The Barack Obameter

I will admit that my taste in music is much more in line with Obama than McCain. (You can refer to an old post when I interviewed McCain about his taste in music. I can't find that entry, FYI. But I know I wrote it.)


In an upcoming Rolling Stone article, Obama lists the following as favorites on his iPod:
Bob Dylan, Yo-Yo Ma, Sheryl Crow, Jay-Z, Rolling Stones, Elton John, Earth Wind & Fire, Stevie Wonder.
Senator Obama's playlist also includes about 30 songs from Dylan's "Blood on the Tracks" along with Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Charlie Parker.
The AP quotes from the article:
"Actually, one of my favorites during the political season is 'Maggie's Farm,"' Obama said of one of Dylan's tracks. "It speaks to me as I listen to some of the political rhetoric."

For me, that scores quite high on the Barack Obameter. I've been looking for an opportunity to use that phrase.

I am also reminded of something my now 8-year-old daughter said when she was two. She was riding in the back seat of my Volvo, stuck in traffic south of Boston and blurted out, "Charlie Parker plays alto sax."
And while this was certainly true, how did she know? I hadn't told her. My child rearing plan didn't call for covering Charlie Parker until she was four.