Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz Co-Hosting Fundraiser For Barack Obama

[jefferson_dem]

Worthless music but fine political taste. Besides, maybe he'll help reel in the emo chic vote for Obama! :)!



Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz Co-Hosting Fundraiser For Barack Obama
Band's Patrick Stump is also backing the Democratic senator.
By James Montgomery

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For years, Pete Wentz considered himself to be like a lot of young voters — "liberal" but "apolitical," as he puts it. He admits to having had a difficult time differentiating between a Republican and a Democrat, and said there was no one he could truly see himself voting for. Well ... that's not completely true.

"To find a candidate that I completely agreed with, I'd have to run myself," he laughed, when asked about his former attitude. "And I'm not sure people would be ready for tax-free ice cream and 'Macho Man' Randy Savage as the Secretary of State."

Hey, Macho would probably do as good a job as anybody. But that statement pretty much summed up Wentz's political outlook in recent years, until he started touring the world with Fall Out Boy and saw the way our current administration — and Americans — are thought of in other countries. And he knew that perhaps something needed to change ... which is where Barack Obama — for whom Wentz is co-hosting a low-cost fundraiser in Chicago on Tuesday — comes into the picture.

"I find Obama to be an electrifying candidate," Wentz said of the junior senator from Fall Out Boy's home state, Illinois. "His perspective is fresh, he's said that he would meet diplomatically with almost any world leader, which, in my opinion, would greatly change the rest of the world's view of the United States. I said for a long time that I didn't think there was much of a difference between parties or candidates, and then I sat through the last eight years and promised myself I would never think that way again."

And so he started to pay more attention to the 2008 election, and having discussions about Obama with FOB frontman Patrick Stump. Both of them decided that perhaps they could use the band's celebrity to help out the Democratic senator's campaign in some way ... which is where the idea of a fundraiser was born.

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http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1579752/20080116/index.jhtml

[Cha]

1. I think this is exciting to see

young rockers or young anybody (but I subscribe to Rolling Stone and I'm almost 64..:) getting involved and caring about our country! Money Honey..what a sweet idea, Pete Wentz!

[Nailzberg]

2. Edwards supporters - tell me about your guy.

Obama's dead to me now.

[SoxFan]

3. You're really out of luck there

Jackson Brown is supporting him.

Sorry, but I'll take emo over wimpy '70s pop.

[Nailzberg]

4. Wimpy 70s pop vs. wimpy 2000's pop.

I'm back on the fence until Al Jorgenson endorses.

[no name no slogan]

7. But Kucinich has Willie Nelson. And Willie's got garbage bags full of weed

Tell me that show wouldn't rizzock the hizzle.

[Nailzberg]

8. I'm not a fan of weed, but I do dig his music. Willie is pretty bad ass.

That beats any of the musical endorsements I've seen so far.

[loveangelc]

5. I like Fall Out Boy and I'm not ashamed to admit it.lol

[no name no slogan]

6. We're going don-tuh in lulleelurah

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUSISmK9AWk

Best Fall Out Boy video EVAR (no, it's not a rickroll)

[AtomicKitten]

9. Excellent.

[tangocash77]

10. First time I hear about this guy n/t