Mellencamp get a nerve?

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Don't expect Dan Quayle to attend another John Mellencamp concert.

The former vice president, miffed about a comment made by Mellencamp about Pres. Bush's administration, walked out of the singer's July 14 show at Harvey's Lake Tahoe Casino in Lake Tahoe, Calif.

Mellencamp, unaware that Quayle was in the audience, introduced the song "Walk Tall" by saying, "This next one is for all the poor people who've been ignored by the current administration."

Quayle, who was in town for a celebrity golf tournament, then made his exit, deciding "enough was enough," his spokesman, Craig Whitney, told the Los Angeles Times for Friday's edition. "He wasn't going to sit there and listen to this."

From the AP- guess that got a little to close to Dan's tax break. [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] Maybe Quail can use the concert time to study the spellin' of tater. [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - When school was canceled to accommodate a campaign visit by President Bush, the two 55-year-old teachers reckoned the time was ripe to voice their simmering discontent with the administration's policies.

Christine Nelson showed up at the Cedar Rapids rally with a Kerry-Edwards button pinned on her T-shirt; Alice McCabe clutched a small, paper sign stating "No More War." What could be more American, they thought, than mixing a little dissent with the bunting and buzz of a get-out-the-vote rally headlined by the president?

Their reward: a pair of handcuffs and a strip search at the county jail.
Authorities say they were arrested because they refused to obey reasonable security restrictions, but the women disagree: "Because I had a dissenting opinion, they did what they needed to do to get me out of the way," said Nelson, who teaches history and government at one of this city's middle schools.

[/ QUOTE ] Read on the folks are being arressted for holding signs or wearing shirts. Some of this has happened at taxpayer supported events, you can't even pay your OWN way and have freedom of expression. Busted
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'Cuz they told me, when I was younger
"Boy, you're gonna be president"
But just like everyting else, those old crazy dreams
Just kinda came and went
Oh but ain't that America for you and me
Ain't that America we're someting to see baby
Ain't that America, home of the free
Little pink houses for you and me

[imported_biggamesjames]

LOL I love Mellencamp...always have. I think a more appropriate Cougar song may go something like this though:
"I fight authority, authority always wins".... [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

With all that money Melencamp has you would think he could help those poor people out thmselves, maybe have a free concert. Im sure the "tax breaks" for the rich have not overlooked the Cougar.

[R0cketer]

At Lake Tahoe?

Now I might be wrong but I'm fairly sure that John Cougar Mellencamp was one of the leading people in doing Farm Aid, so I think he has done some for the poor people.

Check into the benefit concerts he does. You might like some of his music. And he did contribute to the "Farm Aid" act.

[starbuck]

And it is just John Mellencamp. The Cougar was the record company thing he hated and changed it as soon as he could