@silvi01997 Nope, no politician is safe from Eddie Vedder. He was a vocal critic of US foreign policy under Clinton AND Bush, and if memory serves me right, he was not a fan of John Kerry.
Where can I find the video where he calls Barry Soetoro out with a Phil Ochs song?! Or is lunatic spending and warmongering good with a (D) after it?!
The best thing about Eddie is his love of Phil Ochs. I hope he likes his non-politic or less politic stuff cause Phil could fucking write a melody with lyrics much better than this song.
While the bombs they fall on children dont know which side...dont care which side that they're on ...Wow, thats make me think. nic vid, i love the song.
Just to reiterate, and to give the genius his proper due, this is a song by Phil Ochs, originally titled: Here's to the State of Mississippi", written in the early 1960's.
ugh simply amazing song...... and yeah I'm mad that my dad's a vet who spends 4/5 of his income on perscriptions.... nothings too good for a veteran so nothing is what they will get in this new american way...
@labunner1 I'm thinking McCain was from Arizona? That would be truly hilarious now that OHB has give it over to drug traders and made it off limits to citizen of US! And OUR guys are protecting them. Seriously, it is definitely time for what you thought of. Yes LOADS and KILOS of material for that one.
A fine adaptation of a great Phil Ochs song. I certainly don't think bush and dick were clowns, however. They are both murderous criminals that deserve a very long time in the Big House, hopefully with Bin Ladin and a few other scumbags to join them.
LOL @ the McVeigh refrence. dont you know he was the excuse for people in your own government to bomb that building to convince people to pass anti terror legislation.
Arvydas sucks off the teet of his precious government overlords... kinda like a tick
<---3 years in Iraq....8 years overall serving the American public....and of course I'm not a Democrat....how the hell could I be? Give my tax money to lazy people to squander away? Turning America deeper into a welfare state with each passing generation? Fucking nuts if you think I could be anything else
@arvydas0069 - What you are looking for is payoff for your service in the military.. The pay off is this; a country is made up of people both rich and poor, you obviously havn't read your Declaration of Independence which states "give me your por etc." The truly great nations in history looked after their poor and disenfranchised. When you use a term like "lazy people" you are are talking about a tiny minority who will always be lazy. Don't ignore the many that need your help.
@arvydas0069 The Iraq War has been calculated to have cost $3 trillion in direct and indirect costs. BEFORE Obama took office. Now that's squandering money.
Ok McVeigh....you can sit o your ass in your barn collecting your pop guns while we take care of the real terrorists. Isolationism has been proven time and time again to be a lethal position to take on the part of the USA. We saw it after 8 yrs of Clinton's downsizing of the military and putting on hold many important programs and inaction on actionable intelligence. Fuck, we had 8 terrorist attacks during his term that went unpunished not to mention being embarrassed in Somalia.
Muslims or Christians, they are both terrorist religions (Any of you self righteous Christians remember the Crusades or the Spanish Inquisition???) This is a Phil ,Ochs song and I like Eddie arranging it for more contemporary issues!!
Bury Bush alive - thats what he deserves. Fuck you pricks that support him. Vedder is the greatest. Arvydas0069 - Id love to swap your legs with the poor kid in the wheelchair. You fuckwit.
I fought in the Iraq in the Marines in the infantry and lost many friends and one very close friend I grew up with...I myself had numerous scrapes with death and I'll put my foreign policy experience against anyone you know, "fuckwit" You are just a troll motherfucker that has no clue, representative of our whole generation. You owe the Military your fucking existence, it has always been that way. Nothing has changed. Vedder is just a man...nothing great or worthy of respect
@arvydas0069 - you think going to iraq (which i think your lying) gives you foreign policy experience? Give me a break. You are just told what to do the whole time. I was in the military and just like you I CHOSE to go in. I don't have the right to fucking tell people they shouldn't be here if it wasn't for me. You sir are an ignorant fool and need to learn some humility.
Do you people seriously care what Eddie Vedder thinks about politics? He is just a washed up want to be hippie surf bum turned musician who hasn't produced a single note of decent music since 1994. Really? who cares what musicians and actors think about anything they live in their own little superficial world. NO RESPECT for them at all......
well, i certainly don't care whaat eddie vedder thinks of politics. But i care even less about what a shallow person, that's you, who discards art, probably the only deep thing left in the world, since reason and thought is something extinct.
BTW check out "into the wild" soundtrack and then shut the fuck up
Dood I spent years listening to these guys and i wasted two years of my life running around withe the likes of Phish and others. all I am saying is who gives a flying fuck what he and the rest of the music industry and all of hollywood has to say about politics. Get BENT Asshole
well i agree, anyway at least he's not Bono, but as i don't judge music on its political of philosophical content i'll keep listening to him. apologies
'Washed up hippie' perhaps. But that doesn't change the fact that under the letter of the law, each of the mentioned parties are guilty of numerous crimes of misuse of power and human rights violations (as defined in both the Constitution and the Geneva Convention).
And as for the 1994 comment, "Do the Evolution" "Gone" "I am Mine" "Hail, Hail". He's still writing it.
I concur ,but i still doesn't change my opinion that people like Vedder, Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon and many others like them should simply keep their political beliefs to themselves. When I go to a concert I want to hear music not political rantings. When I see Sean Penn on tv or the movies just act an drop the schmoozing with third world dictators.
@ingallsadventurer Whats wrong with listening to the political beliefs if they had something to do with the creation of the music? After the 'Pearl Jam' album a few years ago for instance Eddie would talk about Damien Echols and the rest of the West Memphis Three, during or around the song Army Reserve, mainly due to Echols cowriting the song. Music and politics have gone hand in hand for decades, and its only right that they should express it. After all, without politics, no Woodstock.
