Bruce Springsteen's Speech on The Election
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Let me begin with a shout out to all of our neighbors in the Northeast who are reeling from Hurricane Sandy and its immense impact. Our thoughts and prayers are with you.
So, it’s good to be here with you today–and it will be great to feel the power of your votes and voices tomorrow.
I’m here today for Wisconsin, America, and for President Obama. For the last 30 years I’ve been writing in my music about the distance between the American dream and American reality. I’ve seen it from inside and outside: as a blue collar kid from a working class home in New Jersey–where my parents struggled, often unsuccessfully–to make ends meet–to my adult life, visiting the 9th Ward in New Orleans after Katrina, or meeting folks from food pantries from all around the United States, who work daily to help our struggling citizens through the hard times we’ve been suffering
The American Dream and an American Reality: Our vote tomorrow is the one undeniable way we get to determine the distance in that equation. Tomorrow, we get a personal hand in shaping the kind of America we want our kids to grow up in.
I’m a husband and a dad, my lovely wife Patti is here with me. We’ve got three kids growing up and on their way out into the world, I’m 63 (Patti is much younger)… but we have both lived through some galvanizing moments in American history: the Civil Rights struggle, the Peace Movement, the Woman’s Movement, we played in East Berlin one year before the Fall of the Berlin Wall, and we were with Amnesty International a year before the release of Nelson Mandela and the end of apartheid. These were days when you could feel the winds of change moving and the world shifting beneath your feet.
And… we both remember another galvanizing moment, the night that President Obama was elected.
It was an unbelievable evening, when the hope of your heart felt fulfilled, when you could feel the locked doors of the past being blown open to new and previously unimaginable possibilities– to fresh Hope and Change.
Today we have another battle. Now we are charged with the hard daily struggle to make those possibilities, those changes real and enduring in a world that challenges your hopefulness, a world that is often brutally resistant to change. We’ve lived through that struggle over these past four years when the forces of opposition have been tireless.
I stood with President Obama four years ago and I’m proud to be standing with him today. Because…
I’m thankful for the historic advances in healthcare.
I’m thankful for a more regulated Wall Street that will begin to protect our citizens from the blind greed of those who over reach.
My father worked on a Ford assembly line when I was a child and I’m thankful that we have a President that had faith in the American automobile industry and that General Motors is today making cars. What else would I write about.
I’m thankful that we have a decisive President working hard to keep America safe… and I’m appreciative of the fact that, as promised, he has ended the war in Iraq and is bringing the war in Afghanistan to a close.
I’m here today because I’m concerned about Women’s Rights and health issues both at home and around the World. I don’t have to tell you about the dangers to Roe versus Wade under our opponents policies.
I’m also troubled by thirty years of an increasing disparity in wealth between our best off citizens and everyday Americans. That is a disparity that threatens to divide us into two distinct and separate nations. We have to be better than that.
Finally I’m here today because I’ve lived long enough to know that the future is rarely a tide rushing in. Its often a slow march, inch by inch, day after long day. We are in the midst of one of those long days right now. I believe that President Obama feels those long days in his bones for all 100 per cent of us. He will live those days with us.
President Obama ran last time as a man of hope and change. You hear a lot of talk about how things are different now. Things aren’t any different–they’re just realer. Its crunch time. The President’s job, our job–yours and mine– whether your Republican, Democrat, Independent, rich, poor, black, brown, white, gay, straight, soldier, civilian–is to keep that hope alive, to combat cynicism and apathy, and to believe in our power, to change our lives and the world we live in. So, lets go to work tomorrow, and the day after, and the day after that.. Lets re-elect President Barack Obama to carry our standard forward towards the America that awaits us.
Let me begin with a shout out to all of our neighbors in the Northeast who are reeling from Hurricane Sandy and its immense impact. Our thoughts and prayers are with you.
So, it’s good to be here with you today–and it will be great to feel the power of your votes and voices tomorrow.
I’m here today for Wisconsin, America, and for President Obama. For the last 30 years I’ve been writing in my music about the distance between the American dream and American reality. I’ve seen it from inside and outside: as a blue collar kid from a working class home in New Jersey–where my parents struggled, often unsuccessfully–to make ends meet–to my adult life, visiting the 9th Ward in New Orleans after Katrina, or meeting folks from food pantries from all around the United States, who work daily to help our struggling citizens through the hard times we’ve been suffering
The American Dream and an American Reality: Our vote tomorrow is the one undeniable way we get to determine the distance in that equation. Tomorrow, we get a personal hand in shaping the kind of America we want our kids to grow up in.
