If you need a reason to dislike Harold Ford, here's one:

[ProSense]

Harold Ford: I Would Have Voted To Approve Torture :

FORD: You have to remember when this was occurring. This is 2002, 2003. The country was in a different place, in a different space. And if you were to say to me, as an American, put aside my partisanship, that we have an opportunity to gain information that would prevent the destruction of an American city, to prevent killings in American cities, and we have to use certain techniques, I’m one of those Americans that would have voted a certain way, Chris. And that polling said it might have been torture, but I’m not as outraged.

Edited to add quote.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I already had a number of reasons to dislike him.

But now I really, really dislike him. What a dick.

[CreekDog]

2. I don't need another reason

I already have hundreds. :wtf:

of course, upon closer inspection, I'd better add this one. :eyes:

[tularetom]

3. Well, I didn't need a reason to dislike him

So I'm not surprised at that quote.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

4. "Certain" this and "certain" that.. what a pathetic WEASEL. -nt

[LakeSamish706]

5. What is it about this that people like Ford don't understand.... Torture is against the law....

The US has signed off on this a long time ago, and it breaks US law and World law... duh...

[RandomThoughts]

14. and one of the reasons we have laws

Is so when times get tough, we can act based on what we want to be, based on what we thought when we had time to think and calmly reflect on things. Instead of under fear or anger.

You don't go around hitting people at random. But if someone gets you really angry at someone, it might just be the fact that there is a law, that stops you from hitting a person. And when you calm down, you will be glad you followed the law, and glad it was there.

Because you would have avoided looking like terrible people, if you followed that law.

Bush/Cheney when they broke the law, because feeling they were above it, lost the protection that would have kept them from doing a stupid thing that hurt America, and was wrong.

Another reason to reestablish rule of law with prosecutions.

[GOPNotForMe]

6. God he sucks. nt

[spanone]

7. i will never vote for harold ford jr again..never. he is politically persona non grata in my world

[MadMaddie]

8. I just heard him say it on Chris Mathews

His excuse is it was 2002 the US was in a different place. A pathetic excuse for torture....

I dislike this guy greatly!

[Bonn1997]

12. Morality doesn't matter if it's within a year of an attack!

[LakeSamish706]

9. The other thing I don't understand is, what must our men and women in uniform think about this?

What happens if some of our people are captured and tortured, like happened in other past wars? They must be devastated thinking about this possibility.... I know I would if I were in the military.

[eleny]

10. Matthews, to his credit, called him out and Harold danced back from his statement

Ford makes me feel like - ugh.

[Bonn1997]

11. Matthews called it "Cheney Talk"

Harold's supposedly a Democrat? He's using fear tactics to justify torture!

[More_liberal_than_mo]

13. At least Tweety came down

hard on Harold without hesitation. He said "enough of this Cheney TALK"! I noticed that Ford then tried to weasel out of what he had said. Tweety held his ground and really ripped him with the follow up about we had no knowledge of any imminent nuclear attack, that was all made up by Cheney and company to justify illegally invading Iraq. (I'm paraphrasing him, but that was the jest of it)

[underpants]

15. I read this earlier and I swear I thought the subject line said "HARRISON Ford"

:rofl:

I just saw this on thinkprogress and :think:

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/11/ford-torture-cheney/