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eddie vedder's politics are shit and so is obama...In the wake of all this Muslim shit we're dealing with, George W's policies are proving yet again to be the right ones
I agree in terms of national defense. I don't remember NK and especially Iran being so aggressive when Bush was around. The second Bush left Iran became more aggressive both in uranium enrichment and shows of force such as War Games, which are going on as we speak in Iran aimed at training to protect their nuclear interests.
Too bad people our age are a bunch of politically-ignorant sheep.
Yeah Bush's policy to send troops of the US and other coutries to Iraq was a doozy. Speak for yourself on the generation too. I feel for your friends, if thats true, but if you love Bush so much, go back and dig some more oil.
he became president because he is like Bush on steroids not because he is different. if the people wanted real change they should have voted for alan keyes or ron paul
don't be a douche...i work in iraq and i'm in baghdad now...there's no stealing of oil...and trust me, you will be bitching when gas is 600.00 a month just for your work commute
yeah that's right there's no stealing, just thousands of lives lost for a "non-hostile" acquisition of resources... Think about it. And you support Bush on policy. Don't know how you could if your mates died there.
@wauft I think we should just stop buying their oil all together, start drilling here, and intensely pursue greener, cheaper, and more efficient ways of personal transportation to both lessen our consumption/need and wean ourselves off oil. Oh yeah, and it will help bankrupt those countries over there.
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Insurgents you retard...at least when King George was in office, the middle east feared us. That's the only thing arabs understand....that's why Saddam was so successful at controlling his people...fear. Eddie Vedder is an uneducated mong that doesn't know SHIT about what life is like for the Iraqis or arabs in general.
hahahah - the taxpayers dollars are being well spent on their troops - with cocks like you spending their time overseas on youtube. Keep fighting the good fight dickhead.
Are you and asscrack that stupid to argue with me? You are the prototypical pieces of shit that made the term "liberal" a bad word. You made baseless and unfounded accusations, you are comparing our Military to insurgents and murderers, and your intellect and common sense is lower than a boot Private. You think you have some higher education than the military? Let me assure you, everything I've seen you type on here should be embarrassing to yourself and your family if it were to be read aloud
now all youre doing is projection your faults on me! YOU used the term liberal not me, YOU compared the US military to insurgents not me. actually all the deragatory things you said about me apply to you. you may as well stop talking now lest you prove your ignorance even more
LOL Blood lust? What blood lust...where is this fighting going on? Looks like a bunch of brainwashed 3rd world Muslim fucks blowing themselves up in Souqs and killed hundreds of innocent people....that's their MO
Dude, I love the concept of what Eddie is trying to capture here, but the end result just really sucks. I've heard it before and thought the same thing, but I decided to give it another try tonight, there's no just getting around the fact that it sucks. Perhaps my standards are too high. Leave it to Phil Ochs, regardless.
it does. but it's actually a modified version of the amazing phil och's song about richard nixion, which was a re-write to his song about mississippi, but eddie does make it sound like "the times they are a-changin". nobody can do it quite like phil though.
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Thomas Jefferson was libertarian. PLEASE READ A BOOK and don't pretend like you know what you are talking about??? THIS is why we are country is being ruined, because of people like you, you stupid fuck. fuck you and your ignorance.
It's painfully ironic that you would say "PLEASE READ A BOOK and don't pretend like you know what you are talking about" right after you say something idiotic like "Thomas Jefferson was libertarian". YOU, sir, and those like YOU, are the reason your country is "being ruined." It's not like the rest of the world has had any hope for your terrible nation for the past few decades, anyway though. Certainly not my nation.
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.....actually, the exact opposite of everything you said. Also, American power is the best thing that has ever happened to the world. That is of course unless you would Russia or China to enjoy sole superpower status, which is the alternative. Jefferson was extremely lib. Wrote my undergrad thesis on him, you're barking up the wrong tree.
"Also, American power is the best thing that has ever happened to the world."
Yeah, tell that to anyone in the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and even many places here in europe.
And pray you live.
"That is of course unless you would Russia or China to enjoy sole superpower status, which is the alternative."
No nation should ever be a "superpower". Unity among allied nations. International co-operation. This is the only viable alternative, if we want to maintain our planet.
That's why he supported an expanded inheritance law and estate tax in order to democratically check the overgrowth of wealth, right? And what of his bills in virginia mandating free education for the destitute funded by taxpayers? Or his public library?
"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people."
"Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor."
"Wrote my undergrad thesis on him, you're barking up the wrong tree."
Ah, yes. That's that world renowned and absolutely brilliant american education system at work. So I wouldn't doubt it, but that only damages your credibility. LOL, "barking up the wrong tree". Except, you are more of a sapling, so my "barking" is of little consequence when a slight breeze could take care of you.
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don't forget - there are 2 types of socialists/liberals:
rich, evil liberals (hitler, clintons, michael moore, Al Gore, etc) that take people for a ride and then the uneducated sheep that believe their lies that aren't really evil, just stupid.
Phil Ochs is one of the three greatest protest writers of all-time, and one of my all-time favorites, and it is great to see someone as authentic as Eddie Vedder update Here's to the State of Mississippi/Here's to the State of Richard Nixon.
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seriously, liberals are fucking hippocrits, if oyu claim to be for personal freedom, how come you want everyone to pay taxes through the nose so some minority gangbanger can live in a government funded project? If you're too lazy or stupid to work FUCK you seriously why do they become society;s burdon?
government is a social contract - you give to get something in return. Liberal prefers social benifit programs so that the largest good comes of the invested money. Conservatives prefer to give money to individuals (private enterprise).
