Friday, February 2, 2007

The Obama Theme Song Challenge

To begin with, the premise of this is inspired by the greatest political blog ever, wonkette.com. The initial info came from a post there.

So at the DNC thingy in DC today, all (almost) the current Dem Pres. candidates for '08 came out with theme music. The list (stolen from wonkette) is as follows:

  • Chris Dodd: The Temptations — “Get Ready”
  • Barack Obama: No music.
  • Wesley Clark: Johnny Cash — “Won’t Back Down” (by Tom Petty)
  • John Edwards: Inaudible
  • Dennis Kucinich: “America the Beautiful”
  • Hillary Clinton: Bachman Turner Overdrive — “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet”
As of now I am supporting Barack. I am half way through his most recent book and generally like his voting record and recent speeches on the Senate floor. So......
Given the other choices, I am glad that Barack does not have any music yet. But, he needs some. OK, I admit that Clark's choice is pretty cool. But, Clark is not. So, I am choosing to ignore it. So, this is the challenge; choose what Barack's theme song should be. Put your choices in the comments. If I have the time and am not too lazy, I may actually do something with the responses (maybe make a poll and then do something with it). That is assuming that 1.) anyone reads this blog and 2.) if so, they actually chose to comment.

To get it rolling, here are some of my ideas:
  • Ride the Fence- The Coup
  • Don't Call Me Nigga, Whitey- Ice-T w/ Jane's Addiction (org. Sly & the Family Stone)
  • Kill the Poor- Dead Kennedys
  • White Minority- Black Flag
  • The New American Way- Dropkick Murphys
  • My Congressman- Fifteen
  • We Will Win- Fifteen
  • Middle America- JFA
  • Leaving Jesusland- NoFX

2 comments:

Lyn said...

Dream Weaver- who sang that?
More that words- EXXTreme
World Leader Pretend- REM
I could go on all day...

Trey said...

If he runs with a white person, the obvious choice would be "Ebony and Ivory". How about AC/DC's "Back in Black"? Or something ironic and surreal like Hank Williams Jr. "A Country Boy can Survive"?