The Toby Keith-like singer of the 60s Merle Haggard who wrote songs about how he hated the hippies down in San Francisco and draft card burners during the Vietnam War period has changed his conservative view and is now endorsing Hillary Clinton. This couldn't be imagine that this man would vote ever for a democrat but this time he said he is going to. He even voted for Bush in the last two election but his disgust is going to make him jump parties. He stated he is not a liberal but he know how that Texas thing works, who those oil folks are and what they wanted in Iraq.
He said that pride and confidence is brought down in this country with George W. intentions to install fear in people to keep this oil-driven war going. This is America. We're proud. We're not afraid of a bunch of terrorists. But this government is all about terror alerts and scaring us at the airports. We're changing the constitution out of fear. We're spending all our time looking up each other's dresses for weapons. Fear has became the only issue the Republican party has anymore [that sure is the truth and they are banging the war drum with it like a roaring train]. It has became "Vote for them or the terrorist will get us". And he said he hated to think about our soldiers over in Iraq fighting for a country that is slipping away {wonder if he is talking about our's or Iraq?].
This article is in the Times issue for the week of October 22, 2007. It was so interesting and was a shock to me coming from a man who wrote "if you are talking about my country then you are walking on THE FIGHTING SIDE OF ME. My gosh what in the world is going to happen next?????????