I’m a husband and a dad, my lovely wife Patti is here with me. We’ve got three kids growing up and on their way out into the world, I’m 63 (Patti is much younger)… but we have both lived through some galvanizing moments in American history: the Civil Rights struggle, the Peace Movement, the Woman’s Movement, we played in East Berlin one year before the Fall of the Berlin Wall, and we were with Amnesty International a year before the release of Nelson Mandela and the end of apartheid. These were days when you could feel the winds of change moving and the world shifting beneath your feet.
And… we both remember another galvanizing moment, the night that President Obama was elected.
It was an unbelievable evening, when the hope of your heart felt fulfilled, when you could feel the locked doors of the past being blown open to new and previously unimaginable possibilities– to fresh Hope and Change.
Today we have another battle. Now we are charged with the hard daily struggle to make those possibilities, those changes real and enduring in a world that challenges your hopefulness, a world that is often brutally resistant to change. We’ve lived through that struggle over these past four years when the forces of opposition have been tireless.
I stood with President Obama four years ago and I’m proud to be standing with him today. Because…
I’m thankful for the historic advances in healthcare.
I’m thankful for a more regulated Wall Street that will begin to protect our citizens from the blind greed of those who over reach.
My father worked on a Ford assembly line when I was a child and I’m thankful that we have a President that had faith in the American automobile industry and that General Motors is today making cars. What else would I write about.
I’m thankful that we have a decisive President working hard to keep America safe… and I’m appreciative of the fact that, as promised, he has ended the war in Iraq and is bringing the war in Afghanistan to a close.
I’m here today because I’m concerned about Women’s Rights and health issues both at home and around the World. I don’t have to tell you about the dangers to Roe versus Wade under our opponents policies.
I’m also troubled by thirty years of an increasing disparity in wealth between our best off citizens and everyday Americans. That is a disparity that threatens to divide us into two distinct and separate nations. We have to be better than that.
Finally I’m here today because I’ve lived long enough to know that the future is rarely a tide rushing in. Its often a slow march, inch by inch, day after long day. We are in the midst of one of those long days right now. I believe that President Obama feels those long days in his bones for all 100 per cent of us. He will live those days with us.
President Obama ran last time as a man of hope and change. You hear a lot of talk about how things are different now. Things aren’t any different–they’re just realer. Its crunch time. The President’s job, our job–yours and mine– whether your Republican, Democrat, Independent, rich, poor, black, brown, white, gay, straight, soldier, civilian–is to keep that hope alive, to combat cynicism and apathy, and to believe in our power, to change our lives and the world we live in. So, lets go to work tomorrow, and the day after, and the day after that.. Lets re-elect President Barack Obama to carry our standard forward towards the America that awaits us.
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:clap: :clap: :thumbup: He's awesome.Byrnzie wrote:http://brucespringsteen.net/news/2012/bruce-joins-president-obama-and-jay-z-in-ohio
Let me begin with a shout out to all of our neighbors in the Northeast who are reeling from Hurricane Sandy and its immense impact. Our thoughts and prayers are with you.
So, it’s good to be here with you today–and it will be great to feel the power of your votes and voices tomorrow.
I’m here today for Wisconsin, America, and for President Obama. For the last 30 years I’ve been writing in my music about the distance between the American dream and American reality. I’ve seen it from inside and outside: as a blue collar kid from a working class home in New Jersey–where my parents struggled, often unsuccessfully–to make ends meet–to my adult life, visiting the 9th Ward in New Orleans after Katrina, or meeting folks from food pantries from all around the United States, who work daily to help our struggling citizens through the hard times we’ve been suffering
The American Dream and an American Reality: Our vote tomorrow is the one undeniable way we get to determine the distance in that equation. Tomorrow, we get a personal hand in shaping the kind of America we want our kids to grow up in.
I’m a husband and a dad, my lovely wife Patti is here with me. We’ve got three kids growing up and on their way out into the world, I’m 63 (Patti is much younger)… but we have both lived through some galvanizing moments in American history: the Civil Rights struggle, the Peace Movement, the Woman’s Movement, we played in East Berlin one year before the Fall of the Berlin Wall, and we were with Amnesty International a year before the release of Nelson Mandela and the end of apartheid. These were days when you could feel the winds of change moving and the world shifting beneath your feet.
