Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama

I had the good fortune of having two tickets to get into Barack Obama's northern Indiana town hall meeting which took place earlier today. Barack was charismatic as always and his speech was filled with rhetoric and patriotism not heard since the speeches of JFK. Fortunately it seems as if Obama actually has plans and strategies to back up his platform of hope. He spoke for over an hour and during that time, in keeping with the town hall theme, he fielded some questions from the audience. Let me tell you I was disappointed in the lack of intelligence put forth by my fellow Hoosiers. No one asked what Barack's opinion was on the rationale behind the theory that America acts as the World Police, that we largely shirked all responsibility by failing to ratify the Kyoto Treaty, or that we seem to feel as if invading Iraq was justified due to the strife and calamity prevalent under Sadam Hussein when all over the world over 25,000 people die every single day for lack of food and potable water.

What we needed was a question about something that actually matters. No one asked about Barack's stance on nuclear power, immigration, or illegal aliens currently in this country. I personally would've liked to hear Senator Obama detail his plan to have American made cars getting 150 miles per gallon in the next ten years {a far sight better than Bush's plan to have a fleet average 35 mpg by 2020}, or to hear Barack answer literally any question about anything to do with China. All my opinions on the questions aside, I feel as if Senator Obama is on the right track when he says that he wants to change the way Washington D.C. operates. I would appreciate a question on whether or not Barack supports a complete ban of lobbyists in Washington. Alas the majority of questions he fielded were simple and boring {and even though my hand was raised I was not called upon to voice a question}.

mp3 : Bruce Springsteen - Livin' in the Future

At the end of the meeting Barack Obama shook hands with as many voters as he could find, much to the chagrin of the Secret Service, while the campaign gurus opted to play Livin' in the Future as Senator Obama's exit music. Now this isn't the first time The Boss has been associated with politics, Obama, or with political happenings across this nation, but I personally found the song choice a little melancholic. Although the song is catchy and upbeat the lyrics paint a fairly bleak picture of the future. I personally would choose to play Mates of State's song Get Better with the repeated chorus of "everything's gonna get lighter even if it never gets better" and the repeated line "forget all your politics for awhile, let the color squeeze around." Maybe I'm joking. Maybe that's why I'm an unemployed blogger.

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