ap.google.com - 8/20/2008
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22 hours ago LOS ANGELES (AP) Barack Obama is getting praise from Nashville, courtesy of one big, patriotic country star. Toby Keith, perhaps best known to non-country audiences for his post-Sept. 11 song "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue," says he's a Democrat, and was impressed by the senator from Illinois. Keith has said in the past that the 2002 song which included lines aimed at the ...
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The Rude Pundit —
... That Toby Keith is a Democrat is not news. He was pretty open about it when he was such a bastard during the whole Dixie Chicks insanity a few years back. But the fact that he's now said openly that he supports Barack Obama? Shit, in country music circles, that's pretty close to announcing that he's gay. The Obama campaign needs to jump on this - now. ...
Toby Keith Praises Obama
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... Country singer Toby Keith said he's a Democrat who thinks Barack Obama is the best candidate his party has had since Bill Clinton. "There's a big part of America that really believes that there is a war on terrorism, and that we need to finish up," Keith told the Associated Press . "So I thought it was beautiful the other day when Obama went to Afghanistan and got educated about Afghanistan and Iraq. He came back and said some really nice things." Keith received much publicity in 2002 when he released the song, "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue." In it, Keith sang, "We lit ...
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