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how am i free when im paying for some drug addicts next smack hit, when i could be using that money to pay for food for my family? Yes, government is a social contract the government prevents Iranian commandoes form raiding my neighborhood and in return i pay taxes and dont break any just laws.
liberals-> give your money to drug addicts
conservatives-> leave you the fuck alone
This is why we're in a fiancial crisis, liberals let deadbeats purchase homes they couldnt afford.
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George W. Bush, the GREATEST president ever. Seriously think about it, thats how hes going to be remebered, for bringigng democracy to a facist regime and destroying a genocidal tyrant, all well cutting my taxes and making faggot college kids who dont understand liberalism pissed off. It really doesnt get any better. I love seeing you volvo driving ivy leaguer sell outs getting pissed off when some arab fuck who wants you and your family dead gets blown up.
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Eddie keeps using other people's protest songs cuz he can't up with a good memorable one of his own and now it's too late cuz w is out in a matter of weeks. This is what you get for trying to pretend like this is the sixties.
@labunner1 I'm thinking McCain was from Arizona? That would be truly hilarious now that OHB has give it over to drug traders and made it off limits to citizen of US! And OUR guys are protecting them. Seriously, it is definitely time for what you thought of. Yes LOADS and KILOS of material for that one.
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Tomas should quit fucking crying. Theres thousands of wounded just like him who insist that we finish the fucking job. Shove it up your ass Vedder, you just wanted an excuse to jump the anti-war bandwagon.
flyhoc - what exactly do you mean by 'finish the fucking job'? Do you mean the job of fucking over a defenceless country? In my opinion the only job that needs finishing - just like in the Occupied territories - is that you get the fuck out.
as a 12 yr army vet and your comment is ignorant, being that no soldier understands what finishing the job is. Besides, Bush already said mission accomplished. Meanwhile Afghanistan has the Taliban and Al Qaeda stepping up the violence. Those responsible for 9/11 are growing in stregth while our economy and military are slowly tanking. A shame so many blind people in America claim to be patriots and America is the greatest, yet we fail our soldiers daily, nightly, and ever so wrongly.
You are complete idiot blinded by the mass medias propaganda... If you believe someones interest was to distinguish taliban and AQs activities,you are definitely blind
Please tell me he didn't call that an "original song!"
I'm very much in favor of adapting one of Phil Och's greatest songs, since it applies perfectly to our current administration... but I certainly hope Eddie Vedder didn't claim to write it!
Here's to the State of Mississippi by Phil Ochs and a little later on Here's to the State of Richard Nixon by Phil Ochs. This guy does not sound half of what Ochs sounded like.
Thank you Phil Ochs for writing the original and continuing to inspire musicians like Eddie Vedder and Billy Bragg to make timely adaptations to continue the message.
Thanks so much for that Eddie i hope more star's be like u and sing a song for are Troops and I like to give a shout to all of are troops who are frighting for us. One love troops and keep doing what you guys and ladys do best love all of your???????
Thanks Eddie... this is a masterpiece! - And, thank Apple iTunes store for not censoring this song in their store. For goodness sakes people, if go buy a song as a symbolic gesture of free speech, this is the one. Let Apple know how much you appreciate the fact that they need to maintain free access to politically sensitive songs regardless of national security concerns. What is democracy about? Also, thank you Google for defending democracy by allowing clips like this to be posted!!!
I am a huge eddie fan and was also lucky enough to be there...i taped about 40 seconds of this song and some woman from the festival gave me shit so I had to stop...its not like I taped the damn movie!! So glad to see the whole thing again!
Thanks very much for the correction. I tried to find lyrics online before posting so I could figure it out but all I could find was reference to the 2 songs in the movie.
8 people are Bush relatives...keep going Eddie!
edgalexmtz 2 weeks ago
I love eddie so much im gonna explode
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MrBlueSkyMrNight 2 months ago
heres someone with real talent unlike all the music these days :(
GuitarBabe3 4 months ago
@silvi01997 Nope, no politician is safe from Eddie Vedder. He was a vocal critic of US foreign policy under Clinton AND Bush, and if memory serves me right, he was not a fan of John Kerry.
brainyguy731 5 months ago
this should be sang 28th in this month, for Alan García here in Perú. Find yourself another country to rip apart
cheppelin 6 months ago
Where can I find the video where he calls Barry Soetoro out with a Phil Ochs song?! Or is lunatic spending and warmongering good with a (D) after it?!
silvi01977 9 months ago
Had to be done.
guitarzeroh 9 months ago
The best thing about Eddie is his love of Phil Ochs. I hope he likes his non-politic or less politic stuff cause Phil could fucking write a melody with lyrics much better than this song.
11xzxzxz 1 year ago
tihs is a tribute to phil ochs song 'here's to the state of richard nixon'
ambrosiaClong 1 year ago
@ambrosiaClong And "Here's to the state of Mississippi," the original song.
