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“This administration is populated by people who’ve spent their careers bashing government. They’re not just small-government conservatives—they’re Grover Norquist, strangle-it-in-the-bathtub conservatives. It’s a cognitive disconnect for them to be able to do something well in an arena that they have so derided and reviled all these years.”

Senator Hillary Clinton

Friday, October 29, 2004

Still the one no longer the one

Yet another scandal set to rock the Bush campaign:
The songwriter who helped pen the 1970s hit, "Still the One," is demanding that President Bush stop using the tune at campaign events, arguing that he's no fan of the Republican incumbent and the campaign never got permission to use the song.

And just run found, a follow up:
The Bush campaign abruptly stopped using the 1970's hit "Still the One" at campaign rallies Friday after the songwriter, no fan of the president, claimed the Republicans never got permission.

I'm sure they will find a way to blame this one on someone else, as well. Maybe Giuliani can link it to the troops in Iraq...

*UPDATE* ABC News has a report that Bush lied and is still using the song. Here's another report with the same claim:
About the same time, Bush aides got a complaint from John Hall, from the band Orleans, who co-wrote Still the One in 1976. He supports Sen. John Kerry and was unhappy the campaign had not gotten his permission.

Nicolle Devenish, the campaign's communications director, said they would stop using the song. But Friday night, at a rally in Columbus, Ohio, Still the One was played again.