McCain and Hatch, 'together forever'
By Steve Benen Thursday Apr 24, 2008 9:30pmBarack Obama has picked up support from Bruce Springsteen and John Mellencamp, while Will.i.am put one of Obama’s speeches to music. Hillary Clinton appeared alongside Elton John at a concert in her honor, and relies on a Celine Dion song as a campaign anthem.
John McCain, well, at least he has Orrin Hatch.
Not content to sit on the sidelines, longtime senator and one-time presidential hopeful Orrin Hatch has penned a song for his Senate buddy John McCain in hopes of helping his White House bid.
Really, he did.
Hatch — a Utah Republican who won a platinum award for helping co-write lyrics for a song that sold more than a million records — crafted a tune called “Together Forever” for the presumptive Republican nominee.
“Forever together / America is the land we’re fighting for / There’s a time in history / for a hero’s destiny / together forever more,” says Hatch’s song, co-written with composer Philip Springer, famous for the Christmas song, “Santa Baby.”
The song goes onto say, “[S]ure as heaven, we’re gonna win. Start celebrating, now let’s begin.”
A McCain campaign spokesperson, who was almost certainly kidding, said, “We’ll see Barack Obama’s Bruce Springsteen endorsement and raise them an Orrin Hatch.”
DNC spokesman Damien LaVera had a slightly more biting reaction: “Once the voters get to see the real John McCain, we’re sure Senator Hatch will get his wish, and he and Senator McCain can spend ‘Forever Together’ in the U.S. Senate.”
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John Mellencamp played for an Obama event the other night in Indiana but stated that he would also play for a Hillary event in Indiana in the future. He has not endorsed either Obama or Clinton yet saying he was simply for the Democrats. Living in Indiana I thought I should correct this, even though I support Obama.
Hatch has a golden eye. They don't call him Orrin "Mr. Discernment" Hatch fer nuthin!!!
Watch out Elvis, here comes Orrin.
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Let's see now.... Bruce Springsteen, Orrin Hatch, Bruce Springsteen, Orrin Hatch... hmmn, I think it's definitely Bruce Springsteen.
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A McCain campaign spokesperson, who was almost certainly kidding, said, “We’ll see Barack Obama’s Bruce Springsteen endorsement and raise them an Orrin Hatch.”
I don't know. The McCain people and their supporters apparently thought it was a very pointed criticism when that guy SSgt Bellavia introduced McCain at a rally by saying, "Rest assured, that men like Sen. McCain will be the goal and the men [sic] that my two young boys will emulate and admire. You can have your Tiger Woods, we’ve got Sen. McCain. [..] My friends, this is the real ‘audacity of hope.’"
They went their kids to look up to an old, fossilized, corrupt, adulterous senator with a pill-popping wife instead of a multi-millionaire star athlete with a hot Swedish supermodel wife. Why should we presume that they would be kidding when they say Orrin Hatch trumps Bruce Springsteen?
Bruce Springteen slyly comments "Whoa, whoa Barack take my hand, we're riding out tonight to case the promised land...
Clinton OUTSOURCED her theme song? Ah well, NAFTA I guess.
Hatch lays an egg.
Reminder: John McCain and Orrin Hatch have anal, to mouth intercourse several times a day.
I don't mean to rain on his parade....but Rick Astley already had a One Hit Wonder with "Together Forever".....I don't know whether to hope for it to be better or worse...or maybe Rick will come sing for him....
( the Raining McCain song was bad enough...)
“Forever together / America is the land we’re fighting for / There’s a time in history / for a hero’s destiny / together forever more,” says Hatch’s song, co-written with composer Philip Springer, famous for the Christmas song, “Santa Baby.”
Sounds like something from the Hitler Youth. How appropriate.
"Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. When independent- thinking people (and here I do not include the corporate media) begin to rally under flags, when writers, painters, musicians, film makers suspend their judgment and blindly yoke their art to the service of the "Nation," it's time for all of us to sit up and worry." -Arundhati Roy, Come September
repugs are tired, old and useless.
Isn't "Together Forever" a Rick Astley tune. Man, that guy was awesome!
I preferred the working title, 'Get Off My Lawn You Damn Kids'.
LT Nixon @ 14:
Oh, I get it! We've been Rick Roll'd!
