Posted in music on June 9, 2008
According to this article....
To understand the stylistic gulf between Barack Obama and John McCain, first consider their cultural references.Chris Martin must be a democrat.The Republican enjoys a good Henny Youngman one-liner and the 1970s Swedish pop group ABBA. He tells jokes about drunken Irish twins, and the reason he had to join the Navy instead of the Marines: His parents were married when he was born.
The Democrat, meanwhile, professes to "love the art of hip-hop." He listens to Jay-Z, Beyoncé and old-school favorites like Stevie Wonder on his IPod. Chicago is "ChiTown," sneakers are "kicks" and knuckle bumps are at times his greeting of choice.
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Then why does Obama enter the stage to that corny U2 song "Beatiful Day"?
Jigga should be his campaign music."We got 99 problems but that bitch (Hillary) ain't one".
Posted by Anonymous | June 9, 2008 2:03 PM
I like to feel the beat of the tamborine. But only in moderation.
Posted by GOPster | June 9, 2008 2:04 PM
any ladies were too unimportant to be reached for broad generalizations.
Posted by Anonymous | June 9, 2008 2:04 PM
Generalization nonsense.
Posted by Anonymous | June 9, 2008 2:12 PM
Who doesn't like ABBA?
Posted by Anonymous | June 9, 2008 2:16 PM
He exits the stage to "The Rising" by Springsteen, or at least he has been recently.
Posted by Robert | June 9, 2008 2:19 PM
Obama doesn't strike me as very original. he's very calculating, even in the music he listens to.
Posted by Hotsit | June 9, 2008 2:23 PM
Ha. John McCain ads on this page right now.
Posted by Anonymous | June 9, 2008 2:27 PM
seriously, would you really trust an article where the writer capitalizes the "i" in iPod?
Posted by GOPster | June 9, 2008 2:35 PM
I didn't know republicans listened to music...
Posted by JWeir | June 9, 2008 2:43 PM
that mccain ad is priceless...to think brooklyn vegan is at the front end of negative obama ads...
Posted by Anonymous | June 9, 2008 2:49 PM
@ anon 2:23....
obama said his favorite character on the wire is omar. not very calculating. a calculating politician would say his favorite character is daniels or bunk.
Posted by Anonymous | June 9, 2008 2:50 PM
anyone that even considers voting for McCain should be beaten.
Posted by Anonymous | June 9, 2008 2:54 PM
Yeah Obama! Yeah huge federal government and the highest taxes you've ever paid! Damn he maked me tingle.
Posted by Anonymous | June 9, 2008 3:17 PM
2:54
why would you beat people who are voting for the next president?
Posted by Anonymous | June 9, 2008 3:19 PM
i dunno...ever ask obama how much he plans to raise yr taxes to pay for all the amazing healthcare programs he's talking about?
ever ask him how he's going to get virginia to vote for him if is going to stop building aircraft carriers in newport news?
Posted by Anonymous | June 9, 2008 3:26 PM
at the end of the day, obama has great ideas and is 100x more charming than mccain but its a state by state thing and there's no way florida or ohio are gonna vote for him.
Posted by Anonymous | June 9, 2008 3:28 PM
"i dunno...ever ask obama how much he plans to raise yr taxes to pay for all the amazing healthcare programs he's talking about?"
A lot of country (UK, France, Canada, etc...) have a good healthcare program and their economy are not that bad. He only needs to tell a couple of people to f**k off. Healthcare should not be a luxury.
Posted by Anonymous | June 9, 2008 3:38 PM
Oh my God! Liberals iz gonna raise my taxes! Hows I gonna afferd my guns?
By all means, drive the federal debt up to finance a pointless war, but pleeeeeze don't raise my taxes!
Posted by Anonymous | June 9, 2008 3:41 PM
OMG is this a political debate on BV?
And here all along I thought BV readers were too young to vote.
Posted by Dan | June 9, 2008 3:46 PM
that article is flapsnot, it's dribble piss. for anyone to be categorized in that manner is lazy and uneducated, purely meant for baiting. pathetic.
Posted by perusse | June 9, 2008 4:02 PM
Liberalism is the slow road to despotism.
And Michelle Obama is a cunt.
Posted by Anonymous | June 9, 2008 4:21 PM
"I didn't know republicans listened to music..."
Johhny Ramone was a staunch Republican-Conservative. GOPers not only listen to it, they make it too - and in this case, happen to be one of the foundations of NYC Punk.
Posted by Anonymous | June 9, 2008 4:29 PM
Joey Ramone wrote a great song about Johnny- "The KKK took my baby away".
Posted by Anonymous | June 9, 2008 4:36 PM
True and its a Great song. But the fact remains that a Republican Conservative is a founder of NYC Punk.
Posted by Anonymous | June 9, 2008 4:42 PM
Obama supports a national fingerprint registry. Big Brother at it's finest:
Housing Bill Creates National Fingerprint Registry
Posted June 9th, 2008 at 12.40pm in Entrepreneurship.
