It should have been The Dixie Chicks' "Not Ready to make Nice."

The clinton campaign could have rigged it easily. It's their poll, their choices, their tally. Why should anyone believe it was an honest effort to involve people and not another craven attemp to gain mind share? After all, it's not the vote that matters - it's the count.

recycling some other (nameless) company's commericial J-I-N-G-L-E ... what were they thinking?

They'd have done better with the Oscar Meyer song or anything Streisand offered up ...

Titanic was a powerfully bad movie (great production values, good performances, but -- whew -- it stank mightily) ... despite the mega-hit status of the theme song, it made zero impression on ME ... but Celine Dion's "negatives" are impressive -- the people who hate her voice/styling/existence really really hate her.

Could they just get Puff Daddy to do a "remix" of "Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow?"

Celine Dion probably paid more U.S. income taxes in the last five years than almost all Republican elected officials.

Is this the most important issue to which we can be devoting time? Is there not a greater stupidity or injustice we can be fanning the flames of righteous indignation today?

It's just a song, ladies and gentlemen. Get over it. By itself, the song will neither win nor lose the election; it will not likely make anyone change their mind about Hillary.

that Clinton, or anyone for that matter, needs help to choose a theme song for their campaign illuminates just how doomed we all are. Lighten up? How's that? Oh we must be doing really, really well as a Nation eh? I guess using the National Anthem just doesn't cut it for the I Me Mine generation where sound bites take president to discourse and Fox News preaches what would pass for sub-grade information delivered by hacks like Geraldo Rivera in their quest for Al Capone's secrets ten years ago. We have become cemented in as part of a cultural-less electorate in need of a catchy tune to bring the lemmings to our side and away from the horrible "other side". All this and more to ensure that they somehow be elected into a job only a maniac would want. Catchy tunes indeed. Here's one for you: Helter Skelter...

I take back what I said.

So this is a big story? Has Clinton proved herself to have a human touch? We actually pick leaders based on the ideas of their media consultants?

Somehow I managed to keep myself in the dark about what a critical matter the picking of the Clinton "theme song" had become. This morning all my fears about the stupidity of Americans were confirmed.

Go ahead masses. Vote for Hillary, or some other corporate "progressive." You can call it progress.

Worst of all, I guess, is that even the soundtrack will be insipid.

If this is the kind of bitchy snark we have to look forward to from Tim Grieve for the next year and a half, it's going to be a long campaign season.

Come on people. We can't win with her.

This type of cultural cluelessness is almost on a par with Al Gore claiming that he and Tipper were the role models for Oliver Barret IV and his wife in "Love Story."

At the time it happened, Frank Rich wrote that the truth of the claim was unimportant to him - the mere fact that somebody would think that it would be a good thing to be the role model for Oliver Barret IV in "Love Story" is evidence of a cultural tone deafness so profound as to be awe-inspiring.

I feel exactly the same way about this. It's almost "Exhibit A" in the case for why Hillary can't connect with voters. She just reeks of inauthenticity.

seriously, folks: you want the titantic metaphor to be true.

let's take a look:

4yrs Bush

8yrs Clinton

8yrs Bush

4yrs... Clinton???

20+ years of a country run by 2 families? Sounds like a third world country to me...

peace

and while I have no comment on the song (can't, because I'm gagging on it), I have to mention that I LOVED the carrot bit!!! That was my favorite part!

You are slightly, though not totally, incorrect.

Beyond Love Canal, the other prime examples of Gore's "lies" - inspiring the male lead in Love Story and working to create the Internet - also stemmed from a quarrelsome reading of his words, followed by exaggeration and ridicule rather than a fair assessment of how his comments and the truth matched up.

The earliest of these Gore "lies," dating back to 1997, was Gore mentioning a press report that indicated that he and his wife Tipper had served as models for the lead characters in the sentimental bestseller and movie, Love Story.

When the author, Erich Segal, was asked about this, he stated that the preppy hockey-playing male lead, Oliver Barrett IV, indeed was modeled after Gore as well as after Gore's Harvard roommate, actor Tommy Lee Jones. But Segal said the female lead, Jenny, was not modeled after Tipper Gore. [NYT, Dec. 14, 1997]

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032207I.shtml

With regards to the Theme Song Silliness/Absurdity, it reminds me of when Howard Dean came to New Hampshire before the primary and this feeling of dread came over me as the young Suits ran about the hall and crafted this special Photo-Op of multicultural, multi-aged, multi-union people standing behind Dean as the C-SPAN cameras rolled.

I immediately knew his goose was cooked.

This morning NPR said that the Celine Dion song was a write-in vote, not one chosen by the Clinton campaign.

oh lordy day. of all the songs that could have preceded her butter-yellow pantsuits and confetti explosions. Jesus Jones would have attracted the Jesus-people and the myriad American Joneses. But even more marvelous (and at this point, conjure the already-documented uncanniness of GWB's resemblance to a chimp)-- bracketing his being British, his being arrested for various watercloset dalliances, &c.-- how GREAT would have been George Michael's "Monkey on your Back?" WHY CAN'T YOU SET THIS MONKEY FREE indeed?! i think the only way i can learn to love the idea of Celine Dion as Hillary's soundtrack is to remember Kathy Griffin's sublime bowdlerizing of the CDion on one of her comedy shows. but still. Eeks. Even Kenny Rogers's KNOW WHEN TO HOLD THEM (apropos Iraq: "know when to walk away, know when to run") would have been better....