You Can Get Anything You Want At Arlo’s Restaurant…….

Ken McCracken • January 31, 2008

Arlo Guthrie (or “Legendary Singer-Songwriter Arlo Guthrie” as it says in the headline on the announcement from the campaign) is backing Republican Ron Paul for president.
Guthrie (or “legendary folk singer-songwriter Arlo Guthrie” as he is called in the text of the announcement) said “I love this guy.”
“Dr. Paul is the only candidate I know of who would have signed the Constitution of the United States had he been there,” Guthrie said in the announcement. “I’m with him because he seems to be the only candidate who actually believes it has as much relevance today as it did a couple of hundred years ago.”

I like Arlo Guthrie and I’m glad to see that even though his musical career – short as it was – has lost its luster, at least he hasn’t lost his sense of humor.
I realize that for some of you this is ancient history and you may not even know who Arlo Guthrie is. So….I will enlighten you. Arlo’s father was Woody Guthrie, one of the first American artists to use his music as a political statement. Arlo himself became well known back in the late sixties following an incident in which he was arrested for littering.
He immortalized the incident in Alice’s Restaurant, a long and rambling – and damn funny – recounting of his arrest and subsequent rejection from the military draft and the irony of being exempted from going to Viet Nam and killing people because he had a conviction as a litterbug.
He also did a good cover of the single City of New Orleans. He was also well known for, uh, ah, hmmmmm. I got nothing.
Anyway, if you get a chance to listen to Alice’s Restaurant do so. It’s dated, but not a waste of time.
Oh, and back to the subject at hand. I’m sure Ron Paul treasures his endorsement.

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http://Array Gray_Fox

Haha. Rest assured fellas that I am one of them youngins who has heard the And I went up there, I said, “Shrink, I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I
wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and
guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill,
KILL, KILL.” And I started jumpin up and down yelling, “KILL, KILL,” and
he started jumpin up and down with me and we was both jumping up and down
yelling, “KILL, KILL.” And the sargent came over, pinned a medal on me,
sent me down the hall, said, “You’re our boy.”

I was fortunate enough to have parents who had a large collection of vinyl records, so I grew up on everything y’all had as kids. Great stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_7C0QGkiVo
Pilgrim

Proof,

I sometimes use the term “He needs to go sit on the group W bench” when I’m talking about one misfit or another. Hardly anyone knows what I’m talikg about these days.

It’s still a classic.
http://www.bikebubba.blogspot.com/ Bike Bubba

Is this going to be the official campaign song for Ron Paul? Maybe I’ll consider him after all… ;^)….especially if he promises a dinner that can’t be beat, and to take out all that garbage., loading the VW microbus with tools and hoes and implements of destruction….

Arlo’s showing his age in that video.
http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

Mother rapers. Father stabbers. Father
rapers! Father rapers sitting right there on the bench next to me!
http://www.mormon.com/ Mittens McHuckniani

Doobie is a splendorous thing, both for Woodie and Arlo.
http://www.mormon.com/ Mittens McHuckniani

Well, at least we know that Arlo still likes his doobie. Any old leftwing hippie who endorses Rue Paul has to be high.
Pilgrim

Ha!!!

Gray Fox -

Thanks. It never occurred to me that this would be on You Tube. I don’t know why not, really, since just about everything else is.

Not as good as the original, of course, but still fun.
Pilgrim

Proof,

You do realize that most of the people reading this thread are asking, Just what the HELL are these two talking about?” don’t you?

Assuming, of course, that anyone’s reading this thread.
kbiel

I wonder what Arlo’s father would think about this? Woody was a committed socialist and supported the communist party in the U.S. Ron Paul may have many inane and unsavory positions, but no one could ever accuse him of being a socialist or communist.
http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

Sometimes I think of Arlo, when I’m trying to explain something to some liberal, wishing I had twenty seven eight-by-ten color glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was so they could get my point!!
Pilgrim

Hah. good stuff. I have in my vinyl collection and will indulge myself this weekend when I do my traditional Saturday night music room / adult beverage fest.
http://www.mormon.com/ Mittens McHuckniani

Haha. Rest assured fellas that I am one of them youngins who has heard the And I went up there, I said, “Shrink, I want to kill.

Doobie is splendorous for Gray Fox also.
http://www.valleydeals.com/cgi-bin/board2/YaBB.pl Kevin

I remember seeing the movie they made from the song.
Ron Paul envisions himself a libertarian; libertarianism is impossible with jihadists still alive on Earth.

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