They don't call him The Boss for nothing

I just saw Bruce Springsteen on Nightline. He's headlining MoveOn Pac's Vote for Change Tour, with the Dave Matthews Band, Pearl Jam, R.E.M., the Dixie Chicks, John Mellencamp, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor, Babyface, Death Cab for Cutie, Ben Harper, Jurassic 5, My Morning Jacket, Keb' Mo' and Bright Eyes. (The last seven I've never heard of, but it's good to have something for the kids.) The tour will benefit America Coming Together.

So Ted was asking Bruce why he's coming out for Kerry and Edwards when he's never directly endorsed a candidacy in the past. And Bruce told it like it is: "As a nation over the past four years, we've drifted away from I think very mainstream American values...Having large tax cuts for the richest one percent -- hey, that's great, for corporate bigwigs and wealthy, well-to-do guitar players, but we've also watched services get cut, after-school programs for people that need it the most, we've watched rollback on environmental regulations, and a foreign policy that I think put at risk the lives of the very bravest young men and women under what ended up to be discredited circumstances."

Bruce for President? I say he was born to run.

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