Musical Meltdown in McCainland

Everyone says one of the best ways to get to know a person, or a candidate--are candidates people?--is to get him or her to disclose the contents of his/her IPod. So far, we haven't discovered much about the Clinton or Obama playlist, beyond the fact that HRC must have a lot of Celine Deon and Obama probably has a copy of the famous "Obama girl" vid. But we know for a fact that John Cougar Mellencamp, the bard of Bloomington, friend of beseiged workers and farmers everywhere, isn't long for John McCain's MP3. Mellencamp was indignant that his songs were on McCain's playlist and a feature of his rallies since McCain has now embraced the Bush tax cuts and war-without-end foreign policy, so he directed his publicist to send a letter to the presumptive Republican nominee and tell him to cease and desist with Mellencamp music. Read the whole story here.

There's plenty of theme music he could use to replace Mellencamp..."In the Navy," by the Village People; "the Merry Minuet," by the Kingston Trio(you remember: "But we can be thankful and tranquil and proud...that man's been endowed with a mushroom-shaped cloud"), theme from "Top Gun," the soundtrack from the TV series "Flipper," "Barbara Ann," transformed by McCain into "bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb bomb Iran...," "Money," by Pink Floyd, in honor of his tax cut obsession...help me with this, there's gotta be more...

And what about Obama and Clinton-centric soundtracks? What should be on their Ipods and/or at their events? The possibilities appear to be endless.