Harold Ford Calls On Kerry To Apologize...

[DemocratSinceBirth]

House candidates are being advised to cancel events with John Kerry...


John Kerry has canceled campaign events in three states...


I don't even care what he said anymore... I just want to win. Just fucking win...


This is beginning to become a big clusterfuck...

[acmavm]

1. Why are the dems letting the corrupt media and the repubs

back them into a corner AGAIN. Or should I say AS USUAL?????????????/

[insidious]

3. Exactly

Kerry should keep up the heat until the election. Bullies always run out of steam and these idiots are no different.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. I Just Want It To Go Away.

That's my position and I'm sticking to it...

I'm watching MSNBC and they are literally giving it 100% coverage...


This is incredible...

Make it go away...

[ProSense]

11. Make it go away!

Next time the RW does this! Make it go away! Next time...make it go away!

Fuck the RW!

[hlthe2b]

24. DSB, this is the response of nearly every one facing a bully...

"I just want it to go away!!!"


Well, bullies DON'T just go away when their strategyis working. MJ Fox stood up to Limpballs and his little strategy backfired. Well, if we all stood together and attacked back on this Kerry issue, the same would happen.

The problem is that the REPUGS know that many of us on the left will NOT want to fight back and will sit back, let the damage be done, hoping it will all go away. Will we never learn? :shrug:

[acmavm]

33. Apparently not. This lesson has been lost on these fools for

years now. There's no disgrace in getting an ass whippin'. It's not fighting back that's disgraceful.

[GemMom]

40. Last night Harold Ford say Kerry should not apologize.

This morning he issues a press release that says Kerry SHOULD apologize.

So which is it, Harold?!

[Sugarcoated]

2. Good

I hope he loses. And I'm hiding this thread.

[KingFlorez]

5. Well, we know who you really want to control the Senate

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. I Didn't Say It.. Harold Ford Did...

I don't think he should apologize... For better or worse Kerry owns it... Oh, you might as well turn off your tv because cablemedia is giving it the 24/7 treatment...

[SammyWinstonJack]

6. Wimp(s)!

[npincus]

7. Exactly.

[mmonk]

8. It's time to stand up to political bullies.

I respectfully disgree. We'll never win as cowards.

[OzarkDem]

14. We are

By not letting them change the focus of our message.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

15. All I Know Is We Were On The Catbird's Seat Yesterday Morning...

I don't care what he said... I only care that we win on Tuesday. I'm tired of being punked by the GOPU.

[mmonk]

18. Kerry gave his reply. Harold's request for an apology

like the president's request, takes us off message and provides them with the false impression and issue they want.

[OzarkDem]

26. So focus on the Dem 2006 candidates, not Kerry

Let's help them win, forget about Kerry and the GOP distractions.

[mmonk]

31. I am. Ford's request puts it back on Kerry and republican

talking points. I frankly don't care what Kerry wants to do for a reply at this point.

[GemMom]

34. So much for

Kerry's chances in 2008.

[MidwestTransplant]

10. Of course the corporate media is just trying to be fair and balanced

They know what Kerry meant and of course lead off with *'s quick defense of the troops. GMAFB. Kerry should just go away until the election is done so this goes away. Nothing personal but he's not the issue and can't be made to be.

[GemMom]

12. Why is Harold Ford

holding this campaign event in a church when the IRS has been all over this 501(c)3 stuff lately?

[oasis]

13. Ford's next move: Criticize Al Gore for claiming to invent the internet.

:eyes:

[ProSense]

16. Ford needs to win, but

will calling on Kerry to apologize help? If it does it's a good thing! I doubt this will have any impact, he'd be better off focusing on Iraq!

A new CNN poll has Corker leading Ford 52 percent to 44 percent among likely voters with a margin for error at 4 percent. When sampling registered voters, however, Corker’s lead is just 47 percent to 45 percent with a margin for error of 3 percent...The Ford campaign pointed toward a Wall Street Journal/Zogby poll released Tuesday that had Corker with a 49 percent to 48 percent lead and a margin for error at 3.3 percent.

In a debate a day earlier, Mr. Chafee signaled an openness to calling for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to step down; Mr. Whitehouse has been pressuring Mr. Chafee to do just that in his television advertisements. In Tennessee, Bob Corker, a Republican candidate for Senate, said it was time for a new plan and a change in leadership at the Pentagon.

Kerry was absolutely right to stand up! This will backfire on the RW idiots!

[Pithy Cherub]

17. Ford the new Lieberman....tsk, tsk, tsk!

Dude does NOT know when to STFU!:eyes:

[BootinUp]

19. For those attacking Ford

You need to wake the fuck up. He is on the front lines hearing from his constituents and Kerry's joke excuse ain't flyin.

