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Composer John Adams talks about what Obama should and shouldn't do to boost the arts.

By Seth Colter Walls | Newsweek Web Exclusive
Feb 5, 2009

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  • Posted By: theNANCE @ 02/06/2009 10:21:42 AM

    You stupoid idots!!! Our country is totally failing and you want to discuss the arts. Obummer will destroy this nation and you liberal asswholes will help him. All you fools who voted that fool in will suffer for it in the end. He is the stupidest idiot to ever be placed in the white house. He will destroy that too!

    • Posted By: Constitution Lover @ 02/07/2009 4:50:41 PM

      So theNANCE is John Dough's piece of art on the internet. WOW!

      • Posted By: EmmaM @ 02/12/2009 7:50:07 AM

        I simply find it amusing that someone whose vocabulary is likely to consist mainly of words like ???***???, cannot even spell it correctly. ???Stupid??? is also not the most intelligent word to misspell, considering its meaning.

        For the record, I don???t in anyway wish to sound elitist; my boyfriend is dyslexic (yet he purposely strives to spell correctly). But when some ill-informed ???idiot??? (another correction) chooses to slam the new president without basing their argument on anything substantial, I feel a retort is necessary.

    • Posted By: TheFourthHorseman @ 02/08/2009 2:36:41 PM

      I love the fact that the once high and mighty GOP has been debased into a gapple of whinning little trolls. It's iropnic that you fail to see the suffering we have endured at the hands of the unsufferable goons you and your ilk elected. Eight long years of embarrassing bufoonery, blunder, and disgrace.

      Believe it or not the arts contribute a lot to our economy, I''ll bet you're also annoyed witht eh fact that we are also funding the environment, I suppose we should just give it all to the archaic automobile and oil inductries, yes that will solve everything, right?

      Do you have any idea how much tax money is spent building sports arenas? Where is your outrage in regards to this?

      One more question: How do you operate your compouter with your knuckles on the ground?

      • Posted By: EmmaM @ 02/12/2009 7:47:57 AM

        I simply find it amusing that someone whose vocabulary is likely to consist mainly of words like ???***???, cannot even spell it correctly. ???Stupid??? is also not the most intelligent word to misspell, considering its meaning.

        For the record, I don???t in anyway wish to sound elitist; my boyfriend is dyslexic (yet he purposely strives to spell correctly). But when some ill-informed ???idiot??? (another correction) chooses to slam the new president without basing their argument on anything substantial, I feel a retort is necessary.

    • Posted By: Chazums1898 @ 02/10/2009 9:15:59 AM

      Can we get an intelligent argument here? I find it humorous that anyone would think Obama is an idiot. May I recall our most recent president, who did nothing good for the economyOR the arts?

    • Posted By: Chazums1898 @ 02/10/2009 9:14:53 AM

      Can we get an intelligent argument here? I find it humorous that anyone would think Obama is an idiot. May I recall our most recent president, who did nothing good for the economyOR the arts?

  • Posted By: alecross @ 02/11/2009 7:35:55 PM

    Leave it to John Adams to proclaim the importance of funding the arts and then in the next breath make a fool out of himself by vaguely disparaging the next generation of audiences. He is guilty of doing the very thing he's putting people down for -- not bothering to really listen to the next generation of composers before dismissing their work.

  • Posted By: John Dough @ 02/06/2009 5:56:25 PM

    The National Endowment of Arts should not receive another penny of taxpayer dollars.We paid thoousands of taxpayer dollars to a so called artist who urinated in a jar and dropped a crucifix in it and called it art. Maybe I'll take a dump on a plate and calll it democrat stew I could make thousands of taxpayer dollars too.

    • Posted By: TheFourthHorseman @ 02/08/2009 2:41:50 PM

      Honestly we should really take away the tax exemptions from therse churches who are playing politics from teh pulpit.

    • Posted By: TheFourthHorseman @ 02/08/2009 2:40:14 PM

      "The National Endowment of Arts should not receive another penny of taxpayer dollars."

      Neither should Haliburton....

    • Posted By: Constitution Lover @ 02/07/2009 4:49:08 PM

      You are going to put your brain on a plate and call it art?

      It might be most intelligent thing you have ever done.

  • Posted By: wildechild66 @ 02/06/2009 12:54:02 PM

    Even primitive man created art. Why? Because as humans, we need to express and create. The arts allow us to do that. What's more, they help people to become more well-rounded, more empathetic, and more skilled at their future disciplines, whether or not they make a career out of the arts. They are vital, and the rest of us will just have to hope that you understand that eventually. By the way, learning to spell and punctuate correctly might help people to take you more seriously.

    • Posted By: WTL=JC @ 02/07/2009 4:07:37 PM

      dont worry american moms. if you dont want that baby. ill kill it. my name is barack obama. and i support this message

      • Posted By: TheFourthHorseman @ 02/08/2009 2:23:05 PM

        What does this have to do with the topic? Did you even read the article, or do you just post this spam/rhettoric everywhere?

  • Posted By: eileenwest @ 02/06/2009 1:52:48 PM

    The arts are an industry. "Creative Industries" create jobs, attract new investments to communities, generate tax revenues, stimulate tourism and consumer purchasing. Investing in the arts is a perfect approach to economic growth.

    • Posted By: TheFourthHorseman @ 02/08/2009 2:21:29 PM

      Thank you, it's nice to hear someone esle say this...

  • Posted By: Russ Grazier @ 02/07/2009 9:37:47 AM

    John Dough's commment is such a cliche, he won't even admit his name. The reality is that the Creative Economy contributes significantly to our national economy and it is one economy that is NOT significantly outsourced. AND other economies (the hospitality and restaurant economies) benefit dramatically from a strong creative economy. The National Endowment for the Arts doesn't even make up .5% of the nation's creative economy.

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