ChristopherSEAY123 1 year ago
While the bombs they fall on children dont know which side...dont care which side that they're on ...Wow, thats make me think. nic vid, i love the song.
bungie17 1 year ago
Just to reiterate, and to give the genius his proper due, this is a song by Phil Ochs, originally titled: Here's to the State of Mississippi", written in the early 1960's.
avlisk 1 year ago 4
ugh simply amazing song...... and yeah I'm mad that my dad's a vet who spends 4/5 of his income on perscriptions.... nothings too good for a veteran so nothing is what they will get in this new american way...
pjposterguy 1 year ago
the churches of who? he normally sings jerry falwell, but this time he sings another name
BouzoukiBreton 1 year ago
"Drilling for fear makes the job simple. Born on third, thinks he got a triple"
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@labunner1 I'm thinking McCain was from Arizona? That would be truly hilarious now that OHB has give it over to drug traders and made it off limits to citizen of US! And OUR guys are protecting them. Seriously, it is definitely time for what you thought of. Yes LOADS and KILOS of material for that one.
swifturtle12 1 year ago
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what about godzilla
SmokeyWallis 1 year ago
Great rendition by Vedder... what a universal voice... tears to my eyes, a great, great Phil ochs song.
sc1460 1 year ago 2
what album is this song on?
originaldeadman1190 2 years ago
A fine adaptation of a great Phil Ochs song. I certainly don't think bush and dick were clowns, however. They are both murderous criminals that deserve a very long time in the Big House, hopefully with Bin Ladin and a few other scumbags to join them.
MiserableOldFart 2 years ago 6
where there is smoke there is fire killa
wauft 2 years ago
LOL @ the McVeigh refrence. dont you know he was the excuse for people in your own government to bomb that building to convince people to pass anti terror legislation.
Arvydas sucks off the teet of his precious government overlords... kinda like a tick
wauft 2 years ago
oh great.....a conspiracy theorist douchebag....just like McVeigh
arvydas0069 2 years ago
@arvydas0069 <----- LOOKS LIKE WE'VE GOT A REPUBLICAN IN THE HOUSE...
nfgmusic 1 year ago
<---3 years in Iraq....8 years overall serving the American public....and of course I'm not a Democrat....how the hell could I be? Give my tax money to lazy people to squander away? Turning America deeper into a welfare state with each passing generation? Fucking nuts if you think I could be anything else
arvydas0069 1 year ago
@arvydas0069 - What you are looking for is payoff for your service in the military.. The pay off is this; a country is made up of people both rich and poor, you obviously havn't read your Declaration of Independence which states "give me your por etc." The truly great nations in history looked after their poor and disenfranchised. When you use a term like "lazy people" you are are talking about a tiny minority who will always be lazy. Don't ignore the many that need your help.
Georgie2047 1 year ago
@Georgie2047 It's not my job to help the poor. It's my job to help those that can't help themselves.
arvydas0069 1 year ago
@arvydas0069 - Poverty has a way of making people helpless and in need of your help.
Georgie2047 1 year ago 3
@arvydas0069 The Iraq War has been calculated to have cost $3 trillion in direct and indirect costs. BEFORE Obama took office. Now that's squandering money.
squamish4244 1 year ago
the 2nd amendment is my anti-terrorist legislation
wauft 2 years ago
Ok McVeigh....you can sit o your ass in your barn collecting your pop guns while we take care of the real terrorists. Isolationism has been proven time and time again to be a lethal position to take on the part of the USA. We saw it after 8 yrs of Clinton's downsizing of the military and putting on hold many important programs and inaction on actionable intelligence. Fuck, we had 8 terrorist attacks during his term that went unpunished not to mention being embarrassed in Somalia.
arvydas0069 2 years ago
u can call me an isolationist if you want but youre a retard and incorrect. i guess killing innocent people takes all your humanity away
wauft 2 years ago
Muslims or Christians, they are both terrorist religions (Any of you self righteous Christians remember the Crusades or the Spanish Inquisition???) This is a Phil ,Ochs song and I like Eddie arranging it for more contemporary issues!!
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koishooter 2 years ago
Ignorance is bliss. You must be bliss.
sokoboo 2 years ago
the crusades and the inquisition was not carried out by Christians
wauft 2 years ago
Bury Bush alive - thats what he deserves. Fuck you pricks that support him. Vedder is the greatest. Arvydas0069 - Id love to swap your legs with the poor kid in the wheelchair. You fuckwit.
mattycrack1 2 years ago
Hey ass crack...
I fought in the Iraq in the Marines in the infantry and lost many friends and one very close friend I grew up with...I myself had numerous scrapes with death and I'll put my foreign policy experience against anyone you know, "fuckwit" You are just a troll motherfucker that has no clue, representative of our whole generation. You owe the Military your fucking existence, it has always been that way. Nothing has changed. Vedder is just a man...nothing great or worthy of respect
arvydas0069 2 years ago
Yes, a strong military is the ONLY reason we were even able to acheive economic dominance.
What the hell is the economy and healthcare when you have bombs dropping your backyard?
If defense of this country was left up to the "left" we would already be speaking another language.
mtb416 2 years ago
@arvydas0069 - you think going to iraq (which i think your lying) gives you foreign policy experience? Give me a break. You are just told what to do the whole time. I was in the military and just like you I CHOSE to go in. I don't have the right to fucking tell people they shouldn't be here if it wasn't for me. You sir are an ignorant fool and need to learn some humility.
hanginwifmrcoop 2 years ago
Kinda nice to know, that there are some people out there that might be able to lift up the legacy when Dylan & Co. are no longer here
cxmafia 2 years ago
I´m not guy but, I love this man...
Andsj10 2 years ago
Do you people seriously care what Eddie Vedder thinks about politics? He is just a washed up want to be hippie surf bum turned musician who hasn't produced a single note of decent music since 1994. Really? who cares what musicians and actors think about anything they live in their own little superficial world. NO RESPECT for them at all......
ingallsadventurer 2 years ago
well, i certainly don't care whaat eddie vedder thinks of politics. But i care even less about what a shallow person, that's you, who discards art, probably the only deep thing left in the world, since reason and thought is something extinct.
