Toby Keith endorses Obama

[alfredo]

Yep, he may not like the Dixie Chicks, but he is impressed with obama.

http://www.comcast.net/articles/music/20080819/People.Keith.Obama/

Asked while promoting his new movie "Beer For My Horses" about the role of patriotism in the current presidential election, Keith replied: "There's a big part of America that really believes that there is a war on terrorism, and that we need to finish up.

"So I thought it was beautiful the other day when Obama went to Afghanistan and got educated about Afghanistan and Iraq. He came back and said some really nice things.

"So as far as leadership and patriotism goes, I think it's really important that those things have to take place. And I think he's the best Democratic candidate we've had since Bill Clinton. And that's coming from a Democrat."

[Starbucks Anarchist]

1. Thank you?

:shrug:

[BOSSHOG]

2. I wonder if country music stations will trash him ala the Chicks

[LittleClarkie]

3. Told ya he was a Dem

A conservative southern Dem, but a Dem nonetheless.

[alfredo]

7. Nashville is not a bastion of conservative "thought." They have people

of all political leanings, sexual orientation, and races working in the country music industry. The jingoistic puffery you see is show business in many cases. It's expected of them. It sells records.

[LittleClarkie]

8. Sort of like Ozzy saying he's the Prince of Darkness

Always seemed like a part of his stage makeup to me.

[alfredo]

12. To his kids, he's daddy.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

13. So is Fred Phelps.

Fuck the both of them.

[stillcool]

4. oh dear...McCain is so not cool...

[DrDan]

5. oh my goodness - inSanity will be spinning this . . . .

[Iggo]

6. FUTK.

:patriot:

[BlooInBloo]

22. +1

[tannybogus]

9. FUTK ditto! nt

[underseasurveyor]

10. OK I'll give TK kudos where they are due

But that fugly-sombitch still needs to apologize to the Dixie Chicks... BIG TIME!!!

[endthewar]

11. Isn't one of his new songs celebrating lynching?

That's what I heard.

[alfredo]

14. Do some research to make sure of that. Lyrics should be posted.

http://www.elyrics.net/song/t/toby-keith-lyrics.html

[endthewar]

15. I had heard it was the song he sang on Colbert's show

It didn't specifically say "lynching" but instead said something about hanging people by rope. Here's the article from Huffington Post:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/toby-keiths-pro-lynching_b_115526.html

[alfredo]

20. Cowboy justice it sounds like. The old western myth. He does do comedy

From a morning radio show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfgZH8kFAKc&NR=1

I'll Never Smoke Weed With Willie Again
(Toby Keith/Scotty Emerick)

I always heard that his herb was top shelf
I just could not wait to find out for myself
Don't knock it til' you tried it, Well I tried it my friend
And I'll never smoke weed with Willie again

I learned a hard lesson in a small Texas town
He fired up a fat boy and passed him around
The last words that I spoke before they tucked me in
Was I'll never smoke weed with Willie again

I'll never smoke weed with Willie again
My parties all over before it begins
You can pour me some old whiskey river my friend
But I'll never smoke weed with Willie again

I hopped on his old bus, the Honey Suckle Rose
The party was Vegas it was after the show.
Alone in the front lounge with just me and him,
With one parting puff grim creeper set in.

I'll never smoke weed with Willie again
My parties all over before it begins
You can pour me some old whiskey river my friend
But I'll never smoke weed with Willie again

Now we're passing the guitar and telling good jokes
I know ones acomin' cause I'm smelling smoke
No I do not partake, I just let it pass by
With a smile on my face and a great contact high

I'll never smoke weed with Willie again
My parties all over before it begins
You can pour me some old whiskey river my friend
But I'll never smoke weed with Willie again

In the fetal position with drool on my chin
I messed up and smoked weed with Willie again

[doc03]

16. All he said was Obama was the best Democratic

candidate since Bill Clinton. So he thinks he is a better candidate than John Kerry, I think we can all agree on that. He could very well think John McCain is still the better candidate of the two.

[robertpaulsen]

17. Dem or not, he's still a racist asshole.

Unless he took this comment back:

Now, Keith has trained his sights on Barack Obama, attacking him in language that startled even the notoriously reactionary radio jock Glenn Beck. During Keith's appearance on the July 30 broadcast of Beck's show, he remarked, "I think the black people would say he don't talk, act or carry himself as a black person."

"What does that even mean?" the audibly shocked Beck replied.

"Well, I don't know what that means," Keith drawled, "but I think that that's what they would say. Even though the black society would pull for him I still think that they think in the back of their mind that the only reason he is in is because he talks, acts and carries himself as a Caucasian."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/lynching-advocate-toby-ke_b_116995.html

[marmar]

18. I think Toby Keith is kinda nutz......

:crazy:

[alfredo]

26. You got to be nutz to be in that business

[tanyev]

19. Look out! Got some imploding heads over at Free Republic!

Obama must be the Antichrist. So many are drinking the kool-aid of this terrorist-hugging. baby-terminating, America-hater it’s actually hard to believe.
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But...I thought he wasn’t gonna smoke weed with Willie anymore....

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Big dumb country F.........

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Toby Keith Olberman

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Where was the barf alert on this one.
Looks like Toby has been smokin’ weed with Willie again.
How can a gun-lovin’ country boy fall for any of Obama’s elitist crap. What a moron.

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Is he looking for the Dixie Chick of the Year award or what?

He couldn’t possibly have meant a word in that song - or there’s no way he could still be a democrat - or support Obama. He must have just been doing it for the money. He has probably sung that song a thousand times or more, and apparently, the words have never sunk in.

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This is going to hurt Sean big time. This guy is supporting the troops like crazy (supposedly)(Maybe just publicity) and then sings praises of commie ombami who would rather work out than visit wounded troops.
Did he use Sean? What’s the saying in publicity, “Just get my name right” or something like that.

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He sure revelled in all the attention at the Freedom Concerts hosted by Sean Hannity.

All the pretending he cared about the troops when it was all about free publicity. Now he s votes for the single most military hating candidate in memory.

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064785/posts


:rofl:

[wildbilln864]

21. good for him! nt

[VOX]

23. TK (gag) says some nice things about Barack, but it's not an endorsement.

I'm not even sure that sad apple knows the meaning of the term "endorsement."

[FatDave]

24. OK, you know that part of the Firefly pilot?

The part where Capt. Reynolds says "let's see what a guy like you would kill for," heads to the cargo hold, where Jayne restrains Simon, and opens Simon's big-ass refrigerated trunk that he brought on board?

He looks at what's in the trunk, then at Simon, then back at the trunk and just says...

"Huh."

That's exactly the way I just said "Huh".

[spanone]

25. good for toby.

[zbdent]

27. If I were Obama, I'd return any money and say

"no thanks ..."

Seems like maybe Toby Keith is trying to ride "the biggest celebrity's" coattails back into the spotlight ...

[LWolf]

28. He has questionable taste.

I'll take the Dixie Chicks over TK and Obama both, any day.