favorite political songs

[random3434]

This thread and these last few pages of posts have inspired me to write a political song!


I gotta go tune my guitar, be back later!

 

[Bfgrn]

Actually, the democrats under JFK were probably more conservative than todays republicans. He did have a tax cut back then that seemed to work. He probably wouldn't recognize todays party at all with their policy. Actually, both parties have changed and not for the better. But, it seems that the libs have to call people ...shall we say more conservative than him...a "pea brain", I don't get that at all.just sayin...

No, I call pea brains pea brains...you're proving the label fits...

You're dead wrong...Jack Kennedy would be critical of today's Democrats that lack political courage and have succumbed to corporate lobbyists and special interests. But he would want NOTHING to do with today's GOP...

Barry Goldwater would be run out of the GOP today by the right wing theocrat Christians...

Here's an idea...get a REAL education based on reality and actual history instead of right wing faux history from Limbaugh, Hannity and O'Reilly...


We have all made mistakes. But Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted on different scales. Better the occasional faults of a party living in the spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a party frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
President John F. Kennedy

"Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the Republican party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them."
Barry Goldwater (R) – Late Senator & Father of the Conservative movement

Obviously you wanted to attack me, rather than reading just what I said, or maybe you just didn't understand what I said. (maybe I should start calling you names) Your right in your assunption that Jack Kennedy would be critical of todays Democrat party. That's why I said...Jfk's democrats were more conservative than today's republicans....that's the truth. I have to ask you about the dems political courage....they're taking us into a new direction....I don't want anymore courage out of them. We can't afford to have that. Both parties are screwed up and yes lobbists are a big problem. But, that's today's politics. There's some real education that you seem to lack.
Barry Goldwater was ahead of his time back in the 60's. Still he wouldn't be run out of the party like Lieberman was with the democrats.
Your rant on Christianity is no more than just tripe from a fool. I don't know if your an athiest or not, but your rant is just a left wing talking points. The right side is not willing to turn this nation into a socialized nation...maybe that's what you want but most Americans with jobs don't. No redistribution of wealth, no nationalizing healthcare, auto industry, lending institutions. Life, liberty, and the persuit of happiness, that's what most working Americans want.
Next time don't do the name calling....that should be embarrassing you.

WOW, you ARE an pea brain...are you REALLY saying "Jfk's democrats were more conservative than today's republicans" ???

WHAT planet do you live on? I'm serious, you are not only wrong, you are 180 degrees dead wrong...

Don't you read the news? Like YESTERDAY'S???

"Since my election in 1980, as part of the Reagan Big Tent, the Republican Party has moved far to the right. Last year, more than 200,000 Republicans in Pennsylvania changed their registration to become Democrats. I now find my political philosophy more in line with Democrats than Republicans."
Senator Arlen Specter

Wealth redistribution...we already HAD wealth redistribution and socialism under Reagan... he took all the efforts to build a strong middle class under Democrats and gave it to the wealthy...it was called "trickle down"

Health care in America today is criminal corporate welfare, at the expense of honest working people that are ONE diagnosis away from bankruptcy

Hey, take a minute and a half and listen to this excerpt from a JFK Press Conference and THEN tell me WHAT Republican would make THIS speech


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"Jfk's democrats were more conservative than today's republicans"

THAT is either the funniest thing I've heard or the dumbest...

"If sometimes our great artists have been the most critical of our society, it is because their sensitivity and their concern for justice, which must motivate any true artist, makes him aware that our Nation falls short of its highest potential. I see little of more importance to the future of our country and our civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist."
President John F. Kennedy

 

[KittenKoder]

This thread and these last few pages of posts have inspired me to write a political song!


I gotta go tune my guitar, be back later!

Oooh ... do it! I wanna hear!

 

[Gunny]

You certainly have a typical fucked up right wing pea brain...NO human sense of priorities.

How many people DIED because of your ridiculous Obama hyperbole?

Have your mommy explain the current economic tsunami Bush left Obama...

How many sons & daughters did Bush send to their deaths promoting his war of ideology, his "Crusade" based on LIES to their parents?

How many citizens had their privacy invaded by Bush's paranoid Orwellian Patriot Act and signing statements?

How many hundred thousand citizens will die prematurely because of Bush's criminal environmental policies...

There is a REASON America has rejected MORONIC authoritarianism like we had under Bush and Cheney...

There is NO HOPE for the GOP asshole, IT IS OVER...live with it...

Sure thing Mr. Left Wing bonehead, keep clinging to massive spending, global warming, terrorist enabling and demonizing anyone that disagrees. Buckle up, this ride ain't gonna be as long as you think .......


P.S. Keep thinking i'm a GOP for lifer, i'd be all for a responsible Democrat, but Obama, Pelosi, Reid, etc... are not even close to responsible......

You will never be a Democrat or anything but what you are...an ignorant right wing pea brain...

BTW pea brain... POLLUTION kills people, we KNOW that already, there IS no debate...