Man, for a party whose identity is based largely on hating gay people... that's pretty. damn. gay.
Did they also record it in Spanish?
As the most Republican state in the union, I will cede Utah to McClain in the general election but only by a small margin.
On an aside, if Mr. Hatch was not Senator Hatch, no one in the country would know he co-wrote a song of some commercial prominence. Wisely, he has stayed with his day job.
“[S]ure as heaven, we’re gonna win. Start celebrating, now let’s begin.”
That line is both funny & hilarious to me.
On one hand it says it is a sure thing that McCain will win, as in "That damned Greg Palast in his Armed Madhouse book had us figured out, but still no one stopped us!".
On the other, a McCain victory is as likely as the existence of Heaven, a physically impossible, place that found only in mythology. Thor came out for Clinton awhile ago, I think Apollo & Artemis are leaning toward Obama.
or not "funny & hilarious", but "scary & hilarious
Excuse me miss, there's no barf bag in the seat back in front of me.
Can I have a hot towel?
All these long-term career pols think their excrement smells like No. 5, that anything they touch or do or think is 24k frikkin gold.
They should all be brought down a notch or two before they're sent to reeducation camp.
The title of the Spanish version is Pato Muerto.
Kind of like saying "I'll see your $100 and raise you a piece of pocket lint."
“Once the voters get to see the real John McCain, ...."
But we never will get to see that, will we? The man has spent his entire campaign being a chameleon. Wherever he goes, he plays the role that will fit best with that area/group/special interest. No honesty there. A little nagging feeling tells me he doesn't just do this for the votes; I think the "real" McCain may be something more awful than anything we could ever dream of.
I know all politicians are guilty of this, but it seems McCain could be one of the worst.
Don't want to hear that song. Ever. My musician ears couldn't take it and those lyrics are burning a hole in my brain.
Yes, Hatch knows how to pick'em. See the video at the this link:
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2006/9/29/03943/6196
A top ten hit on thknow that, oh wait my dog just made a hit for the "magical being crowd" in the back yard, I'll go scoop it up! Hatch has an out of wedlock child who looks and acts just like him, we know him as sen Graham! One redneck ass, begets another redneck ass. And the american people slept while are country slowly circled the bowl(clockwise) toward the hole.e christian rock charts? Gee I didn't
Hatch is my senator, I'm ashamed to say. The lemmings here in Utah have voted him in time and time again, and they'll keep doing it. One day he's going to make Strom Thurmond look young. My grandpa used to call him "Borin' Orrin" back in the 70's. He'd roll in his grave if he knew that he still was still in.
Hatch is a better songwriter than he is senator--and he's a pathetic songwriter. God help us all!!!
Ghost @ 27:
Actually Mormons don't accept the cross as a holy symbol, and they've been teaming up with other religious nuts for years. BTW, Howard Stephenson is worse than Hatch, and I'm sure he'll run for Hatch's spot when he retires/dies. He's basically a Mormon version of Grover Norquist.
If you did the tiniest bit of research you'd know that Mellancamp is also going to perform at a Hillary Clinton event, which means his political ideas are more complex than you'e been able to grasp. (Calm down Obama fanatics! Just because someoone isn't a raving moron for Obama doesn't mean they support Hillary: I think they're both politically-naive, silly twats)
Hmmmm... analysis that acknowledges complexity.
That would be a change.
You know, I'm a deeply anti-religious, anti-conservative person and don't like any Christians based on actual hateful experiences with them. But a friend of mine disclosed after nine months that he's a Mormon. Which means his religiosity is so mild, it couldn't be detected. We have grown to be very good friends, and he is a terrific guy. I'm not saying all Mormons are swell (clearly Glenn Beck is a douchebag) but I go to a school where ninety percent of the students are liberals. They also happen to me major assholes, blinded by their own self-admiration; just contemptible people - a truckload of them wouldn't be worth twenty bucks. Neither are most nitwit conservatives worth your spit.
But what a surprise to be hanging out with a center-right guy. As long as we honor an unspoken agreement not to talk about politics, we have become excellent friends. Shrill antagonism across the aisle isn't doing much for the country either. You've been tricked by idiots from all corners into thinking so. As long as they keep both teams excitable and bickering nothing will get fixed/done.
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