Extremely Lame

Thank you, Blender Magazine for asking the tough hitting questions to the two presidential candidates. They asked them to each make a list of their top ten favorite songs. You know, because there isn’t enough things to talk about, like the economy, or Russia’s attack of Georgia, or the war in Iraq. No no! We have to find out what they listen to.

You know what’s sadder than the fact that they were asked this? The fact that crap like this will actually affect how people vote in November. It’s almost enough to make denying certain people the right to vote seem not so bad.

Here’s Barack Obama’s list:

1. The Fugees - Ready or Not
2. Marvin Gaye - What’s Going On
3. Bruce SPringsteen - I’m On Fire
4. Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
5. Nina Simone - Sinnerman
6. Kanye West - Touch the Sky
7. Frank Sinatra - You’d Be So Easy to Love
8. Aretha Franklin - Think
9. U2 - City of Blinding Lights
10. will.i.am - Yes We Can

As for John McCain’s picks, here they are:

1. ABBA - Dancing Queen
2. Roy Orbison - Blue Bayou
3. ABBA - Take a Chance On Me
4. Merle Haggard - If We Make It Through December
5. Dooley Wilson - As Time Goes By
6. The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
7. Louis Armstrong - What a Wonderful World
8. Frank Sinatra - I’ve Got You Under My Skin
9. Neil Diamond - Sweet Caroline
10. The Platters - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

There you have it. Yes, we get it. They both have Frank Sinatra on there. Big whoop. Sinatra’s classic, and there’s other artists I could see on both of their lists, like the Stones or Lous Armstrong.

I can imagine pundits reading way too much into these lists and making all kinds of ridiculous claims. I can imagine them criticizing McCain for having two ABBA songs and say that it was a calculated move on his part because Mamma Mia just came out and it’s chock full of ABBA songs.

On the reverse, I see them criticizing Obama for having Kanye West and the Fugees on there as being “safe” because he has to have hip hop on the list and those are hip hop artists that white people actually like. That said, Kanye West’s video of Touch the Sky is pretty awesome.