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Anybody else notice that after Obama's big speech in Denver last night, they played "Only in America" by Brooks and Dunn?

The song, recorded for their 2001 "Steers and Stripes" album, was the official campaign song of president George W. Bush in 2004. While its lyrics certainly seem more applicable to Obama than the president, you do have to wonder if it was chosen specifically as a jeer to Bush.

You also have to wonder how Brooks and Dunn, Bush supporters who played on the eve of his last election, feel about Obama using it on his big night.

John Mellencamp, a lifelong Democrat, asked John McCain to stop using his songs on the campaign trail earlier this year and there is, of course, the classic story of Reagan's staff wanting to use Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A." (presumably having heard nothing but the chorus).