I finally got around to reading the Dave Matthews interview in the new Rolling Stone last night, and well...ol' Dave goes after Bush and Cheney and comes away with blood on his fists. You can safely say he's feeling more than just a touch of rage over the behavior and policies of the Crackhead Cartel. The RS website only has the first half of the interview which doesn't include his political comments - otherwise you know I'd point you to it, 'cuz I love ya. I'll post the quotes tonight.
So, why this post, dumbass?
It got me thinking about how once this interview goes "mainstream" (wingnut radio show hosts usually get to Rolling Stone about three weeks late), we'll hear some crap about how we shouldn't care about what some two-bit spoiled rich know-nothing singer says and that he should stick to playing his guitar and keep his trap shut. You know it's coming. (And it'll come from hosts who regard Charlie Daniels as a genuine superstar and national treasure.)
And it gives me the opportunity to say that when it comes to an opinion about our government, I'll take the word of a performer whose life is spent hopping from country to country away from his/her family and who has firsthand knowledge of how the rest of the world lives - before I'm told to ignore what he/she has to say by some ex-disc jockey posing as a political pundit whose global view is confined to the four walls of his/her safe soundproof studio and whose idea of globetrotting is hopping on the internet and reading NewsMax.
And THAT, my friends, is the best run-on sentence I've ever come up with.
