C-SPAN Bus update week of 10/13 - Johnny Cash Festival

[jkdxtr321]

off course he vote 4 ron paul

[kathycash]

It petrifies me for this planet. I won't be here to see it, but I pray with all I have he won't do that to this country."

GOD BLESS AMERICA AND GOD BLESS DAD.

[kathycash]

CONSERVATIVE!!?? UM...excuse me? MY DAD ( JOHNNY CASH ) was a LIBERAL! AMEN OliviaReed and Johnnybandmember!!

JEEZ...did anyone of those people know who he was and what he stood for? He died before Bush sent troops over but in the privacy of his office at home his words to me were, "honey, I grieve for my children, grandchildren and future generations if this President takes us to war.

[johnnybandmember]

When invited to perform at the White House for the first time in 1972, President Richard Nixon's office requested that he play "Okie from Muskogee" (a satirical Merle Haggard song about people who despised youthful drug users and war protesters) and "Welfare Cadillac" (a Guy Drake song that derides the integrity of welfare recipients). Cash declined to play either song and instead played a series of more left-leaning, politically-charged songs.

[jamesvg25]

You would have to stubbornly ignore 90% of Johnny's lyrics to think he was conservative.

Listen to "What is Truth" for example or "Man in Black".

Johnny Cash, if you listen to the words he sang, falls somewhere between Green Party and Democrat.

If you go by the sound, which would be pretty dumb, and say "He played country, I guess he would vote Republican" ...

Ask Willie Nelson if you have to be conservative to play country.

[johnnybandmember]

How would Johnny Cash vote ?

I think he told us :

You wonder why I'm gonna vote Barack

Cause I think the man can get things back on track

And if the way I'm talking seems to have a somber tone

The reasons that I have they should be known

I vote Barack for the poor and the beaten down

Livin in the hopeless hungry side of town

I vote Barack for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime

But is there because he's a victim of the time

[oliviareed26]

I vote Barack for those who've never read

Or listened to the words that Jesus said

About the road to happiness through love and charity

Why you'd think he was talking straight to you and me

Well we're doin' mighty fine I do suppose

In our streak of lightning cars and fancy clothes

But just so we're reminded of the ones who are held back

Up front there oughta be this man Barack

[johnnybandmember]

I'm voting for the sick and lonely old

For the wreckless ones whose bad trip left them cold

I vote Barack in mournin' for the lives that could have been

Each week we lose a hundred fine young men

And I vote for the thousands who have died

Believing that the Lord was on their side

I vote for another hundred thousand who have died

Believing that we all were on their side

[oliviareed26]

There's things that never will be right I know

And things need changin' everywhere you go

But 'til we start to make a move to make a few things right

You'll never see me voting on the Right

I'd love to vote Republican today

And tell the world that everythings okay

But I'll try to carry off a little darkness on my back

'Til things are brighter, I'm voting Barack

[suburbanhillbilly]

Was a fun time.. Our band "Ring of Fire" enjoyed coming back for second year!

[tuktukskagal]

Johnny gets arrested for picking flowers! Go Johnny!

[pamlyn]

The irony to this video of course is that Johnny Cash, who once said, "If you watch the helicopters bring in the wounded boys, then you go into the wards and sing for 'em and try to do your best to cheer them up so that they can get back home, it might make you a dove with claws", would probably be as much against the war in Iraq as he was Viet Nam.

I don't know how he would have voted but I don't think it would have been for McCain/Palin.

Johnny Cash was a real Maverick