Nicholas Ballasy with the Daily Caller caught up with Singer/Songwriter James Taylor yesterday at the inauguration and asked him his thoughts on Obama, his continuation of Bush policies, and gun control. And as you can tell by my title, Taylor is absolutely in love with the Obama presidency and doesn’t dare criticize him. At one point he even said:

I just think we need more like him — not that there’s anyone else like him — but I think it’s great that we have him in government. We are very fortunate to have Barack Obama as our leader.”

Talk about deification.

Regarding gun control he told the Daily Caller:

but I think the majority of us feel strongly — even the majority of gun owners feel strongly — that we need to make some sacrifice[s] to our freedoms, if that’s the way to put it. We need to make some sacrifices to what we might want to have, in order to safeguard our children.”

Ugh.




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NCHokie02
NCHokie02

"...We need to make sacrifices to our freedoms..." - James Taylor

"Those that sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither" - Ben Franklin

Yeah James, you definately pegged the founding fathers correctly in what they would want us to do today. What an idiot.

I bet when Bush had all his policies he was all up in arms but now that BO is continuing them he claims that "I trust the President to make those decisions." So in BO continuing Bush's policies you are saying that Bush was correct in making those decisions, right???

Colonel Robert Neville
Colonel Robert Neville

Most musicians and other celebrities regularly present themselves as contradictory daydreaming fantasy clowns exhibiting H.L Mencken's dictum that 'a desire to save the world usually covers for a desire to control it...' All their auto peace n' love babble can turn on a dime into mob fascist yearnings... No, really. Colonel Neville.

ON SPOT
ON SPOT

STILL another '70's Show' -----with nothin' to show

and quite content to obediently plunger suck the 'wreck--dom' of 'fame'.

AGAIN ----what is it with every single cultural figure

since the 60's?

-----Dylan ----Paul Simon -----Cappola ----Stone ---Scorsese

on and on and on.

-------At best they're AWOL ----at worst they're the highest and lowest

in CAP--stone sychophants.

NOT a single stand alone hero in the entire bunch!

----ICK

Leonie Alemann
Leonie Alemann

Benjamin Franklin said it repeatedly: those who are willing to surrender liberty for safety deserve neither...

And we know they will get what they deserve.

Nannv
Nannv

I have already boycotted most of the main stream liberal entertainers and will add JT to my list. The thing I find most disturbing is that these folks think they're exempt from any sanctions this administration has planed for the transformation of our Republic. Their money and contributions will not protect them. So sad!!

57thunderbird
57thunderbird

Typical sixties hippie.The same people that are in control of the country.Hey James...............Shadddd up.

PVG
PVG

You had better believe if it were Bush, he would be seconding guessing.....this guy needs to keep singing and stay out of politics.

philomena
philomena

Please, he should stay out of politics. Never mind the "singing."

tinlizzieowner
tinlizzieowner

Hey, Taylor. How about you sacrifice some of the cash that a 'capitalistic' America has blessed you with, by buying your records. ;-)

Tim Jaggers
Tim Jaggers

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.

So James, how about you give up some of your 1st Amendment freedoms for the good of society?

RKflorida
RKflorida

What we NEED is for James Taylor to shut his mouth or have a nasty run in with a bad guy and see what self defense is all about.

PHIL CORLE
PHIL CORLE

That old has-been hippie is still alive?

martha chandler
martha chandler

James, stick to singing because that's all you know. You're too stupid to realize what's going on in this country.

Norbert Sichterman
Norbert Sichterman

"James Taylor gushes over Obama, says we need to sacrifice some of our freedoms for gun control."

When he says "we" he means every body but he.

I'll give up some of my freedoms (eating icecream) when he vollenteers to go into a Russian Goulag and gives all his money and property to the NRA.

WhiteGuy2
WhiteGuy2

He didnt just drink the coolaid, he has an IV drip.

mikeinidaho
mikeinidaho

James Taylor was, is and always will be a communist. He should just shut up and sing.

Landscaper
Landscaper

JT,

I bought your albums back in the day of vinyl and turntables. You were a great singer and the lyrics were awesome. What the fudge happened to you?

A 1970's teenager

sDee
sDee

What maybe happened is you woke up, grew up, decided to go to work, contribute to the country and defend liberty, and then figured out that the 60's teenagers were right.... government cannot not be trusted,

He decided it was OK to trust government so long as he was not a subject.

