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 Worst. Campaign. Song. Ever.Posted on Feb 14, 2008
Let’s just put it out there that this is not a critique of Hillary Clinton the candidate. Having said that, we’ll also say that it’s quite possible that this is the worst campaign song/video of all time. Somewhere, the members of the Jackson 5 are cringing. No parody necessary. Watch the clip:
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By Aaron, May 7, 2008 at 7:05 pm #
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Can you just picture the songwriter and singers recording this and thinking, wow, this is really clever? It’s gonna be a hit. Nothing worse than people who have no clue. This is damaging to Clinton like Reverend Wright is to Obama
Report thisBy Douglas Chalmers, February 21, 2008 at 2:43 am #
By Mike Mid-City, February 18; “...if i could lick my own balls i never would have married…”
Uhh, you don’t have to tell everyone, MMC!
Report thisBy voice of truth, February 19, 2008 at 1:52 pm #
Don’t forget the gays, there are a couple in there as well. This is a definite 8 on the unintentional comedy scale.
Report thisBy voice of truth, February 19, 2008 at 1:46 pm #
Streisand was busy banging Bill
Report thisBy Julia, February 18, 2008 at 8:12 pm #
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Come on guys, this isn’t an official song or clip of the Clinton campaign.
Report thisIt’s not part of their channel on youtube, you can’t comment on it, and it doesn’t appear on their website.
By Aegrus, February 18, 2008 at 10:15 am #
This is very indicative of the Hillary Clinton campaign. It’s almost as if she has no idea how to be an attractive candidate. She’s so stuck in some twilight zone episode.
Report thisBy Expat, February 17, 2008 at 6:40 am #
^ good one, yes, LOL.
Report thisBy rage, February 16, 2008 at 5:00 pm #
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This SUCKS!
If I were a Clinton supporter, this stupid ditty would drive me from the Democrats to the McCain Straightjacket Express.
Obama has Stevie Wonder opening his shows.
Hillary couldn’t book Streisand?
Report thisBy Douglas Chalmers, February 16, 2008 at 1:58 pm #
Let’s just put it out there that the rest of the world has already moved on…... No parody necessary as the USA has become its own disgusting and disappointing parody, uhh.
So lets have some decent music for a change…..
Liao Junjia, or Elise Liao, has impressed the Mando-pop scene with her first album—The Piano Girl http://english.cri.cn/4026/2008/02/16/1241@323761.htm click’n'listen
Report thisBy SlimJim, February 16, 2008 at 1:53 pm #
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Ugghh…getting sick, going to puke! Get the garbage can Mom! No, the garbage can, NOW!
Report thisBy Douglas Chalmers, February 16, 2008 at 1:49 pm #
By Mike Mid-City, February 16: “If you had the balls in your pants that you have in your mouth you would have been a man…”
If you stopped licking your balls for long enough to stand up on your own hind legs, you would know what breathing rarified air is like, uhh. This is your REAL PROBLEM, mmc….....
Report thisBy Douglas Chalmers, February 16, 2008 at 1:30 pm #
By Mike Mid-City, February 16: “No wonder Hillary goes negative. Her upbeat message is unbearably stupid…”
You’d say that to your own mother, MMC. You are so unbearably stupid, uhh.
That you “like the line about the war” is merely more of your “double speak”. You really still love war…......
Report thisBy Charley James, February 16, 2008 at 10:45 am #
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Hillary’s campaign and her supporters like Maani still don’t get it: We’ve had 18 years of policy wonks - first the Clinton crowd and then the neo-con’s - and they all jogged in place as the world changed around us. Much of the electorate wants a leader who can lead change and nit treat as this week’s slogan (the way Hillary used it for a while). This is why Obama is doing so well - including closing the numbers gaps in Texas and Ohio, according to the daily rolling, tracking polls such as those run by Rasmussen and the AP.
Washington is filled with bright men and women - elected and civil servants - just aching for a chance to put their good ideas to work, if only there was a President who set the tone and direction, rally the country and got us moving again.
As a high ranking Democratic party operative who is not involved in either campaign said to me Thursday, “It’s the technocrat against the visionary. I think we’ve had plenty of technocrats, guys like Cheney and Rumsfeld, but we’re short on visionaries which how clowns like Cheney ended up in charge.”
As an aside, since when is being uplifted and moved by a political figure a bad thing? You want details: Spend a day reading Obama’s website, watch tapes of the soon-to-be 20 debates that are posted on-line, read the transcripts of Obama’s speeches (as opposed to the sound bites that make it onto the news and into newspapers. Obama has more depth and breadth than Billary can find ways to go negative on him.
