Oct 30, 2008 9:08am
Livin’ it Up While I’m Goin’ Down
EmailBarack Obama may have Jimmy Smits, but John McCain snagged the endorsement of Aerosmith’s Joe Perry.
“We pretty much stay out of it, but seeing so many people come out for Obama, I just felt like ‘What the hell, I might as well raise my hand for this side,” Perry told the Boston Herald. “I’m an optimist. It ain’t over till it’s over. I think that he’s got a chance.”
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Dream on, Joe.
Posted by: Danny | October 30, 2008, 9:17 am 9:17 am
Wow, what an AMAZING endorsement…snark.
Colin Powell vs Joe Perry.
Posted by: Nancy | October 30, 2008, 9:22 am 9:22 am
E_DAY – 5: ELECTORAL COLLEGE EV POLLS
2008
Obama 375
McCain 157
Tie 6
2004
Bush 280
Kerry 243
Tie 15
State-by-State Polls Are What Matters And Always Predict The Winer.
IT’S OVER MR. PERRY …….
Posted by: Steve_NJ | October 30, 2008, 9:23 am 9:23 am
Who cares???
Posted by: LISA | October 30, 2008, 9:26 am 9:26 am
The continuing arrogance is just fascinating. I voted for Obama but I know that he’s nothing special. He drew the lucky card several times in a row, with the biggest luck card being a darling of the media, where they chortle like giggly school girls when Obama comes around. That’ll change when he becomes less and less accessible. It’s time the media is held accountable.
Posted by: WestCoastMessenger | October 30, 2008, 9:28 am 9:28 am
I haven’t liked Aerosmith for quite some time, now I have even more of a reason not to buy their CDs.
Posted by: algwriter | October 30, 2008, 9:30 am 9:30 am
I’ll bet that NOW there will be liberals blabbering about how they hate Aeorsmith.
ROTF
Oh, wait, too late. I see they started already.
Too predictable.
Posted by: He isn't entitled to his opinion? | October 30, 2008, 9:34 am 9:34 am
While we are on the subject of living it up, here is the gentle lady from Ohio who to this day continues to defend her possibly illegal foray into the private life of Joe the Plumber via the Ohio records system.
It’s high time that people like this are sent packing. Let her go find another affirmative action job.
Posted by: jcarob | October 30, 2008, 9:36 am 9:36 am
WestCoastMessenger,
What a surprise.
You really voted for Obama?
Boy there is actually a God up there. Once in a while he does make some people to see reason.
Posted by: Steve_NJ | October 30, 2008, 9:37 am 9:37 am
DREAM ON DREAM ON!!
Posted by: Angie | October 30, 2008, 9:38 am 9:38 am
Wow, I am shocked. I always thought Perry had common sense. Its become clear over the last few months that no onse with a single ounce of common sense would support a proven LIAR like McBush. His word clearly means nothing.
Jiff
Posted by: Jim Mason | October 30, 2008, 9:40 am 9:40 am
Dream on, Joe.
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Now that’s funny!
Posted by: Dave in VA | October 30, 2008, 9:40 am 9:40 am
Oh yeah, add Joe, the (average American)plumber, would be business owner, and country music singer.
Posted by: SUSIE | October 30, 2008, 9:41 am 9:41 am
What do we have here, a child presiding over comment censorship? If you are going to solicit comments then you have an obligation to publish those that fly in the face of your politics as well as those that support your point of view. That’s what “freedom of expression” means.
Posted by: jcarob | October 30, 2008, 9:43 am 9:43 am
Last time we saw aerosmith on stage they were so ‘looped’ their performance stank.
So now we know why they endorsed McInsane, because like seeks like. Alot of noise that makes your head hurt. Like he said ‘Wut the Hell’. Just about sums it up eh?
Posted by: kim k | October 30, 2008, 9:43 am 9:43 am
On a different note, while the American economy is verging on collapse, the financial markets have crashed, the housing maket is gone, growth is going backwards, and unemployment is on the rise…..
I thought should I’d mention the feel good story of the day:
Exxon Mobil breaks profit record, earns $14.8 billion
Now don’t you feel better about Republican economic policy? It will trickle down right? Just trust the “Maverick”.
Posted by: Dave in VA | October 30, 2008, 9:45 am 9:45 am
“API/Fox News deal: Sean Hannity show and Greta Van Susteren’s show “On the Record” to air the Michelle Obama tape in less than 24 hours.”
Surprise!
Posted by: geevill | October 30, 2008, 9:54 am 9:54 am
“Livin’ it up while I’m Goin’ DOwn”
New McCain/Palin theme song.