Landscaper
Landscaper

You are so very right my brother. What the hell did I know at 17? Nothing !

tinlizzieowner
tinlizzieowner

Wish I could say the same about the hair part. :-(

Landscaper
Landscaper

Too funny! I'm 54, conservative as the earth is round and I still have ALL the hair that I hard in the 1970's. {just not that long}.

tinlizzieowner
tinlizzieowner

'If you're young and not a liberal, you don't have a heart. If you're old and not a conservative, you don't have a brain'.

;-)

stage9
stage9

"...we need to make some sacrifice[s] to our freedoms..."

You first radical!

Haywoodjbl
Haywoodjbl

What a MORON...It's all about the Chilren....as RL would say LMAO

Jeremy Poncy
Jeremy Poncy

Oooohhhh deification. I thought it said defecation.

MeanGreenBeret
MeanGreenBeret

Hey James, 20 years of Heroin addiction does rot brain cells.

You may have gotten one "Monkey" off your back,only to replace it with another.

Now you can be proud of being addicted to a moron.

Skip the methadone.Try a Tablespoon of common conservative sense instead.

Idiot.

warpmine
warpmine

Don't give him any ideas. I'd much rather have him on their side than mine as I hate stupid people.

Rocco11
Rocco11

Communism is wonderful when you have $200 million in the bank...

Sober_Thinking
Sober_Thinking

James Taylor is a wonderful singer/musician.

I'm stunned that ANYONE would feel this way about Obama... he's a monster, pure and simple.

warpmine
warpmine

"James Taylor is a wonderful singer/musician."

Equally, a really ignorant intellect.

John
John

sacrifice YOUR freedom, chain yourself to, say, abortion "clinic".

.

BTW - put that red star back on your hat.

What is the title of your new song? "I want to be a slave"?

NYGino
NYGino

Good for you comrade Taylor, we see you're wearing the correct Soviet headgear.

NYGino
NYGino

Taylor's mind is as boring as his voice and the "songs" he writes. On the whole, he is one step behind ambien.

Rshill7
Rshill7

On my own

How could I have known?

Imagine my surprise

Just a fool

From a tree full of fools

Who can't believe his eyes

Imagine my surprise

I was a mean old man

I was an ornery cuss

I was a dismal dan

I made an awful fuss

Ever since my life began

Man, it was ever thus

I was a nasty tyke who was hard to like

I had to misbehave

I did things in reverse

Refused to wash or shave

I was horrid to my nurse

I got back what I gave

Which only made me worse

I had to have my way

Which was bleak and gray, oh dear...

James Taylor's "Mean Old Man" partial lyrics

NYGino
NYGino

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ Oh, I'm sorry Rs, nodded off there for a minute, were you saying something?

physicsnut
physicsnut

why doesn't that twit put a cork in it.

The problem is not the obvious tyrant - it is Cuomo and the low information 'representatives' and even lower information voters, and the media. England got disarmed not by Hitler, not by Stalin, not by Pol Pot - but rather by people like Tony Blair - or at least Tony Blair was one public face of the push to disarm England. The obnoxious creeps over here are pretty much borrowing the techniques that worked well enuf in England. I wonder why Joyce Lee Malcolm is the only one who explores this. Or am I missing some useful references ?

sDee
sDee

Pathetic washed up elitist hippie who lives like a capitalist and talks like a socialist.

Interesting what sort of vermin start scratching around for the favor of the ruling class.

tshtsh
tshtsh

Maybe there was some truth to the egg frying drug ad. Apparently, drug usages permanently fries the users brain!

Lisa
Lisa

Great singer but a stupid, stupid man.

Conniption Fitz
Conniption Fitz

Gun control Bloomberg is just like Gun control Obama - trying to DISTRACT AMERICANS FROM THEIR SORRY DESTRUCTIVE POLICIES.

Bloomberg has doubled the debt in NYC and Obama has nearly tripled the US Debt:

http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2013/01/21/bloombergs-legacy-doubling-new-yorks-debt/

Democrat (D) stands for Debt, Destruction, Decadence, Deception, Delusion.

Conniption Fitz
Conniption Fitz

Repeat: GUN CONTROL, like the War on Women, is just a DISTRACTION while the progressive/communist/fascists continue the rape, murder and pillage of Lady Liberty and the US Constitution.