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Patti Smith set to back Barack Obama for President
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- Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:08:37 -0700 (PDT)
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The word art must be redefined - all mutants and the new babes born sans eyebrow and tonsils - outside logic - beyond mathematics and poli-tricks baptism and motion sickness - any man who extends beyond the classic form is a nigger - one sans fear and despair - one who rises like Rimbaud beating hard gold rythumn outta soft solid shit...
--Patti Smith, MADE FOR THE PLAGUE (1974)
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Patti Smith has indicated in interviews this week for the opening of her art show at the FondationCartier in Paris, that she is on the verge of endorsing Barack Obama for the President of the United States.
Smith told the London Financial Times: "I think it would be a nice thing for the world if Obama became President. It's very difficult to be honest in politics but someone who has at least not sold their soul completely should get elected. And I think Obama's hands are relatively clean. So I'm hoping he will be in our future, but he can't do anything unless we globally support him because things are in a catastrophic mess right now."
Smith has long been a friend and supporter of perennial third party candidate Ralph Nader, but it seems quite unlikely she will be supporting Mr. Nader for the Presidency this year.
Smith also told reporter Farah Nayeri that "if Barack Obama is the eventual Democratic nominee, I'll be working for him," adding, "the thing I feel most agitated or upset about is what America has done in Iraq. Every day, it haunts me. But you know, besides that, I feel relatively pretty good.''
Smith recently posted Mr. Obamas eloquent speech about race relations in America on her website, although Smith failed to perform or even mention one of her most famous songs, "Rock and Roll Nigger" while she was in Paris. But strangely enough, the poetic words Smith wrote in 1974 that inspired that song seem to not only have anticipated the American voter's surge towards Barack Obama as this years eventual Democratic party nominee, but also predicted a new kind of politician, like Barack Obama, who is for real change and is above the usual kind of Washington "poli-tricks."
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