http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j-76RGuXeBwRkdkjIwMUwOXVaJdQD92IG3M09

The first Jackson Browne song that came to mind was "Running on Empty."

Lo and behold, that was the song used and named in the lawsuit!

However, I think the only thing that's "Running on Empty" is Republican economic policies, and ways of putting together a campaign that doesn't involve personally attacking everyone else on the planet.

I started the thhread, then tried to post a link to the song. The link didn't work, so i deleted my second post. Don't know if Randy posted, since i just deleted the second post.

Both ABBA & John Mellencamp have also asked McCain to stop using their music, concerned that people might infer that they actually support him.

What's that leave him?
Toby Keith?
There's an endorsement!
Maybe they could use "The Lynching Song"

I was the second person to post after Vern's original two, but then canceled my post about the same time he canceled his second one.

I didn't even post so I had nothing to cancel.

Ann & Nancy Wilson to Palin: Back off on 'Barracuda'.

The rock group Heart has sent a message to John McCain and Sarah "Barracuda'' Palin: quit playing our 1977 hit ''Barracuda.''

Soon after the presidential nominee finished his acceptance speech late Thursday and running-mate Palin joined him on the Republican National Convention stage in St. Paul, the sound system pumped the throbbing introductory guitar licks to "Barracuda.''

It seemed the cleverest musical choice of both conventions. Heart's Ann and Nancy Wilson, like Alaska Governor Palin, are outspoken products of the Pacific Northwest, and the sisters's tune also could refer to Palin's Dazed-and-Confused-Era nickname of Sarah Barracuda, given for her intense high-school basketball play.

But the Wilsons condemned the usage then and earlier in the convention, adding that Universal Music Publishing and Sony BMG have sent a cease-and-desist notice to the McCain-Palin campaign, according to CNN.

The Wilson sister's statement:

"Sarah Palin's views and values in NO WAY represent us as American women. We ask that our song 'Barracuda' no longer be used to promote her image. The song 'Barracuda' was written in the late 70s as a scathing rant against the soulless, corporate nature of the music business, particularly for women. (The 'barracuda' represented the business.) While Heart did not and would not authorize the use of their song at the RNC, there's irony in Republican strategists' choice to make use of it there."

http://www.boston.com/ae/music/blog/2008/09/heart_to_mccain.html?s_campaign=8315

You would think that by now, these political nominees would seek the permission to play people's music? I was pissed when I heard Barracuda playing, because I assumed Heart had given them permission, therby supporting McCain. I also heard Journey's "Don't Stop Believin" as well. Hopefully they didn't give permission either. I would be forever disappointed in Journey if they did.

At least Rush Limbaugh had the decency to make an arrangement with Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders to use "My City Was Gone" as his opening theme. He could, anyway, under the music licensing, but she protested because they each hate everything the other stands for. This is from an old Rolling Stone:

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5923659/really_randoms_chrissie_hynde_ric ky_martin_jimmy_page

McCain should use:

Old & In The Way by David Grisman

Lies by Styx

Liar by Argent(Russ Ballard){also rec. by Three Dog Night)

(Lots of songs titled lies and liar, but do the lyrics fit?)

Old Folks Boogie by Little Feat (When your mind makes a promise that your body can't fill)

I'm The Slime by Frank Zappa

From the article Eastwood provided a link for:

". . . [Rush using The Pretenders' song] didn't seem to bother Hynde all that much until Limbaugh told a pair of reporters in 1997 that "it was icing on the cake that it was [written by] an environmentalist, animal rights wacko and was an anti-conservative song. It is anti-development, anti-capitalist, and here I am going to take a liberal song and make fun of [liberals] at the same time." Last month [in 1999], Hynde finally got Limbaugh to pull the song but then did an about face on Aug. 18, telling him that he could use the song if he donated all the royalties to the animal right's organization PETA, after PETA campaign manager Dan Mathews told her Limbaugh had a soft-spot for animals."

So, Rush has a soft spot for animals, eh?