Stoked. Anyone wanna rip it to mp3 and send it my way?

• Re: Fake Problems: "Fast Maria" by miff on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 at 2:05 PM (EDT)
  
  • Re: Fake Problems: "Fast Maria" by MattRamone on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 at 2:05 PM (EDT)
    
  • Re: Fake Problems: "Fast Maria" by skankbook on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 at 2:05 PM (EDT)
    
    • Re: Fake Problems: "Fast Maria" by fifthwheel on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 at 2:05 PM (EDT)
      
      • Re: Fake Problems: "Fast Maria" by fifthwheel on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 at 2:05 PM (EDT)
        

For the last couple of months, Senator Rumson has suggested that being President of this country was, to a certain extent, about character. And although I've not been willing to engage in his attacks on me, I have been here three years and three days, and I can tell you without hesitation: Being President of this country is entirely about character.

For the record, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU, but the more important question is "Why aren't you, Bob?" Now this is an organization whose sole purpose is to defend the Bill of Rights, so it naturally begs the question, why would a senator, his party's most powerful spokesman and a candidate for President, choose to reject upholding the constitution? Now if you can answer that question, folks, then you're smarter than I am, because I didn't understand it until a few hours ago.

America isn't easy. America is advanced citizenship. You've gotta want it bad, 'cause it's gonna put up a fight. It's gonna say, "You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who's standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours." You want to claim this land as the land of the free? Then the symbol of your country cannot just be a flag. The symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest. Now show me that, defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms.

Then you can stand up and sing about the land of the free.

I've known Bob Rumson for years. And I've been operating under the assumption that the reason Bob devotes so much time and energy to shouting at the rain

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• Re: Fake Problems: "Fast Maria" by RightLaneEnds on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 at 2:05 PM (EDT)
  
• Re: Fake Problems: "Fast Maria" by sbit on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 at 2:05 PM (EDT)
  
  • Re: Fake Problems: "Fast Maria" by jeremyRVN on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 at 2:05 PM (EDT)
    
    • Re: Fake Problems: "Fast Maria" by sbit on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 at 2:05 PM (EDT)
      

Have they been touring with the Gaslight Anthem? More songs about Maria? Shit.

• Re: Fake Problems: "Fast Maria" by Banal242 on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 at 2:05 PM (EDT)
  
• Re: Fake Problems: "Fast Maria" by elephantdwarf on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 at 2:05 PM (EDT)
  

It's definitely different from the album version. I like both, though maybe it's just because I've been listening to the other one for months.