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.
LOL. Clinton is impressed that Tim can act shares people's values "without even pretending"!
The amazing thing about Clinton to me is how so few have caught on to what a shallow, insincere man he seems to be. Every so often he slips and shows the true man underneath.
Like Hillary's! fake Southern accent during the "stand by your man" 60 Minutes interview.
I hadn't noticed until CNN played that snippet from that interview on one of their reports the other day.
What was it about Clinton that made him the best? His unflinching war against terrorism? His impeccable morality, as evidenced by his use of Monica Lewinsky and the Oval Office Sink? Maybe his pardon of Marc Rich, on his last day in office, put Slick Willie ahead of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and Roanld Reagan. Last chance, Tim--READ A BOOK!
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Somehow, I just don't seem to be able to relate to Mr. McGraw like that. What a maroon.
I don't give a rat's butt if a politico "feels my pain"; that is usually what they say before digging into my wallet. Screw the empathy crap and reduce the size and influence of government in the lives of the citizenry.
I thought he was a one-hit-wonder. I remember indian Outlaw caused a stir about 13 years ago. Has he done anything since? When it comes to country music, I like people such as Johnny Cash, Hank Sr., Haggard, or Hank Snow.
If he is 38, then, according to this, his parents had a VCR sometime between 1979 and 1982. VCRs were not cheap back then.
You’re right, VCRs cost about $800-1,000 bucks back then.
Apparently his mom was working 3 jobs to keep them up to their elbows in high-end electronics.
I think it comes partly from having an occupation which they realize is essentially frivolous and partly from the adulation they receive from the hoi polloi.
The former makes them yearn for an occupation with a little more gravitas and the latter makes them believe that they're God's gift to civilization.
Never trust a man with no eyebrows.
"Apparently his mom was working 3 jobs to keep them up to their elbows in high-end electronics."
LOL! I wonder if they a big screen TV and if they had to pawn that...
I think any fight between Tim McGraw and either Alice Cooper or Ted Nugent would end up with Tim in the ER.
He must have fallen off the stage onto his head once or twice if he idolizes slick willie.
Wasn't Tim's Dad the late Tug McGraw who played major league baseball for 20 years? He had to be making some serious good money for that time. Were Tim's parents divorced? That statement doesn't sound right.
I missed it. Fortunately.
A few years ago..1998, I worked at the DIscovery CHannel. My boss was a huge Clinton fan. He even bragged how his wife, one of the directors, made a movie about one of Willie's buddies who died (don't remember which one.Who could keep track of that?).
Willie and crew went to their house for the premier on the Discovery Channel.
I asked my boss whether there were any other women around. (His wife was fairly hot, a trimmer Monica.)
He explained that there were none, just her and my boss, and a bunch of guys.
I then asked, "Did Bill talk to anyone other than your wife? Did he stand pretty close to her?"
I sure hope he is still married as he was a really nice guy, and his wife was too.
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"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."
They had one, and he supported President Bush's re-election before retiring.
The Dixie Chicks, This tool. No wonder I'm not a big fan of country music.
He(Tim McGraw) is doing the full Monica to the liberal elite, to get his 15 minutes of fame jumpstarted to 30 minutes of fame.
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