A Letter of Apology From Bruce Springsteen for Letting Trump Win

[Laura PourMeADrink]

[font color=red] sorry, disclaimer at end - not really him - still a lot of truth [font color=black]

My name is Bruce Springsteen, and one day soon, when the windows of your mosques are smashed and the synagogues lie in ashes, when the skies are gray with dust and the sea has risen to wash away the roads, when the stars and stripes of our flag stand for discrimination and fear, I will wonder, could I have made a difference?

I have had to look at myself in the mirror. More importantly, I have had to look at my children, and consider, uncomfortably, the world they will inherit. And I wonder.

Could I have made a difference? Did I do everything I could have done?

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Imagine if I had done that for two or three weeks. If I had Just birddogged the man! I could have stolen his audience, stolen all the TV crews—you don’t think they wouldn’t have rushed to me, and wanted to hear my opinion on the big man? Not only would I have won over some of his supporters, but Trump almost definitely at some point would have come after me, and how bad would that have been for him? You think the new boss could’ve attacked the original and gotten away with it?

He doesn’t like being upstaged, you know he would’ve have come after me. Can you imagine if he attacked Bruce Springsteen? Even without doing the math, on just that alone he might have lost enough votes to lose him the election.

How hard would it have been for me to give up three or four weeks of my life this past fall or summer, and followed him in a van from rally to rally?
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http://observer.com/2017/02/an-apology-from-bruce-springsteen-for-letting-trump-win/

[pkdu]

1. Indeed.

Then again , the media should blamed for what they did directly

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Good man...I wish 3rd party voters would ask this question

[Blecht]

3. Counting the seconds until somebody thinks these are really Bruce Springsteen's words

3 ... 2 ... 1...

On edit: I was too slow -- look above.

[George II]

5. They are.

[pinboy3niner]

6. Disclaimer at end of article: "*Not actually Bruce"

[Laura PourMeADrink]

9. What the hell...I'll delete.

[Blecht]

7. Holy shit -- I'm losing hope

Does anybody take the time to read to the end? Does anybody have any reading comprehension skills?

[Chellee]

11. who needed to read to the end?

the byline is at the top.

[Blecht]

13. Yes, and if you actually read it

there's no way Springsteen would say half the things in there.

I found it to be pretty silly.

[Chellee]

14. I know.

As I was reading it, I thought, "holy crap! the Hitler thing is going to go over well." Then, Mao!??! Nobody is this dumb. It's got to be a joke.

And it was.

[spanone]

4. Love You Bruce!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

10. Hey, gotta delete - at the end says not really bruce. bummer

[Maru Kitteh]

8. Kind of breaks my heart a little. I think we all feel that way

to some extent.

[JudyM]

12. Yeah, not him... I wonder how the real Bruce feels about this.

[crazycatlady]

15. I love the Boss

But I wish he would focus more on national races. His own Congresscritter is an ultraconservative nut who's been there since 1980. I'd love to see him throw some $$ or an endorsement to his opponent.

(I also live in this district).

[mainstreetonce]

16. It is going to take

people like this being involved in 2018.

[SylviaD]

17. Springsteen doesn't have children, if memory serves. nt

[yardwork]

18. Yes, he does. And he'd never write this.

[TygrBright]

19. I wish the real Bruce had written this... n/t