WILLIE NELSON ENDORSES CLAIRE McCASKILL

I had to laugh this morning when I read that beloved country singer Willie Nelson had endorsed Claire McCaskill for the Missouri U.S. Senate seat of reactionary rubber stamp wingnut Jim Talent. Just yesterday Talent's gutter campaign tried floating ancient rumors that McCaskill had smoked pot in the 70's. I wonder if that attracted Willie's attention!

Talent, caught up in a flood of Hispanic Republicans switching parties because of his racist stand on immigration, had no comment on Willie's endorsement, made at a concert in St Louis last night. Willie isn't endorsing many candidates and he says he focused on McCaskill because "her support of family farms, alternative fuels and Amendment 2, a ballot proposal to protect some forms of embryonic stem-cell research. 'We need more like her,'" he said.

Here's a live video of Willie and Neil Young, who have worked together a lot to raise awareness (and funds) to hep the plight of family farmers (as opposed to the Bush Regime corporate farm operations) doing "Working Cowboys."