And… we both remember another galvanizing moment, the night that President Obama was elected.
It was an unbelievable evening, when the hope of your heart felt fulfilled, when you could feel the locked doors of the past being blown open to new and previously unimaginable possibilities– to fresh Hope and Change.
Today we have another battle. Now we are charged with the hard daily struggle to make those possibilities, those changes real and enduring in a world that challenges your hopefulness, a world that is often brutally resistant to change. We’ve lived through that struggle over these past four years when the forces of opposition have been tireless.
I stood with President Obama four years ago and I’m proud to be standing with him today. Because…
I’m thankful for the historic advances in healthcare.
I’m thankful for a more regulated Wall Street that will begin to protect our citizens from the blind greed of those who over reach.
My father worked on a Ford assembly line when I was a child and I’m thankful that we have a President that had faith in the American automobile industry and that General Motors is today making cars. What else would I write about.
I’m thankful that we have a decisive President working hard to keep America safe… and I’m appreciative of the fact that, as promised, he has ended the war in Iraq and is bringing the war in Afghanistan to a close.
I’m here today because I’m concerned about Women’s Rights and health issues both at home and around the World. I don’t have to tell you about the dangers to Roe versus Wade under our opponents policies.
I’m also troubled by thirty years of an increasing disparity in wealth between our best off citizens and everyday Americans. That is a disparity that threatens to divide us into two distinct and separate nations. We have to be better than that.
Finally I’m here today because I’ve lived long enough to know that the future is rarely a tide rushing in. Its often a slow march, inch by inch, day after long day. We are in the midst of one of those long days right now. I believe that President Obama feels those long days in his bones for all 100 per cent of us. He will live those days with us.
President Obama ran last time as a man of hope and change. You hear a lot of talk about how things are different now. Things aren’t any different–they’re just realer. Its crunch time. The President’s job, our job–yours and mine– whether your Republican, Democrat, Independent, rich, poor, black, brown, white, gay, straight, soldier, civilian–is to keep that hope alive, to combat cynicism and apathy, and to believe in our power, to change our lives and the world we live in. So, lets go to work tomorrow, and the day after, and the day after that.. Lets re-elect President Barack Obama to carry our standard forward towards the America that awaits us.Shows: 6.27.08 Hartford, CT/5.15.10 Hartford, CT/6.18.2011 Hartford, CT (EV Solo)/10.19.13 Brooklyn/10.25.13 Hartford
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful0 -
a friend of mine knows Bruce ....not much nice things to say about him.
Godfather.0 -
Bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuce!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!0
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I know a guy who does too. Says completely the opposite.Godfather. wrote:a friend of mine knows Bruce ....not much nice things to say about him.
Godfather.
Crazy how that works huh?0 -
Who gives a shit what Bruce or anyone else thinks. If you vote or follow along with others based on their word and not your own decisions, opinions and morals, you probably shouldn't have the right to vote.CONservative governMENt
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis0 -
Godfather. wrote:a friend of mine knows Bruce ....not much nice things to say about him.
Godfather.
Hm... you're the first person I've ever heard say a disparaging thing about him. And I've known a lot of people who've worked with him. So... who's your friend?0 -
Prince Of Dorkness wrote:Godfather. wrote:a friend of mine knows Bruce ....not much nice things to say about him.
Godfather.
Hm... you're the first person I've ever heard say a disparaging thing about him. And I've known a lot of people who've worked with him. So... who's your friend?
no names man...but his first name is Dave and he has known Bruce sense before fame and worked for him for a long time,he had some stories to tell
...nothing weird just work related stuff.
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but he's such a big anti-war guy so why would he support either side...wouldn't ron paul make more sense.I have certain rules I live by ... My First Rule ... I don't believe anything the government tells me ... George Carlin
"Life Is What Happens To You When Your Busy Making Other Plans" John Lennon0 -
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Jason P wrote:
Or Gary's Johnson.lukin2006 wrote:but he's such a big anti-war guy so why would he support either side...wouldn't ron paul make more sense.
I don"t know Gary Johnson ... I just find it ridiculous that your anti war ... so choose someone who is anti war ... the hypocrisy is ridiculous.I have certain rules I live by ... My First Rule ... I don't believe anything the government tells me ... George Carlin
"Life Is What Happens To You When Your Busy Making Other Plans" John Lennon0 -
Reposting...
