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Boss for Barack
Obama racks up yet another endorsement in the music primary,
this one from small town poet laureate Bruce Springsteen. On his Web site, the
Boss implicitly defends
Obama’s “bitter” comment:
At the moment, critics have tried to diminish Senator Obama
through the exaggeration of certain of his comments and relationships. While
these matters are worthy of some discussion, they have been ripped out of the
context and fabric of the man's life and vision, so well described in his
excellent book, Dreams of My Father, often in order to distract us from
discussing the real issues: war and peace, the fight for economic and racial
justice, reaffirming our Constitution, and the protection and enhancement of
our environment.
The Boss may have read Obama’s book and liked it, but he must
have missed the title: It’s Dreams From My Father.
It’s actually a common
mistake.
But you’d think the Obama campaign would catch it in the vetting process.
In fact, they’ve made the same error before. In
a press
release responding to a Los Angeles
Times piece about exaggerations in the partially fictionalized book, the
campaign mentions “Yvonne Lloyd, a mother of 11 who was the basis for the
character “Shirley” in Dreams of My
Father …” [E.A.]
Granted, press releases are always riddled with copy errors,
but come on, forty million dollars a month should at least buy you an
editor.
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