What can we glean from this: Springsteen
will provide music for final Obama campaign rally, Jay-Z too; Romney gets Marshall Tucker Band and Kid Rock.....where's Ted Nugent now that we need him?
if you have the inclination to do so, post your favorite campaign anthem to spur Romney along. I'm sure he knows all thelyrics to "Wango Tanno"
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Believe it or not, John Fogerty's Credence Clearwater Revival VN War anthem actually was used to play Romney onstage at a Michele Bachmann campaign rally two years ago.
It was a fall-off-your-chair 
moment that made you wonder: WHAT THE HELL WERE THEY THINKING???
Fortunate Son
Recorded by Creedence Clearwater Revival
Written by John Fogerty
Some folks are born made to wave the flag
Ooh, they're red, white and blue
And when the band plays "Hail to the chief"
Ooh, they point the cannon at you, Lord
It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no senator's son, son
It ain't me, it ain't me; I ain't no fortunate one, no
Yeah!
Some folks are born silver spoon in hand
Lord, don't they help themselves, oh
But when the taxman comes to the door
Lord, the house looks like a rummage sale, yes
It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no millionaire's son, no
It ain't me, it ain't me; I ain't no fortunate one, no
Some folks inherit star spangled eyes
Ooh, they send you down to war, Lord
And when you ask them, "How much should we give?"
Ooh, they only answer More! More! More! yoh
It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no military son, son
It ain't me, it ain't me; I ain't no fortunate one, one
It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no fortunate one, no no no
It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no fortunate son, no no no
Some staffer(s) who heard the TV commercial that used opening of the song and knew only the first line and thought it was a patriotic anthem.
Fogerty said in interviews that he was thinking of people like David Eisenhower when he wrote the song--though David Eisenhower actually later went on to serve three years in the Navy.
And Fogerty himself got his draft notice but managed to serve in the Army Reserve.
On July 4, 1987, I attended the "Welcome Home Concert for Vietnam Veterans" in the Washington, D.C. area (at Landover, MD). The co-hosts were the late John Ritter and John Voight, and the star-studded lineup included Linda Ronstadt, James Ingram, Neil Diamond, Kris Kristofferson, Stevie Wonder and Crosby, Stills and Nash, and more.
The highlight of the concert was John Fogerty, who for years had not performed the songs he'd written and performed with CCR because he didn't own the rights and had to pay to perform his own songs. But when Fogerty took the stage at the end, he said he'd play those songs for the Vietnam vets--and he did. 
