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Related: About this forumRomney just used the same song OBAMA uses after a rally!
He finished his BS (of which CNN showed a couple minutes) and then when he started shaking hands with the people, "Only in America" was playing. He has NO shame.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)The man has no substance. An empty balloon.
jenmito
(37,326 posts)I had to look up the word "insensate." Very good description of him. And thanks for teaching me a new word.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)I learned that word a couple weeks ago while reading "Kafka on the Shore". The insensate character in the book was a being that could take whatever shape, or perform whatever action required to accomplish his goals. I though immediately of Mittens.
jenmito
(37,326 posts)sounds EXACTLY like rMoney. Thanks for the info.!
Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)Republicans.
jenmito
(37,326 posts)I know-he more than earned that name.
Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)use of the song back in 2008.
Here's a cute story about the song:
J. Lester Feder, author of a piece on the politics of country music for the Prospect, called us this morning to explain the story behind Barack Obama's use of the song "Only in America" by country music duo Brooks and Dunn.
Nashville songwriter Don Cook was amused when a song he co-wrote with the duo Brooks and Dunn followed Barack Obama's acceptance speech last night. "I can imagine blood pouring out of the ashes of my Republican friends, mainly the two co-writers of the song," he said in between chuckles in a phone interview. Cook's longtime partnership with Brooks and Dunn in some ways exemplifies the "purple America" Obama described in his speech last night: Cook is a founder of the Music Row Democrats, while Ronnie Dunn is known to be a staunch Republican.
While conservative front-men like Dunn are the familiar face of country music, there are a good many Democrats working behind the scene in Nashville. Cook founded the Music Row Democrats in 2004 in part to help these Democrats come out of the closet at a time when they felt especially under siege. But the city's political climate has cooled in the past couple of years, Cook says, so much so that the Music Row Democrats are no longer a necessary support group. Republicans have lost their swagger, Cook explains. "It's just hard to champion an administration that has created such negative change," adding, "I'm sorry that it takes something like that in our culture to lower the level of anger."
Within hours of hearing he'd provided the soundtrack for the Democrats' exuberant political spectacle, Dunn fired off an e-mail to Cook saying, "You framed me." The shoe once was on the other foot. President Bush used to use "Only in America" for his own political events, much to Cook's chagrin. The songwriter relayed a message to the president that he was giving his royalty money to the Democratic Party. This prompted an uncharacteristically bipartisan response from Bush, who wrote Cook a note saying he liked the song and would continue to use it anyway.
--The Editors
http://prospect.org/article/story-behind-obamas-use-only-america
jenmito
(37,326 posts)But I guess they won't be telling Romney to stop using it.
Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)By Daniel Kreps
August 29, 2008 2:51 PM ET
If it felt familiar when Brooks & Dunn's "Only In America" played after Barack Obama's acceptance speech last night, there was good reason: President George W. Bush used the same song four years ago when he was rallying against Democratic candidate John Kerry. Brooks & Dunn were big supporters of Bush, even playing W's inauguration party back in 2001. So how does Kix Brooks feel about Obama's use of the track? He wasn't angry at Obama for using the song, a la Jackson Browne with John McCain. Instead Brooks said, "Seems ironic that the same song Bush used at the Republican Convention last election would be used by Obama and the Democrats now. Very flattering to know our song crossed parties and potentially inspires all Americans."
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/brooks-dunn-comment-on-obamas-use-of-only-in-america-20080829#ixzz22sXS7fl8
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So, they actually may not mind Robme using the song, either. It's just Robme doesn't have any original ideas, does he?
pepperbear
(5,648 posts)get a break and maybe grow up to be president"?
keep that dream going, mitt.