BTW check out "into the wild" soundtrack and then shut the fuck up
MaghoxFr 2 years ago
Dood I spent years listening to these guys and i wasted two years of my life running around withe the likes of Phish and others. all I am saying is who gives a flying fuck what he and the rest of the music industry and all of hollywood has to say about politics. Get BENT Asshole
ingallsadventurer 2 years ago
well i agree, anyway at least he's not Bono, but as i don't judge music on its political of philosophical content i'll keep listening to him. apologies
MaghoxFr 2 years ago
'Washed up hippie' perhaps. But that doesn't change the fact that under the letter of the law, each of the mentioned parties are guilty of numerous crimes of misuse of power and human rights violations (as defined in both the Constitution and the Geneva Convention).
And as for the 1994 comment, "Do the Evolution" "Gone" "I am Mine" "Hail, Hail". He's still writing it.
rr5n 2 years ago
I concur ,but i still doesn't change my opinion that people like Vedder, Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon and many others like them should simply keep their political beliefs to themselves. When I go to a concert I want to hear music not political rantings. When I see Sean Penn on tv or the movies just act an drop the schmoozing with third world dictators.
ingallsadventurer 2 years ago
@ingallsadventurer Whats wrong with listening to the political beliefs if they had something to do with the creation of the music? After the 'Pearl Jam' album a few years ago for instance Eddie would talk about Damien Echols and the rest of the West Memphis Three, during or around the song Army Reserve, mainly due to Echols cowriting the song. Music and politics have gone hand in hand for decades, and its only right that they should express it. After all, without politics, no Woodstock.
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eddie vedder's politics are shit and so is obama...In the wake of all this Muslim shit we're dealing with, George W's policies are proving yet again to be the right ones
arvydas0069 2 years ago
I agree in terms of national defense. I don't remember NK and especially Iran being so aggressive when Bush was around. The second Bush left Iran became more aggressive both in uranium enrichment and shows of force such as War Games, which are going on as we speak in Iran aimed at training to protect their nuclear interests.
Too bad people our age are a bunch of politically-ignorant sheep.
mtb416 2 years ago
we are fucked as a generation
arvydas0069 2 years ago
Yeah Bush's policy to send troops of the US and other coutries to Iraq was a doozy. Speak for yourself on the generation too. I feel for your friends, if thats true, but if you love Bush so much, go back and dig some more oil.
mattycrack1 2 years ago
I am part of the Sheep/completely politically retarded generation, so I feel confident in my interpretation of it.
Obama is as much a dumbass as Bush was, if not more so. The errors made my Obama and Friends have been so glaring is defies belief.
"Bush Derangement Syndrome" seems to affect everyone on the political left, even Barry Soetoro.
mtb416 2 years ago
he became president because he is like Bush on steroids not because he is different. if the people wanted real change they should have voted for alan keyes or ron paul
wauft 2 years ago
don't be a douche...i work in iraq and i'm in baghdad now...there's no stealing of oil...and trust me, you will be bitching when gas is 600.00 a month just for your work commute
arvydas0069 2 years ago
yeah that's right there's no stealing, just thousands of lives lost for a "non-hostile" acquisition of resources... Think about it. And you support Bush on policy. Don't know how you could if your mates died there.
mattycrack1 2 years ago
seems to me since they own the oil we ought to figure out how to get along instead of how to blow shit up
wauft 2 years ago
@wauft I think we should just stop buying their oil all together, start drilling here, and intensely pursue greener, cheaper, and more efficient ways of personal transportation to both lessen our consumption/need and wean ourselves off oil. Oh yeah, and it will help bankrupt those countries over there.
mtb416 2 years ago
Ive been here since 2005 and I haven't seen anyone "blow shit up" except religious extremists
arvydas0069 2 years ago
oh so the troops are religious extreamists now?
wauft 2 years ago
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Insurgents you retard...at least when King George was in office, the middle east feared us. That's the only thing arabs understand....that's why Saddam was so successful at controlling his people...fear. Eddie Vedder is an uneducated mong that doesn't know SHIT about what life is like for the Iraqis or arabs in general.
arvydas0069 2 years ago
hahahah - the taxpayers dollars are being well spent on their troops - with cocks like you spending their time overseas on youtube. Keep fighting the good fight dickhead.
mattycrack1 2 years ago
wow....asscrack....you are a mental midget of the highest order...everything you write sounds like it came out of the mouth of a 7 year old
arvydas0069 2 years ago
so troops are insurgents? you dont make much sense meathead. have u been there killing innocent people who never attacked our country?
wauft 2 years ago
Are you and asscrack that stupid to argue with me? You are the prototypical pieces of shit that made the term "liberal" a bad word. You made baseless and unfounded accusations, you are comparing our Military to insurgents and murderers, and your intellect and common sense is lower than a boot Private. You think you have some higher education than the military? Let me assure you, everything I've seen you type on here should be embarrassing to yourself and your family if it were to be read aloud
arvydas0069 2 years ago
now all youre doing is projection your faults on me! YOU used the term liberal not me, YOU compared the US military to insurgents not me. actually all the deragatory things you said about me apply to you. you may as well stop talking now lest you prove your ignorance even more
wauft 2 years ago 2
if you go to the middle east lets be straight, you dont fight to protect me but to satisfy your own bloodlust
wauft 2 years ago
LOL Blood lust? What blood lust...where is this fighting going on? Looks like a bunch of brainwashed 3rd world Muslim fucks blowing themselves up in Souqs and killed hundreds of innocent people....that's their MO
arvydas0069 2 years ago
@arvydas0069 OH NO I accidentaly thumbed you up. WE financed it. Bothsides. Do some reading other evidence!!!
swifturtle12 1 year ago
now Obama is following right in his footsteps
wauft 2 years ago
Dude, I love the concept of what Eddie is trying to capture here, but the end result just really sucks. I've heard it before and thought the same thing, but I decided to give it another try tonight, there's no just getting around the fact that it sucks. Perhaps my standards are too high. Leave it to Phil Ochs, regardless.
