Toby Keith praises Obama

 
By Ryan Pearson
Published: August 19, 2008

LOS ANGELES - 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, an Oklahoma native, has said in the past that the 2002 song — which included lines aimed at the ...


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