Posted by: ... | October 30, 2008, 9:57 am 9:57 am
This is from a man, who was part of a group who did more drugs than anyone in the 70′s and 80′s.
Now don’t get me wrong, I think all celebrity endorsements are a joke, whether it’s a rap star, country music singer, a washed up joke (Chuck Norris anyone) or a loud windbag.
Inform yourself of the issues, from an independent source, and decide from there.
If you listen to what a “celebrity” says, then I got a bridge to sell you.
Posted by: make it known | October 30, 2008, 9:59 am 9:59 am
This is from a man, who was part of a group who did more drugs than anyone in the 70′s and 80′s
You talking about obama?
Posted by: geevill | October 30, 2008, 10:01 am 10:01 am
Joe Perry is voting for McCain because other people are voting for Obama?
Duh, I think Perry’s been drugged a bit too much.
Posted by: newz4i | October 30, 2008, 10:03 am 10:03 am
No, here’s McCain’s new theme song… “Back in the Saddle”. :)
Posted by: Cliff | October 30, 2008, 10:04 am 10:04 am
I saw this post on the NY Post:
George Bush is a flawed man, but he kept us from being attacked again after 9/11. Who could of imagined that? He had no help from the left to achieve that feat.
McCain is not Bush, but at least he helped. The media did not help. Reid and Pelosi did not help.
Posted by: today | October 30, 2008, 10:04 am 10:04 am
No, here’s McCain’s new theme song… “Back in the Saddle”. :)
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good – they can get out of town quicker.
Posted by: ... | October 30, 2008, 10:05 am 10:05 am
“This is from a man, who was part of a group who did more drugs than anyone in the 70′s and 80′s”
And he see’s two things – the harm drugs do to a person, and Barack Obama also abused illegal narcotics.
Joe the Rocker for John McCain!
Posted by: Cliff | October 30, 2008, 10:06 am 10:06 am
I just checked the interactive electoral map at CNN.
It’s amazing. Today, even if McCain would WIN Ohio, Florida AND Pennsylvania, Obama would be President.
And this race wouldn’t be over? Come on.
Posted by: lola | October 30, 2008, 10:08 am 10:08 am
“Exxon Mobil breaks profit record, earns $14.8 billion ”
Headlines like that can be good for us stockholders. Take heart, malcontents, one day you too may be a stockholder.
Posted by: jcarob | October 30, 2008, 10:08 am 10:08 am
Good for him. Now if only Palin were that loyal….
Posted by: blip | October 30, 2008, 10:11 am 10:11 am
Taxpayers how do you like your tax dollars going to that “nonpartisan” group ACORN?
You know the group that openly supports Obama and is being investigated for voter fraud.
Get used to it when Obama raises our taxes.
Posted by: sam | October 30, 2008, 10:13 am 10:13 am
“Exxon Mobil breaks profit record, earns $14.8 billion ”
I guess that’s why McCain is convinced that they badly need a 4 billion tax break?
Ever seen a prez candidate more out of touch with our economy that John McCain?
Posted by: epo | October 30, 2008, 10:17 am 10:17 am
“Exxon Mobil breaks profit record, earns $14.8 billion ”
Posted by: jcarob | Oct 30, 2008 10:08:51 AM
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Thanks to 0bama, who voted for giving these big oil companies the largest tax break in history.
McCain and Hillary Clinton both voted against it.
Who is a phony liar, and who has principles?
Posted by: skinny dog | October 30, 2008, 10:17 am 10:17 am
Well geevil, I could go negative and say no, actually Cindy McCain. But I am above that, call it elite, but I don’t want to get in the mud with pigs, even if they have lipstick.
Posted by: make it known | October 30, 2008, 10:19 am 10:19 am
WestCoastMessenger,
Was it not clear he was lying way, way back since last October?
He lied by first promising you to vote against or even filabuster to give Bush the power to spy on you – when he needed your votes in the primaries.
Then, in July, as soon as he needed you no more, he voted with Bush to support the FISA bill to take another your constitutional right of privacy away.
McCain and Hillary Clinton have principles and they both voted against it, AS PROMISED.
Posted by: skinny dog | October 30, 2008, 10:22 am 10:22 am
I’m happy for Mccain that he got am endorsement. I am even happier that Barack Obama is going to be the next President of the United States.
We deserve to have somebody on the side of the people!
Posted by: Truth Matters | October 30, 2008, 10:24 am 10:24 am
Wow, what an endorsement.
