McCain immediately stopped using both “Pink Houses” and “Our Country” at his events. We just wrote a letter that said, ‘You guys might want to rethink about using this song,’ and they quit using it.” He added, “We didn’t tell him not to use it. Watch: New Singing Lesson Videos Can Make Anyone A Great Singer There's a black man with a black cat Living in a black neighborhood He's got an interstate running' through his front yard You know, he thinks, he's got it so good And there's a woman in the kitchen cleaning' up evening slop And he looks at her and says: 'Hey darling, I can remember when you could stop a clock' Oh but ain't that. Maybe you guys should rethink using the song.’” Bob said, ‘You know, McCain’s using your song.’ I said ‘Well, he can use it if he wants to, but you probably ought to write him a letter and say, ‘You know, not only that you guys are using it, but so is Barack Obama, so is John Edwards, so is Hillary Clinton, and you should understand that Mellencamp is very liberal, and do you really think that it’s pushing your agenda in the right direction? I mean, you’re just really falling in line with all the other liberal candidates. “What happened was that I called up my publicity guy. As he remembered it, in a 2009 interview with NPR, Mellencamp called up his rep Bob Merlis.

First, Ronald Reagan used the song in his 1984 reelection stops, and secondly, in 2008, Republican Senator John McCain used it for many of his political rallies and events. 'I started writing every day and painting and drawing, and I found myself open to suggestion,' he said in his Plain Spoken DVD. The song’s meaning has long been misinterpreted. Mellencamp's previous hits, notably 'Hurts So Good' and 'Jack & Diane,' took him a long time to write.'Pink Houses' was different, and marked a creative breakthrough.

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