“Raining McCain”
About a month ago, I wondered whether or not a couple of unimaginably horrible YouTube music videos supporting Hillary Clinton had actually been created by her detractors. The videos were just so comically bad that it seemed like a practical joke, or worse. Now, a similar karaoke-style music video is making the rounds, this one supporting John McCain, and it raises the same question: Can they be serious? Either way, there’s no way this thing can help his campaign.
The video, Raining McCain is a music video featuring three overweight women singing a song about John McCain to the tune of It’s Raining Men. And again, the singers are so off-key that it seems intentional, and the content of the video is so ridiculous that it seems like a spoof (the older woman’s body actually disappears in front of the green screen for most of the video).
This video raises a bunch of questions, but the biggest mystery to me is the meaning of this line, which recurs a couple of times in the course of the song: “I’m going to go out and let myself get ab-so-lute-ly John McCain!”
What the hell does that mean? The line from It’s Raining Men is, “I’m gonna go out to run and let myself get absolutely soaking wet!” But substituting “John McCain” for “soaking wet” is so meaningless it makes the song even more ludicrous than it already is.
Here’s another choice line: “He taught every angel to rearrange the vote, so that each and every American could find John McCain.” Whoa, that’s deep.






Thanks for this - I’m going to go out and get myself absolutely John McCain is my new favorite 2008 campaign quote - just beating out barack obama is your new bicycle.
Now, McCain supporters take note - you can’t just stay IN and get yourself absolutely john mccain. You must Go Out in order to get yourself absolutely John McCain, so don’t forget.