Harold Ford sez "take Bush's word and move on"

[grasswire]

Ford is on CNN right now. He says "Bush said he served honorably, so let's take his word for it and move on."

Why is Ford continually sabotaging the progress the Democrats are making against Bush?

[Justice]

1. Wow.

Who does Harold Ford endorse?

[OKNancy]

11. Kerry

But I bet you knew that. LOL

[lancdem]

But Kerry's pushing this issue

I'm sure Harold's acting on his own here - not very impressively, I might add.

[EXE619K]

33. You're right!

Rep. Ford was acting on his own.

Just like John Kerry and his infamous "stop crying in your teacups" remark.

[Karenina]

2. Harold's doin' a Colin.

NO DICE.

[candy331]

4. Ford has to play by the the right 's rule book if he wants

to remain in the game. Not very impressive to AA and is seen as a patsy....

[devilgrrl]

3. Uh, sorry Mr. Ralph Reed look alike...

Move on you ask? Keep dreaming!

[polmaven]

5. 95% of those who have already voted

on the Lou Dobbs question of the day disagree, Mr. Ford!

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/lou.dobbs.tonight/

[mike1963]

19. Wow. Kick for the poll

:kick:

[ronnykmarshall]

39. 5% Yes ---- 95% NO!!

Too funny!

[geniph]

6. Oh, like the way they took Clinton's word

about his private sex life, as opposed to a very public commitment made to serve one's country?

[sendero]

14. Exactly...

.... every time I'm forced to step back and be sure I'm being "fair" and "reasonable", I use the litmus test the Republicans themselves created. If they did it to Clinton, it must be OK, since they all have so much honor and integrity.

Thanks pukes for lowering the bar.

[lovedems]

7. Every time this country takes his word for something, people end up dead!

Screw that! People took his word that "we didn't know terrorists were going to use planes as bombs!" People took his word "Iraq is a threat". I am not taking that SOB's words for anything!

You can't be a war mongering pResident and have a shaky military career at the same time. Sorry!

[Jacobin]

8. Last time we "took his word" on something we ended up

invading a country with no WMD, killing 530 americans (thus far), wounding thousands, costing billions, killing tens of thousands of Iraqis.

I ain't takin' smirky at his word no more.

[MidwestTransplant]

21. That's a great retort

you should email him and tell him.

[PretzelWarrior]

9. hey Harold Ford. I got a suggestion for you.

SHUT THE F*CK UP! Let us people of America decide what we want to see. If we tune into Janet nipple replays ad infinitum...then that's what they put onthe TV. If we are into house renovations..we watch that. If we want to watch basketball, that is our perogative. If we want to tune out the State of Union...that is a market force.

If we want to know what the press finds out about our chickensh!t president goofing around and blowing off his cushy guard service, then we will watch it.

Hearing a politician tell me to take another politician at his word is like hearing a criminal remind me that the other criminal is a nice guy while said other criminal has a gun to my head.

I'm sick of you conservative jerks telling the people what to do. Why don't YOU use your time searching for verifiable proof that he served when he said he did. Now go to HELL!

[waterman]

28. Great post ... very passionate and well said ... thank you for that

I especially liked the ending.

[PretzelWarrior]

32. thank you! and may we hope this media sh!tstorm continues

for BushCo. What is funny is last year people were saying "leave the WMD thing alone" "it will come back to bite us". Now people are saying that about AWOL. No way. The tide has turned and we need to roll this tsunami up onto the beach and let it wipe out this house of cards administration.

[waterman]

36. Yep... cheerio - I agree wholeheartedly!!!

[SoCalDem]

10. S H U T ..U P .... Harold..

Go to your room..

[notadmblnd]

27. Harold, go sit in a corner by your dish.

n/t

[Democrats unite]

12. Isn't this the same person that everyone is saying

Should be Edwards VP?

[adadem]

13. OK just lost

a whole lot of respect for him....and I thought he was pretty good.

