Singer Tim McGraw Eyes Politics

[deadparrot]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Country singer Tim McGraw says he wants to run for office someday in his adopted home state of Tennessee — perhaps for governor or U.S. senator — and he's getting encouragement from a fellow Democrat, former President Clinton.

"I think he's got it," Clinton says of McGraw in an Esquire magazine story that hits newsstands Monday. "The Democrats need candidates whom people can relate to in a personal way, people who understand their lives and their concerns and share their values. And I think that's something Tim can do without even pretending."

McGraw, 38, told the magazine he has no immediate plans to enter politics.

"Maybe in 10 or 15 years when the music has died down," he said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060113/ap_en_ot/music_governor_mcgraw

[Hobarticus]

1. As a left-leaning entertainer, he'll be told to just shut up and play...

Meanwhile, Toby Keith will keep singin' his ass-kickin' cow songs, and get rounds of applause.

Tim, if you mean it sincerely, good luck.

[sickinohio]

6. Uh Oh - the country music

station in Toledo won't play any more of his songs now, and they'll probably boycott Faith Hill also - guilt by association!! I refuse to listen to that station anymore - and I say way to go Tim!! Hope he runs. Our country needs all the help it can get right now!!

And Toby Keith makes my stomach churn!!:puke:

[AX10]

12. That's how I am. I boycott any artists who's political views I don't...

agree with. Never has a liberal artist called for the silencing of their conservative/rightist counterparts. However, we have seen right wing celeb after right wing celeb call for the silencing of their liberal counterparts.

[JerseygirlCT]

14. Luckily for me, I think most of the right-wing jerks make

crappy music anyway.

Does the world really need Charlie Daniels or Ted Nugent?

I didn't think so.

[LostinVA]

13. He and his wife are the ONLY Country singers I listen to

any more. Period. The rest either publicly pissed on the Dixie Chicks, or said nothing. Silence is acquiesce.

[wiley]

2. Please?

Let it Happen!

[quaoar]

3. Only if he wears this hat

http://www.timmcgraw.com/home.php

[flygal]

7. ........

:loveya:

[sickinohio]

8. Yummm!!!

:9

[Charlie Brown]

4. If Lynn Swan can run, why not Tim? n/t

[Dr Fate]

5. SWEEEET!!! This is EXACTLY what we need. Oh boy oh boy oh boy!!!

!!!!!!

[texastoast]

9. Urp

His C&W hit "Indian Outlaw" pissed me off. If you are going to write about "Indians," at least learn how to spell "chieftain" or you will look like a moran.

I'm an Indian outlaw
Half Cherokee and Choctaw
My baby she's a Chippewa
She's one of a kind

All my friends call me Bear Claw
The Village Cheaftin' is my paw-paw
He gets his orders from my maw-maw
She makes him walk the line

You can find me in my wigwam
I'll be beatin' on my tom-tom
Pull out the pipe and smoke you some
Hey and pass it around

'Cause I'm an Indian outlaw
Half Cherokee and Choctaw
My baby she's a Chippewa
She's one of a kind

I ain't lookin' for trouble
We can ride my pony double
Make your little heart bubble
Lord like a glass of wine

I remember the medicine man
He caught runnin' water in my hands
Drug me around by my headband
Said I wasn't her kind

'Cause I'm an Indian outlaw
Half Cherokee and Choctaw
My baby she's a Chippewa
She's one of a kind

I can kill a deer or buffalo
With just my arrow and my hickory bow
From a hundred yards don't you know
I do it all the time

They all gather 'round my teepee
Late at night tryin' to catch a peek at me
In nothin' but my buffalo briefs
I got 'em standin' in line

'Cause I'm an Indian outlaw
Half Cherokee and Choctaw
My baby she's a Chippewa
She's one of a kind

Cherokee people
Cherokee tribe
So proud to live
So proud to die

[appal_jack]

11. wow, that's a lame song

I'm not a country music fan, but I'm pretty sure that Tim McGraw is a white guy, right? There's an inherent racism whenever a white guy impersonates another race, especially one that white guys have historically oppressed (shades of 19th century blackface entertainers here...).

Not to mention the incredibly cheap rhymes. There are 5-year olds in the hip-hop community who could wipe the floor with McGraw.

I don't pretend to know much about Native culture, but I was once lucky enough to participate in a language workshop in Minnesota that the White Earth Land Recovery Project in Minnesota sponsored. One of the first things I learned there was that "Chippewa" is one of those white-guy-mispronunciation names. The tribe members call themselves "Anishanabe" or "Ojibwe."

One of the few phrases I remember from that awesome workshop is (phonetically) something like "Nin-get-a-ma-gess" which translates as "I am humble in the eyes of the Creator." I try and remember to say that aloud every now and then, in the hopes that I don't get full of myself or worse. Maybe Tim oughta learn that phrase and repeat it a few thousand times before he goes appropriating others' names and culture any more.

-app

[Rose Siding]

10. Good article

Very hopeful- he draws on the same kind of memories Clinton has.