Bring back the political Beatles

[DFW]

They say that the Beatles was a rare perfect storm of 3 musical talents
coming together, developing together at the right time and at the same
place, and the circumstances were just right for them to be a phenominal
success.

I suppose one could say the same thing about America, 1776, with Ben Franklin,
Thomas Jefferson and James Madison (along with the Pete Bests and Ringos of
their day as great backup). Three great minds, not 100% in synch, but all the
more powerful for having slightly differing views on how to creat a great political
experiment never before tried. The political climate was right, albeit full of
resistance, and the meeting of the three of them gave us the intellectual foundation
that brought about our Constitution.

That's what we could use again. Another perfect storm of three great and innovative
intellects, shaped by the the times we live in, but with the drive, the creativity and
the ability to collectively see past the walls of possibility that society had thrown
up around them: Create something new, built upon the old, but so full of innovation,
creativity that the country was inspired for generations to come, and evolved along
with them, from the Declaration of Independence (the "Meet The Beatles" of the day) to the Bill of
Rights (the "Sergeant Pepper" of the day).

I can live with most of the candidates now vying for our party's nomination, but I just
wish someone would come along and blow me away like Thomas Jefferson's words till do.
It has been a long time since anything blew me away like Sergeant Pepper or the Declaration
of Independence.

Maybe I'm asking for a bit much, here, I don't know..........

[Just-plain-Kathy]

1. Green Day's American Idiot was great. There are a few who speak out. I wish there were more. ...n/t

[Berry Cool]

2. I'm trying to picture this in my mind.

What does this make Thomas Paine? Stu Sutcliffe?

Or is it that the Supremes have been attempting to interpret the Constitution all these years, and they have yet to come up with its true message: "Paul is dead"?

[DFW]

4. I think of Paine as not one of the movers, but one of their inspirations

The Constitution would have been much different without "The Rights of Man"
just as the Beatles would have been different without Chuck Berry and Elvis,
but I think Franklin, Jefferson and Madison were a gig unto themselves--not
alone, but at the forefront.

As for interpreting the Constitution, I think the five horsemen of the Apocalypse
have, of late, not been interpreting it so much as trying to bend, twist and hammer
it into a shape that pleases them--very much like the "Paul is dead" people did with
their "evidence."

[Berry Cool]

9. Damn activist judges! n/t

[MannyGoldstein]

3. Hey!

Ringo wasn't exactly chopped liver, you know.

[DFW]

5. I know, but be fair

He added to the mixture for sure, but was not one of the creative
minds that made the thing happen in the first place. He came along
at the right time with the right beat, though, no two ways about it.

(Bassist/lead/keyboardist myself, but sympathetic to the rhythm section)

[Yuugal]

6. Zombeatles!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEz7JmM9qWo

[msongs]

7. umm, the Beatles were a rare perfect storm of FOUR musical talents --->

and for all the nutcases who think Ringo didnt hold his own to the other three, remember that the guy drumming on ALL those great tracks was...ta da, Ringo.

Msongs

[sandnsea]

8. Gore, Kerry, Feingold

Some people preferred the Stones.