Salon.com on Springsteen, Stipe, and the rest of that gang's concert tour to " help unseat President Bush": People Have the Power

Non-Republican people, that is. 'Cause those Republican people --- heck, you don't want to give them the power of the TV remote, let alone the voting booth:

It was that sense of determined optimism -- a positive message of empowerment -- that drove the opening night of the unprecedented, all-star Vote for Change tour. On Friday night, Springsteen and his E Street Band were joined by REM, John Fogerty and the young band Bright Eyes for a memorable concert of inspiring American rock classics, bound together by a newfound call to activism.

Get jobs, you damned hippies.