The Grateful Dead is going to reunite for an Obama concert.
The Grateful Dead, the San Francisco cult rock band that has played at political events since the 1960s, will reunite on Monday for the first time in four years to rally support for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, a spokesman said on Friday."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," the band said in a statement.
Ironic, isn't it, that the Grateful Dead are supporting newcomer Barack Obama when it was the Clintons who spent the sixties as free love hippies.
I bet she never expected back then as she participated in Woodstock and anti-government political rallies that she would eventually become the same kind of establishment that young people would rebel against.
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Nor did she expect that she... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Mike | February 3, 2008 10:22 PM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Nor did she expect that she would be forced to "keep the black man down" in order to win the Presidency. As they say, karma really is a bitch.
1. Posted by Mike | February 3, 2008 10:22 PM |
Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Posted on February 3, 2008 22:22
2. Posted by epador | February 3, 2008 10:33 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I can't imagine a Dead concert without Jerry.
Kinda like the Tonight Show without Johnny.
2. Posted by epador | February 3, 2008 10:33 PM |
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Posted on February 3, 2008 22:33
3. Posted by JimK | February 3, 2008 11:02 PM | Score: -1 (1 votes cast)
Jerry's dead, there is no Dead. I don't care what they say or who they support.
3. Posted by JimK | February 3, 2008 11:02 PM |
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Posted on February 3, 2008 23:02
4. Posted by BarneyG2000 | February 3, 2008 11:05 PM | Score: -5 (7 votes cast)
"..the Clintons who spent the sixties as free love hippies." KP
Too bad you don't know your facts:
"After Oxford, Clinton attended Yale Law School and obtained a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree in 1973.[17] While at Yale, he began dating law student Hillary Rodham who was a year ahead of him. They married in 1975 and their only child, Chelsea, was born in 1980." Source Wiki
4. Posted by BarneyG2000 | February 3, 2008 11:05 PM |
Score: -5 (7 votes cast)
Posted on February 3, 2008 23:05
5. Posted by Rougman | February 3, 2008 11:15 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Barney is right, there were no free love hippies on campus. Ever.
5. Posted by Rougman | February 3, 2008 11:15 PM |
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Posted on February 3, 2008 23:15
6. Posted by Peter F. | February 3, 2008 11:23 PM | Score: -1 (3 votes cast)
The time is 8:20pm, Pacific time. Mark it. This is the first time I've EVER agreed with Barney.
Anybody else see cows flying?
(Side note: I even wonder if Obama even knows who these stoned-out old white dudes who play incredibly BAD music from the 60s and 70s really are. I can't think of a bad I hate more than the GD.)
6. Posted by Peter F. | February 3, 2008 11:23 PM |
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Posted on February 3, 2008 23:23
7. Posted by Miss Elliott | February 3, 2008 11:24 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
That is one of the scariest pictures I have ever seen....
7. Posted by Miss Elliott | February 3, 2008 11:24 PM |
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Posted on February 3, 2008 23:24
8. Posted by jdgjtr | February 4, 2008 5:50 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Uh, he didn't say they spent the sixties together. They could have been hippies without being in college and before getting together. I'll bet Bill was a free love hippie but I don't think Hillary has ever done anything without calculating the cost.
8. Posted by jdgjtr | February 4, 2008 5:50 AM |
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Posted on February 4, 2008 05:50
9. Posted by Synova | February 4, 2008 10:24 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
So they aren't quite old enough to be free love hippies.
That is still a freaky picture.
9. Posted by Synova | February 4, 2008 10:24 AM |
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Posted on February 4, 2008 10:24
10. Posted by Uncle Pinky | February 4, 2008 11:25 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
If you assume that "the sixties" ended in the '60s, Barney has got a point. If you use "the sixties" as shorthand for the time period when people put down orange shag carpet, green linoleum and stank of patchouli ... hell, they're still going on. Just as a more localized phenomenon.
