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Singer Tim McGraw Eyes Politics (As a DEM - calls Clinton "best president we ever had")
AP/YAHOO ^ | 1/13/2005 - 4:00PM | AP

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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Louisiana; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: 2stupid4comment; barf; celebrityairheads; clinton; countrymusic; faithhill; mcgraw; mlb; shutupandsing; tennessee; timmcgraw; tugmcgraw
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"...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."

As opposed to being a governor of a state where you didn't live....

As if there is any doubt McGraw's politics: "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."

Pretty much says it all for me...

Shut up and sing!

Best thing about him is his wife!

1 posted on 01/13/2006 1:55:30 PM PST by pittsburgh gop guy
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To: pittsburgh gop guy

I would have never thought he was a Rat. Didn't he perform at the Republican convention?


2 posted on 01/13/2006 1:56:55 PM PST by MarkeyD (Cowards cut and run. Marines finish the job. I really, really loathe liberals.)
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To: pittsburgh gop guy

:-) He's 38. In ten to fifteen years, he will be another person. And if not, we'll see how it goes.


4 posted on 01/13/2006 1:57:46 PM PST by saveliberty (Proud to be Head Snowflake, Bushbot and a new member of Sam's Club)
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To: pittsburgh gop guy

Well, I have to admit that Clinton might be the best President the Dems ever had. 'Course, that's not saying much.


5 posted on 01/13/2006 1:57:54 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: pittsburgh gop guy
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.

That time table will likely be far more accelerated than he thinks.

There’s some younger male model with a passable voice waiting in the wings.

6 posted on 01/13/2006 1:57:58 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: pittsburgh gop guy

Like I heard someone say a while back "Shut up and sing!".


7 posted on 01/13/2006 1:58:24 PM PST by ladtx ("It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it." -- -- General Douglas MacArthur)
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To: pittsburgh gop guy

Tim McGraw has a music career?


8 posted on 01/13/2006 1:58:45 PM PST by MichiganConservative (Government IS the problem.)
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To: Soul_of_Chogokin

Well, I had 1 of his CD's that now goesin the dumpster....I won't support DemoRats or their casues, now their music.


9 posted on 01/13/2006 1:58:50 PM PST by Meadow Muffin
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To: pittsburgh gop guy

If he keeps it up, he will probably be singing backup for the Dixie Chicks.


10 posted on 01/13/2006 2:00:36 PM PST by GodGunsGuts
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To: pittsburgh gop guy

As a Country Music fan, I am deeply ashamed. Of course he did do a song, which focused on abortion.


11 posted on 01/13/2006 2:00:39 PM PST by jbwbubba
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To: pittsburgh gop guy

How the hell is this guy a Democrat?????????????? He needs a good lesson from Toby Keith or something.


12 posted on 01/13/2006 2:00:46 PM PST by RockinRight ("It's as if all the brain-damaged people in America got together and formed a voting bloc" - Coulter)
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...President Clinton said,"I think that's something Tim can do without even pretending."

Unlike himself, right?

13 posted on 01/13/2006 2:01:04 PM PST by Tamar1973 (There's NOTHING I need at 5 a.m., except more sleep!!!!!)
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And I think that's something Tim can do without even pretending.

Good one, Mr. Prez. Pretending worked for B.J., I don't know why he would disparage it now.

14 posted on 01/13/2006 2:01:07 PM PST by siunevada (If we learn nothing from history, what's the point of having one? - Peggy Hill)
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To: pittsburgh gop guy

He thinks Clinton was the best president we ever had? Faith, you better keep an eye on this guy!


15 posted on 01/13/2006 2:01:26 PM PST by Andy'smom
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To: pittsburgh gop guy

..he must need the dixie chicks for a tour



Doogle


16 posted on 01/13/2006 2:01:30 PM PST by Doogle (USAF...8thAF...4077th TFW...408th MMS...Ubon Thailand..."69"..Night Line Delivery,AMMO)
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To: RockinRight

Although Toby says he is registered as a Democrat, he certainly doesn't act like one.


17 posted on 01/13/2006 2:01:45 PM PST by MarkeyD (Cowards cut and run. Marines finish the job. I really, really loathe liberals.)
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To: jbwbubba

As long as I don't find out Gretchen Wilson's a Dem, I'll be OK.

I don't even really listen to Country music, but Gretchen's hot in that trailer-trash sort of way.


18 posted on 01/13/2006 2:02:07 PM PST by RockinRight ("It's as if all the brain-damaged people in America got together and formed a voting bloc" - Coulter)
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To: Meadow Muffin
"Well, I had 1 of his CD's that now goesin the dumpster....

Right next to Faith's new CD. I bought it a few months ago, and there's a song on there "Good Ole USA," that's right up there with John Lennon's "Imagine."

19 posted on 01/13/2006 2:02:25 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum.)
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To: RockinRight
He needs a good lesson from Toby Keith or something.

Good luck. Toby Keith is a Democrat, too. (Although I think he's more like a Regan Democrat, but a Democrat none the less.)

20 posted on 01/13/2006 2:02:42 PM PST by Tamar1973 (There's NOTHING I need at 5 a.m., except more sleep!!!!!)
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