Report thisBy johnp, February 16, 2008 at 5:46 am #
“if you see, Charly James”,
..Christian Rock..Giant Shrimp..Kompassionate Konservative etc etc
I still think this is a parody..I hope this is a parody..
Report thisBy Johnny Smith, February 16, 2008 at 4:44 am #
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Is the trying to appeal to the older white voters by giving them a nostalgic disco-type song from ages ago? Who’s her new campaign director? Donna Summer? If this is her new direction, she may as well concede now.
Report thisBy cyrena, February 15, 2008 at 11:56 pm #
No…this is at least a decade before 1988. I wanna put it in the early to mid 70’s, but I haven’t bothered to check it.
Reminds me of a Billy Bob’s sort of thing with a few non-whites thrown in to make it ‘modern’.
Report thisBy Sonja Coryat, February 15, 2008 at 10:01 pm #
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It made me cry. It’s all so sad. This frenetic woman trying so hard to be president. Jeez, it’s awful. It’s a wonder she wasn’t wearing that hideous squash-colored ill-fitting jacket with the black piping. I’m really beginning to feel sorry for her. She’s so pathetic. The video looks and sounds like a disorganized commercial for an exercise class. It’s a joke, right? Like why was that polar bear sitting on a chunk of ice? It’s all too much for me. I’m going to bed. http://www.sonjarants.blogspot.com
Report thisBy Douglas Chalmers, February 15, 2008 at 8:47 pm #
Quote; “Let’s just put it out there that this is not a critique of Hillary Clinton the candidate….. that this is the worst campaign song/video of all time…. Jackson 5 are cringing…”
Well, there ya go. It has migrants/ethnic groups in it, some are Latino, some are Asian - even Vietnamese. An Arab even but none are Jews. Is that what you are complaining about, Scheer?
Or is it that there is an elderly woman - and a child fronting the band with more talent than you’ll ever have, uhh?!?! Oh, I see, its that there are young people in it and its not the 1970’s…..
You are so-oooo out of date. No parody necessary? You are a parody of your own sad existence. Living in the miserable past and hoping for “change” when the path to happiness is right there in front of you.
Report thisBy cyrena, February 15, 2008 at 7:08 pm #
Oh Outraged..
You post truly made me LOL!! Hard! Especially this..
“Those poor children, what kind of adults allowed them to engage in this type of aberrant behavior. This could haunt them for the rest of their lives.”
Aberrant Behavior? Too funny….
But hey, check out Jacko Whacko these 40 years down the road. What can I say?
Actually, I did have to take it as satire, so I thought the thing was kind of funny, in a pathetic sort of a way. I mean, as bad as it is NOW, historians and other social scientists down the road are gonna love it. They’ll be able to find some ‘repeating’ themes and behaviors over decades.
Oh my, they’ll be able to interpret this in MULTIPLE ways.
Meantime, I’m still LOL..
Report thisBy steve, February 15, 2008 at 3:43 pm #
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Let’s party like its 1979!!!!!!
Report thisBy Maani, February 15, 2008 at 2:49 pm #
CJ:
“In a way, though, the song epitomizes the entire Clinton campaign: It prattles on about policy wonk stuff when, clearly, the electorate wants to be uplifted and inspired.”
And there it is in a nutshell. The people are more interested in fluff and flutter - being “uplifted and inspired” - than with things actually getting done.
I could not have put Hillary’s case in a better light if I had tried to myself.
Peace.
Report thisBy John H, February 15, 2008 at 2:41 pm #
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What year is this? 1988??
Report thisBy John H, February 15, 2008 at 2:39 pm #
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What year is this? 1988???
Report thisBy johnp, February 15, 2008 at 2:29 pm #
I really want to know..WHO DID THIS? ..because if it is a satire, I want to see their other work..these guys are brilliant.
if it’s not a satire… I still want to see their other stuff..could be a goldmine of undiscovered..umm..undiscovered..
either way..fess up.
Report thisBy Maani, February 15, 2008 at 12:42 pm #
Outraged:
If being associated with this song were the worst thing that anyone had ever said or thought of me, I’d be in really good shape…LOL.
What I was waiting for at the end of the video was Hillary’s voice-over saying, “I’m Hillary Clinton, and I have to ask: what were these people smoking?”
LOL.
Peace.
