Let's say you were running for President and had the juice to recruit top-shelf pop stars to perform on your behalf.

Who would you go after?

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I'll go out on a limb and say that Marilyn Manson would probably not be one of them.

Manson ex Evan Rachel Wood claims that the Obama camp asked Manson to perform in support of the campaign.

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Uh, let's just say I don't buy it.

This article appears in Nov 5-11, 2008.

Eric Snider is the dean of Bay area music critics. He started in the early 1980s as one of the founding members of Music magazine, a free bi-monthly. He was the pop music critic for the then-St. Petersburg...