The Stones have always stayed clear of most political positions in their music

For the most part that is true. However in the early 90s they had a minor hit with an anti-Iraq War song called ‘High Wire’ http://www.lyricsdepot.com/the_rolling_stones/highwire.html. Other songs like ‘Indian Girl, from Emotional Rescue criticised US foreign policy in Central America (remember Mick was married to loony lefty Bianca the Sandinista supporter). Lots of their songs have a line or two that is political but clearly they’ve never been overt. Then there was their Global Warming awareness free concert a couple of years ago that was a subtle swipe at Bush over Kyoto. Jagger is supposedly a big fan of Hayek, a hero to most free marketeers, and though he protested the Vietnam War he told Der Speigel at the time that people who wanted a Marxist-Leninist society were naive.

As to the song ‘Sweet Neo Con’ I’d say it’s about Condi Rice. Jagger has always had a thing for black women and some of the lyrics in his songs – Brown Sugar and especially Some Girls – have been offensive to some blacks.