Bruce's best contribution: a genuine troubadour for our time. When people complain about celebrities throwing their weight behind their beliefs, especially those who immerse their passions and efforts into all things societal, I suspect they are not comfortable with their own convictions.0 -
Prince Of Dorkness wrote:Godfather. wrote:a friend of mine knows Bruce ....not much nice things to say about him.
Godfather.
Hm... you're the first person I've ever heard say a disparaging thing about him. And I've known a lot of people who've worked with him. So... who's your friend?
I never knew Bruce was in gay porn?!?!?!?!?!
:shock: :shock: :shock: hippiemom = goodness0 -
Godfather. wrote:a friend of mine knows Bruce ....not much nice things to say about him.
Godfather.
and? this is relevant to him supporting obama because?I'm just flying around the other side of the world to say I love you
Sha la la la i'm in love with a jersey girl
I love you forever and forever
Adel 03 Melb 1 03 LA 2 06 Santa Barbara 06 Gorge 1 06 Gorge 2 06 Adel 1 06 Adel 2 06 Camden 1 08 Camden 2 08 Washington DC 08 Hartford 080 -
And why should I listen to what Springsteen has to say?Zoso wrote:Godfather. wrote:a friend of mine knows Bruce ....not much nice things to say about him.
Godfather.
and? this is relevant to him supporting obama because?
A man who lives a life the rest of us can only dream of?
A man who is worth gazillions?
A man who charges $200+ dollars for a concert ticket?
THAT GUY is qualified to tell the rest of us working Americans what is best for us?
THAT GUY lives on fantasy Island.
THAT GUY has no problem CASHING IN on the American Dream..right?
THAT GUY is all about MAKING MONEY...
Just like the despised Republicans...Right?Take me piece by piece.....
Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....0 -
SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:
And why should I listen to what Springsteen has to say?Zoso wrote:Godfather. wrote:a friend of mine knows Bruce ....not much nice things to say about him.
Godfather.
and? this is relevant to him supporting obama because?
A man who lives a life the rest of us can only dream of?
A man who is worth gazillions?
A man who charges $200+ dollars for a concert ticket?
THAT GUY is qualified to tell the rest of us working Americans what is best for us?
THAT GUY lives on fantasy Island.
THAT GUY has no problem CASHING IN on the American Dream..right?
THAT GUY is all about MAKING MONEY...
Just like the despised Republicans...Right?
speedy speedy go get off the computer and calm down for a bit
no, he isn't more qualified then the rest of you Americans on sharing opinions..I'm just flying around the other side of the world to say I love you
Sha la la la i'm in love with a jersey girl
I love you forever and forever
Adel 03 Melb 1 03 LA 2 06 Santa Barbara 06 Gorge 1 06 Gorge 2 06 Adel 1 06 Adel 2 06 Camden 1 08 Camden 2 08 Washington DC 08 Hartford 080 -
SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:and? this is relevant to him supporting obama because?
And why should I listen to what Springsteen has to say?
A man who lives a life the rest of us can only dream of?
A man who is worth gazillions?
A man who charges $200+ dollars for a concert ticket?
THAT GUY is qualified to tell the rest of us working Americans what is best for us?
THAT GUY lives on fantasy Island.
THAT GUY has no problem CASHING IN on the American Dream..right?
THAT GUY is all about MAKING MONEY...
Just like the despised Republicans...Right?
Actually no.
He was born into a working class family and struggled with them financially though most of his youth and into his early adulthood. Yes, he's since become one of the richest men in the world (net worth in the billions), thanks to his hard work ethic, his incredible talent and his own business talents. He's earned it all, unlike the spoiled, rich Mitt Romney who was given it on a silver platter and made the rest of his fortune screwing the working class out of a future.
Bruce has never forgotten where he came from AND he's never forgotten that it was the American system that allowed him to get where he is. He isn't "all about making money" and not only donates (very quietly) massive amounts of money to causes that be believes in, but he has also taken part in countless charity events and campaigns. He was one of the people credited with helping free Nelson Mandella, he had a major part in the "Sun City" campaign to end apartheid, he has toured and performed for free MANY times over the decades he's been famous.
He is NOT "all about making money." (and he himself isn't who charges $200 for concert tickets. That's the promoter and the reason for that is that Bruce Springsteen plays 5 hour shows in huge stadiums and that's not a cheap show to put on. I saw him play a small theater in Toronto back in 1998 and the ticket was the same price you'd pay to see a smaller band in the same venue.