Report thisBy Outraged, February 15, 2008 at 11:23 am #
RE: By Maani, February 15
Why Maani… you’re too kind…I wouldn’t say twee, something more like hokey bullshit comes to mind. Those poor children, what kind of adults allowed them to engage in this type of aberrant behavior. This could haunt them for the rest of their lives.
Sorry Maani.., but everytime I think of you this will song will go through my head. Things like this are impossible to live down, kinda like dancing naked with a lampshade on your head.
HILL-A-RY FOR YOU AND ME…BRING BACK OUR DE-MOC-RA-CY.. LOL….LOL…HAHAHA….....
I feel a twinge of remorse teasing you Maani…but only a twinge and it passes very quickly…LOL.
Report thisBy Charley James, February 15, 2008 at 11:17 am #
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It’s in the same league as “I’m Gonna Vote for Hubert Humphrey” in 1960 and “I’m Madalay for Adali” in the previous election.
In a way, though, the song epitomizes the entire Clinton campaign: It prattles on about policy wonk stuff when, clearly, the electorate wants to be uplifted and inspired. Billary are campaigning against hope and that strategy has never worked in American politics. Remember Jimmy Carter? When he told Americans they suffered from a “malaise,” he sealed his political doom.
Compare this song to “Yes, We Can.” See what I mean?
Anyway, the Clinton campaign song is so amateurish it reminds me of so-called “Christian Rock.” By it’s very nature, rock n’ roll is anarchy and has nothing to do with Christianity—or any other religion.
Report thisBy Maani, February 15, 2008 at 10:49 am #
Okay, so the song is hopelessly twee. But it’s hardly the worst thing I’ve ever heard. The writer and performers certainly have heart, and one cannot be faulted for that.
Still, I would have liked to see special guest Bill Clinton wailing a mean-ass sax solo!
Peace.
Report thisBy Jaded Prole, February 15, 2008 at 9:22 am #
I though McCain’s rendition of “Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran” has to be the worst campaign song—though I hope it follows him around like “macaca.”
Report thisBy jdogg333, February 15, 2008 at 9:04 am #
Wha? Huh? a spoof? Do tell
Report thisBy STORMY7, February 15, 2008 at 8:32 am #
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THAT WAS THE CORNIEST COMMERCIAL SO FAR. I’M STILL A HILLARY SUPPORTER.
Report thisBy Howard Mandel, February 15, 2008 at 8:06 am #
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I guess “Up With People” finally found a new gig.
Report thisBy johnp, February 15, 2008 at 7:13 am #
Up with People for Billary!
further evidence of her being a repug
Report thisBy SkippyJones, February 14, 2008 at 10:57 pm #
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I liked it!
Report thisBy Adrienne4Dean, February 14, 2008 at 8:04 pm #
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...a polka video. Please. You’d have to be pretty naive to believe this is anything but a spoof.
If you want to see a real Hillary tribute, check this out:
Report thishttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cySK6q2P_Nw
Alicia Keys’ Superwoman used by permission.
By jdogg333, February 14, 2008 at 7:09 pm #
I just puked on my computer….
Report thisBy Jimmy_g, February 14, 2008 at 6:00 pm #
Hey no joke I just ate as well!!!! Very out of touch!!
Report thisBy Jimmy_g, February 14, 2008 at 5:59 pm #
Hey no joke I just ate as well!!!! Very out of tuch!!
Report thisBy D. Wolf, February 14, 2008 at 5:35 pm #
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That reminded me of something out of the movie “Jesus Camp”.
Report thisBy mdc, February 14, 2008 at 4:50 pm #
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OK it is a corny song… but there are worse things in the world than people singing and dancing to generate excitement for a political candidate. At least these people give a damn about something and are willing to act in a positive way.
Report thisBy akibo, February 14, 2008 at 4:32 pm #
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Talk about a CULT!
Those people are nuts!
I had no idea this was going on in America.
Report thisBy Adrienne4Dean, February 14, 2008 at 4:27 pm #
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Obviously an independent effort, with the singing/dancing footage and crummy sountrack amateurishly spliced into generic campaign footage. “Gene Wang” is either a misguided and terminally corney Hillary supporter, or more likely the whole thing is a malicious spoof. Notice how the YouTube site with thousands of views has had comments turned off.
Try this instead
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cySK6q2P_Nw
Alicia Keys vocal used with permission.
*****A
Report thisBy jackpine savage, February 14, 2008 at 4:00 pm #
I made through 45 seconds, but then i started to feel ill…and sorry that someone could be so out of touch with reality that they would actually spend money to produce this.
It looked like there were about 20 people “dancing” in the “crowd”...that’s about right.
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