[Bandit]

15. He is trying to come off as a True Compassionate Conservative

But it is not compassionate at all to stick America with the likes of the Bush* Cabal. We must for the survival of all things America holds dear get these thugs out as quickly as possible and Ford is not helping America in any manner.

[sendero]

25. Right

'Compassionate' is not the same as 'butt licking stooge'. When will these DINOs just leave our party, I am getting fed up with the lot of them.

[Lars39]

16. He's a New Democrat. eom

[grasswire]

18. he did this before

I can't remember the issue, but he sabotaged what the Dems were trying to do.

DINO DINO DINO

He's another Zell Miller.

[Lars39]

22. Yep. I think you're right. eom

[tom_paine]

17. We are plagued with weak cowardly quisling Dems

Looks like Mr. Ford is looking to be the Leader of the Sham Opposition Party in 2020 during the reign of Emperor Ahnold!

If he does enough sycophantic bootlicking, I think he's a shoe-in for the job!

[maryallen]

20. DINO ..

Sell-out.

Cop-out.

Coward ...

[GumboYaYa]

23. I do not trust Harold Ford.

He strikes me as opportunistic as they get. I would not be surprised to see him switch to Repug if they are still in power after 2004 (ahhh, now I have to go wash my hands after typing that blasphemy).

[mazzarro]

37. You've just hit the nail - Harold is a roguish conversative "opportunist"!

eom

[ComerPerro]

24. Oh, yes, lets trust Bush

Because, he has not motivation to lie, now does he.

This is fucking sick.

I don't think I should have to trust that asshole just because he somehow fooled enough Americans to make his "win" in 2000 look legitiamte.

Fuck the Republicans. And fuck Bush. He is a lying, cowardly shithead.

[tkmorris]

26. Forgive me but........

FUCK Harold Ford. I am so tired of that schmuck going on the news shows as a representative of the "left". It's crap! There's a reason they invite that clown to represent the left and it aint because he's liberal.

[Bronco69]

31. Amen!

I think he's been hanging around Zell Miller's office too long.

[onecitizen]

29. He's a DLCer maybe? nt

nt

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34. Ford is an Ass......no matter how I've tried to like the guy he leaves me

cold. He seems very compromising..not as bad as Zell or the next step up Lieberman, but NOT someone I'm comfortable with. He's too much on the media like Bayh and Biden. A TOADY!

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

35. Funny

as I recall a bunch of us said "Ok, censure Clinton for a sexual indiscretion and move on." Sorry, bozo, but shirking Guard duty when you've put a lot of Guardsmen in harm's way is something we need to investigate long and hard.

[trof]

38. And I used to like him.

F*ck him.

[NNN0LHI]

40. Good cop. Bad cop. The point has been made and it ain't going away

Watch and see. This issue needs to be addressed by those who have served in the military. Ford never served.
Don

[Cat Atomic]

41. Why don't we just accept Michael Moore's word instead?

We can just all agree that Bush is a deserter, and move on from there.

Next question: Did he desert because of cowardice, laziness, or drug addiction?

[tabasco]

42. I was disappointed with his performance on Scarborough.

I used to think very highly of him but he has to stop the appeasement policy. I suppose he is doing it to keep his job in TN.

[Robbien]

43. I sent him an email

[e-mail]

When America's sons and daughters are maimed and dead because we were asked to take Bush's word the last time, the time for taking Bush's word is long gone. And I told him so in many more words.

[indepat]

44. Do we take GWB's word on everything he has ever said/will ever utter and

move on? Ford has probably one of the safest seats in the House for the next 40-or-so years if he wishes to stay, so he is at absolutely no political risk, no matter what he says.

[veracity]

45. It's not a bad strategy...

The press, althought picking up on this, are spinning it as a dem concern. The best way is to do what Ford did.... say that this is not a campaign issue, but should be the concern of the press and the public. Otherwise, it'll be dicounted by Bushites a dem propaganda. The WH press corps were throwing really hard ball questions during the briefing. Let them do the fighting here. I'd rather see this an issue of general concern than a campaign issue.

[KG]

46. with that kind of attitude, mr ford has a great future in the dem party!