I like Rich, but I agree. Don’t try to speak for the dead.
Roseanne is exactly right here.
Dumb move on someone's part.
Rock and Roll PING!
http://rosannecash.com/indexee.php/site/blog/C28/
Rolling Stoned’s toke, er take...
http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/08/19/rosanne-cash-tells-john-rich-johnny-cash-would-not-necessarily-have-supported-john-mccain/
Interesting enough, Jann Wenner’s Rolling Stoned MAKES THE SAME FAUX PAS!!! They claim with NO DIRECT QUOTE that Johnny Cash would NOT have supported McCain (headline: “Would Johnny Cash Support John McCain? Rosanne Cash Says No”)
In HER OWN words: “even I would not presume to say publicly what I ‘know’ he thought or felt. This is especially dangerous in the case of political affiliation.”
Time-Lies-Warner is in the tank for Obama.
Roseanne needs to put down the bong of indignity that someone would think that a good man would vote Republican.
I agree. That was not good manners.
I agree with Roseanne Cash as well. Johnny Cash was an independent thinker.
Have you read Roseanne Cash’s blog..she is a big leftist.
Here is a sample:
“I cannot pretend to KNOW the mind of God, or even if there IS a God. There are ‘holy’ books in this world – the Bible, the Koran, the Bhagavad-Gita, the Torah– all written by people. No, let me be more specific: all written by MEN, who comprise only half of the total genders in the world. Doesn’t this all seem just a little…. provincial, if nothing else?” (http://rosannecash.com/indexee.php/site/blog/84/)
I’m not surprised she reacted the way she did. Whether Johnny Cash would have supported McCain or not, he is not here to tell us.
you see this one?
Unfortunately, the vast majority of dead people all vote democrat.
Mark
She has a point.
I love Johnny Cash, but who gives a flip whom he would / would not vote for?
I’ll never understand the tendency to “invest” wisdom (political or otherwise) into our entertainers.
Reminds me of the Democratic primary debate when Boston Congressman/Politcal Hack Joe Moakly died and they held a special election.
About 10 hacks were aspiring for promotion and during the debate scarce was the question whose answer did not begin, “If Joe Moakly were here he’d say....” Remarkably, Representative Moakly, deceased, late of Boston, invariably agreed with the pet notions of the speaker.
Well, since he shot a man in Reno, he couldn’t vote anyways!
How would Bobby Fuller vote?
Roseanne Cash stage divin’ for the dust bin with Willie Nelson, the Dixie Chicks, and Toby Keith.
Just ask Ira Hayes.
What I care about is that, to the end, he searched for the truth and sought to do what was right. I think that he was successful in much of his search and efforts. I respect the man and hope that I do as much to be respected when I am gone.
Something to consider when we think about the class of Johnny Cash versus other entertainers' venom spewed daily:
When asked what he thought about President George W. Bush, early in the President's first term, Johnny Cash replied, "I didn't vote for the man. Let's leave it at that."
He expressed his reservations, but he did not attack the man or attempt to undermine his work. If only those that walk in his shadow were just as classy.
the LEFT here in Nashville has adopted Johnny as their diety.
Sad.
I prefer a WAYLON bumpersticker. No ambiguity there hoss!
Also, I wonder if Mr. McCain would agree with the sentiments in "The Man in Black:
Well you wonder why I always dress in black
Why you never see bright colors on my back
And why does my appearance seem to have a somber tone
Well there's a reason for the things that I have on
I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down
Livin' in the hopeless hungry side of town
I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime
But is there because he's a victim of the times.
&
I wear it for the sick and lonely old
For the reckless ones whose bad trip left them cold
I wear the black in mournin' for the lives that could have been
Each week we lose a hundred fine young men