The 67-year-old musical icon hearts Obama: "Getting this prize would be good enough. But getting it from this president ... "
The White House, which dragged its heels on the BP Gulf oil spill, wasted no time posting this video with Obama referencing the 'rich musical heritage' of the oil-poisoned Gulf coast, and how music gets us through tough times. Tell that to the Louisiana shrimpers watching tarballs wash up on shore while targeting Obama with harmonic humming of "Day Tripper" and "Got To Get You Into My Life."
The lovefest airs June 28th on PBS.
If anyone knows how much fun it is to hang out with a socialist, it's Paul McCartney. Perhaps he and the President can write some tunes together, too! But watch out, Yoko has her eye on Barack.
ReplyDeleteWould McCartney have turned down the award had he given it while Bush was president? You know there are a whole pile for folks who just have no tact.
ReplyDeleteI would guess that there is a lot of third-party behind the scenes effort/semi-invites that work to minimize the embarrassment of turning down an award. Maybe they sent Bill Clinton to talk to the artist. He casually mentions that it might be a good idea to get out of the race, since Rahm Emmanuel says their might be a job in it for them ... wait a minute ... ooops ... wrong type of invitation. ;)
ReplyDeleteI enjoy McCartney's political musings at least as much as I enjoy Joe Biden's singing.
ReplyDeleteMcCartney's obviously an elitist, not to mention a total tool!
ReplyDeleteIt was BP, not Obama, that dragged its heels on the oil spill with lowball estimates of the leak and assurances that they could fix it. The expertise and equipment are in the private sector--where both Dems and Reps, all paid off, have rubberstamped risky oil projects for many years.
ReplyDeleteAnything else would be socialism, remember? Drill, baby, drill! Let the market regulate itself! And other "conservative" drivel.
Rumor has it that McCartney was up for Kennedy Center/National Medal award during Bush years, and declined. It is odd that the Gershwin award, for contributions to American culture, goes to its first foreigner. Maybe this was the Kennedy Center consolation prize.
McCartney declined the Kennedy Center award?
ReplyDeleteanybody that could marry that deranged one-legged lady is not capable of passing judgment on Pres Bush no matter how bad he fu**ed up america.
ReplyDeleteIt was all about having McCartney serenade Mrs. Obama with "Michelle".
ReplyDeleteAll of you make salient points. Thanks for the illumination!
ReplyDeleteBP may have 'lowballed' the oil leakage estimate, but according to the Rolling Stone mag, the WH knew all along (RS saw a whiteboard with 100,000 gallons a day displayed during a WH meeting on the spill), but the WH publicly lowballed the staggering number as well.