A Straw In The Breeze?

From the Times:

Firefighters’ Union Backs Away From Endorsement of Hillary Clinton

The International Association of Fire Fighters, one of the country’s more politically powerful unions, has abandoned its initial plans to endorse Hillary Rodham Clinton for president, according to union sources.

Harold A. Schaitberger, the union’s general president, informed Mrs. Clinton’s campaign manager, Robby Mook, in a telephone call on Monday. According to a union official, Mr. Schaitberger told Mr. Mook that the executive board and rank-and-file members — the latter were recently polled — did not support a Clinton endorsement.

Left unmentioned, since the Times will be endorsing Hillary unless Biden goes transgender, is any mention of Hillary's post-9/11 efforts to position herself as a champion of first responders, which obviously includes firemen.

And how is that working out?

Mr. Schaitberger worried that a Clinton endorsement could deeply divide the firefighters, according to a union official who did not want to be identified because he was not authorized to speak about the endorsement decision. Members tilt Republican, but the union typically endorses Democrats for president because of their stances on labor and other issues of importance to firefighters. Union officials have cited Mr. Biden’s decades-long record of leadership on these issues.

No kidding.

MONEY WELL SPENT, or, I FEEL A SONG COMING ON: Drudge flags a story noting that Hillary spent $9,000 for a consultant to select some rock songs for the campaign trail. As someone nearly said, authenticity is the key to politics - once you can fake that, you've got it made.

So what song? "Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow" is out, and she has no easy choice such as "You Can Call Me Al". Hmm, that makes me think of "Call Me" - good energy, but maybe not for her. And "Call Me Maybe" cuts too close to home if donors are drifting away.

In any case, it will be money well spent if she can avoid the awkwardness around her Senate kickoff in 2000:

Billy Joel’s suburban-angst anthem “Captain Jack,” which colorfully describes a young man’s drug use, desperation and, well, masturbation, would make an odd campaign theme song for anyone, let alone the nation’s first lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

But the 1973 song, which includes the unforgettable lines “Your sister’s gone out/ She’s on a date/ You just sit at home and masturbate,” was played Sunday — apparently by mistake — in the Westchester, N.Y., college gym where Clinton announced her candidacy for the United States Senate.

“The message that got out by mistake was, ’Let’s say yes to drugs,’ ” Clinton’s unannounced opponent in the race, New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, said the next day in his daily press conference.

I leave it to the wisdom of the many JOM commenters to save Hillary some money and come up with a playlist for her. I'm hearing Bob singing "I Threw It All Away" but I know we - and she! - can do better.

Ok, since I seem to be Stuck On Bob, what about Idiot Wind?

Someone's got it in for me
They're planting stories in the press
Whoever it is I wish they'd cut it out quick
But when they will I can only guess

AN OLDIE BUT MAYBE NOT-SO-GOODY: There is roughly no chance Joe Biden goes with that other golden oldie "Hey Joe".

NOW I AM IN PAIN: From Porchlight:

"I have a sinking feeling that "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" might make the Hillary list.

I asked for that.

Comments

[lyle]

First Growth

[Threadkiller]

First Birther

[Miss Marple 2]

The last shall be first, and the first shall be last.

[Frau Dritter Mann]

Third Man with a zither

[Frau Vorwaerts]

Go "fourth" and sin some morw?

[narciso]

actually her protocols haven't gotten any better,

http://freebeacon.com/issues/leaked-audio-clinton-talks-drug-abuse-in-home-of-convicted-coke-dealer/

[Frau Vorwaerts]

More Kaffee?

[lyle]

Thinking of having my first Bloody Mary. Any thoughts, Jeff?

[Miss Marple 2]

Russian air force hits 50 ISIS targets in 3 days.

[Beasts of England]

Idiots Rule - Jane's Addiction

[Frau Schlager]

Hillary!'s swan song --

Say it isn't so,
Everyone is saying
You don't love me,
Say it isn't so.

Everywhere I go,
Everyone I know,

Whispers that you're growing tired of me,
Say it isn't so.
People say that you,

Found somebody new,
And it won't be long
Before you leave me,
Say it isn't true,

Say that everything is still okay,
That's all I want to know,

And what they're saying,
Say it isn't so.

