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Amerigo Vespucci

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Fri Sep 21, 2012, 11:30 AM Sep 2012

"It's upsetting to hear a candidate be so dismissive of such a ginormous amount of the population"



By Rolling Stone
September 21, 2012 10:10 AM ET

Eddie Vedder rejected Mitt Romney's recent characterization of 47 percent of Americans as people who see themselves as victims who don't pay income taxes. "It's very upsetting to hear a presidential candidate be so easily dismissive of such a ginormous amount of the population," Vedder said yesterday at a fundraiser for President Obama in Tampa, Florida, according to a pool report passed along by The Hollywood Reporter.

Vedder, who played a short set for Obama at the home of singer-songwriter Don Miggs and Lisa DeBartolo (daughter of former San Francisco 49ers owenr Eddie DeBartolo Jr.), shared his own story of how government programs helped him.

"I'm an example of someone who never made it to university," Vedder told the small crowd. "I did have this dream to be a musician. I felt that this dream had an expiration date."

Vedder went on to recall signing up for a government security guard training program, which led to a midnight shift and position as security supervisor at a petroleum company.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/eddie-vedder-rejects-upsetting-romney-comments-at-obama-fundraiser-20120921
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