Artists Lend Voices to Obama Campaign


	Artists Lend Voices to Obama Campaign

wendellrox

7-9-2008 1:38 AM

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obama, musicians, dylan, rolling stone magazine

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7-9-2008 10:46 AM

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The danger for Obama is if one of these musicians says something stupid

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The Democratic nominee inspires acts from Dylan to Lil Wayne
</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/21472095/artists_lend_voices_to_obama_campaign"><P><FONT size="+1">T</FONT>he night Barack Obama clinched the
Democratic nomination for president, Green Day's Billie Joe
Armstrong found himself experiencing an unfamiliar emotion: hope.
"After his acceptance speech, I have to admit, it took me an hour
to get the lump out of my throat," says Armstrong, whose band's
<EM>American Idiot</EM> was the defining protest album of the Bush
years. "Obama inspires people, and this country needs inspiration.
People are jaded, pissed off and embarrassed."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/21472095/artists_lend_voices_to_obama_campaign">who rarely makes direct political
statements of any kind, said that Obama is "redefining the nature
of politics from the ground up." "What Dylan said was
mind-blowing," says Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz. "It's like, I don't
really need to talk about Obama anymore if Bob Dylan's talking
about him."</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/21472095/artists_lend_voices_to_obama_campaign">Dylan, </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/21472095/artists_lend_voices_to_obama_campaign">But will musicians' advocacy help Obama's candidacy — or
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