mussman717word 2 years ago
Eddie votes in favor of the Independant party [Ralph Nader]
lilmook26 2 years ago
Eddie is lovely~
charlieondmc 2 years ago
did someone seriously ask if he was a dem or a repub??? wow....
cklecker18 2 years ago
Eddie Vedder is the real deal, a genuine person who honestly cares in a time of so much superficiality and apathy
PixiesFanatic 2 years ago 27
@PixiesFanatic ...and a heart of gold and a pure soul !!!!!!
thelmaflauto 10 months ago
is eddie a democrat or republican?
wenser13 2 years ago
i think democrat, but i might be wrong
act12321 2 years ago
The Original of the Phil Ochs song is "State of Mississippi" which Phil Ochs then did as "State of Richard Nixon"
OswaldvonWolkenstein 2 years ago 3
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No. Michael Jackson is.
Ups, he is dead
afonsoramos 2 years ago
i dont know what country they should be part of. i mean, you know? i dont believe deporting people does a whole lot of good
phdecora 2 years ago 2
Fuck you Bush
shamuel83 2 years ago 6
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And EAT A DICK OBAMA!
espada9 2 years ago
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so when is ripping off "Here's to the State of Mississippi" by Phil Ochs considered 'original' songwriting on his part?
eddie is a tool.
paulbnoble 2 years ago
It sounds a bit like " the times they are a-changin'" :)
pouidg 2 years ago
lol I WONDER WHY
phdecora 2 years ago
The song is actually re-written lyrics to
"Here's to the state of mississipi" which is by Phill Ochs a folk writer from the same time as Bob Dylan.
marcadam 2 years ago 4
it does. but it's actually a modified version of the amazing phil och's song about richard nixion, which was a re-write to his song about mississippi, but eddie does make it sound like "the times they are a-changin". nobody can do it quite like phil though.
i hate how history repeats itself like this :(
kaylagayyla 2 years ago
Service in Iraq is NO badge of honoUr.
AmericansAnnoyMe 2 years ago 5
Fucking flashes
ParanoidAndroid001 2 years ago 2
So was Thomas Paine.
Linda79334 2 years ago 2
Jesus was a liberal. So was Thomas Jefferson.
Linda79334 2 years ago 8
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Thomas Jefferson was libertarian. PLEASE READ A BOOK and don't pretend like you know what you are talking about??? THIS is why we are country is being ruined, because of people like you, you stupid fuck. fuck you and your ignorance.
jpinkard 2 years ago
It's painfully ironic that you would say "PLEASE READ A BOOK and don't pretend like you know what you are talking about" right after you say something idiotic like "Thomas Jefferson was libertarian". YOU, sir, and those like YOU, are the reason your country is "being ruined." It's not like the rest of the world has had any hope for your terrible nation for the past few decades, anyway though. Certainly not my nation.
LeifEkstom 2 years ago
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.....actually, the exact opposite of everything you said. Also, American power is the best thing that has ever happened to the world. That is of course unless you would Russia or China to enjoy sole superpower status, which is the alternative. Jefferson was extremely lib. Wrote my undergrad thesis on him, you're barking up the wrong tree.
jpinkard 2 years ago
"Also, American power is the best thing that has ever happened to the world."
Yeah, tell that to anyone in the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and even many places here in europe.
And pray you live.
"That is of course unless you would Russia or China to enjoy sole superpower status, which is the alternative."
No nation should ever be a "superpower". Unity among allied nations. International co-operation. This is the only viable alternative, if we want to maintain our planet.
LeifEkstom 2 years ago 4
"Jefferson was extremely lib."
That's why he supported an expanded inheritance law and estate tax in order to democratically check the overgrowth of wealth, right? And what of his bills in virginia mandating free education for the destitute funded by taxpayers? Or his public library?
"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people."
"Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor."
LeifEkstom 2 years ago
"I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another."
"Lay down true principles and adhere to them inflexibly. Do not
be frightened into their surrender by the alarms of the timid, or
the croakings of wealth against the ascendency of the people."
Some "libertarian." He was just as much of a(n) (american) liberal as FDR. Just in a different time and place.
LeifEkstom 2 years ago
"Wrote my undergrad thesis on him, you're barking up the wrong tree."
Ah, yes. That's that world renowned and absolutely brilliant american education system at work. So I wouldn't doubt it, but that only damages your credibility. LOL, "barking up the wrong tree". Except, you are more of a sapling, so my "barking" is of little consequence when a slight breeze could take care of you.
LeifEkstom 2 years ago
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don't forget - there are 2 types of socialists/liberals:
rich, evil liberals (hitler, clintons, michael moore, Al Gore, etc) that take people for a ride and then the uneducated sheep that believe their lies that aren't really evil, just stupid.
NitemareTD 2 years ago
ur a moron
snevetssirhcg 2 years ago 8
It's great to hear Vedder knows and appreciates the works of the legendary Phil Ochs! Rock On! bc
theblackcrowe 2 years ago 6
Phil Ochs is one of the three greatest protest writers of all-time, and one of my all-time favorites, and it is great to see someone as authentic as Eddie Vedder update Here's to the State of Mississippi/Here's to the State of Richard Nixon.
GentlemanTony 2 years ago 5
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seriously, liberals are fucking hippocrits, if oyu claim to be for personal freedom, how come you want everyone to pay taxes through the nose so some minority gangbanger can live in a government funded project? If you're too lazy or stupid to work FUCK you seriously why do they become society;s burdon?
sexwithdennisrodman 3 years ago
so they can be free, and so can you.
