McCain still not the one!

Remember that song "Still The One" by Orleans? Yes, this is the tune ABC butchered for its late '70s promos (one of which featured a person bubbling).

A while back, the McCain campaign had to stop using some of John Mellencamp's songs when Mellencamp complained about this misuse of his work. But the embattled candidate didn't learn his lesson!

Now McCain is misappropriating "Still The One" without bothering to get permission from its co-writer John Hall, a founding member of Orleans.

Hall, now a Democratic congressman from New York (and an Obama supporter), said, "This is yet another example of John McCain not learning anything from George Bush's mistakes." (Bush had used the song without permission in 2004.)

The Republicans are usually the ones who demonize peer-to-peer software for allegedly making people violate copyright laws, but now it turns out Republicans like McCain have no respect for copyright laws themselves.

A McCain spokesman said of Hall's complaint, "We will take his concerns under consideration." You'll take copyright law under consideration? Is this anything like how the Bush regime takes laws under consideration and then disobeys them?

With most songwriters shunning McCain, I guess he's going to be left with nothing but horrible David Thibodeaux parodies.

(Source: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3350965)