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections08/hillaryclinton/story/0,,2251976,00.html
"With opinion polls showing Obama making significant gains ahead of the contest in 22 states, Clinton tried to undermine Obama's central appeal of being a politician who operated above the fray."

[Gaspar]

Now I must admit.  I am a fan!  Back in the day I traveled to about a dozen dead shows.  Nothing like it!

That said. . .

Phil, Bob & Mickey are the very last people in this quadrant of the known universe that I look to for political advice!


I like the way Alice Cooper put it:

"Why would you ask people like us about politics?  We entertain people, get drunk, and do drugs.  If you rely on us for political advice, you are an idiot!"

[FOTD]

quote:Originally posted by Gaspar

Now I must admit.  I am a fan!  Back in the day I traveled to about a dozen dead shows.  Nothing like it!

That said. . .

Phil, Bob & Mickey are the very last people in this quadrant of the known universe that I look to for political advice!


I like the way Alice Cooper put it:

"Why would you ask people like us about politics?  We entertain people, get drunk, and do drugs.  If you rely on us for political advice, you are an idiot!"

Perhaps because they ran a successful business over 30 years which continues today despite the driver for "sales" being long gone. Kinda like oil wells.

Let's face it. Even a rock band could have done a better job managing our economy than these http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080204/pl_nm/bush_budget_dc_9 idiots we let into the asylum.

[cannon_fodder]

At the risk of getting back on topic, FOTD, even a rock band has trouble spending much more than a few million a year when your principle activities are traveling on the company dime, having sex with groupies (who don't charge mind you), popping a few handfuls of pills and downing a couple liters of the good stuff.  Add some fast cars and a mansion and your still not spending a truely obscene amount of money.

Now the government... Republican, Democrat, whatever.  Now they can spend money.

But I have to yield to your point, I'd probably vote for a burned out stoner over most politicians.  I'd assume they weren't ambitious enough to actually get anything done - which is most likely better than whatever else we would get.

[FOTD]

quote:Originally posted by cannon_fodder

At the risk of getting back on topic, FOTD, even a rock band has trouble spending much more than a few million a year when your principle activities are traveling on the company dime, having sex with groupies (who don't charge mind you), popping a few handfuls of pills and downing a couple liters of the good stuff.  Add some fast cars and a mansion and your still not spending a truely obscene amount of money.

Now the government... Republican, Democrat, whatever.  Now they can spend money.

But I have to yield to your point, I'd probably vote for a burned out stoner over most politicians.  I'd assume they weren't ambitious enough to actually get anything done - which is most likely better than whatever else we would get.

Right on....

[FOTD]

The Band plays on:

"For Immediate Release
Friday, August 29th, 2008

Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart announced today that they will join together again on October 13th to perform a benefit concert for the Presidential campaign of Senator Barack Obama, with the city, venue, special guests and other details to be determined pending further discussions with the Obama campaign..."


STRIKE UP THE BAND!

let's see, last time this event helped propell Obama to a Cali primary win. Their minions must be an important cross section of true Americana!

"Their walls are built of cannon balls, their moto is don't tread on me" (Garcia/Weir/Hunter/Nelson)