Actually, you have it the wrong way around.
government is a social contract - you give to get something in return. Liberal prefers social benifit programs so that the largest good comes of the invested money. Conservatives prefer to give money to individuals (private enterprise).
Social Liberals -> greatest social benifit
COnservatives -> private benifit (aka institutionalised corruption)
zachbb 3 years ago 2
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how am i free when im paying for some drug addicts next smack hit, when i could be using that money to pay for food for my family? Yes, government is a social contract the government prevents Iranian commandoes form raiding my neighborhood and in return i pay taxes and dont break any just laws.
liberals-> give your money to drug addicts
conservatives-> leave you the fuck alone
This is why we're in a fiancial crisis, liberals let deadbeats purchase homes they couldnt afford.
sexwithdennisrodman 3 years ago
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and im not free if i have to give 51% of my income to the unwashed masses
sexwithdennisrodman 3 years ago
well u must be making A LOT of money to pay that much tax
zachbb 3 years ago 2
excuse me, that was an exaggeration, 35% of my incom egiven to smack addicts and oter degenerates
sexwithdennisrodman 3 years ago
Well, maybe if you stopped having sex with dennis rodham you could slip down a tax bracket or two.
AdamqK 2 years ago
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George W. Bush, the GREATEST president ever. Seriously think about it, thats how hes going to be remebered, for bringigng democracy to a facist regime and destroying a genocidal tyrant, all well cutting my taxes and making faggot college kids who dont understand liberalism pissed off. It really doesnt get any better. I love seeing you volvo driving ivy leaguer sell outs getting pissed off when some arab fuck who wants you and your family dead gets blown up.
sexwithdennisrodman 3 years ago
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stop it eddie vedder. stop it!
why must you insist in ruining good music (like that of misters phil ochs, bob dylan and woody guthrie.) ???!??!?!
why eddie vedder, why? take your pearl jam money and buy more cocaine.
paulbnoble 3 years ago
Later on, W! Hah!
Theboardsurfer 3 years ago 2
Eddie knows, but no one realy listens. How many lives does it take? is it for the injustise or the oil ?
jsbutty 3 years ago
Bob Dylan knew.. Long time ago..
snakeweirdo 3 years ago 3
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Eddie keeps using other people's protest songs cuz he can't up with a good memorable one of his own and now it's too late cuz w is out in a matter of weeks. This is what you get for trying to pretend like this is the sixties.
chilam8668 3 years ago
RESPECT ED
LUV
dB
SNOG the band
dbeatross 3 years ago
I'm waiting for "Here's to the State of John McCain." Loads of material for that one.
labunner1 3 years ago 13
nooo!! hopefully we won't even have an option to write that song!! VOTE FOR CHANGE!! peace
lavendersunset 3 years ago 2
Here's to Liberalism
snakeweirdo 3 years ago 3
@labunner1 I'm thinking McCain was from Arizona? That would be truly hilarious now that OHB has give it over to drug traders and made it off limits to citizen of US! And OUR guys are protecting them. Seriously, it is definitely time for what you thought of. Yes LOADS and KILOS of material for that one.
swifturtle12 1 year ago
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This song would work great for Obama, he needs to find another country to be part of
segaboy 3 years ago
Nice variation on Phil Ochs's old song "Here's to the State of Richard Nixon" (or Mississippi). Bit of a shame that not many people will know this.
I've always thought that Phil Ochs's songs are so relevant to today. Similar script, different cast.
plevyman 3 years ago 6
Phil Ochs Rocks man! I'm glad you brought up this point! I had only just begun to listen to his music when I heard he committed suicide. So sad.
willowsmoke 3 years ago 2
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I LOVE GWB
I LOVE GWB
I LOVE THE WAR IN IRAQ
I LOVE GWB
I LOVE THE TROOPS!!!
I BLEED RED WHITE AND BLUE
101st
ship date 20050604
flyhoc 3 years ago
If you love the troops, you don't want them in the line of fire.
JNagarya 3 years ago
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but its there JOB
just like its my JOB
theres no point of having/needing TROOPS if we're not meant to fight in the line of fire
hoooah!
flyhoc 3 years ago
Then you go over there on your own dollar and quit waisting mine. If you like war so much i hope u get shot.
thegroovemonkey 3 years ago
great solo performance, top notch, anyone forget that?
Pauluk33 3 years ago
George W Find yourself another PLANET to be part of
alexmart54 3 years ago 4
hey all check out my videos and channel see what u thinks if it rocks or if it dinks
terrysullystraitedge 3 years ago
Well invading countries is pointless unless you colonize them. so everyones idiots
ryrythewhiteguy 3 years ago
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wow you're only 12 and you're an Army vet? even Doogie Howser would be jealous.
manmachine87 3 years ago
I am really looking forward to hearing Ed play this 3 blocks from the White House in a few weeks
my2hands302 3 years ago
I've met more soldiers; that say fuck the war and just want to come home.
chrisshufflin87 3 years ago
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Tomas should quit fucking crying. Theres thousands of wounded just like him who insist that we finish the fucking job. Shove it up your ass Vedder, you just wanted an excuse to jump the anti-war bandwagon.
flyhoc 3 years ago
flyhoc - what exactly do you mean by 'finish the fucking job'? Do you mean the job of fucking over a defenceless country? In my opinion the only job that needs finishing - just like in the Occupied territories - is that you get the fuck out.
byrnzie300 3 years ago 5
as a 12 yr army vet and your comment is ignorant, being that no soldier understands what finishing the job is. Besides, Bush already said mission accomplished. Meanwhile Afghanistan has the Taliban and Al Qaeda stepping up the violence. Those responsible for 9/11 are growing in stregth while our economy and military are slowly tanking. A shame so many blind people in America claim to be patriots and America is the greatest, yet we fail our soldiers daily, nightly, and ever so wrongly.
beachdweller 3 years ago 6
You are complete idiot blinded by the mass medias propaganda... If you believe someones interest was to distinguish taliban and AQs activities,you are definitely blind
slepiputnik2000 3 years ago
flyhoc you are one ignorant asshole
thackernc 3 years ago 2
Please tell me he didn't call that an "original song!"
