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Hillary's Cry For Help

Hillary needs your help, America.  Having already figured out how to surrender in Iraq, how to ruin America's healthcare system, and how to cripple our economy, there's really only one big issue left to nail down.  The campaign song.  She invites you to cast your vote from a field of nine candidates (an interesting parallel...).

1. "City of Blinding Lights" - U2
2. "Suddenly I See" - KT Tunstall
3. "I'm a Believer" - Smash Mouth
4. "Get Ready" - The Temptations
5. "Ready To Run" - Dixie Chicks
6. "Rock This Country!" - Shania Twain
7. "Beautiful Day" - U2
8. "Right Here, Right Now" - Jesus Jones
9. "I'll Take You There" The Staple Sisters

In the web video in which Clinton makes this plea, she also makes a "solemn and sacred promise" not to sing the winning song herself, splicing in some of that cat-strangling impression she did in Iowa back in January.

At the DNC's winter meeting, Clinton sashayed on stage to "Right Here, Right Now" which I suppose you could call the current campaign theme by default.  Dodd played "Get Ready" which she appears to have pilfered for the #4 slot.  Playing her off-stage after her speech was BTO's “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet”.  B-b-b-baby, why didn't you include that song in the line-up?  Because the band is Canadian?  Because Randy Bachman's a Mormon?  Because the title rang too true and people took it as a threat?

Happily, there's a line for write-in candidates as well, so BTO fans can still make their voices heard.

I voted for "Ready To Run", but I really wish she'd chosen "Not Ready To Make Nice" as her Dixie Chicks selection and dialed that acerbometer right to 11.  I also have to say I'm a little baffled not to see any Sheryl Crow tunes on the list.  "A Change Would Do You Good" would've worked in an fittingly supercilious way.  Or maybe cue up "My Favorite Mistake" whenever Bubba joins her on stage?

Now that I'm fresh out of snark, I'll concede this is all pretty clever as campaign stunts go and the frolicsome nature of it could help chip away at the whole "cold, scripted cyborg" image.

Cast your vote now!

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Hillary's Cry For Help

Hillary needs your help, America.  Having already figured out how to surrender in Iraq, how to ruin America's healthcare system, and how to cripple our economy, there's really only one big issue left to nail down.  The campaign song.  She invites you to cast your vote from a field of nine candidates (an interesting parallel...).

1. "City of Blinding Lights" - U2
2. "Suddenly I See" - KT Tunstall
3. "I'm a Believer" - Smash Mouth
4. "Get Ready" - The Temptations
5. "Ready To Run" - Dixie Chicks
6. "Rock This Country!" - Shania Twain
7. "Beautiful Day" - U2
8. "Right Here, Right Now" - Jesus Jones
9. "I'll Take You There" The Staple Sisters

In the web video in which Clinton makes this plea, she also makes a "solemn and sacred promise" not to sing the winning song herself, splicing in some of that cat-strangling impression she did in Iowa back in January.

At the DNC's winter meeting, Clinton sashayed on stage to "Right Here, Right Now" which I suppose you could call the current campaign theme by default.  Dodd played "Get Ready" which she appears to have pilfered for the #4 slot.  Playing her off-stage after her speech was BTO's “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet”.  B-b-b-baby, why didn't you include that song in the line-up?  Because the band is Canadian?  Because Randy Bachman's a Mormon?  Because the title rang too true and people took it as a threat?

Happily, there's a line for write-in candidates as well, so BTO fans can still make their voices heard.

I voted for "Ready To Run", but I really wish she'd chosen "Not Ready To Make Nice" as her Dixie Chicks selection and dialed that acerbometer right to 11.  I also have to say I'm a little baffled not to see any Sheryl Crow tunes on the list.  "A Change Would Do You Good" would've worked in an fittingly supercilious way.  Or maybe cue up "My Favorite Mistake" whenever Bubba joins her on stage?

Now that I'm fresh out of snark, I'll concede this is all pretty clever as campaign stunts go and the frolicsome nature of it could help chip away at the whole "cold, scripted cyborg" image.

Cast your vote now!