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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (68970)	1/28/2010 7:01:37 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Pre-Obama, I gather he was, though I know about nothing about him. I gather he was fairly moderate. What is partly baffling is that he isn't even running for re-election, so why flip so hard? but the 40 votes against pay-as-you-go says a lot. there is clearly a stranglehold held on the repubs from above (or below). and not name one program he would cut? and he wanted to sit on a commission about cuts in the budget? boggles the mind. I really can only think of the two women from Maine right now from the repubs on the Senate side to sit on such a thing. not sure in the House, since am not familiar with a lot of them, but certainly no one from the leadership.

To: tejek who wrote (68970)	1/28/2010 7:38:18 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

the song: youtube.com Sam & Dave On The Move In Peter Guralnick's Sweet Soul Music, he talks about how Sam & Dave were basically feared by the other soul acts at the time because they'd just burn it down every night. It's something to think about, say, Wilson Pickett or Otis Redding in awe of these guys. I knew their music, but didn't know who they were until I read Guralnick. I highly endorse that book, incidentally. I learned so much about race in the South reading it, even though that was a tangent. Anyway, watching old video of these guys you get some sense of how they used to terrorize the stage. I've got another book on soul (not remembering the name) that basically says that, at some point, Sam and Dave basically stopped talking. Anyway here they are murdering fools twice. The first version I like because it's a little slower and a little more soulful (to me at least.) There's also a cool shot of a very young Steve Cropper. The second gives you a better look at the dance-moves these cats were rocking. But I get a little annoyed when the band gets amped and speeds up the song. Still the visuals are awesome. Much like watching Sam Cooke doing Bob Dylan, you get some sense of the other, less tangible forces, that in modern times have laid siege to the tower of institutional white supremacy. ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com