Draft Bruce

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While he's not officially running for office, the guy who used to be the kid they called 'Alvin Lee By-The-Sea' is getting to ready to leave the boardwalk and hit the road once again.

And this time around it looks like he's pulling no punches as he cranks a king heckfire monster of a stump speech:

ASBURY PARK, N.J. -- Late into the first set of a concert tour that began Monday night and will stretch well into election season, Bruce Springsteen tore through his 9/11 anthem, "The Rising." Three or four years ago, that might have been the rollicking end to things. Now it's just the beginning. Before the last "li, li, li" of Springsteen's paean to the NYFD echoed down the Asbury Park boardwalk, the E Street Band had rumbled into one of Springsteen's newest songs: a full frontal attack on the Iraq war built around John Kerry's 1971 testimony on Vietnam.

The kids asleep in the backseat
We're just countin' the miles you and me
We don't measure the blood we've drawn anymore
We just stack the bodies outside the door.

Who'll be the last to die for our mistake
The last to die for our mistake
Whose blood will spill, whose heart will break
Who'll be the last to die for our mistake?

Can't wait to see, hear and read all about it.

OK?

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Update: Looks like the Boss has even decided he's going to use (and even co-opt!) the TeeVee this time 'round.

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