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From country music's most outspoken conservative, Trace Adkins: a rousing call to political sanity and personal responsibility
A Personal Stand
by Trace, Adkins
At 6'6" and sporting a blonde ponytail, #1 country music superstar Trace Adkins isn't your typical conservative pundit. Then again, with millions of fans who love his music and his politically-incorrect opinions, he has a lot more influence than more buttoned-down commentators. Now, in A Personal Stand: Observations and Opinions from a Freethinking Roughneck, Adkins delivers his maverick manifesto on politics, personal responsibility, fame, parenting, being true to yourself, hard work, and the way things ought to be.
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Brash, persuasive, and controversial, A Personal Stand isn't just the story of Trace Adkins's life; it's the story of what life can teach all of us. "In this book I'll refer to my life experiences, but it's not the next celebrity confession. I'll be talking about the state of this country as I've seen it from my boyhood in small town Louisiana to headlining concerts across our land. About my journey from an oilfield hand with few responsibilities (except an honest day's work) to a father of five daughters and the president of a small corporation. I'll be touching on some of today's hot-button issues: trade unionism, energy and the environment, Republicans and Democrats, illegal immigration, the war on terrorism, and freedom of speech."
In his inimitable pull-no-punches style, Adkins gives us the state of the union as he sees it through the prism of his own life's experiences. So, rather than simply telling the story about how his wife shot him through the heart with a .38 (notable not just because he survived but also because he was careful not to bleed all over their new carpet), he uses the story as a vehicle to illustrate the importance of accepting personal responsibility and forgiving others. And, instead of just recounting how he grew up poor in rural Louisiana and graduated to work on offshore oil rigs (where the guitarist lost part of a finger) and to do construction, he writes about how his hometown was crippled by unions and argues that unions should be abolished. Some highlights:
Trace Adkins on personal responsibility: "I stand for personal responsibility and against anything that undermines it. So much what I see in our country today represents a flight hell-bent from responsibility to victimhood. From acting on one's convictions, to going along just to get along. From making decisions based on moral principles, to taking the easy way out. That's not what the United States of America is all about, and that's not the legacy our children should inherit."
Trace on blame games and pity parties: "Life is messy. When you fall down, pick yourself up and go on. Don't waste time trying to pin the blame on somebody, even if you did get some rotten breaks. Life has thrown me some hellacious curve balls, stuff that would make for a dandy pity party on the Oprah Winfrey Show. But life has also given me plenty of blessings."
Trace on immigration: "We don't need to round people up and deport them. We don't have to be in any way inhumane. And we really don't need any new laws... The biggest thing we can do to solve the problem is to go after the employers of the illegal aliens."
Trace on freedom of speech: "I get so tired of people harping on freedom of speech. ...Take your stand, and then accept whatever stand other people take in response.
Trace on party politics: I'm incredibly frustrated with the state of American politics. If there were a viable third party, I'd seriously consider joining it.
Trace on Christianity vs. Islam: "If anybody wonders who the good guys are and who the bad guys are in this world, just look at the way we teach our children as opposed to the way the fundamentalist Muslims teach their children."
Trace on unions: "Organized labor now exists for the sake of organized labor, and not for the workers it once protected."
Trace on football vs. soccer: "I hate soccer, I just abhor it. The whole soccer mom thing is a creation of some pacifist to pussify an entire generation of American men, and I think it should be abolished."
Engaging, entertaining, and thought-provoking, A Personal Stand will have you nodding in agreement with Trace Adkins's uncommonly sane point of view.
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 Vicki Bean (a freethinking grandma from Kentucky)
This book is not just about a country singer's rise to stardom and all his life experiences before he got there. Yes, he is a very opinionated person and to some nonthinking individuals who might be offended by his tell-it-like-is style,(especially hard-core liberals) he might be considered a very rude and crude dude; but now is not the time for being polite and tip-toeing around all the major issues we as an American people face today.If we don't unite as a people and go back to a time when we had some pride in who we were and what we could accomplish in this country without the influence of every other country in the world; who probably would not be where they are today without our help in some way or another; we may someday lose our precious freedoms that were paid for by the blood of many brave men. We are slowly being sold out to countries who would love to see us lose our title of THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
The observations of Trace Adkins whether we want to believe them or not are the facts as they stand. His opinions about what should be done to take back the pride and dignity we have somehow lost because of our greed and complacency might be considered extreme to those who cannot face the idea that we are being destroyed from within as surely as any terrorist we might face from outside our borders.
Read this book with an open mind.You'll either love it or hate it, but the one thing we should all agree on is his notion that until everyone is held responsible for their actions and politicians accountable for their abuse of power,we may be fighting a losing battle. And that's my opinion.
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