Amen to that. Sadly, it seems the entertainment industry and politics have morphed into one. We have no hope as a nation when politicians feel the need to chase the lowest-common-denominator of the electorate.
You guys must have been depressed for some time.
Election campaign jingles have been with us for the longest time.
Remember:
* “I’m Feeling Good About America”:
President Gerald Ford used this little ditty in his 1976 campaign to signal a new page being turned after the tumult of Watergate. Jimmy Carter still won the election though. (Best line: “We’re going back to work again/It’s better than it used to be.”)
* “RAISING McCAIN”
A Johnny Rich country song for John McCain.
Listen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmKgITJejfg
* President Ronald Reagan cited and played Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the U.S.A. during his 1984 re-election campaign. He said at a campaign stop, “America’s future rests in a thousand dreams inside your hearts. It rests in the message of hope in songs so many young Americans admire: New Jersey’s own Bruce Springsteen.”
It was quickly pointed out that Reagan and his campaign aides must not have paid attention to the song’s lyrics, a dark account of a Vietnam War veteran being let down by the country he served. The Reagan campaign inquired about getting an endorsement from Springsteen, not knowing The Boss’s liberal politics.
* Watch this campaign Jingle for JFK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLXTB_S193w
* Watch this Richard Nixon campaign song for 1972
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceocNS-toDk&feature=related
* Watch this Jingle for Eisenhower
“YOU LIKE IKE, I LIKE IKE”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9RAxAgksSE&feature=related