“Seeing so many people come out for Obama, I just felt like ‘What the hell, I might as well raise my hand for this side.”
Really well-thought, “Yet Another Joe”.
Posted by: AB | October 30, 2008, 10:30 am 10:30 am
and jo perry’s endorsement is meaningful because …
Posted by: Joco | October 30, 2008, 10:31 am 10:31 am
McCain seems to have his way with people named Joe. First, he lined up Joe the Plumber, now he’s got Joe the Ax Man. Thank God this race is ending next week. There is nothing false about hope.
Posted by: w_roos | October 30, 2008, 10:33 am 10:33 am
did someone really say the Mccain campaign has principles…
lol
like the same principles that team has had for the last 8 years…
yeah those aren’t principles…
those are slogans…
slogans that sold this nation out.
Posted by: dl | October 30, 2008, 10:35 am 10:35 am
Joe Perry who???????
Never heard of him!!!!!!
Posted by: sisterdearest09 | October 30, 2008, 10:35 am 10:35 am
I hear Stephanopoulos has grown tired of being a “newsman” and yearns to be back in the Whitehouse. Any truth to that?
Posted by: jcarob | October 30, 2008, 10:38 am 10:38 am
“API/Fox News deal: Sean Hannity show and Greta Van Susteren’s show “On the Record” to air the Michelle Obama tape in less than 24 hours.”
Surprise!
Posted by: geevill | Oct 30, 2008 9:54:00 AM
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Do you really believe in the validity of this tape? It’s been 2 weeks and I’m kind of at the point, I will believe it when I hear it. Although the whole thing would be interesting, a 3 mil dollar bribe attempt by the campaign, citizenship in Indonesia…but I have a feeling we will be hearing something more akin to april fools day.
Posted by: samhiguchi | October 30, 2008, 10:39 am 10:39 am
At least the McCain campaign should be able to get away with blairing some Aerosmith tunes without getting sued. Joe, you really felt the need the be in the news, didn’t you, Bud? LOL
Posted by: gtrmaniac49 | October 30, 2008, 10:40 am 10:40 am
did someone really say the Mccain campaign has principles…
Posted by: dl | Oct 30, 2008 10:35:32 AM
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Principles to defend the Constitution are hard for blind followers led by a deceptive liar to understand. Chairman Mao had hundreds of millions blind followers like you after 0bama, “for the common good of the society, a Communist Wonderland”. Is it a surprise?!
Posted by: skinny dog | October 30, 2008, 10:47 am 10:47 am
Posted by: dl | Oct 30, 2008 10:35:32 AM
McCain seems to have his way with people named Joe. First, he lined up Joe the Plumber, now he’s got Joe the Ax Man…..
And there is Joe Leiberman. Now where have we heard that name before? It was in the year 2000… Presidential olitics… Democratic party… Hold on one minute, it will come to me…
Posted by: topo2005 | October 30, 2008, 10:48 am 10:48 am
Jimmy Smits and Joe Perry? Is it 1989 already?
Posted by: DKNY | October 30, 2008, 10:49 am 10:49 am
Good for McCain. Anything beats that boring Hank Williams.
The difference is that I feel the pain of the failing economy and mister Joe Perry not.
What I see is that 8 years Bush is not working at all. Our economy is declining, we are spending like madman on the war and we keep borrowing from foreign countries.
This country is the worst shape in history. We can’t afford another 4 years McCain/Palin with the same Bush policies. The tax cuts McCain proposes are irresponsible.
His economic plans, supply-side economics, is to give money to the rich, hoping they pass the wealth to the middle class an poor. This will not work, it has never worked. Our economy will be ruined.
We need a fiscal conservative program and McCain is anything except that.
Posted by: CLabs | October 30, 2008, 10:57 am 10:57 am
Some OLD has-been is supporting a REALLY OLD has-been for President…see kids, drugs are bad.
Posted by: Daisy | October 30, 2008, 11:04 am 11:04 am
If this means that Aerosmith’s library will be available for the McCain campaign to utilize at rallies, I wonder which will resonate more with the Christian right: “Love in an Elevator” or “Dude Looks Like a Lady”? Maybe “Walk This Way”? “Rag Doll”? Surely, there’s some hot rockin’ little tune laced with blatant sexuality that will speak to the conservative soul…
Posted by: Yukon Sam | October 30, 2008, 11:05 am 11:05 am
Add this rock star to the “Millionaires and Billionaires for McCain” club. Any average American who thinks that when McCain commits to continued Bush tax cuts for the super rich and large corporations he is showing his concern for middle class Americans is being flim flammed. 4 more years of gutting America for the benefit of the super rich and the large corporations will be a disaster this country may not be able to come back from.
