It’s irrelevant fluff, but I’m a sucker for it. The AP has an article entitled Music tastes of the candidates. The responses, in order of my personal preferences as to their musical responses:
1. Barack Obama – Soundtrack to “Ray” (Ray Charles music)
2. John Edwards – U2
3. Mike Huckabee – Evanescence
4. Mitt Romney – Roy Orbison
5. John McCain – “Sounds of Summer – The Very Best of the Beach Boys.”
6. Dennis Kucinich – Willie Nelson
7. Chris Dodd – Soundtrack to “Jersey Boys.” (Early 60s pop/rock I believe.)
8. Tom Tancredo – Frank Sinatra
9. Bill Richardson – George Strait “50 Number Ones”
10. Hillary Clinton – “Into White” by Carly Simon
11. Rudy Giuliani – Verdi’s “Macbeth”
12. Duncan Hunter – “country and gospel”
13. Sam Brownback – Michael W. Smith
14. Joe Biden – “My sister’s playlist”
And, might I add, Biden is a tool for responding with the most blatant non-answer.
Update Dirty Laundry digs a little deeper into the relevance of the choices by candidates Obama, Clinton, and Edwards.
I know is is probably just exhaustion, but isn’t it a bit strange that Kucinich listens to Willie Nelson and Guiliani is listening to MacBeth?
Willie was a big Kucinich backer. So Dennis is just giving him a little love in return.
Ah, well, that explains Kucinich. I admire his courage to run but I do find him rather eccentric. Willie Nelson does bring back down to earth. He ought to make more of this.
I thought that Huckabee liking Evanescence was really hip, until I saw that the band is from Arkansas and he was just homing for them.
Hmmm, I would have thought Edwards’ favorite song was “Take the Money and Run” by Steve Miller.
I’m pretty sure Dick Cheney already called dibs on that one.