20 Years of Presidential Campaign Songs and What They SHOULD Have Chosen As Their Campaign Songs

Published by on October 2, 2008

There was a big fuss about the Republicans using Heart’s Barracuda whenever Sarah Palin on stage, to play up the whole ‘pitbull with lipstick’ thing and then Heart came out and demanded the RNC stop using the song, because–well, they weren’t paying for it and Heart supports Obama.

Now that got me thinking about all of the campaign songs over the past 20 years and how they could have been a lot better. Typically these songs were picked while the candidate was campaign or played during inaguration, well before we knew how well these Presidents would perform.

What the Campaign Songs Should Have Been

George H.W. Bush

Old: Woody Guthrie – This is Your Land

New: Billy Joel – We Didn’t Start the Fire

Bill Clinton

Old: Fleetwood Mac – Don’t Stop

New: Shawnna – I Was Getting Some Head

George W. Bush

Old: Tom Petty – I Won’t Back Down

New: Greenday – American Idiot

John McCain

Old: John Mellencamp – Our Country

New: Neil Young – Old Man

Barack Obama

Old: Stevie Wonder – Signed Sealed Delivered, I’m Yours

New: James Brown – Play that Funky Music White Boy