RNC Coverage Aloud, Thick As Thieves @ Middle East, 9.4.08

Not representative in any way of Aloud’s actual opinions.

I’ve moved my comment from the bottom of the article to the top. Of course, Henry was referring to John McCain and not Barack Obama. And the lyrics to the songs clearly are not in reference to Bush’s comments about appeasement. — Aaron

Last night Aloud singer Henry Beguiristain said, “Tonight, some guy is giving a speech…I don’t know, but fuck that guy.” The band then launched into their song, Backs To The Wall, a rallying cry of sorts for the other guy giving a speech last night, John McCain.

Clearly cognizant of Tuesday’s news that Obama had opened up an 8% lead over John McCain in the Gallup daily tracking poll, the band summoned up enthusiasm for the 72 year old Republican candidate. Backs To The Wall was an obvious reference to not only McCain’s current poll numbers but also his time spent as a POW in Vietnam. The band seemed to be reminding the crowd that McCain had been down before, but it would be foolish to count him out.

Earlier in the night the band took more shots at Obama reminding the audience of appeasement charges levied by President Bush against the junior Senator from Illinois back in May. President Bush charged that in desiring diplomatic talks with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Obama was similar to Nazi appeasers. Bush said,

Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along…We have heard this foolish delusion before…As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American Senator declared: ‘Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided.’ We have an obligation to call this what it is — the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.

Aloud seconded the President’s remarks when they played, The Battle Of Love, which points out the failures of appeasement while jabbing at Obama’s foreign policy inexperience with references to World War III and the constant national security threat Americans face.

Never pays to be nice to a villian/ Compromise and they go right on stealing/ On the streets, it’s World War III

The band did all this in between big guitars, great vocals, and Angus Young-esque one-footed hops (an obvious reference to Obama’s ‘terrorist fist-jabs’).

Aloud Fun Fact: Roy Fountaine is Victor Kulak. I submit photographic evidence for your consideration:

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Thick As Thieves also played.

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