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Livin' it Up While I'm Goin' Down

October 30, 2008 9:08 AM

Barack 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.”

- jpt

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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 | Oct 31, 2008 3:09:29 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 | Oct 30, 2008 8:20:41 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) | Oct 30, 2008 2:13:04 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 | Oct 30, 2008 12:51:34 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 | Oct 30, 2008 12:17:00 PM

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 | Oct 30, 2008 12:02:56 PM

"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 | Oct 30, 2008 11:37:58 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 | Oct 30, 2008 11:31:06 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 | Oct 30, 2008 11:30:50 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 | Oct 30, 2008 11:28:03 AM

Joe Perry, one dinosaur supports another, McSame.

Posted by: Mike M | Oct 30, 2008 11:23:18 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 | Oct 30, 2008 11:14:16 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 | Oct 30, 2008 11:12:21 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 | Oct 30, 2008 11:05:57 AM

Some OLD has-been is supporting a REALLY OLD has-been for President...see kids, drugs are bad.

Posted by: Daisy | Oct 30, 2008 11:04:07 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 | Oct 30, 2008 10:57:28 AM

Jimmy Smits and Joe Perry? Is it 1989 already?

Posted by: DKNY | Oct 30, 2008 10:49:50 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 | Oct 30, 2008 10:48:09 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 | Oct 30, 2008 10:47:07 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 | Oct 30, 2008 10:40:31 AM

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