Sens. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) authored a bill (with 11 co-sponsors, including Sen. Barack Obama) that was incorporated into a housing bill passed by the Senate Banking Committee 19-2 before the Memorial Day recess — a bill that creates a national fingerprint registry.
According to a Martinez press release, the language merely “create[s] national licensing and oversight standards for residential mortgage originators.”
One of the standards, John Berlau of the Competitive Enterprise Institute says, may “require thousands of individuals working even tangentially in the mortgage and real estate industries — and not suspected of anything — to send their prints to the feds.”
This is a step in the wrong direction — at least for a nation that preserves freedom.
Posted by Anonymous | June 9, 2008 4:45 PM
"And Michelle Obama is a cunt."
Way to go buddy! Insult the wife! This must be a new low for you! What about his mother, his father. LOW-LIFE...
Posted by Anonymous | June 9, 2008 4:53 PM
Johnny Ramone claimed to be a conservative, so why did he dress like a hippie commie freak his whole life?
Posted by Anonymous | June 9, 2008 4:54 PM
Bjorn, Agnetha, and Annafrida all endorse Obama; the only one McCain got was Benny.
Posted by Anonymous | June 9, 2008 4:58 PM
benny and the jets?
Posted by Anonymous | June 9, 2008 5:05 PM
What are you objecting to, Anon. 4:53 PM? The use of the word 'cunt'? You don't think that any Obama supporters used that word to describe Clinton? Or do you object to the candidate's wife being the subject of namecalling? If it's accurate (in my opinion, it is, after she at one point declined to say she would support Clinton if Clinton won the nomination) there's nothing wrong with it.
Posted by Anonymous | June 9, 2008 5:05 PM
It's an accurate insult for her...or anyone for that matter that lives in a energy wasting mansion, but then tells joe citizen to give up his truck (probably the only thing most of those working class guys even care about) to help the environment.
She not only a cunt, she's a hypocritic.
Posted by Anonymous | June 9, 2008 5:13 PM
But do they like APBA?
Posted by board_game_geek | June 9, 2008 5:14 PM
Lefties will fall for almost anything as long as the politician saying it is a Democrat. Fingerprint Registry advocated by Bush? How dare that Dictator! Fingerprint Registry advocated by Obama.....(wait for it)....SILENCE!
Posted by Anonymous | June 9, 2008 5:18 PM
Republicans <3 Brooklyn Vegan. I always envision the average commenter as Alex P Keaton typing his missives from a coffee shop in Park Slope. The '90s were heroin chic, the 00's are conservative asshole chic. Let's eat cupcakes!
Posted by Anonymous | June 9, 2008 5:43 PM
After 8 years of Conservatism in full effect, it is hard to think anyone would still be a Conservative. Must be Alzheimers or too many mercury fillings. Really, how shitty does it have to get before you right wing assholes wake the fuck up?
Go to hell.
Posted by flip | June 9, 2008 5:50 PM
MORE HATE IN '08!!!
Posted by Anonymous | June 9, 2008 6:03 PM
Anyone who would consider voting for or is someone who doesn't openly condemn our current government as the biggest fuck-up in history is either stupid or supported by a major blood-sucking corporation. Period.
Anyone who disagrees with this statement has a right to do so, but better stay the fuck away from me. I can't believe anyone who reads this site would be stupid enough to consider voting for McCain.
Posted by Anonymous | June 9, 2008 6:08 PM
who just got their first adrenaline rush of the month?
Posted by say it to my face | June 9, 2008 6:21 PM
You think Republicans are for fiscal responsibility or lower taxes, controlled spending and compassionate conservatism, right to life, etc...
remember this
-$3 TRILLION for Iraq war
-No Osama bin Laden
-Death in Iraq, NYC, New Orleans, Darfur, etc.
-Tax cuts to the wealthy
-Dick Cheney, Scooter Libbey, Rumsfeld,
-Outrageous Debt. America is sold out, to China, Saudi Arabia.
-My Pet Goat
It's so fucking depressing. This is just the tip of the iceburg. Lower taxes? Ha! Go fuck yourself.
Yeah, I do hate what Republicans have done to US.
Posted by flip | June 9, 2008 8:41 PM
fuck u all!
Posted by Anonymous | June 9, 2008 10:36 PM
money money money! must be funny! it's a rich man's world!
Posted by Bjorn | June 9, 2008 10:45 PM
Liberalism is the slow road to despotism? Really? After 8 years of the most retarded and corrupt administration in American history you really believe that? Conservatives have always been the dumbest cunts so your remark shouldn't really surprise.
Posted by Anonymous | June 10, 2008 1:55 AM
Well.... now we know who the ones making all of the stupidest comments are on BV. Right-wing jackasses... is there anything they can't make suck?
Posted by Anonymous | June 10, 2008 8:18 AM
MORE HATE IN '08!!!
Posted by Anonymous | June 10, 2008 5:56 PM