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Old 09-09-2013, 18:43
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It might have been because there was a Democrat president (Clinton, obvs) when the song was written.

Alternatively, I could have been a reference to Southern Democrats - let's not forgot every nasty, racist, Dixie Pixie politician of the Civil Rights era was a Democrat.
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Old 09-09-2013, 18:50
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It might have been because there was a Democrat president (Clinton, obvs) when the song was written.
Only just! Clinton became pres in January and the album came out in August. I don't know how long they spent writing it but there's a chance they were still coming out of the first Bush presidency at the time.
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Only just! Clinton became pres in January and the album came out in August. I don't know how long they spent writing it but there's a chance they were still coming out of the first Bush presidency at the time.
That's not true. Clinton was already president when Gold Against the Soul came out.
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yea, bush was voted out in 92!
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