Terrorist recruiting...What is beyond pea brain comprehension...

Matthew Alexander led an interrogations team assigned to a Special Operations task force in Iraq in 2006.

I learned in Iraq that the No. 1 reason foreign fighters flocked there to fight were the abuses carried out at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. Our policy of torture was directly and swiftly recruiting fighters for al-Qaeda in Iraq. The large majority of suicide bombings in Iraq are still carried out by these foreigners. They are also involved in most of the attacks on U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq. It's no exaggeration to say that at least half of our losses and casualties in that country have come at the hands of foreigners who joined the fray because of our program of detainee abuse. The number of U.S. soldiers who have died because of our torture policy will never be definitively known, but it is fair to say that it is close to the number of lives lost on Sept. 11, 2001. How anyone can say that torture keeps Americans safe is beyond me -- unless you don't count American soldiers as Americans.
I'm Still Tortured by What I Saw in Iraq - washingtonpost.com

NOW, this thread is for music...So, if you need to continue to be schooled, start a new thread...call it "What a pea brain believes"

Get your ******* politics out of this forum. You want to flame someone or actually attempt to make an argument, you do it in the proper forum. This forum is MUSIC. THAT is what it's about. Music. You've got the rest of board to voice your opinion.

I am completely nonpartisan about this and completely intolerant. You fuckers that can't differentiate between being people and politics need to get a life, but you're not going ot ruin everyone else's good time because of it.

Trip your little ass right on back up where you were and if you want to post a song here, knock yourself out. Otherwise knock off the shit and that goes for you and everyone else.

Shit, I come down here to get away from asshats like you. I doubt I'm the only one.

 

[Gunny]

This thread and these last few pages of posts have inspired me to write a political song!


I gotta go tune my guitar, be back later!

**** that. Youre' too damned nice. This shit ceases here and now or I'm locking the thread.

If you're not posting music in this thread, get the **** out. Let me know if I need to translate that for ya.

 

[random3434]

This thread and these last few pages of posts have inspired me to write a political song!


I gotta go tune my guitar, be back later!

**** that. Youre' too damned nice. This shit ceases here and now or I'm locking the thread.

If you're not posting music in this thread, get the **** out. Let me know if I need to translate that for ya.

It was a joke dear.


Here, Listen to this:



[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHhKnc0XZrs&feature=related[/ame]

 

[random3434]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyGW6jUGtrM&feature=channel_page[/ame]

 

[Gunny]

This thread and these last few pages of posts have inspired me to write a political song!


I gotta go tune my guitar, be back later!

**** that. Youre' too damned nice. This shit ceases here and now or I'm locking the thread.

If you're not posting music in this thread, get the **** out. Let me know if I need to translate that for ya.

It was a joke dear.


Here, Listen to this:



[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHhKnc0XZrs&feature=related[/ame]

You're only off the hook cuz you posted the Allmans.

 

[Harry Dresden]

**** that. Youre' too damned nice. This shit ceases here and now or I'm locking the thread.

If you're not posting music in this thread, get the **** out. Let me know if I need to translate that for ya.

It was a joke dear.


Here, Listen to this:



[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHhKnc0XZrs&feature=related[/ame]

You're only off the hook cuz you posted the Allmans.

and the REAL Allmans at that.....thanks EZ.....

 

[random3434]

It was a joke dear.


Here, Listen to this:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHhKnc0XZrs&feature=related

You're only off the hook cuz you posted the Allmans.

and the REAL Allmans at that.....thanks EZ.....

Doesn't get better than that, does it!

 

[Coyote]

EXCELLENT song...!!!

Although John Kay wrote that song during the Vietnam War, the lyrics are still relevant.

Steppenwolf's remarkable resilience is largely a reflection of the fierce determination and never-say-die tenacity that's driven Kay for much of his life. He was born Joachim Fritz Krauledat in 1944 in the section of Germany then known as East Prussia. He never knew his father, who was killed fighting in Russia a month before John's birth. When John was less than a year old, he and his mother fled to what would soon become Communist-controlled East Germany. When he was four, they undertook a perilous midnight escape into West Germany.

Growing up in Hannover, West Germany, John was profoundly affected by the American rock 'n' roll he heard on U.S. Armed Forces Radio. Though he didn't speak English at the time, the music's primal energy touched something deep in him, instilling both a driving ideal of personal freedom and an abiding interest in American culture. That vision became a reality in 1958, when the teenager emigrated with his mother and stepfather to Toronto. There, he immersed himself in the rock, R&B, country and gospel music that emanated from late-night U.S. clear-channel AM stations, while learning English from the speed-rapping DJs who dominated the rock 'n' roll airwaves.

Biography

That is a neat bit of history! I didn't know all that. I love the song, and yes - I think the lyrics are timeless. There are a number of songs from then that seem to have enduring lyrics - someone posted Phil Ochs, he was one - and some like Tom Paxton, Tom Lehrer, Arlo Guthrie, Simon & Garfunkle who's music stands the test of time.

