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The Common Man Wins. Barack Obama Wins.

November 7, 2012

By bluecheddar

This morning on NPR I heard that Mitt had switched to a new theme song: Aaron Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man.

After I got done laughing, I realized that it’s beautiful music.

I’ll now play it for our President: Barack Obama, the winner of the 2012 presidential election.

This entry was posted on November 7, 2012 at 4:17 am and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

One Response to The Common Man Wins. Barack Obama Wins.

Gomez on November 7, 2012 at 10:53 pm

Yeah, well leave it to MITT to pick a gay, Jewish composer who loved the French to represent the republicans. I’m not saying he’s shallow, but he’s shallow.

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