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.
"What was it about Clinton that made him the best"
After Al Gore invented the internet, Clinton created the tech boom! ;-)
Remember the first microwave ovens? The one my father bought my mother one Christmas took up half of her counter space - and cost about a thousand dollars! Boy, did she hate that thing. :)
I went to the website, I checked out my favorite College Football Coach Bobby Bowden, ALL REPUBLICANS....
Precisely.
One quote I remember from Tug was after he got a World Series check. When asked what he would do with the money Tug said "I'll probably spend most of it on wine, women, and song. The rest I'll just waste."
I'm always amused that these celebrity wannabe politicians always mention the Senate or a governorship. I never hear one saying he or she is aiming for a seat in a state legislature or city council. Like that would be beneath them or something.
Mississippi\baptist ping
"I know what you mean. The predecessor for the Fax machine goes back to WWII (it was used to send photographs via telephone lines). "
FAX machine goes way further back and used telegraph lines. Don't rememeber the details but it will come up again on the history channel.
I'd love it, but some members of the Christian Right would have issue with his former lifestyle, and foul mouth.
I knew some people who used their Amana Radar Range upto the late 1980s or early 1990s (they bought it in 1970 or 1971). They would say, "Well, it still works, so we keep it."
Anyone who believes X42 was the BEST POTUS WE EVER HAD, needs an IQ test, a series of sanity screenings and then in a perfect world a simple same day surgery to ensure removal from the future's gene pool.
Snip, snip...
Yes it was an experiment with a sheet of thin tin on a rotating drum. The WWII era machines used rotating drums (a sending drum and a receiving drum) that had to be in synch during transmission. The sending drum held the photo print and the receiving drum had a chemically treated paper that reacted to electric current.
My son just turned 26 and he exorcized his public school-promoted liberal dementia at 22 y.o., uring the last year of college. He is now a young conservative working his way up the corporate world.
As for Tim McGraw, I will never be able to listen to his music the same way (if that article is true).
Unlike many on FR, I cannot seperate the musician from his or her politics. The stakes in today's world are far too great, especially considering that the crazy Mullah's in Iran are about to obtain a nuclear bomb, and McGraw and his ilk will undoubtedly oppose President Bush and other adults who recognize the dangers to us all and are willing to do something about it.
What about some other guy in a cowboy hat who did the "world stopped turning" song?
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