Well, it’s Super Tuesday and Fat Tuesday and that can only mean two things: musicians will come out of the woodwork in an attempt to rock the youth vote and far too many people will have Hurricane hangovers tomorrow morning.
The three remaining members of the Grateful Dead (yes they’re still around) and their loyal Deadheads are rooting for Obama, saying that he “embodies political hope absent since Robert Kennedy was slain 40 years ago.” Singer-guitarist Bob Weir says that since the Kennedy assasination “We’ve been reluctant to do political events.” Maybe it’s long-overdue hope, maybe it’s the fact that Obama told Phil Lesh that he has “some Grateful Dead songs” on his ipod when the two met last year. Who doesn’t!? Well, me, for one.
Sean “Diddy” Combs is doing his best to get out the vote as well. He’s taking a slightly less dramatic approach than his “Vote or Die” efforts 4 years ago, but he is telling people to “Go Vote.” He hasn’t publically endorsed any particular candidate, opting instead to comment on the monumental nature of this election : “To have an African-American man and a woman in, it’s going to go down in history as the most historical election,” he said. “And I think that young people will have a hand in the result.”
And there you have it. Go have a Hurricane or a Hand Grenade or something.