Is Wyclef Jean the first to mention stopping the war at this convention?

[thebigidea]

And is someone backstage going absolutely bonkers over it?

[VolcanoJen]

1. Amazing. He just sang "If I Was President."

Send the troops back on Monday...

[Cha]

2. I don't know but they gave him a voice!

[Solly Mack]

3. Pretty much, yes

Oh, there's been call to not send troops out for wars of lies...but this has been the first actual call to end the war.

[DerBeppo]

4. well...

it is against the party's published platform.

[Guava Jelly]

5. I heard shades of Marley

that was great
get elected on friday assasinated on saturday..

reminds me of this from "redemption songs" by bob marley
"How long shall they kill our prophets
While we stand aside and look
Yes some say it's just part of it
We've got to fulfill the book"

[Sugarbleus]

6. Someone asked a while back, 'Where's our anti war songs' for

today.......... Well, folks, we just heard them. WOOOHOOOOOOOOOO

WTG WJ!! I'm already jumping around my room!! My family thinks I've gone off the deep end. lol

[Feanorcurufinwe]

7. It's not like the campaign didn't know what he was going to sing

after all he changed the words from the original, and there's no way they brought him there to sing 'assasinated on Saturday, buried on Sunday'

[thebigidea]

8. he did sing the "assasinated/buried" verse, though

[thebigidea]

9. Jesse joins him!

[K-W]

10. Its not a war, its an occupation.

And right now the Bush lie that he wants to stablize in short order and then pull out sounds pretty reasonable to Americans. Its hard to accuse someoene of lying about thier plans, since you get into an argument about the future. So Kerry doesnt have much of a choice but to go along with that policy statement. Stabalizing and getting out SOUNDS like the best idea. We know its wrong, but calling for an immediate pull out would be politically stupid.

Thats the unfrotunate fact of the situation.

[thebigidea]

11. not a war, but an incredible simulation

[K-W]

12. Well, its a type of war, wyclef can simplify in ways Kerry cant

I think the only solution is a pullout, but I understand that it is a rhetorically impossible position for Kerry.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

13. Songwriting is not easy, but it may be easier than being President

And I would like to remind everyone, being President gives someone a lot more freedom of action that being a Presidential candidate.