Jan 22, 2004

AN ARGUMENT FOR DENNIS KUCINICH

by Liberty and Power

An Associated Press canvass of the candidates on what album they'd most like to pop into their CD players turns up gospel, opera, hip-hop, country and rock.
The rock fans are Wesley Clark, who likes Journey's"Greatest Hits"; Sen. John Edwards,"The Essential Bruce Springsteen"; and Sen. John Kerry, the Beatles'"Abbey Road."

Howard Dean singled out the music of Grammy-winning hip-hop singer Wyclef Jean. Rep. Dennis Kucinich chose country's Willie Nelson (who has endorsed him), and Al Sharpton favored gospel's Yolanda Adams. Sen. Joe Lieberman's favorite album is"Sueno," by classical Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli.

I've got this image of Wes Clark with that thousand-yard stare, hunched down in his bus seat, muttering to himself"wheel in the sky keeps on turning/wheel in the sky keeps on turning" on and on and on through the frozen wasteland of NH. [Link courtesy of Atrios.]

More Comments:

Jonathan Dresner - 1/22/2004

Most of them are mildly interesting. Lieberman's characteristic iconoclasm, picking something quite out of the mainstream, for example. Edward's Springsteen pick makes me like him a little bit more, but it would really depend on why he likes it.

But I just have trouble with the thought of Howard Dean listening to Wyclef Jean on a regular basis. Perhaps someone who knows Jean's music better could provide a little analysis?