...Gretchen's hot in that trailer-trash sort of way.
Yes...
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.
Sounds to me like he's singing with the Dixie Chicks.
I never would have guessed. Then again, that is not saying that he is a liberal! Which is what counts.
Yep, Faith Hill.
He has alot in common with Clinton, raised by white trash, no fathers, incredible talent (McGraw - Music, Clinton - Photographic Memory).. birds of a feather.
BTW, I believe McGraw has been "hollywoodized".
...Gretchen's hot in that trailer-trash sort of way.
Yes...
I don't think so, see my earlier post on her political contributions.
"Betamax was introduced around 1975-76, but it was a high end oddity. We got our first VCR in 1985, I recall it was a Phillips 850, and I only remember the model number because it was also the PRICE."
Yep. I saw a Beta machine in a museum that was dated 1978 and it was an "updated" model. The technology for videotape had been around since the 1950s but it was in the hands of broadcasters until the 1970s when the cost came within the reach of consumers (high-end consumers, at first).
Thanks for the info Markey. Wikipedia is a pretty good source of info.
He's overated as a singer, and this Mississippian doesn't even consider him Country. Sounds like he had a loose mamma too. Poor Tim.
a good little dim would have called it "native american allegedly criminal" ."
"where the green grass grows" = "but I didn't inhale"
"Red Ragtop" = "Redhead BJ"
"Live Like You Were Dying." ="Live like you weren't aborted"
Heck, why doesn't he just run for president? Shoot straight for the top! Why waste his time in the Senate or a governor's mansion?
It's funny, isn't it - it's hard to remember when technologies we're so used to were introduced. More than once, my husband and I have had the experience of watching an old movie and saying to each other - "Were there answering machines then? Really? I don't remember that..." etc.
Gives a whole new meaning to" cross-over "doesn't it?
She is super-hot, but, unfortunately a lib.
I love country music, this is a bummer and Faith too?
I might have thought he was a Zell Miller Democrat but not with a "Clinton was best president ever" statement
That's the way I see it. Tim who?
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