New York, September 3, 2008 - While the country music world in general tends to lean to the right, politically – remember when the Dixie Chicks were shunned for bad mouthing President Bush? – LeAnn Rimes works both sides.  She performed at the Republican National Convention last week, but says it was a bipartisan event.  “I performed for both parties; it really doesn’t say much about where I’m at and where I’m not at politically,” Rimes told us at the launch of Stop Hiding, Start Living, a psoriasis awareness campaign.  (Rimes has battled the condition since childhood, and now has it under control.) 

“I’ve performed for many presidents - it’s funny to say that at 26 - but I have performed for three different presidents now,” the Grammy winner said.  She’s a big Bill Clinton fan.  “Clinton was always way into music, and he’s just an incredible man to be around, and very, very funny,” she says.  But then she had fun with fellow Texan W, too.  “You know, it’s funny, it happens to all of us, we’ll meet a ton of people and they’ll walk by and you’re like, hi, how are you.  And he’ll get to me in a line, and he’ll be like, ‘Hi…Oh, LeAnn!  How’s it goin’?  It’s my Texas girl.’”  Rimes says no matter the party, it is a thrill to meet the president.  “You know, it’s our president at the end of the day.  So I go and have fun with them.  That’s my job.  I get to go have fun.”