Ultimate McCain/Abba Parodies

Last week, Michael Goldfarb kicked off his official blogging gig for the McCain campaign by observing "Attention disaffected Hillary supporters, John McCain is a huge ABBA fan." True or not, it's led to a brilliant series of Abba/McCain parodies at Jezebel.

Comments

I totally don't get how being a huge ABBA fan should make McCain more attractive to disaffected Hillary supporters. Was that Goldfarb's intent? What would the mechanism be?

Posted by The Modesto Kid | June 11, 2008 1:15 PM

When that page was first linked at Politico, there was a debate in the comments section between those who insisted that this site was obviously a lame parody, and those of us who insisted, based on web addresses and links to "Leadership" hats, that either it was legit or the Onion had gained control of johnmccain.com's bunch of tubes. I was never a Hillary supporter, but if I were, I'm not sure the Abba video (and I like Abba) and the link to ThePage on a Hillary-to-McCain supporter insisting "this isn't rational!!! this is emotional!!!" would win my heart.

Posted by Deborah | June 11, 2008 1:31 PM

Let's start calling him Fernando. Actually the lyrics are almost poignant and relevant to McCain.

Can you hear the drums Fernando?

Posted by Mudge | June 11, 2008 2:20 PM

The Modesto Kid says: I totally don't get how being a huge ABBA fan should make McCain more attractive to disaffected Hillary supporters . . . . What would the mechanism be?

I think the message is: John McCain has some love in his closet for the GLBT community.

Old(er) women and gays seemed to be the core constituency for the Clinton campaign, and the gay man in my office who has a Hillary! calendar up in his cubicle still isn't over the primary. I honestly wouldn't be surprised to see an unusually large gay vote for McCain, motivated by spite and a distrust of Obama's black church roots. Let's see if McCain capitalizes on this opportunity by rechristening his campaign bus Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

Posted by jlw | June 11, 2008 2:54 PM

somewhat o/t. Reposted comment from last week...

As someone who knew Mike Goldfarb in college very well, it pains me to see that he's turned into such a vile person. At Princeton he was always a gentleman, was a great boyfriend to Hilary (who's now his wife), was intellectual, was into the rave scene (and *all* that entails), was friends with all sorts of people (gays, liberals, Canadians). His jump off the deep end is truly bizarre. I think he's someone for whom 9/11 (and a paycheck from certain right wing publications) truly change everything. Something snapped in his head, such that intellectual honesty and gentleman's honor could be sacrificed "to save America from certain doom."

I actually figured out only two weeks ago that the "Michael Goldfarb" guy that I kept hearing about online was the same guy I knew in college. My group of friends has been abuzz ever since. How could this be the same guy? What happened? How does one go from a gentleman to a hired character assassin? It shakes your faith in humanity, let me tell you.

Posted by wfg | June 11, 2008 2:56 PM

I think the message is: John McCain has some love in his closet for the GLBT community.

Also: will restore campy relations with Europe.

(Let's see if he gets an invite to the Mamma Mia! premiere.)

Posted by pseudonymous in nc | June 11, 2008 4:32 PM

I hope to hell he's not a Corrs fan...

Posted by Richard Steven Hack | June 11, 2008 5:52 PM

Folks, it could be worse: if Obama had lost the nomination, Michael Goldfarb would have said McCain is into Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.

Posted by Marc | June 11, 2008 9:28 PM

Interestingly, Björn Ulvaeus (one of the ABBA band members) has recently emerged as one of Sweden's most outspoken critics of religion (and given just how secular Sweden is, that's quite an achievement). Ulvaeus is a prominent member of the Swedish Humanist Association. Considering McCain's well-known problems with the Christian right, associating himself with ABBA may ultimately not be in his best interest. ;)

Link to Swedish Humanist Association (english "About Us" page):
http://www.humanisterna.se/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=37&Itemid=48

Posted by Kristian Egstedt | June 12, 2008 8:44 AM

I cannot thank you enough for a visual and an earworm I will never get out of my head, no matter how many times I watch Gale Harold and Randy Harrison dance to "Chiquitita." And the Jezebelisms have inspired me to join the dance, so to speak. Why should I suffer alone?

McCainistas, give me it straight
Has the Maverick gone Queen of the Desert?
Oh.My.Freaking.Gawd! I just can’t block out that visual!

Just in time for Pride in the Pines!
There is no way you can deny them.
I can see y’all dancing in Flagstaff.

So McCain comes raining down
On Pride Parades hither and yon.
Did you hope the Human Rights Campaign would be SO excited?

So try once more, like you’ve done before.
Get a new clue, Straight Talkistas.
Or bang out a new resume
For a new gig, McCainistas.

Posted by Colleen | June 14, 2008 3:20 PM