By the (incredibly low) standards of presidential-candidate hipness, Barack Obama is almost unbelievably hip, and so's that playlist-a little safe, maybe, a little old-dude, a little too Rolling Stone, but still. John McCain doesn't even use a computer, so he's probably not surfing iTunes with regularity. And remember The New York Times story from 2005, about the songs on George W. Bush's iPod? Some classic rock, some red-state country (Alan Jackson, Kenny Chesney), "Brown-Eyed Girl," and a few ringers by Joni Mitchell and the Knack, courtesy of Bush's frequent mountain-biking partner, media strategist Mark McKinnon, and Blake Gottesman, whose duties as Bush's "body man" included maintaining the First iPod.

But here's the thing about Obama's playlist. It's exciting, modern, and a little vague, like Obama himself, and it doesn't tell us as much about Obama as it's supposed to, because it doesn't tell us much about what he's actually listening to