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Jon Bon Jovi performing during a campaign event for President Obama in New York on Monday.
Legendary New Jersey rocker Jon Bon Jovi took a ride on Air Force One as a "guest of the president" joining Barack Obama at a 500-person fundraiser at Waldorf Astoria on Monday night. White House officials made it clear that the reelection campaign paid for Bon Jovi’s travel arrangements — not the country's tax payers.
Tickets for the event started at $2,500 a person and former President Bill Clinton was on hand as well to urge people to support and donate to the Obama campaign.
Bon Jovi is no stranger to lending his support to Democratic candidates. In 2004, he appeared at several events for the Kerry-Edwards campaign and in 2008, Bon Jovi held a fundraiser for Obama at his home. The rocker also held a fundraiser for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to help clear up some of her presidential campaign debt and was a guest performer at an Obama Inauguration Concert.
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well, that should help with the slipping older married women voters block he needs, I guess. Not sure if the young single women are all that aware of Bon Jovi, however, maybe more like Jay-Z would have helped. LOL!
This evening I heard Lawrence say that among those that didn't serve in Vietnam are, "Those that didn't serve because of cowardice, those that didn't serve because of a combination of conscious and cowardice..." and Larry gave credit to his brothers for being one of those two options ... "faint praise" for conscience fades quickly in Larry's cynical worldview, I guess, and I hope his brothers bust him for it next Thanksgiving Dinner ... but I'd like to suggest that there's a THIRD CATEGORY for Vietnam War resistors: "Those with Conscience Objection to killing brown people for economic benefit to one's Ruling Class (not cowardice) and "Those that object to killing people as a moral baseline."
There WERE CO's that meant it, back in the Vietnam era. I know: my brother was one of them, in Kansas' most notorious "Pro-War" SS district known. And, my brother convinced his local Selective Service Board his objection to killing -- for political, economic, and even "Stand Your Ground" reasons were not from a "Cowardice" place, but an heroic place of Man-Faces-Man moral position.
Larry, I have a bone to pick with you: some of us don't believe in killing (or even torturing) our fellow man because we deeply believe that those that would equivocate on that basic moral issue have no future in making a Better American.
That's not cowardice, dude. That's "Long Ball."
Jesus was playing "Long Ball", I think. What's YOUR time frame, Larry?