10. Posted by Uncle Pinky | February 4, 2008 11:25 AM |
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Posted on February 4, 2008 11:25
11. Posted by Clay | February 4, 2008 11:52 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
You guys really need to offer some type of warning before pictures like this are posted. That scared the hell out of me. I feel breakfast coming back up.
11. Posted by Clay | February 4, 2008 11:52 AM |
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Posted on February 4, 2008 11:52
12. Posted by D-Hoggs | February 4, 2008 12:07 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
This is such a damned shame. Jerry would not approve. I don't believe the Dead ever endorsed a candidate, and they didn't really ever get involved with politics. They just played music, damn good music. This sucks.
12. Posted by D-Hoggs | February 4, 2008 12:07 PM |
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Posted on February 4, 2008 12:07
13. Posted by SCSIwuzzy | February 4, 2008 12:45 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
To refute Jay's claim of what people did in the 60s, Barney quotes wiki about what they did in the 70s. Classic!
Just like when he first came to WB and claimed Bubba wasn't listed in any polls in winter of 1991.
13. Posted by SCSIwuzzy | February 4, 2008 12:45 PM |
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Posted on February 4, 2008 12:45
14. Posted by marc | February 4, 2008 1:09 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Baghdad barney - "Too bad you don't know your facts
To bad you don't rubble... better read "Yale Law School and the Sixties: Revolt and Reverberations by Laura Kalman that school was no different than thousands across the USA.
The so-called "Dark Ages" at YLS in the 1960's and 1970's featured student unrest and faculty dissension became notable features of the YLS landscape.
Peter F, no, cows flying aren't part of this thread.
14. Posted by marc | February 4, 2008 1:09 PM |
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Posted on February 4, 2008 13:09
15. Posted by D-Hoggs | February 4, 2008 1:40 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Wait, I thought barney left this site?
15. Posted by D-Hoggs | February 4, 2008 1:40 PM |
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Posted on February 4, 2008 13:40
16. Posted by SCSIwuzzy | February 4, 2008 6:30 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
So they aren't quite old enough to be free love hippies.
That is still a freaky picture.
Bubba was born in 1946. That means he was 27 when he got his JD. Plenty old enough to have been a hippy or hippy wannabe.
Hillary was born in 47. Both would have been adults in 1965.
Summer of Love was 1967, Woodstock 1969. I don't think anyone, except maybe Barney, needs me to explain the cronology any further.
16. Posted by SCSIwuzzy | February 4, 2008 6:30 PM |
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Posted on February 4, 2008 18:30
17. Posted by Dave W | February 4, 2008 7:35 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I like how barney pointed at facts from the 70's to try and say that they weren't hippies in the 60's. Good one barney.
17. Posted by Dave W | February 4, 2008 7:35 PM |
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Posted on February 4, 2008 19:35
18. Posted by Dave W | February 4, 2008 7:38 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
OH! and this pic just proves what relics of the past these two are.
18. Posted by Dave W | February 4, 2008 7:38 PM |
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Posted on February 4, 2008 19:38
19. Posted by John | February 5, 2008 2:03 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Who cares about the Clintons. And you deadheads who won't go to a show without Jerry - I've been to many, and I love the energy, the music, the people. Yes, I miss Jerry, but life goes on, and the opportunity to listen to incredible music played by the best guys ever is something I won't miss, no matter what. From Ratdog, Phil Lesh & Friends, (who I wish would come to the Northwest) to Dark Star Orchestra, who are carrying the torch, I salute you. I will always be up front whenever you come within a couple hundred miles of Seattle. The music lives on!
19. Posted by John | February 5, 2008 2:03 AM |
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Posted on February 5, 2008 02:03
20. Posted by Spurwing Plover | February 5, 2008 11:35 PM | Score: -2 (2 votes cast)
How will they do it without JIMMY GARCIA?
20. Posted by Spurwing Plover | February 5, 2008 11:35 PM |
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Posted on February 5, 2008 23:35