Which side are you on?

[hobbit709]

[LuvNewcastle]

1. That's a beautiful, haunting song and Seeger performed it so well.

[baldguy]

2. Ironic that the same people who'll praise this song & it's sediment here

will use RW Republican talking points to attack Obama & claim his supporters are "authoritarians".

[hobbit709]

3. On some things he is.

And I've felt that way long before the RW started talking about it. And the RW calling anyone "authoritarian" is the ultimate irony.

sorry, I've never been a blind follower of anyone.

[loudsue]

10. Thank you, hobbit. Anyone who read his books before he started moving into the big time

knows, and knew then, that Obama was a conservative. He had said on several occasions that JOE LIEBERMAN was his mentor. Am I glad Obama won instead of Hillary? Hell yes. Am I glad he beat out his republican rivals for the white house? Hell yes. But he is part of the corporatist culture. He BELIEVES in it. THAT is the problem. He has helped a lot of people. He is NEVERTHELESS part of the corporatist, new world order, elite. He wasn't BORN into that elite: he CHOSE it.

[Titonwan]

4. sentiment, not sediment

RIP Pete.

[reddread]

8. no, that was sediment

i wanted to post this tune the other day. it springs to mind regularly around here.
RIP Mr Seeger.

[LWolf]

11. +1

[Earth_First]

5. Oh yes, I hear right-wing talking points on White House energy policy all the time here...

[LuvNewcastle]

6. I know some people like to accuse anyone who criticizes Obama as a

RW libertarian. They've been doing it for a long time, and it's just tired. They're going to have to come up with something else, because no one believes it.

[Titonwan]

9. They're called 'cheerleaders' LuvNewcastle

You know, the left wing equivalent of 'Bushies'. Blindly defending the indefensible.
I'm an old school democrat- I 'question authority' and I could care less what party is in power.

[TheKentuckian]

12. Yeah, of course old Pete was talking about standing with the security state.

Or for drug raids, that's the ticket.

PLEASE!

[baldguy]

13. And I'm sure he would've wanted the Earth, it's people & it's resources to be stolen

and sold off to the highest bidder.

One thing, Pete Seeger could actually see the forest beyond the trees. And he knew who his friends were.

[TheKentuckian]

17. I'm sure, I also have ZERO reason to think for a moment that he numbered the NSA or the DEA among

those friends nor would he see the TPP as anything other than stealing the resources and plundering the people.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

19. Exactly.

[JoeyT]

18. No, irony is shitting up a thread

by creating a post decrying people calling you an authoritarian while you judge people and their arguments based on their loyalty to an authority figure. That is the definition of irony.

[sabrina 1]

20. Pete Seeger. Interesting that those who will applaud this song and Pete Seeger trashed

Occupy Wall St right here on DU.

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Pete Seeger at Occupy Wall Street

Thanks Pete RIP. All the best people showed up at OWS.

[Va Lefty]

7. Pete Seeger had many great songs. This is my favorite. We have lost a great American.

[Blue_Tires]

15. +1

[hfojvt]

16. not really his song

More of an American classic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Which_Side_Are_You_On%3F

[kwolf68]

14. LOVE protest music

Hell, even when I was a righty I loved Dylan, Guthrie, etc...liked punk and metal that was politically charged. I didn't care I didn't 'agree' with it at the time, I loved the passion and emotion and purpose. I can't stand vapid music with no meaning...all music doesn't have to have a serious message like Pete's, but those that do are treasures