The Grateful Dead are set to reunite in order to flak for Barack Obama.

The Grateful Dead, the San Francisco cult rock band that has played at political events since the 1960s, will reunite on Monday for the first time in four years to rally support for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, a spokesman said on Friday.

“They have agreed to reunite for this one-time-only event in order to lend support to Senator Obama leading into the crucial ‘Super-Tuesday’ series of primaries held on Tuesday, February 5th,” the band said in a statement.

One wonders if the 1960’s-era “love children” versions of Bill and Hillary would have ever thought they’d become the “establishment” the “counterculture” hates so much.