Posted on 03/23/2011 10:24:08 AM PDT by MissesBush
(CNSNews.com) - Grammy award-winning singer Garth Brooks told CNSNews.com that he "fully" supports President Barack Obama and that it must be "hell" serving as President of the United States.
Before his performance at the Points of Light Institute's ceremony honoring former President George H. W. Bush at the Kennedy Center on Monday, Brooks was asked if President Obama has lived up to his expectations.
"Yeah, I think what President Obama is finding out is all that we want to do, the system kind of doesn't allow the most powerful guy in the world to kind of do his job and I'm sure nobody's more frustrated than him to complete those promises that he did and I think he's trying his heart out. I love him to death and I fully support him and I just wish him well because it's got to be hell in that office," said Brooks.
Brooks' comments come as many celebrities who supported President Obama in the 2008 election including Matt Damon and Barbra Streisand have publicly expressed disappointment in President Obama.
Brooks, the closing act in the ceremony, also said the entire political system in America has him "concerned."
"The whole political system kind of has me concerned right now to tell you the truth --200 years old and we might think of about, you know, kind of kicking it in the ass a little bit. It just seems like we vote for things because they're Republican or Democratic," he told CNSNews.com.
"I think we should vote for them because they're right or wrong and we kind of have seemed to have fallen into that trap so that would be the one warning I would give all us," he said. "Put down where you're from and what flag you fly under and let's get to putting the best person, man or women in the office and let's start making some strides."
When asked for a specific example, Brooks said, "For me, it's if my guy didn't get in then I drag my feet for four years and we don't get anywhere and if my guy gets in, you drag your feet for four years and we don't get anywhere," he said. "We've got to stop doing that. Once we get there let's try to be four years down the road further than we were and let's see what happens. Let's all work together and that's kind of what this is all about tonight."
Ave, Publius Valerius. Much obliged.
Stopped paying attention to GB after all that Chris Gaines bull squat.
Never liked this guy. Didn’t know why. Must have great a great radar for douchebags.
I never liked him either, always thought there was something weird about him. He never seemed to fit the image of “country.” Sounds like he’s not only a liberal but also gay.
I appreciate some of Garth’s singing but none of his running back and forth.
“Friends in Low Places” (DeWayne Blackwell, Earl “Bud” Lee) – 4:18
“The Thunder Rolls” (Pat Alger, Garth Brooks) – 3:42
Looking through his discography, he co-writes a couple of tunes per record.
It was Hollywood-ized in the 1970s. I remember when it happened. Olivia Newton-John won the Country Music Association award as best female vocalist, displacing real country singers like Loretta Lynn. That set off a furor about a foreigner winning with a phony "country" sound. But it made big money and crossed over into the pop music market.
Since then "country" music has become slickly-produced and packaged commercial pap. I've never been able to stand country music liberals like Garth Brooks. Newton-John is an environmentalist who'd throw a PETA-fit at a real cattle round-up.
Garth Brooks is one nutball that can’t be blamed on Memphis.
“What happened to country music?”
First, Hank Williams died (1953). Then Patsy Cline died (1963). Then Gram Parsons died (1973).
We still have Emmylou Harris and Buddy Miller, but Nashville churns out dreck.
When he talks he barely has any southern drawl, but yet ALL his songs are based on an over used drawl. He came "out of retirement" 2 years ago, to do 1 concert, which ended up to be 9, to promote his new album of ultimate hits, with 3 new songs.
Basically, he recorded 3 songs, to sell a record, and then added previously recorded stuff as filler. Its not as if he didn't already have a Greatest Hits album out.
It was nothing more than marketing, to get some rubes to spend $20, to get 3 songs.
Too lazy to record a full album, and too greedy selling 3 songs at over inflated prices, stuffed by ANOTHER Greatest Hits. It wasn't about the music or performing, it was about making MILLIONS more, with little effort involved.
I have no problem with free enterprise. And Garth can do what he wants, but most of the people buying his stuff are low to mid income people, and all he did was "slick" them out of $20, to put another $10 or $20 million in his bank account. Slick NYC marketing to fool a bunch of "country rubes". Unfortunately it worked, and Garth and his NYC/Nashville city boys got richer and made the country folks rubes.
His quiet, "awww shucks" demeanor in interviews is just more marketing.
So where is today's Charlie Rich, who set the envelope on fire when John Denver won Entertainer of the Year at the CMAs?
There are lots of Liberal C&W stars in Memphis. But you can’t blame him on Hollywood.
“That set off a furor about a foreigner winning with a phony “country” sound. But it made big money and crossed over into the pop music market.”
That makes some sense. Australian country music is as real a deal as American, even if not well known here - I don’t know about Olivia Newton-John though for ‘country’ music, here or there.
Yep, Garth admits that during his teenage years, he listened to bands like Kiss, and didn’t listen to country at all.
Too late. He already made his money from you.
“Why can’t we all go skipping through the park, hand-in-hand, tossing daisies?”
Garth makes great music. It’s not the slightest bit surprising that he’s a political moron. I’ll still listen to his music.
Here's a short list of leftie country singers:
Garth Brooks (obviously)
Tim McGraw
Faith Hill
Brad Paisley
Willie Nelson
Kris Kristofferson
Alison Krauss
Roseanne Cash
Trisha Yearwood
Kathy Mattea
Rodney Crowell
Pam Tillis
Merle Haggard
Randy Travis (yep - loves Bill Richardson)
"Big" Kenny Alphin (you ever notice he ain't so big?)
BINGO!!!
Went to one of his concerts...for free. Back in the day when he was riding high, He came to Spokane and played the old Colisseum. A country station was down there doing live promos and I went down there (partly to take a friend to the concert who had no ride, and partly out of curiosity).
While I was hanging out at the radio station's area, this guy walked up and told the deejay “I got this ticket for a friend of mine who had to cancel at the last minute. I just don't feel right trying to scalp it. You know anyone who wants to go?”. I happened to be standing right next to the deejay when he said this, and I very quickly raised my hand. The guy said “here you go”, handed me the ticket, and away I went. It was an excellent concert.
(Side note...the friend who I gave the ride to? I introduced her to her future husband that night after the concert when I took her over to the radio station I worked at. A good night all around.)
Garth Brooks is just as big a Dem shrill as his fellow Oklahoma fraud Toby Keith.
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