Tim McGraw & Faith Hill Speak Out Against King george

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/music/article.adp?id=20060309043509990007

There's also a poll regarding whether you agree with them on this page.

[OKNancy]

1. Good article - snip

"To me, there's a lot of politics being played and a lot of people trying to put people in bad positions in order to further their agendas," McGraw, a 38-year-old native of Delhi, La., told ABC News Radio.

"When you have people dying because they're poor and black or poor and white, or because of whatever they are -- if that's a number on a political scale -- then that is the most wrong thing. That erases everything that's great about our country."

McGraw specifically criticized President Bush. "There's no reason why someone can't go down there who's supposed to be the leader of the free world … and say, 'I'm giving you a job to do and I'm not leaving here until it's done. And you're held accountable, and you're held accountable, and you're held accountable.

"'This is what I've given you to do, and if it's not done by the time I get back on my plane, then you're fired and someone else will be in your place. '"

[jeff30997]

2. Voted

Should musicians speak their mind on issues like this?
Yes 82%
No 18%
Do you agree with their assessment?
Yes 79%
No 21%
Total Votes: 11,533

[journalist3072]

3. More reason for me to like them! I love their music...

And now I see I love their politics as well!!

Right on Faith and Tim!

[goclark]

6. Go Faith and Tim ~ let him have it!

I love Faith and Tim!

[DesertRat]

4. Good for them! Everyone needs to vote in this poll

:kick:

[FormerDittoHead]

5. Can't wait for "Larry the Cable Guy" to LASH OUT at THEM...

...like he did to the Dixie Chicks.

"...that's their CORE AUDIENCE (people who voted for Bush), you don't critisize the President like that..."

or MAYBE, Larry just picks on the EASY targets....

Larry? ... Larry?????

[Disturbed]

7. Selective memories or none at all.

McGraw was the C&W spokesperson for catapulting the propaganda of how great it was that the Bush Regime invaded Iraq. Now he's a hero for stating the obvious about the Katrina disaster?

[Nicole]

10. I thought that was Toby Keith

who was the C&W spokesperson for the Bush Regime?

[lastliberalintexas]

11. That was Toby Keith

Or even that Worley guy. McGraw may have been in favor of the war (I don't know), but he certainly didn't act as the Chief Propagandist for the Reich as Keith did.

[LostinVA]

13. No, that was NEVER Tim McGraw, ever

And, he and Faith very publicly spoke out FOR the Dixie Chicks. You're not remembering correctly.

[Nicole]

8. Good for them

From the article:

Tim McGraw and Faith Hill say playing politics while people are dying "erases everything that's great about our country."

[Ksec]

9. What bush has brought with him//

Over 50 million depend on donated food to survive. 45 million without health insurance Fifth consecutive year of declining median incomes (to inflation)Poverty skyrocketing while the top 2% are swimming in profits.

[Disturbed]

12. I was incorrect.

Yeah, it was Toby Kieth. Sorry, Tim.

[OzarkDem]

14. He's thinking of running for public office?

Senator from Tennessee? Sounds good.

from the same article..

But under most circumstance, McGraw relies on easy charm when dealing with the media. In 2004, he actually told Time magazine, however lightheartedly, that he was thinking of going into politics. "I want to run for the Senate from Tennessee … Not now, but when I'm 50, when the music dies down."

"Wouldn't Faith make a great senator's wife?" he joked.

[Nicole]

15. kick for poll

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