Tuesday, August 26, 2003

Democrats trying to find the right tune...

...for their presidential campaigns. The Boston Globe reports on how the Kerry people are strugging to find the right song to go with their candidate. The last two grafs of the article are fab:

The supporters have found reasons to shelve a few others. In nearly a week's worth of postings, they dissected the communist underpinnings of Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land," questioned whether Vietnam protest songs were hopelessly old, and pondered what the Republicans might say about the Edgar Winter Group's "Free Ride."

And when someone proposed John Mellencamp's "Pink Houses," someone else shot back that the lyrics are a no-go, because of these lines: "They told me, when I was younger, / `Boy, you gonna be president' / But just like everything else, those old crazy dreams / Just kinda came and went."

If I still had comments, I would love to hear suggestions (E-mails still open!). On Kerry's voting record, I would choose "Nowhere Man" while for his lack of clarity on issues, I might pick "Best Imitation of Myself" by Ben Folds Five - a choice that is sure to receive the Ben Domenech seal of approval.

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