Songs in Their Hearts
Join former United States Senate Pages Dylan and Ethan Ris as they bring you the dish on not just the presidential race but all the exciting triumphs and disgraces inside, outside, and below the Beltway!
Rock The Vote! Any music lover worth his hard drive of illegal downloads will tell you that our national mood is reflected in our popular songs, dating from the Revolutionary Era ("Yankee Doodle Dandy") to the present day ("Wang Dang, Sweet Poontang"). So it's not surprising that presidential candidates have gotten in on the fun, as evidenced by the many campaign theme songs that now dominate Top 40 Radio.
Today, the Pages critique recent presidential music as we inch toward the inevitable day that Electoral College votes are awarded to the studio audience of American Idol (hence, you get to vote at the end of the post)!
Barack Obama: "Yes We Can" (2008)
Pros: will.i.am's music video reminds Americans that while we come in many colors, shapes and sizes, we are bound together by our common self-righteousness.
Cons: This song was created to lull Obama into dropping his lawsuit claiming intellectual property of the phrase "all that junk inside your trunk".
Hillary Clinton: "Making Our Dreams Come True" (2008)
Pros: The song shatters the glass ceiling that once limited the field of recorded music to people who sang in tune.
Cons: Clinton family support for NAFTA forced Hillary to make Canadian Celine Dion her official campaign crooner instead.
John McCain: "Bomb Iran" (2008)
Pros: McCain is the only candidate who chose to perform his own song, and he appears to have done so without the aid of supplemental oxygen.
Cons: The song was deemed too musically radical by band-mate Mike Love, which drove McCain into a paranoid, drug-laden seclusion.
Now you decide! Embody the love-child of David Brinkley and Simon Cowell and tell us who the greatest presidential patriot is, based on their theme music. Our friends at Diebold Systems have already picked a winner, but that shouldn't stop you from casting a ceremonial vote right now!
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*sigh* I miss Hillary. McCain doesn't have an ounce of her energy.
Bah! None of them would "common" enough to have a beer with me on my favorite patio. What do I care?
Please go back to your corner of ComedyCentral. These spaces are reserved for humor.
Does Mike Gravel throwing a stone into a lake not count as music?
none of them are as good as don't stop thinking about tomorrow (clinton 92)
True talent would be doing that with a Bush speech.
You'd think that Clinton's campaign would have sent a "cease and desist" notice to that singer.
The remaining candidates still need to get good vice presidents, and there is a non-biased weekly poll at http://www.votenic.com . The results are worth looking at.