...What's the best song that was used for a political campaign?
President Clinton's use of Fleetwood Mac's "Don't Stop" is probably the best use of a campaign theme. It's so synonymous with him, whenever I hear it, I expect him to show up somewhere. I wonder if Hillary will use it, if she runs in 2008?
Here are some others that have been used by different campaigns...
- George W. Bush - He has used Brooks & Dunn "Only In America" & The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again"
- Howard Dean - I never did like this song, but the Dean Campaign used Leann Rimes "We Can".
- Bob Dole - If you're running as the campaign that will return America to the past, why not butcher an old song? The Dole campaign used Sam and Dave's "I'm a Soul Man", which they reworked to "I'm a Dole Man".
- John Edwards - John Mellencamp "Small Town"
- John Kerry - Bruce Springstein "No Surrender" & U2 "A Beautiful Day"
- Joe Leiberman - Sister Sledge's "We Are Family". A lame song, for a lame campaign, with Joementum.
- Barack Obama - Obama did something that old campaigns used to do. They created an original song, "Obama for Senate".
- Ross Perot - The perfect metaphor for spending millions on a campaign that James Carville called "the most expensive act of masturbation in history." Perot used Patsy Cline's "Crazy"
- Ronald Reagan - The campaign used Bruce Springsteen's "Born In The USA". However, no one must have looked at the lyrics. The song is not a proud patriotic anthem, it tells the story of a vietnam vet coming home to an America that won't help him. Springstein publicly objected to the Reagan Campaign's use of the song.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger - Twisted Sister "We're Not Gonna Take It"
- Al Sharpton - Bob Marley "Get Up, Stand Up"