Posted by: hopesprings52 | October 30, 2008, 11:12 am 11:12 am
I don’t think comparing Obama to Mao is apt. What we are seeing is the immaturity of the current electorate in action. The Bush administration is like a starter marriage gone bad for two teen agers. Once they become spiteful, one will choose a new partner with the maximum potential to make the old partner mad. It doesn’t matter if the new partner has glaring character flaws to any third party, the slicker the better because revenge is living well in the eye of the party out for revenge.
Obama is the Democrats introducing that revenge, the Great Get Even, to the American public and like a teen-ager out to settle scores, Americans are buying it. It will be six months before they realize just what a horrible mistake they have made. As an old Johnny Cash song said, “We got married in a fever…”
Watch the entertainment as this new couple goes to battling the way they did in the Carter years.
Posted by: len | October 30, 2008, 11:14 am 11:14 am
Joe Perry, one dinosaur supports another, McSame.
Posted by: Mike M | October 30, 2008, 11:23 am 11:23 am
For Joe Perry: Songs about McCain
- Sympathy for the Devil (Stones)
- Some gotta win, some gotta lose, good time Johnny (McCain) got the blues (unknown)
- You can go your own way (Fleetwood mac- after mac loses)
- Friend of the Devil (Dead)
Posted by: bofuj | October 30, 2008, 11:28 am 11:28 am
“API/Fox News deal: Sean Hannity show and Greta Van Susteren’s show “On the Record” to air the Michelle Obama tape in less than 24 hours.”
What is this tape supposed to be about.
Posted by: annie | October 30, 2008, 11:30 am 11:30 am
For every Joe Perry, there are ten thousand other guitarists for McCain.
We’ve learned Shostakovich’s lesson: if a capitalist doesn’t like your music, he won’t buy it, but if a socialist doesn’t like your music, she will BAN IT.
Posted by: ricky | October 30, 2008, 11:31 am 11:31 am
“the Government is forcibly confiscating … ”
Aye, the Sheriff put a sword to me throat and made off with me best cow for wicked King John! Zounds!
Get out the compound for awhile, take a walk, breath some fresh air. You’re tripping over your rhetorical flourishes.
Posted by: Yukon Sam | October 30, 2008, 11:37 am 11:37 am
Well it’s a good thing that McCain got Joe Perry, since it looks like Joe the Plumber has ditched him
McCain calls for Joe the Plumber to come out on stage during one of his rallies…and then NOTHING! Joe isn’t there! He’s at home! It couldn’t have been better if they had planned it this way!
Posted by: Greg in MN | October 30, 2008, 12:02 pm 12:02 pm
CLabs, it is actually Sen. Obama’s tax hikes that are irresponsible. When you raise taxes on employers they tend to pass on the tax increases to their consumers (raising prices), layoff workers or both. That squeezes the middle class even more! However, when employers receive tax cuts they tend to invest, spend more and hire workers.
Posted by: James Danley | October 30, 2008, 12:17 pm 12:17 pm
Oh fer cryin’ out loud. I like Aerosmith, I like Joe Perry, and his political views won’t change that. If the outcome of this election will hopefully prove anything it’s that petty partisanship is so over.
Posted by: TNeedle | October 30, 2008, 12:51 pm 12:51 pm
“”API/Fox News deal: Sean Hannity show and Greta Van Susteren’s show “On the Record” to air the Michelle Obama tape in less than 24 hours.”
Surprise!”
ROFLMAO….how many times are you right wing suckers gonna fall for this hoax?
Posted by: Ryan C (That One) | October 30, 2008, 2:13 pm 2:13 pm
I can understand someone liking McCain, but not with Palin on the ticket. I liked John and I am certainly not a Republican, but come on. Joe I just can’t believe you would consider this a good ticket. I can’t belive anybody would though. I am still trying to figure out why you people elected Bush to a second term. Just shows you how badly the right wants to impose their beliefs on the rest of us. How could you possibly be a republican Joe? Sheesh. I guess you have lost touch. Maybe that’s why you have the nerve to ask $84.00 for a lousy nose bleed at your shows. I love you guys, but I have never seen a show worth $84.00.
Posted by: the reason a dog | October 30, 2008, 8:20 pm 8:20 pm
Joe Perry huh!
Wish he woukd have come out earlier and done some fund raising for Mccain.
It was refreshing to see a rocker come out for him..
Posted by: Viv | October 31, 2008, 3:09 pm 3:09 pm