As most SDP readers are aware, Bill Clinton and singer John Mellencamp are headlining a fundraiser for Tom Daschle next Monday, which is expected to raise $2 million for his re-election campaign here in South Dakota.
I wonder how Tom Daschle feels about John Mellencamp's Bush-bashing "protest" song "To Washington," particularly in light of the fact that Daschle boasts about voting with Bush 75 percent of the time? To read more of Mellencamp's Bush-bashing, see his piece published last fall headlined "An Open Letter to America: It's Time to Take Back Our Country." Conversely, I wonder how willing John Mellencamp would be to headline a fundraiser for Tom Daschle if he knew that Tom Daschle boasts about supporting President Bush 75 percent of the time? John Mellencamp is certainly entitled to bash President Bush. But people in South Dakota who voted for President Bush by a margin of 60% in 2000 deserve to know that Tom Daschle is trying to have it both ways, cavorting with Bush-bashers when he's in Washington, D.C. while simultaneously boasting about supporting President Bush when he's at home.
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