Rock Legends to Play Obama Fundraiser

The Pennsylvania Campaign for Change has just announced a Monday, October 13 concert fundraiser to benefit Obama for America featuring many Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees and other American music icons. Additionally, the show will be a very large voter outreach opportunity for the Pennsylvania Obama campaign, which has already built the largest volunteer-based campaign in Pennsylvania’s history. The campaign has more than 70 field offices and thousands of volunteers preparing for an unprecedented Get Out the Vote operation. There are now more than 1 million more Democrats in the state than Republicans, an increase of 500,000 since 2004.

Tickets will be available at 12:00 p.m. EDT on Friday, September 19, and are $50 for the general public and $30 for University Park students with a Pennsylvania State University ID. More ticket information is available online at:

http://www.barackobama.com/psu

EVENT DETAILS:

WHO: Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, and Mickey Hart, Gregg Allman, Butch Trucks, Jaimoe, Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks, Marc Quinones, Oteil Burbridge, and Jeff Chimenti

WHAT: Concert Fundraiser

WHERE: Bryce Jordan Center, Pennsylvania State University State College, PA

WHEN: Monday, October 13, 2008 - Doors Open 5:30 PM EDT

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Duncan

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It's hilarious that you use "Hussein" many times in there - trying to push the fact that Obama must be some sort of "terrible Muslim." This man is where he is because he's been publicly & privately vetted by Democrats, Republicans and the Media. Osama Bin Laden he isn't. Stop the hate.

President Bush served honorably in the Air Force? You MUST be talking about George HW Bush, 'cause the current moron did not. Senator McCain lost FIVE planes while serving and the last one got him caught. So? Who cares? Not me.

Finally, the "facts" you spew (45% of families will be earning less than $35k/year?! What planet are you living on?!) are completely incorrect. You state this stuff like you're the Secretary of the Interior. You are wrong. Look up every 3rd party study on BOTH economic plans (McCain's and Obama's) and you'll see how "bad off" families would be at the end of an 8-year term of each President. Obama will save more Americans more money over time. What YOU fail to realize is that there is life beyond Tucker Carlson. Wait a minute! Maybe you ARE Tucker Carlson. If THAT'S the case, there's life beyond bowties, dude. This isn't 1955 anymore and it never will be again. Get over it.

Roe V Wade exists for a reason. Without it, the gov't is in control of your body...or your daughter's body. To overturn it would be a great travesty. There are MANY "Pro-Life"rs who are Pro-Choice. Most people who take the "Pro-Life" stance should ACTUALLY be called "Anti-Choice", rather than "Pro-Life."

Read Obama's actual PLAN. It's quite apparent that you haven't. I don't think it'd sway you to vote for him (that's for sure!), but you may find out he's someone who cares a great deal about America and possesses a HUGE brain that he uses in his attempt to better this country.

You spew an awful lot of hatred on a site that doesn't call for it. SO, I'm not gonna get into the 10-pg. McCain-bashing dissertation here. All I can say is that your facts are completely baseless.

Thanks for your input, Tucker.

~ Pappy

"Once in a while you can get shown the light in the strangest of places, if you look at it right." - Robert Hunter

We Are....

I'm so excited for this. The Dead reuniting at my alma mater. It doesn't get much better than that for me. I really hope it's not impossible to get tickets. I wonder if a certain number are reserved for students? That could make it tough.

DEAD RESURRECTED FOR CAMPAIGN FOR CHANGE

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WELL WELL WELL if John Lennon were alive he'd want to be at this show. And I doubt Jerry would support the war and McSame. No freakin' way. Jerry wasn't a political guy, true, but Jerry isn't going to be at Penn State except in spirit of course.

"America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think."
--Jerry Garcia

.....and for you undereducated folks out there "xenophobic" means an unreasonable fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers (or that which is foreign or strange). Sort of like how the Grateful Dead fans felt in 1985 when the Dead played their first and last concert at Hershey Stadium and the police didn't have enough riot transport vans or personnel to bust another 20,000 people beyond the 600 they busted. Jerry vowed that the Dead would never play Hershey again and the town said "thank you."

And for you racists out there in middle America well guess what. Being an American minority especially being biracial African American and with some foreign roots does not disqualify you from being the leader of our country. If I could contact Jerry in the spirit world and ask him I surely believe he would support Obama over the McCain-- lamebrain-- "the economy is fine"-- more of the same/ good ol' George W Bush righwing/ racist/ warmongering/ preemptive strike/ let's lie to the citizens/ bogus claim about WMDs/ let's create a connection to 911 with Saddam/ let's not try to capture Osama Bin Laden/ he's my oil buddy/ let's ruin our international reputation/ corruption of this once respected country......

THE CHOICE IN NOVEMBER IS OBVIOUS. GET OUT AND VOTE . AND GET RID OF THE REPUBLICANS IN THE WHITE HOUSE.

GOD BLESS AMERICA

GOD BLESS THE GRATEFUL DEAD AND THE ALLMAN BROTHERS

AND GOD BLESS BARRY OBAMA THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THIS COUNTRY WHO WILL RESTORE US TO THE RESPECTED SUPERPOWER AND PEACEMAKER WE ONCE WERE.

C'MON PEOPLE OBAMA NEEDS OHIO AND PENNSYLVANIA TO WIN THE ELECTION

SO LET'S DO IT ! AND PARTY FIRST BEFORE WE VOTE !

"turn on my TV the president comes on the news says
I get no satisfaction that's why I sing the blues
his wife says don't get crazy _____you know just what to do
turn up the old Victrola put on your rockin' shoes"

FILL IN THE BLANK WITH BARACK THIS NOVEMBER !

Jeepers!

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Hey grdaed73, are you having as much fun as I am reading these? You were absolutly right - nothing like talking about religon or politics to liven up the party! - This party is alive and kickin' .
peace,pk

obedience?

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"Resist much, obey little."

A quote to live by from Walt Whitman and often used by the late great Ed Abbey.

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
William Blake

Great quote

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Excellent words from a thinker. Thanks Hal

Why Bash Muslims??

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Hey Nobama, is there something wrong with being muslim?

yeah...

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we've got Muslims here, and if you can't treat them with the same respect you expect others to show you, then you are in the wrong place, and I say this with my moderator hat on.

And this, intrepid

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And this, intrepid travelers, is why The Dead should not be endorsing political candidates, or playing at their fundraisers...

I will try and attend, and I am tie-dying my McCain / Palin tee shirt for the occasion.

"The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer." - Ken Kesey

once again

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"The Dead" have rather scrupulously, apparently, avoided doing any such thing. What the individual surviving band members choose to do along those lines is their God-given and constitutional right, as is your chosen response.

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