[Porchlight]

I have a sinking feeling that "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" might make the Hillary list.

Long Cool Woman in a Pantsuit?
My Woman from Arkansas?

[GMax]

Aint No Way to hide Your Lyin' Eyes should be on the play list TM

[Porchlight]

And Witchy Woman, GMax.

[Miss Marple 2]

Link to Russian air force pounding ISIS:

https://www.rt.com/news/317505-air-force-terrorists-raqqa/

[henry]

Big Bottom. Played at 11.

[Stephanie]

Fat Bottom Girls.

Duh.

Roll Tide!

[narciso]

other than the obvious, how did you like the play,

http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/130401369312/nyt-perpetually-blaming-the-republicans

[Jack is Back!]

From Three Day's Grace: It's All Over

Your bottle's almost empty
You know this can't go on
Because of you
My mind is always racing

The needles' breaking your skin
The scar is sinking in
And now your trip begins
But it's all over for, it's all over

For you, for you
When you're on the edge and falling off
It's all over for you, for you
When you're on the edge and falling off
It's all over

[Stephanie]

I am so tired of this rain. All I want to do is sleep! The new deck roof is finished and we haven't been able to enjoy it as the mist has been soaking everything. Gah!

[boatbuilder]

Her campaign manager is named Robby Mook?

[Porchlight]

How about "I'm So Tired" from the White Album?

[Beasts of England]

Great Pretender - Queen

[Beasts of England]

She's So Heavy - The Beatles

[narciso]

a hope not a playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp6-wG5LLqE

[Beasts of England]

Poor Poor Pitiful Me - Warren Zevon

[Porchlight]

She's So Heavy - lol, Beasts.

[DebinNC]

"Call Me Irresponsible"

Call me irresponsible
Call me unreliable
Throw in undependable, too

Do my foolish alibis chronic lies bore you?
Well, I'm not too clever, I
I just adore you

So, call me unpredictable
Tell me I'm impractical
Rainbows coalitions, I'm inclined to pursue

Call me irresponsible
Yes, I'm unreliable
But it's undeniably true
That I'm irresponsibly mad for at you

[Beasts of England]

The Bitch Is Back - Elton John

[Beasts of England]

Cold As Ice - Foreigner

[Threadkiller]

Big Bottoms by Spinal Tap

[Beasts of England]

Evil Woman - ELO

[Janet S. ~ et al.]

Here's a whole list - Villain songs

http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Villain_Songs

Rotten to the Core...

or "Evil Like Me"
"Don't you wanna be evil like me?
Don't you wanna be mean?
Don't you wanna make mischief your daily routine?
Well you can spend your life attending to the poor
But when you're evil doing less is doing more
Don't you wanna be ruthless and rotten and mad?
Don't you wanna be very very good at being bad?"

[Janet S. ~ et al.]

Give Me Your Money Today -
http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Give_Me_Your_Money_Today

I want your money
I'm strapped for cash
I need your money
Too lazy to get a job
Give me your money
I'm not being funny
Give me your money today!

[Dave (in MA)]

BOB

BOB <== original

[Janet S. ~ et al.]

My Evil Buddies and Me

http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/My_Evil_Buddies_and_Me

Steppin' out with my brand new crew,
Nobody's gonna tell us what we can't do
Or where we can go, or what we can see
In this town everyone will listen to me,
My evil buddies and me!
(Shoop doo be doo doop!)
Me and my evil friends!
(Shoop doo be doo doop doop doo!)

[Michael (fpa Patriot4Freedom)]

The Eagles - "One of These Nights"

You can't hide your lyin' eyes
And your smile is a thin disguise
I thought by now you'd realize
There ain't no way to hide your lyin' eyes

She gets up and pours herself a strong one
And stares out at the stars up in the sky
Another night, it's gonna be a long one
She draws the shade and hangs her head to cry

She wonders how it ever got this crazy
She thinks about a boy she knew in school
Did she get tired or did she just get lazy?
She's so far gone she feels just like a fool

[DebinNC]

OR Christians Killer's mom, Laurel Harper claimed online that she moved from CA to OR so she could "open carry". I'm against publicizing the name of spree killers, but their enabling moms' names should become household words imo.

