Pitch-perfect campaigning (with lots of hidden music videos)

As we recently discussed, the Obama team has perfected the zeitgeist campaign.  Some of it is intentional, (the text messages, the basketball,) while the rest (the internet memes) just sorta happens.  Music is another important element of this.  Everyone knows Republicans make poor DJs, and Senator Obama has collected an impressive variety of musical endorsements.
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Tim Wise, mostly right

Tim Wise is a sharp, incisive, southern Jewish anti-racist writer. Which is why the right people make anti-semitic attacks on him. (Seriously? The “big nose” line from David Horowitz? What, is “Horowitz” his stage name? Paragons of Aryan manhood, all of you…)
But that’s a tangent. Point is, at least [...]

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Hot Buttered Soul

Last week, Tennessee Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Corruption) introduced a resolution honoring the life and music of the late Isaac Hayes. With 20 co-sponsors, the bill praises Hayes for his “vocal performances, songwriting, humanitarian work, and television and motion picture endeavors, and as a radio show host, pianist, saxophone player, restaurateur, and cookbook author.” [...]

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Kerry finds the passion

John Kerry was a revelation on Wednesday. Forceful as a nor’easter, he came out and just hammered the crap out of his Senate colleague John McCain. Here’s the video, and here’s an excerpt contrasting “Senator McCain” with “candidate McCain:”
“…I have known and been friends with John McCain for almost 22 years. But every [...]

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