Obama’s Crossover Appeal?
Jonathan Chait has suggested that Obama make this his campaign song (warning: lame 1980s video after link). It’s not that bad of a suggestion as these things go, but a word of caution: several of the clips of dive-bombers appear to be from film of German Stuka attacks from WWII, which might send a slightly mixed message to Obama’s target audiences.
Obama: We’ve had enough policies and plans. What we need are fighter-bombers!
It creates an unfortunate association with Nazis that just doesn’t seem likely to help Obama unless, following from Rick Perlstein’s argument about Romney at the Henry Ford Museum, Obama wanted to send subtle, coded signals that he really isn’t the dovish left-winger that you think he is, but that he is, in reality, a sneaky admirer of Goering and the Luftwaffe.
Obama: The enemy is not the other party–the enemy is Poland!
One other problem: the song refers to smoking, when everyone knows that Obama is trying to quit. At the very least, that will not make his wife very happy.
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