If Barack Obama is elected president of the United States, Rage Against The Machine will at last know a leader they don’t want to rally against (with a pocket full of shells).
Well, that’s the word from Tom Morello, anyway. “I’ve always felt more comfortable on the other side of the barbed wire fence, you know, lobbing musical Molotov cocktails at the party,” the baseball-capped guitarist conceded to Rolling Stone. Obama, however, has made him change his tune. “If America elects a black president it will be a different country than the one I’ve seen my entire life and that would be a step definitely in the right direction.”
But when it comes to the crunch, will America want to take that step? “In the next presidential election America will get the president it deserves,” Morello continued. “If after eight years of Bush’s foreign and domestic crimes that we elect a Republican president, you know, it seems to me like you should be able to run a barnyard animal against a Republican and win in a ninety-ten split. So if America elects [John] McCain over, you know, the clearly intelligent, erudite, fair-minded Barack Obama, then either way we’ll get the President we deserve.” Well, the fire still Rages…
dream_brother
said on the 18th Jul, 2008