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Garth Brooks not afraid to enter politics?
Published: 12/9/2011 11:43 AM
Last Modified: 12/9/2011 11:43 AM

Country music megastar and Owasso resident Garth Brooks said he’s not afraid to enter politics, according to the Las Vegas Sun.

“If we cannot stop voting on what’s Democratic and what’s Republican instead of what’s right or wrong, we are doomed. Maybe it’ll be up to people like me to make it better,” he told the newspaper.

After visiting Haiti, the singer had a revelation, the paper revealed. What bothered him “is that with a few bad decisions, my own country could be in that shape in a few years.”

Read more from the exclusive (and funny) interview at tulsaworld.com/lasvegassun.

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laz (last year)

lord help us! garth needs to stick to music

JohnGalt (last year)

Yeah, but can he beat Chris Gaines?

Elusive (last year)

It sounds like Garth see's the light as well when it comes to Obama.

silence do good2 (last year)

Poor Garth, unless he rails against gays and talks up guns and god, he doesn't have a chance at politics in Oklahoma. The good folks here don't really care about anything other than these catch phrases. Oh, and of course abortion must be added to the list of high priorities.

Of course we also want the government to keep sending money for all of our defense facilities. Otherwise, there would be no jobs when the demand for oil is low. We rail against big government but the state economy is very dependent on our spending more money on defense than most of the rest of the world combined. Well, that is a different subject.

Brad (last year)

Sadly, that's too true.

Well look at it this way, he couldn't possibly be worse than Inhofe!

-Brad

1cowboy (last year)

Hey, he'd be a heck of a lot more interesting than the current bunch of fools in politics. But since he's not as polarizing, guess laz et al can't handle it.

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