Bruce Springsteen unlikely to campaign for Obama this time

Washington, Feb 18 (ANI): Bruce Springsteen doesn't seem as enthusiastic about Obama these days as he was in 2008.

At a press conference in Paris on Thursday, the 62-year-old rocker spoke about how his interest in the US president is growing lesser by the day.

"I still support the president, but there are plenty of things that I thought took a long time and would have been closed by now," the Politico quoted Springsteen as saying.

"I would like to have seen more activism in job creation sooner than it came, I would like to have seen people helped out, seen some of these [home] foreclosures stopped somehow," he said.

Springsteen also said that Obama had been "more friendly to corporations than I thought he would be," adding that "there's not as many middle-class or working-class voices heard in the administration" as he expected.

"But on the other hand, we're out of Iraq and hopefully we'll be out of Afghanistan soon," he said.

Springsteen listed some more of Obama's accomplishments.

"He kept GM alive, which was incredibly important to Detroit and Michigan, and he got the health care law passed, although I wish there had been a public option and didn't leave the citizens victims of the insurance companies. He killed Osama bin Laden ...He brought some sanity to the top level of government," he said.

The Boss, who stumped for Obama in 2008 and John Kerry in 2004, said it is less likely that he will hit the campaign trail this year.

"I got into that sort of by accident. The Bush years were so horrific that you couldn't just sit around.

"I never campaigned for politicians previous to John Kerry and at that moment it was such a blatant disaster occurring at the top of government, you felt that if you had any cachet whatsoever, you had to cash it in because you couldn't sit around and watch it," he said.

Springsteen explained that he'd rather "stay on the sidelines".

"I'm not a professional campaigner and every four years I don't think that I'm going to go and pick a guy and go after him," he said.

Still, he won't be left out of the 2012 fray entirely; a song from Springsteen's new album is on President Obama's re-election campaign playlist. (ANI)