I'm very much in favor of adapting one of Phil Och's greatest songs, since it applies perfectly to our current administration... but I certainly hope Eddie Vedder didn't claim to write it!
Wonderplant 3 years ago 3
That's the introducer's mistake. When Eddie played this song on the Pearl Jam Unplugged he talked about its origins and gave credit.
tloke322 3 years ago
Here's to the State of Mississippi by Phil Ochs and a little later on Here's to the State of Richard Nixon by Phil Ochs. This guy does not sound half of what Ochs sounded like.
ONtheROADtoMLG 3 years ago
God bless all those stuck in the mess of this current Administration be it Afghanistan, Iraq, etc.
And thank you Mr. Vedder.
CalvinNOC 3 years ago 8
God Bless America.
spartante83 4 years ago
Yes yes yes. Thank you for posting. This is really quite moving. I am sharing with everyone I know.
Walk | On | Red
walkonred 4 years ago 5
here's to the businessmen of George W
who'll want to change the focus from Halliburton and Enron
and their profits like blood money spilled out on the white house lawn
to keep their hold on power they're using terror as a con
while the bombs that fall on children dont know which side that they're on
heres to the land youve torn out the heart of
George W find yourself another country to be part of
CCDevlin 4 years ago 11
here's to the land you've torn out the heart of,
Pat Robertson find yourself another country to be part of
here's to the laws of Alberto Gonzalez,
congress will pass an act in the panic of the day,
and the Constitution's drowning in an ocean of decay,
and freedom of speech is dangerous we've even heard them say,
here's to the land you've torn out the heart of,
Gonzalez find yourself another country to be part of
CCDevlin 4 years ago 6
I only know one party,and that is freedom
Eddie Vedder is truly a modern legend, be sure to check out his covers of "The times they are a changin" and "I am a patriot"
I am a patriot
And I love my county
Because my country is all I know
I want to be with my family
People who understand me
I've got nowhere else to go
InebriateSoul 4 years ago 6
you inspire me man
dakotajaymusic 4 years ago
Thank you Phil Ochs for writing the original and continuing to inspire musicians like Eddie Vedder and Billy Bragg to make timely adaptations to continue the message.
rrichards5 4 years ago 4
Thanks so much for that Eddie i hope more star's be like u and sing a song for are Troops and I like to give a shout to all of are troops who are frighting for us. One love troops and keep doing what you guys and ladys do best love all of your???????
ucanbethebest 4 years ago
pure, and morally poignent art........we need more people like this man, peace...one love
pearljammannn13 4 years ago
Thanks Eddie... this is a masterpiece! - And, thank Apple iTunes store for not censoring this song in their store. For goodness sakes people, if go buy a song as a symbolic gesture of free speech, this is the one. Let Apple know how much you appreciate the fact that they need to maintain free access to politically sensitive songs regardless of national security concerns. What is democracy about? Also, thank you Google for defending democracy by allowing clips like this to be posted!!!
mysacredspace 4 years ago 4
Thank you for uploading this. It's beautiful.
allthingslucid 4 years ago 3
Such a great, great song. Thanks for capturing this performance.
tditzgb 4 years ago 3
I was there too! When Eddie Opened his mouth, my heart stopped. The movie was PHENOMINAL!! I recommend everyone to see 'Body of War'!
Ellanitsa 4 years ago 2
best birthday ever
shazadc 4 years ago 2
Thanks for sharing, you lucky one!!
syroste 4 years ago 2
Great video. Thanks so much for posting it!
given2fly60 4 years ago 2
I am a huge eddie fan and was also lucky enough to be there...i taped about 40 seconds of this song and some woman from the festival gave me shit so I had to stop...its not like I taped the damn movie!! So glad to see the whole thing again!
kriggsy 4 years ago 3
wow, this rocks
africanox 4 years ago 3
Thanks for posting. I saw a lot of guys there with cam corders. Such a great experience
Quarterto10 4 years ago 3
Thanks very much for the correction. I tried to find lyrics online before posting so I could figure it out but all I could find was reference to the 2 songs in the movie.
chrisbutkovich 4 years ago
thanks! you're fast! glad you were there!
Spirovich 4 years ago 4
here's to the judges of John Roberts,
who wear the robe of honor in a phony legal form,
and justices are stranger when the partisans report,
when the court elected this a president it was the beginning of this war,
here's to the land you've torn out the heart of,
John Roberts find yourself another country to be part of
and here's to the government of Dick Cheney,
with criminals posing as advisors to the crown,
CCDevlin 4 years ago 6
and they hope that no one sees the sites and that no one hears the sounds,
cause the speeches of our president are the ravings of a clown
here's to the land you've torn out the heart of,
Dick Cheney find yourself another country to be part of
here's to the churches of Pat Robertson,
oh the cross once made of silver now is turned to rust,
and the sunday morning services preach in fear of men in love,
and God only knows in heaven they must trust
CCDevlin 4 years ago 7
Wish I was there. Great performance.
ltzasz 4 years ago 2
Thanks for this video!
But this is not "Long nights", it's "Here's To The State Of George W."
frarock83 4 years ago