Arcade Fire Rocks for Barack

I spent Sunday afternoon making phone calls supporting Barack Obama and reminding people to get out and vote in Tuesday's potentially decisive primaries in Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island and Vermont.

The Arcade Fire spent their weekend in Ohio supporting Senator Obama's campaign as well, playing free shows supporting the Hopemonger (thanks Raheim Drinkwater) at Stuart's Opera House in Nelsonville last night and at the Beachland Ballroom in Cleveland tonight (March 3). Ahhhh ... celebrity gone right.

Vocalist, songwriter and overall bad mamma jamma Win Butler had this to say after watching Hillary's victory speech in New Hampshire:

I am watching Hillary Clinton in her victory speech in new Hampshire...they just threw a bunch of college kids behind her, and had her talk about student loans, and had her daughter come out for a long awkward hug...does anyone actually buy it? Surely young people are too media savvy to be fooled by this kind of shit.
do we live in a democracy so we can just keep electing the same families?
Barack is the first candidate in my lifetime to strip some of this bullshit away, and I just hope we don't blow this chance.
man if we miss this opportunity we don't deserve it...how bad does it have to get?

fuck!!!!!!!!!

Here's a live performance of "Wake Up" with David Bowie - probably my favorite Arcade Fire song and especially relevant today.