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Hillary's Song

Like many people who vote Democrat and who are paying careful attention to the 2008 Presidential race, I am currently torn between Barak Obama and Hillary Clinton. I used to also throw John Edwards in the mix but now its just down to Hil and the Big O.
To help me make up my mind, I am going to hear Obama speak on Friday night and depending on how eloquent he is, I may be won over to his side. Then again, Hillary might have already pushed me there today by naming Celine Dion’s “You and I” as her campaign song! I mean, as the Junior Senator from New York, doesn’t Hillary watch enough NY1 to know that this is the same song that is used in the “Go to Canada” tourism commercials?!?
Okay, to be fair, she didn’t choose it: her supporters chose it for her as she had a contest where she listed about 8 songs and said “vote for my campaign song.” I forget who I voted for but it was definitely not that crazy Cannuck and if her supporters love Celine Dion, maybe I’m rooting for the wrong team…
That being said, Hillary did do something incredibly cute and clever for a politician in announcing it: she and Bill spoofed the Sopranos ending! To be punny, I found it hilarious. Ba dum dum. Make sure your speakers are on and check it out below:

In this day and age, isn’t it great that we are focusing on campaign songs too and not just the issues? To be honest, I’m not even sure if I mean that sarcastically or not. I mean, things are so fucked up in the world, you need to laugh once in a while and just saying “Iraq, Terrorism, Taxes, etc” gets boring after a while and you tune out. So, if having a campaign song contest is a way to get you involved again, who is to say that its so bad?

One thought on “Hillary's Song

  1. I admit it, the clip is cute. But guess where I heard it first? Last night on the NPR broadcast of PBS’s Newshour with Jim Lehrer. I thought that was wildly inappropriate and pandering.

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