[rich@gmu]

keeping up with the music theme ... can only get the TCU game ...

[Michael (fpa Patriot4Freedom)]

Gmax beat me to it - Sorry !
(Note to self: Reading carefully can be beneficial)

[Dave (in MA)]

Dueling (non-)Banjos

[Johns_Creek_Bill]

Under My Thumb
Bitch
It's All Over Now
Respectable

[Jack is Back!]

100 migrants walk 15 miles into the Eurotunnel and shut it down including Eurostar.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/11909137/Eurotunnel-services-suspended-as-migrants-storm-tunnel.html

One guy made to Folkstone on the back of a semi cab hidden inside the wind deflector but was caught and put in the local goal.

[buccaneer morgan]

'what a fool believes'

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/vladimir-putin-barack-obama-russia-syria-214344#ixzz3nNpkkKHK

[Cecil Turner]

Seriously (as in it might do her some good), Joan Baez, Bread and Roses:

As we come marching, marching, we bring the greater days.
The rising of the women means the rising of the race. No more the drudge and idler—ten that toil where one reposes, But a sharing of life’s glories: Bread and roses! Bread and roses!

Less helpful (but more honest), Pink Floyd, Dogs:

You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to,
So that when they turn their backs on you,
You'll get the chance to put the knife in.

[buccaneer morgan]

a more plausible explanation then from not so Earnest:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/01/syrian-military-weakness-russian-intervention

[rich@gmu]

this will be an odd question. any listening to Rush yesterday? was wondering if that was caro who had called in?

[anonamom]

Mean and nasty Dems won't let Professor Lawrence Lessig run for president:

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/10/lessig-lawrence-democrats-debate-2016-213215

It's always so touching when an academic encounters reality.

[henry]

Of course with Hillery, we need the authentic dialect song for the campaign appearances in AME churches: baby got back. "I like big butts and I cannot lie"

[Marlene]

rich,yes! I had the same thought that the caller might be caro.

[Marlene]

Hillary's song? Evil Ways,Santana.

[rich@gmu]

Marlene-

maybe she'll confirm it. wonder if she got the painting to him.

sounded just like her.

[clarice]

"Blowin' in the Wind"?

[glasater]

Any word from Jeff on how he's doing there in the brunt of the rain in SC?

[Jack is Back!]

If this keeps up, I understand our own Miss Marple will dot the I at half-time.

[boris]

The old gray mare,
she ain't what she used to be,
many long years ago.

[Thomas Collins]

Well, her dropout song could be "It's My Party".

[Threadkiller]

Jailhouse Rock

[rse]

Checking in because watching tv was painful.

I actually told my children if any of them made Elton John's "the Bitch is Back" their ring tone to signify I was calling, they would be in trouble.

But then I have a sense of humor and Hillary does not.

[Miss Marple]

Jack,

Have no idea what you are talking about, but I have the feeling I do not want to participate.

[Miss Marple]

It is so cold I had to turn the furnace on.

I am pretty tough, but when you start getting sleepy like you are getting hypothermia, it's time to head to the thermostat.

[Stephanie]

Rse, that is son's ringtone for me. LOL

[glasater]

Always liked Lady is a Tramp but its too nice a song for Hillary.

[Buckeye]

Well MM you can forget about dotting the "I", but it was really close. Too close.

[tommy651]

"the IAFF one of the more politically powerful unions in the country." that is a joke. if you think for one second the rank and file members of that union have anything to say about who the leadership of that union endorses you don't know a damn thing about the IAFF. the membership doesn't vote for the communists that the leadership supports. the rank and file don't even get to vote for the leadership of the union. I was a member of that union for eighteen years, I never voted for the leadership of the international, I don't even know how they get elected. believe me the rank and file fireman that votes for the candidate the leadership endorses is few and far between. that union is basically a communist dictatorship.