{"id":1182,"date":"2008-08-28T18:24:41","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T22:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2008-08-28T18:24:41","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T22:24:41","slug":"campaign-event-soundtracks-a-few-suggestions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/08\/28\/campaign-event-soundtracks-a-few-suggestions\/","title":{"rendered":"Campaign Event Soundtracks: A Few Suggestions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am ashamed to say that the Democratic National Convention has been just as successful as the Olympics in running 24\/7 at Blacknell.net World Headquarters.\u00c2\u00a0 So I&#8217;ve seen almost all of the primetime speeches (with varying levels of attention) and heard much of the music.\u00c2\u00a0 The choices, for the most part, have been uninspiring (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b2WzocbSd2w\">Isn&#8217;t She Lovely<\/a>, following Michelle Obama?\u00c2\u00a0 Ugh.)\u00c2\u00a0 And music matters (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WBKkwxCV5ls\">Don&#8217;t Stop<\/a> still brings the 92 convention right back, for me).\u00c2\u00a0 So, free of charge, I&#8217;m going to offer up some advice for political fundraisers and campaigns, present and future.<\/p>\n<p>Obama might want to take a more aggressive approach, with this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DLwBhvFuUIg[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More cynical supporters might be won over with:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aKFMo8Cv81Y[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>A Terry McAuliffe dinner:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jXZLWe0WMBU[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>For the Inaugual Ball that Hillary hosts:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fquGNHiEG-4[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>Because I&#8217;m a bipartisan kind of guy, here&#8217;s a couple for McCain:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2CVJFQkPkCg[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Or<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ewM0TxX_ua4[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>And for the Republicans on November 6th:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2qtl7l0HHWI[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>I think we&#8217;re alone now,<br \/>\nThere does&#8217;t seem to be anyone around.<br \/>\nI think we&#8217;re alone now,<br \/>\nThe beating of our hearts is the only sound. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am ashamed to say that the Democratic National Convention has been just as successful as the Olympics in running 24\/7 at Blacknell.net World Headquarters.\u00c2\u00a0 So I&#8217;ve seen almost all of the primetime speeches (with varying levels of attention) and heard much of the music.\u00c2\u00a0 The choices, for the most part, have been uninspiring (Isn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}