Barack Obama has proved that his music policies are firmly set in the MOR camp after approaching LA/Devonshire soul lass Joss Stone to write and record his election campaign song. Yawn, BO...

Apparently there's "mutual respect" between the two and Obama personally asked Joss to come up with his election theme. She's currently working on it in the studio. Right. This. Minute. It will be the crumbliest, flakiest theme song around. Which might not be ideal connotations, come to think of it.

We have to give a certain amount of congrats to Obama for actually taking the time to get an actual new song for his campaign - like, um, Richard Nixon - and not nicking a ready made tune like presidential candidates before him.

We draw your attentions to John F Kennedy, who used his mate Frank Sinatra's High Hopes to help him get to power in 1960. George Bush Sr somewhat bizarrely used Woody Guthrie's This Land Is Your Land in 1988 (yep, that's the same committed left winger Guthrie who had This Machine Kills Fascists etched onto his guitar). And notoriously, Republican Ronald Reagan used Bruce Springsteen's Born In The USA until Democratic Bruce asked him to stop, thankyouverymuch – and history repeated itself when George W Bush used Tom Petty's I Won't Back Down, until Petty said he'd sue.