And he's also given his name to many causes that he supports, even if he himself wouldn't personally benefit. He was also one of the first major stars to come out in support of marriage equality.
Of course nobody is saying that because a famous person tells you to vote a certain way that you should.
But if you believe in the things Bruce has CLEARLY supported his whole career and put his money, time and reputation where his mouth is... well, that's at least some food for thought.0 -
SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:
And why should I listen to what Springsteen has to say?Zoso wrote:Godfather. wrote:a friend of mine knows Bruce ....not much nice things to say about him.
Godfather.
and? this is relevant to him supporting obama because?
A man who lives a life the rest of us can only dream of?
A man who is worth gazillions?
A man who charges $200+ dollars for a concert ticket?
THAT GUY is qualified to tell the rest of us working Americans what is best for us?
THAT GUY lives on fantasy Island.
THAT GUY has no problem CASHING IN on the American Dream..right?
THAT GUY is all about MAKING MONEY...
Just like the despised Republicans...Right?
Spot OnI have certain rules I live by ... My First Rule ... I don't believe anything the government tells me ... George Carlin
"Life Is What Happens To You When Your Busy Making Other Plans" John Lennon0 -
Bruce Springsteenlukin2006 wrote:SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:And why should I listen to what Springsteen has to say?
A man who lives a life the rest of us can only dream of?
A man who is worth gazillions?
A man who charges $200+ dollars for a concert ticket?
THAT GUY is qualified to tell the rest of us working Americans what is best for us?
THAT GUY lives on fantasy Island.
THAT GUY has no problem CASHING IN on the American Dream..right?
THAT GUY is all about MAKING MONEY...
Just like the despised Republicans...Right?
Spot On
A voice for the common man Take me piece by piece.....
Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....0 -
Prince Of Dorkness wrote:SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:and? this is relevant to him supporting obama because?
And why should I listen to what Springsteen has to say?
A man who lives a life the rest of us can only dream of?
A man who is worth gazillions?
A man who charges $200+ dollars for a concert ticket?
THAT GUY is qualified to tell the rest of us working Americans what is best for us?
THAT GUY lives on fantasy Island.
THAT GUY has no problem CASHING IN on the American Dream..right?
THAT GUY is all about MAKING MONEY...
Just like the despised Republicans...Right?
Actually no.
He was born into a working class family and struggled with them financially though most of his youth and into his early adulthood. Yes, he's since become one of the richest men in the world (net worth in the billions), thanks to his hard work ethic, his incredible talent and his own business talents. He's earned it all, unlike the spoiled, rich Mitt Romney who was given it on a silver platter and made the rest of his fortune screwing the working class out of a future.
Bruce has never forgotten where he came from AND he's never forgotten that it was the American system that allowed him to get where he is. He isn't "all about making money" and not only donates (very quietly) massive amounts of money to causes that be believes in, but he has also taken part in countless charity events and campaigns. He was one of the people credited with helping free Nelson Mandella, he had a major part in the "Sun City" campaign to end apartheid, he has toured and performed for free MANY times over the decades he's been famous.
He is NOT "all about making money." (and he himself isn't who charges $200 for concert tickets. That's the promoter and the reason for that is that Bruce Springsteen plays 5 hour shows in huge stadiums and that's not a cheap show to put on. I saw him play a small theater in Toronto back in 1998 and the ticket was the same price you'd pay to see a smaller band in the same venue.
And he's also given his name to many causes that he supports, even if he himself wouldn't personally benefit. He was also one of the first major stars to come out in support of marriage equality.
Of course nobody is saying that because a famous person tells you to vote a certain way that you should.
But if you believe in the things Bruce has CLEARLY supported his whole career and put his money, time and reputation where his mouth is... well, that's at least some food for thought.
A man who lives a life the rest of us can only dream of? yes he does
A man who is worth gazillions?he is
A man who charges $200+ dollars for a concert ticket?he does, whether he has a promotor or not he has major input
THAT GUY is all about MAKING MONEY...he is all about making money
too say is isn't about making money is pure bullshit.
he's also one of the biggest anti-war musicians around...i guess he's really only anti war when the other guy is pro.I have certain rules I live by ... My First Rule ... I don't believe anything the government tells me ... George Carlin
"Life Is What Happens To You When Your Busy Making Other Plans" John Lennon0
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