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October 28, 2004: Headlines: COS - Tunisia: Politics: Election2004 - Doyle: Election2004 - Kerry: Music: Humor: New York Times: Gov. Jim Doyle of Wisconsin used his two minutes at the microphone introducing the singer to co-opt his library of song titles for Mr. Kerry's sake
Gov. Jim Doyle of Wisconsin used his two minutes at the microphone introducing the singer to co-opt his library of song titles for Mr. Kerry's sake
Gov. Jim Doyle of Wisconsin used his two minutes at the microphone introducing the singer to co-opt his library of song titles for Mr. Kerry's sake
A Day With 'The Boss'
Stephen Crowley/The New York Times
BY DAVID HALBFINGER
Published: October 29, 2004
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 28 - Bruce Springsteen's appearances with John Kerry here and in Madison, Wis., brought out some of the biggest political crowds of the entire campaign, with at least 50,000 at Ohio State University and more than 80,000 stretching for blocks leading up to the Wisconsin state capitol.
But it also elicited some slightly awkward odes to the eloquence of America's rock poet laureate.
Gov. Jim Doyle of Wisconsin used his two minutes at the microphone introducing the singer to co-opt his library of song titles for Mr. Kerry's sake. He said President Bush's calling himself a compassionate conservative was a "Brilliant Disguise."
"John Kerry was 'Born in the U.S.A.,' '' Mr. Doyle said, reading from notes - meaning someone had actually written this. "John Kerry has given us a 'Reason to Believe.' And John Kerry, we know there will be 'No Surrender.' Here in Wisconsin, all of us across this beautiful state, we can do something about it Tuesday. We can elect John Kerry president, and we can restore America to its 'Glory Days.' So we're going to win this election. We're going to win it from the 'Streets of Philadelphia' to Asbury Park, and we're going to do it here in 'My Hometown,' Madison, Wis."
At last Mr. Doyle relinquished the microphone.
"Well I heard it all now," Mr. Springsteen said, before starting in on his song "Promised Land." "I think that's going to be the governor's last appearance as my opening act."
Mr. Kerry himself, whose natural speaking idiom can seem to range from archaic to just plain dated, searched for words to express how much it meant to him to have Mr. Springsteen's endorsement.
In Madison, he said that having the Boss there to play his campaign theme song, "No Surrender," live, was "very, very special."
In Columbus, he said of Mr. Springsteen, "This guy is one of the most eloquent - you heard him - he's one of our sort of minstrel poets, if you will, of America."
Then Mr. Kerry finally hit his mark: "He knows how to tell the story of real people, of hard-working people," he said, "and the people he writes about and sings about are the people I'm fighting for, to be president of the United States to help them."
Mr. Kerry said he was thrilled to appear with the singer, then slipped into a reverie about being in law school in Boston while Mr. Springsteen was "gigging around in Cambridge, elsewhere in Massachusetts."
"I got to tell you," he said, "I took my daughters, the first rock and roll concert that I took my daughters to - now there's a trip, right? Dad takes daughters to a rock and roll concert? But I took them to the Born in the U.S.A. tour."
The reverie did not last long, and Mr. Kerry was quickly back on message. "When George Bush heard that the Boss was going to be playing with me, he thought they meant Dick Cheney," he said, segueing into his stump. "Or the C.E.O. of Halliburton."
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