 

[Coyote]

Anyone remember this one? I used to listen to Arlo at summer folk festivals

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlO6OwSXbrE[/ame]

 

[Harry Dresden]

this is a Malvena Reynolds penned tune...done here in 1964....

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3eZymp8DU[/ame]

 

[Meister]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg8Db7VNgL0[/ame]

 

[Bfgrn]

EXCELLENT song...!!!

Although John Kay wrote that song during the Vietnam War, the lyrics are still relevant.

Steppenwolf's remarkable resilience is largely a reflection of the fierce determination and never-say-die tenacity that's driven Kay for much of his life. He was born Joachim Fritz Krauledat in 1944 in the section of Germany then known as East Prussia. He never knew his father, who was killed fighting in Russia a month before John's birth. When John was less than a year old, he and his mother fled to what would soon become Communist-controlled East Germany. When he was four, they undertook a perilous midnight escape into West Germany.

Growing up in Hannover, West Germany, John was profoundly affected by the American rock 'n' roll he heard on U.S. Armed Forces Radio. Though he didn't speak English at the time, the music's primal energy touched something deep in him, instilling both a driving ideal of personal freedom and an abiding interest in American culture. That vision became a reality in 1958, when the teenager emigrated with his mother and stepfather to Toronto. There, he immersed himself in the rock, R&B, country and gospel music that emanated from late-night U.S. clear-channel AM stations, while learning English from the speed-rapping DJs who dominated the rock 'n' roll airwaves.

Biography

That is a neat bit of history! I didn't know all that. I love the song, and yes - I think the lyrics are timeless. There are a number of songs from then that seem to have enduring lyrics - someone posted Phil Ochs, he was one - and some like Tom Paxton, Tom Lehrer, Arlo Guthrie, Simon & Garfunkle who's music stands the test of time.

Here is a track from Steppenwolf's Second Album...

It never made the charts, but the theme is... "In war, there are no unwounded soldiers." Jose Narosky

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO3K77a5OFA"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO3K77a5OFA[/ame]

 

[DamnYankee]

Probably not a first here.

Bruce Springsteen – Born in the USA – Listen free and discover music at Last.fm.

 

[HUGGY]

I'm torn between Tracy Chapman's "Revolution" and and Elvis Costello's "Whats So Funny About Peace Love and Understanding?

TC's ... [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rZbvi6Tj6E[/ame]

EC's ... [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3ZXdvN3orA[/ame]

 

[Harry Dresden]

i could not find the long version,which is 7 min. long...this is better than nothing...from 1968...
Eric Burdon and the Animals....the video is strange,but the song is the focus here


[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gL3HTlfW0A[/ame]

 

[Shogun]

Sure thing Mr. Left Wing bonehead, keep clinging to massive spending, global warming, terrorist enabling and demonizing anyone that disagrees. Buckle up, this ride ain't gonna be as long as you think .......


P.S. Keep thinking i'm a GOP for lifer, i'd be all for a responsible Democrat, but Obama, Pelosi, Reid, etc... are not even close to responsible......

You will never be a Democrat or anything but what you are...an ignorant right wing pea brain...

BTW pea brain... POLLUTION kills people, we KNOW that already, there IS no debate...

Terrorist recruiting...What is beyond pea brain comprehension...

Matthew Alexander led an interrogations team assigned to a Special Operations task force in Iraq in 2006.

I learned in Iraq that the No. 1 reason foreign fighters flocked there to fight were the abuses carried out at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. Our policy of torture was directly and swiftly recruiting fighters for al-Qaeda in Iraq. The large majority of suicide bombings in Iraq are still carried out by these foreigners. They are also involved in most of the attacks on U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq. It's no exaggeration to say that at least half of our losses and casualties in that country have come at the hands of foreigners who joined the fray because of our program of detainee abuse. The number of U.S. soldiers who have died because of our torture policy will never be definitively known, but it is fair to say that it is close to the number of lives lost on Sept. 11, 2001. How anyone can say that torture keeps Americans safe is beyond me -- unless you don't count American soldiers as Americans.
I'm Still Tortured by What I Saw in Iraq - washingtonpost.com

NOW, this thread is for music...So, if you need to continue to be schooled, start a new thread...call it "What a pea brain believes"

I'm an independent, you're a far left partisan hack that ranks right along with left wing hack superstars like bozo, chrissy and truthdon't matter. You aren't schooling anyone on anything, your positions are off the charts let wing radical. The only thing you've been right about is that this is a music thread, so if you wanna continue, start another thread titled something like " Clown ass Michael Moore/Rhandi Rhodes wannabes are right, the rest of you are wrong"........


Megadeth .... Peace Sells

You DO realize that Dave Mustaine covered the 1992 DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION for MTV, right?

 

[Shogun]

and, when I run for President this will be my campaign song.. Be sure, I'll ask his permission to use it first (cough cough)

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kB7OR161-U[/ame]