Caller on CSPAN just supported freedom, and quoted a 1960s song...

[Maddy McCall]

"Freedom's just another song for nothing else to leave."

She said Bush did a good job and she felt the need to quote that 1960s song.

:rofl:

[CottonBear]

1. You've got to be kidding? What line did she call in on?

:eyes:

Lately, CSPAN has had some of the msot stupid callers EVER.

[Maddy McCall]

3. She said that Bush did a good job...

so I suppose that she was a Republican.

[babylonsister]

2. I heard her!!

:rofl: Nice try though.

[Maddy McCall]

5. LOL.

I heard it, and then I thought, "huh?"

And then I had to share with DU...LOL!

[Sequoia]

11. Maybe she could go on that new game show about

name the lyrics. It was on TV last night...so lame and easy but the contenders seemed like they were having fun.

What about that dozzy woman who called and said the Mexicans are coming over for social security funds because they know that 4,000 babies (maybe more, I don't recall, I mean, remember) were murdered through abortion. Where do these idiots come from. Of course she called in on the Repub phone.

[Maddy McCall]

15. I think that mostly crazy people live to call in to CSPAN.

sometimes the callers are ok...most the time, they're loo loo.

:D

[Sequoia]

21. I get a chuckle when the old geezers call in with shakey voices.

"Why, back in my day it was disrecptful to bad-mouth the president. We should support Bush, he's a great president and protects us from terrorists."

[NotGivingUp]

4. lord help us all. n/t

[hobbit709]

6. She's right

Under bush we've got nothing else.

[Maddy McCall]

7. She missed the lyrics by a Texas mile though.

Joplin is spinnin' in her grave.

[welshTerrier2]

12. no doubt ...

just for the record though, the song Bobby McGee was written by Kris Kristofferson ...

source: http://www.superseventies.com/sw_meandbobbymcgee.html

"Me and Bobby McGee" was written by actor, singer, Rhodes scholar and songwriter Kris Kristofferson, who tagged along with his friend Bobby Neuwirth to what Myra Friedman, in her Joplin biography Buried Alive, calls "the great Tequila bash" in the spring of 1970. Kristofferson stayed to become Janis' beau for a short time and left behind his song for his feather-boaed girlfriend.

[iverglas]

13. yeah, eh??

Phew.

The real words might strike more of a chord with Iraqis these days.

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

Somebody needs to call them in, methinks.

Hey, it seems Kris Kristofferson actually wrote them.

http://radarmagazine.com/features/2006/10/post_2.php

Southern Discomfort
Kris Kristofferson on Iraq, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, and life as a red state outlaw
By Peter Hyman

You've always been very outspoken about politics, and this new album is no exception. On one song you refer to a "billion dollar bombing of a nation on its knees." Another asks, "Am I young enough to believe in revolution?" Are you?
Well, I think if I can ask the question, then I am. I'm shocked by where our country is compared to where we were when I grew up, during and after the second World War. We've become what Eisenhower warned against, which is a military industrial complex, where we can unilaterally attack a defenseless nation unprovoked. There are 650,000 Iraqis who have died, and we can never make it up to those people. It's a whole different place from the land of the free and the home of the brave. Even if it was working, it would be indefensible to do this to people.

Do you feel conflicted about being a Texan, given that you're so vehemently opposed to Mr. Bush, the Lone Star State's favorite son?
He's just the hood ornament. It's the machine under him that's really scary. What bothers me about all of this is that none of them ever served in the military. Do I feel a conflict? I have been booed in Texas, but I still love Texas.

You have blue state leanings, but you've spent a lot of time in red state territory. How do you reconcile those two parts of your persona?
Well, I've pissed people off in both of them, so I don't know. In the red states, I'm getting booed less these days, so maybe people are actually being transformed by what's going on. It takes a real blind mentality not to see how we are acting.

You also sing about the burden of freedom on the new record. How has this notion changed from the definition put forth in your song, "Me and Bobby McGee"?
<Singing> Freedom's just another word.

That's the one.
Well, freedom is a double-edged sword. Absolute freedom would be no emotional ties to anything. That's what I was talking about in "Bobby McGee," thinking about how the guy was free, but how it also cost him. And that's still true. I have the freedom to say what I want, but it can cost me. And the burden of freedom is still the same.

[shain from kane]

8. She doesn't even know the lyrics. It's "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose."

[Maddy McCall]

9. LOL

I thought it was funny...quoting a song and she doesn't even know the lyrics.

:rofl:

[shain from kane]

10. Like "Excuse me, while I kiss this guy." n/t

[Bluebear]

14. "I'd like one of your callers to tell me though what freedom means!"

:silly:

[Maddy McCall]

16. Was that the same woman?

Or was my caller responding to your caller's question.

I'm confused!! :rofl:

[eleny]

17. Some start imbibing early

[Maddy McCall]

18. Some started with nothing to destroy by imbibing.

:D

[eleny]

20. And they raise children and vote, too

}(

[BurtWorm]

19. "Nothin', I mean nut and honey if it ain't leave."

:wtf:

[Maddy McCall]

22. LOL.

Careful, or Cheerios will corrupt Janis.

:D

[kineneb]

23. Janis is rolling in her grave. (actual lyrics)

ME AND BOBBY MAGEE

Busted flat in Baton Rouge, waitin’ for a train
I feeling nearly faded as my jeans.
Bobby thumbed a diesel down, just before it rained,
Rode us all the way to New Orleans.

I pulled my harpoon, out my dirty red bandana
I was playing soft while Bobby sang the blues.
Windshield wipers slapping time I was holding Bobby’s hand in mine
We sang every song that driver knew.

Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose
And nothing ain't worth nothing honey if it ain't free
But if feeling good was easy Lord, when he sang the blues
Then feeling good was good enough for me.
Good enough for me and my Bobby Magee.

From the Kentucky coal mines to the California sun
Yeah Bobby shared the secrets of my soul.
Through all kinds of weather, and everything we done
Yeah Bobby baby kept me from the cold

One day near Salinas I let him slip away
He’s looking for that home, and I hope he finds it
But I’d trade all of my tomorrows, for one single yesterday
To be holding Bobby’s body next to mine.

Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose
Nothin, and that's all Bobby left me
But if feeling good was easy Lord, when he sang the blues
Then feeling good was good enough for me.
Good enough for me and my Bobby Magee.