Karen Stabiner And Sarah Dietz: Lollapalooza Day Three: Here's One Celebrity McCain Can't Link to Obama

Karen Stabiner: It's over. Tens of thousands of broken plastic beer glasses and Smart Water bottles later, Lollapalooza is over for another year. The dust has quite literally settled, the clean-up crew is earning its money big-time, and lots of fans with new t-shirts have gone home. The guy with the neon orange Hillary Clinton tee is probably particularly disappointed with the way it all ended, since I saw him heading for the AT&T; stage with the kind of grim determination that only a man wearing a Hillary Clinton t-shirt in August could muster. I imagine that he wanted to be in the front row for Kanye West's closing performance, since the rumor that Barack Obama would introduce him had congealed over the weekend into almost-fact. It had weight; it was such a substantial rumor that it engendered an anti-rumor, that Obama would instead introduce his pals Wilco. Nope and nope again. All through Kanye's set, people speculated about when the presumptive Democratic candidate might appear; if not ... (link)