Grateful Dead

It's not even two o'clock, and I can't get the system to find me two tickets.

1 - I, too, am a squicked by the Dead supporting a particular candidate.2 - The individual artists supporting Obama under their own names bothers me much less. Overall, lending your personal celebrity to causes you believe in is responsible stewardship, and I admire that. 3 - "Rock the Vote" falls into a different category for me - encouraging people to participate in the political system for whatever candidate their hearts desire is different from endorsing a particular candidate, imo.

All you had to do was look at what the psychedelic age stood for to understand. It was not in favor of war, greed, killing, environmental destruction or raping the treasury to line of the pockets of the wealthiest 1%. Ever wonder why they encouraged taping and sharing: because it helped to SELL more product. Ever see the statistics on Repug versus Dem effects on the economy. If you were a Repub redneck for the Dead, you just weren't paying attention to the lyrics or anything else surrounding the culture. The Dead might have come from Repub parents, but they were surely liberals and more progressive than most Dems. Jeez how could all of the rednecks here be so out of it. Did you eat too many doses? The Dead always stood for progressive capitalism. To counter you Repugs, none of us who are progressive believe in Soviet/Chinese/Suban style communism or socialism. We own businesses, make money and believe peace and justice should prevail over greed. What were the rednecks thinking?!?! Ever see the "Ed Meese is a pig!" shirts @ shows in the 80s; what about the "no war for big oil" signs in the early 90s? What about all of the impeach Bush @ derivative shows lately? Be the change you would like to see! Peace....