THE HILLARY CLINTON CAMPAIGN INVENTED SECULARIZED GOSPEL, APPARENTLY

Via Fox Nation and Fox's Todd Starnes, I see that the Daily Caller is shocked and appalled by the way singers at a Hillary Clinton campaign event have altered a gospel song:

Women’s Chorus Replaces ‘Jesus’ With Candidate’s Name In African-American Spiritual

... The Democrat invited the “alternative” women’s chorus Voices From the Heart to sing at a campaign event in Portsmouth, N.H. on Saturday. And the group did so, distorting the African-American spiritual “Woke Up This Morning (With My Mind On Jesus)”:

Woke up this mornin’ with my mind, stayin’ on Hillary

Woke up this mornin’ with my mind, stayin’ on Hillary

Hallelu, Hallelu, Hallelu, Hallelu, Hallelujah!

Y'know, this might strike me as horribly blasphemous -- if I didn't know that many, many songs from the early days of rhythm and blues were essentially gospel hymns with the lyrics rewritten.

Here's "I Got a Woman" by Ray Charles.



It was based on "It Must Be Jesus" by the Southern Tones.



The practice of rewriting gospel songs was so common that Sam Cooke even recorded a secular version of one of his own gospel songs when he began to leave the world of religious music. Here's the original:



And here's the remake:



So there's nothing shocking about rewrites of gospel songs.

Oh, and I might also be upset if the last Republican president hadn't told us that God wanted him to run, a claim also made in this electoral cycle by six of the Republican candidates for president (Walker, Kasich, Carson, Perry, Santorum, and Huckabee, if you're keeping score). Sorry, folks -- this is a big nothing.