[jsamuel]

20. then Ford should tell them the truth

too willing to lie

[BootinUp]

23. Kerry first

He was talking to students about having opportunities, he knows that drop outs are targets for recruiting, that is the context. I do not believe the joke excuse. I do not believe he meant to slur the troops. I do believe he commented on recruiting practices in a clumsy way.

[mmonk]

25. Did you read what he intended to say?

Anyway, Ford issuing a plea to Kerry to apologize puts the issue squarely where the republicans want it and where the press will keep it.

[BootinUp]

28. Read what? The post fuckup spin?

Its not my fault Kerry doesn't know how to clarify his beliefs. HE SAID WHAT HE BELIEVES and now he can't explain it so he spins it as a lame joke.

[jsamuel]

29. that is what it was, a joke about Bush being Stupid, if you watch the video

it is OBVIOUS. The crowd laughs after he said it. They knew he was talking about Bush.

[BootinUp]

35. Trying to understand it

he's talking to students about education, the importance of it, and without naming Bush who has an education btw, he implies they might lead a country into a quagmire without an education?


You buy that bunch of baloney?

[jsamuel]

36. it is obvious what he was talking about Bush... OBVIOUS

you can add in all you like about the place, time, and other junk, but it is OBVIOUS he was talking about Bush.

He said "Before I start talking about education, let me say this..." then said the joke. He wasn't talking about them yet. And the part of the joke that was stressed was "WORK HARD and STUDY HARD" unlike Mr C- Bush. Yeah he has a bought education. The guy is as dumb as a rock.

Have you even watched the video or are you saying this stuff while being ignorant of it?

[BootinUp]

37. Is that posted somewhere

"Before I start talking about education..."

I have not seen that in any video or news coverage or posted at D. Where is that?

[jsamuel]

39. here is the video, I pharaphrased

http://www.cnn.com/video/player/player.html?url=/video/politics/2006/10/31/henry.kerry.education.controversy.kcal

[BootinUp]

42. Hell

if he was talking about Bush, it was the worst joke ever written or spoken. I still am not convinced. It might help if I could read or see more of the speech.

[mmonk]

21. An apology won't make any difference.

The gaffe occurred and you'll (and Ford) just have to put up with them making a false issue of it in the races or redirect the focus back on them.

[oasis]

22. Ford "proactively"??? issued a press release. He's a two faced weasel.

:thumbsdown:

[kath]

27. Hey, Harold -

Fuck. You.

[nolabels]

30. Talk about going off the ranch, Harold and Joe would make fine bookends

Every time I check this Ford guy out he trying to out-republican the republicans.
Is he sure he is running in the correct party :shrug:

[GemMom]

32. Do you want Ford to win

or not?

[jumpoffdaplanet]

44. So we can have another Liebermann?

Please we have enough back-stabbing dems already.

Ford fucked up. He should apologize for being a coward.

[nolabels]

47. If I was looking how he votes on issues............

I live California so it's not my choice anyway but to answer the question

He is running down the middle of road, but it's not the middle of the road I would be comfortable with.

Another DINO in making it looks to me. Every time the corporate oligarch says jump most of the DINO's do so why should I want that? This whole thing with the distortions of about Sen. Kerry is a prime example. The corporate noise machine is playing the GOP tune with the smear Sen. Kerry and this Rep. Ford is dancing along with the whole thing because he is afraid of them.

How Rep. Ford votes is here
http://www.ontheissues.org/House/Harold_Ford.htm

Living in reality is sometimes painful but often necessary, voting for the lesser of two evils still will give you evil.

[slj0101]

38. This is madness.

Kerry didn't refer to someone as a monkey.

He didn't refer to a reporter as a "major league asshole" on a live mic.

And he sure as hell didn't crack a joke, also on a live mic, about declaring nuclear war on Russia.

This will not blow the Democrats' momentum. No way.

[madfloridian]

41. Clinton is there in Memphis today to endorse Ford...Hmmm.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/11/1/10403/7039

"Clinton will make an appearance at Temple of Deliverance Church of God in Christ 369 GE Patterson Avenue Memphis, TN where it is expected that he will endorse the campaign of TN-9 House nominee State Senator Steve Cohen and Democatic U.S. Senate nominee Harold Ford, Jr."

[DemocratSinceBirth]

43. I'd Bet My Home Clinton Will Handle The Kerry Flap Adroitly

eom

[madfloridian]

45. Since Ford doesn't want many other Democrats there... I hope so.

I sincerely hope so.

[GemMom]

46. So is Clinton...

going to talk for Ford for the next six years? Vote in his place too?