Posted on 01/13/2006 1:55:27 PM PST by pittsburgh gop guy
Singer Tim McGraw Eyes Politics
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.
The magazine reported that McGraw, who has three young daughters with his wife, singer Faith Hill, was recruited a few years ago to run for the U.S. Senate seat that eventually went to Tennessee Republican Lamar Alexander, but passed because of his children and his singing career.
While running for the Senate remains an option, the Louisiana native seems more interested in the governor's office.
"It's more of a leadership role, and I think that's something that I'd do well," he said. "That doesn't rule out senator; I just think that as governor of a state, especially where I live, there would be a lot more opportunities to make some decisions and change some things."
He identified health care as his top issue, and said one of his main reasons for wanting to enter politics is Clinton, whom he calls "the best president we ever had."
Born in Delhi, La., he grew up as Tim Smith. But at age 12, he learned his father was baseball pitcher Tug McGraw, who had had a brief affair with his mother.
His mom and stepfather divorced when he was in the fourth grade, leaving her to raise him and his two sisters.
"She worked two or three jobs at a time," McGraw told The Associated Press in 2004. "I can remember being 11, 12, 13 years old and getting up at 12 o'clock at night and my mom sitting at the kitchen table with the bills spread out everywhere and not even knowing I was there with her head down crying. And then the next day the VCR being gone. It's stuff you grow up with, but you learn a lot from that."
He went to Northeastern Louisiana University on a baseball scholarship and started singing and playing guitar. He dropped out in 1989 and moved to Nashville, where he landed a recording contract with Curb Records
McGraw has sold more than 30 million albums and compiled a long list of hits that includes "Indian Outlaw," "Where the Green Grass Grows," "Red Ragtop" and "Live Like You Were Dying." He's also branched into acting; he had a supporting role in 2004's "Friday Night Lights" and has a lead role in the upcoming film "Flicka," an update of a popular 1943 movie.
I know what you mean. The predecessor for the Fax machine goes back to WWII (it was used to send photographs via telephone lines).
The first video recorder, made by Ampex, sold for $50,000 in 1956; hence, why only TV broadcasters used them until the cost dropped in the 1970s. A bit of trivia, CBS was the first broadcaster to use videotape to record programmes.
Tim, shut up and sing.
Tim, shut up and sing.
As I recall, some people thought the song was pro-abortion. If the guy is a Clinton-loving Democrat, evidently that is his position.
Like I said, it sounded to much like Algore's story about his mom signing "Look for the Union Label" while he sat on her knee. Pure crapola.
Memo to Tim: Stick to the music.
seriously, how can he possibly think that Clinton was the best president EVER? What about Washington? Jefferson? Reagan? Ike?
He has been chugging the Koolaid and begging for seconds.
There is no reasonable rational explaination for it unless he is extremely ignorant and uninformed or like you say, Kool-aid drinker to the max
Thanks for fixing my mess on post 105. My HTML sux. LOL
That cuts it for me. I'm placing him and his wife in the same basket as the "Ditsy Chicks" (never to be heard by me again).
That's what I asked, and no one has answered me. Can you name any of his songs so I might know who he is?
Acronyms can be confusing. In this case, Faith donates to the Dogs 'N Cats Association...
Lets not cast aspersions on the gorgeous Faith. Now that Tim has been outed as a Rat, I am sure Faith will begin distancing herself...
I'm not willing to suffer through the '15 years or so' it takes this a$$hole to get a clue....
Somebody pulled his file.
Did you see Dolly Parton's remake of the Marxist anthem "imagine"? She is now trailer trash in my book.
She is NOW Trailer trash LOL. How old are you? I am 37 and she has been queen of the double wide for a long time.....
So you've written off Tim, but the Babe gets a pass? ;-D
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