Willie Nelson Stands for American Pride

In “Always on His Mind” (July 5), about Willie Nelson and his guitar, Trigger, Nelson was referred to as “the pot-smoking, pistol-packing Pied Piper of Outlaw Music.” Well, boy howdy! Too bad that Nelson would never run for president, because I’d vote for him in a flash. Compared to all the phony, pedophile priests in the headlines and the petroleum-fueled Texan now in office, with his Vice President “prickly Dick Cheney,” Willie and his boys would be our nation’s best representatives, here and overseas. His red, white and blue macrame guitar strap says more about American pride than President Bush and his cronies could ever conceive. Spark one up for me, Willie. I champion your “bush” (read pot) politics, not Bush’s (despotic) political posturing.

Robert Leslie Dean

Los Angeles