An endorsement I would not have expected.

[rivka]

Old-time bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley has endorsed Barack Obama. The radio ad with his endorsement is getting heavy play in the Appalachian regions of southwest Virginia and West Virginia.

This guy:

Endorsed Barack Obama.

The folks who live down there seem to think this could make a real difference.

Comments

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

Whoa. Outstanding. Yeah; Ralph Stanley is something of an icon here in Tennessee, too.

[nex0s.livejournal.com]

YES!!!! YES WE CAN WE CAN WE CAN!!!

I've got tears in my eyes.

N.

[llnaughty.livejournal.com]

awesome! texaslawchick on my friendslist just posted (http://texaslawchick.livejournal.com/898113.html) about rednecks for obama (http://www.rednecks4obama.com/) (their website's temporarily down).

[txanne.livejournal.com]

That's about like Moses endorsing him. Gigantic big huge deal.

[brooksmoses]

Well, hmm. If that's all it takes....

I'm Moses, and I endorse this candidate.

(Wait, you meant some other Moses? I can get my brother to endorse him too!)

[txanne.livejournal.com]

Woo-hoo! Success is guaranteed!

[curiousangel.livejournal.com]

Only if your brother's name is Aaron, I think. :)

[kightp.livejournal.com]

Oh, HELL, yes. An parts of the country, an endorsement from Ralph Stanley is like an endorsement from God.

I'm not surprised. Stanley comes from coal-mining country, and he's an old-school pro-labor guy from way back. Kind of a blue-grass Pete Seeger.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

My husband's girlfriend is solid Ozark stock from a conservative Christian family. She's peeing her pants over this endorsement.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I loved that! I like his music, too!