tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180498216869726946.post-27605238414628259632008-02-22T08:13:00.000-08:002008-02-22T08:36:37.503-08:00<a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_oW-tNsb0CZ0/R775r5u5iGI/AAAAAAAAAFE/OBtzCDWlg0E/s1600-h/mccain.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5169843954895128674" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_oW-tNsb0CZ0/R775r5u5iGI/AAAAAAAAAFE/OBtzCDWlg0E/s200/mccain.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Well, Sen. <strong>John McCain</strong>, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has finally gotten permission to use a popular tune as his official campaign song. In recent months, McCain has been publicly slapped down by <strong>John Mellancamp</strong> (formerly known as <em>John Cougar Mellancamp</em> and before that, <em>John Cougar,</em> and before that, <em>The Artist Known As John Cougar</em>) for using <em>"Pink Houses"</em> and <em>"My Country"</em> in campaign appearances. Then, McCain was shunned by the 70's Swedish dance group <em>ABBA</em> when he tried to use their song <em>"Take A Chance"</em> as his campaign song (<em>Question of the Day</em>: Shouldn't the likes of <em>ABBA</em> be <strong>GRATEFUL</strong> that <strong>ANYONE</strong> wants to even <strong>LISTEN</strong> to their anachronistic, disco ball-spinning, leisure suit-wearing, mullet hairdo-wearing <strong>CRAP</strong>, let alone <strong>USE IT AS THEIR CAMPAIGN SONG???</strong>). At any rate, after being rejected by <em>ABBA</em>, the McCain camp was grasping at straws. Some close to the Senator said they didn't need a campaign song.... Penny-pinchers within the campaign thought they should try to hire the (now grown) children who were once conned into singing the backing vocals to the <em>Pink Floyd</em> classic <em>"Another Brick in the Wall"</em> for free... Another line of thought was that they should play it safe and simply cough up the licensing fee to use <strong>Pat Boone's</strong> version of <em>"Tutti Fruiti."</em> But now, in the wake of the <em>New York Times</em> story hinting at a potential sex scandal involving McCain, a perfect campaign song has emerged: the theme music from the <em>Cialis</em> TV commercial. (CUE MUSIC: Funky guitar riff... ANNOUNCER: When you're in the mood to run for president, and the time is not quite right, try <em>Cialis</em>... Because with <em>Cialis</em>, you can <em>wait</em> until you're 72 years old to run for president...)'</div><br /><div></div><br /><div><strong>Back to <a href="http://www.seespanrun.com/">See Span Run</a></strong></div>Sue D. Nimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04184967982088304683noreply@blogger.com