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Harold Ford: Worse Than An Empty Suit

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I admit it. I never liked Harold Ford. Even when he was running for the Senate against a conservative Republican, I hated the idea that this absolute zero would be in the Democratic Caucus.

I didn't just dislike him because he is a reactionary, a Bible-thumping Christianist, and the tool of corporate interests. I disliked him because I worked on the Hill and the universal word from his staff was that the man is a total phony.

When I told one staffer that I was offended by Ford's constant invoking of God and faith, she laughed and said, "don't believe a word of it. He throws the f-bomb around like it's going out of style."

Small consolation. Do we like the Fords and Santorums better if we know they are faking it?Or if they are real? I think I have a tad more respect for the ones who believe the garbage they put out. Ford does not even have that saving grace.

Read Jon Chait's piece in The New Republic.

It makes me realize that the Democratic party is blessed with some characters are even worse than the Evan Bayh empty suits. There's Harold Ford too.


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You basically say the guy is a phony in his personal, political and religious life, and offer no evidence besides unnamed staffers?

Even if you're right, your tactics put you right in the dirt with him.

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2ND , he pulled the same type whack job on Bayh yesterday, with less substantive evidence.

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I'm not surprised MJ Rosenberg thought Bayh was an empty suit too, and here's one possible reason why:

“He hates the Senate, hates the left bloggers,” a friend and longtime adviser to Bayh said. “They are getting their wish, pure Democrats in the minority.“

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/02/15/bayh.retirement/index.html?hpt=T2

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Lalo,

Bayh was Republican lite, good riddance.

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He won't pass muster here in NY. Manhattan will be his Waterloo.

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Thank God for the people of NY.

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"I admit it. I never liked Harold Ford"

- And it's pretty much downhill from here.

This is the same permanently constipated MJ Rosenberg who once drew thoughtful parallels between Reagan's hand-written speaches and GOP's use of Twitter to generate a "deep thought". Apparently that didn't give him the much needed relief because he erased the "deep thought" an hour later.

Today's gem is about a Christianist using an F-bomb, which of course is all anyone would ever need to realize he is unfit to call himself a Democrat, let alone run for elections. Against the model of sincerity and consistency, Sen Gillibrand, of all people!!

I'm wondering if those were the regular F-bombs or the retarded ones, reserved for special olympics?

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At last, something we can agree on.

"- And it's pretty much downhill from here.

This is the same permanently constipated MJ Rosenberg who once drew thoughtful parallels between Reagan's hand-written speaches and GOP's use of Twitter to generate a "deep thought". Apparently that didn't give him the much needed relief because he erased the "deep thought" an hour later."

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This is scathing. wow

Never impressed me on Mornin'Joke.

Personally I think the guy got kicked in the balls real hard in Tennessee.

To paraphrase George Wallace:

I aint never gonna be out conservatived again.

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WoW , I'm looking and i didn't find any "Israel" , Jew , "defenseless Palestinian" in the article

MJ , I know it's a big step for you and it's very difficult for you - I & All the others support and love you ,(Everybody : "MJ , we love you !")


Now , let be serious : write something about the Dubai,Mossad SABATUHA !

All this American politics are boring - Obama and his fox are loosers - we all knew that - Time to move on and speak about Your Beloved "Israel"

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Adding your usual nothing to the discussion....

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You're right mythbuster. 'One of the Immortals' (what a joke of a name for such a hate purveyor) and the others here commenting so off-key and off-topic are either practicing racist Jew-baiting or are themselves Likudnik Jews practicing their kill-the-Palestinians love of God rhetoric.

Either way, they can't handle the doses of reality that M.J. slings on any topic whatsoever and they live to try to tear him down. They lower themselves further each time they try and have reduced themselves to mere filthy spots on the ground.

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There is no reality in this blog or his previous effort at journalism; a dearth of substance to support his views in these two posts reduces his efforts to meaningless rants.

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If New York would ever elect a Harold Ford, cash in your Yankee tickets. He's as far away from New York as a mayonnaise in a kosher deli. A-Rod has a better chance than this fluffy dude.

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He would certainly fit right in, seamlessly, in the Senate. I give him that. Some new senators require a year or so to sell their souls to big business, but Harold seems to have that part already taken care of. And, he doesn't need to become a centrist, doing nothing but helping the very wealthy become obscenely wealthy, since he has that taken care of already too. Seems like a perfect fit to me - Mr. Average Senator.

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hoppy,

Harold Ford always seemed to me to be the quintessential self serving politician.
He was the only Democrat who ran for office (Senate) and who's loss didn't fully disappoint me.

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I know you won't believe this, Mr. Rosenberg, but I fully agree with you on this particular topic. Having seen and heard Senator Gilibrand at the AIPAC dinner in New York two weeks ago, I am perfectly happy to have her represent me, under Chuck Schumer's beneficent tutelage on all things Israel, instead of this walking fraud named Harold Ford.

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Way to go MJ! Ford is a charlatan. He is so disingenuous that it's virtually impossible to distinguish what he says and what he may actually believe. The first time I listened to him it was impossible to discern what policies he supported and what he opposed. He always playing both sides and seems to have no core values. He makes Bayh seem like an ideological firebrand. He's so pathetic it is hard for me to even care to comment on Harold Ford. He can't even parse his words with the skill of an accomplished sleaze.

I'm exhausted, what with curling and all.

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Don't ya just hate when Ford is on a talk show and they start out by giving him a question and when it's his turn he says, "first let me say Happy Easter to you and your family," or something like that. Never fails.

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Why don't Party leaders prevail on Fancy Ford to move to Boston and take on that other phoney, Scott Brown, in 2012?

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I agree with MJ including the f word comment. It is significant. Not because Ford says fuck, who doesn't? But the fact his staffer was disloyal. Irrespective of the grounds.

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Disloyal to whom? To Ford or to the country? If a politician is bad news, doesn't any American citizen, including a congressional staffer, have an obligation to let us know what the politician is really like?

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Maybe.

In 1933 Dean Acheson was Under Secretary of Treasury ("Completely unqualified" he told the congressional committee which approved him ). The Secretary was ill so Acheson took over.

FDR was trying to devalue the dollar(to generate employment) by raising the price at which the Treasury bought gold. Acheson protested what he considered a breach of trust with foreignors who had bought US bonds. Without notifying him FDR chose a new under secretary and issued an announcement that Acheson had resigned.

The day after the swearing in ceremony , FDR looked in the morning papers and was surprised to see the photo of Acheson- unmistakable in bowler hat and mustache- beaming behind his replacement.

Later FDR dismissed another high level appointee the same way. Who immediately gave a furious interview to the press. FDR told Ickes "someone tell that guy to talk to Acheson about how a gentleman goes about leaving an administration ".


But whatever the reason when your staff turns against you it's a relevant fact worth reporting and worth the voters taking into account.

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The patently obvious phony Harold Ford was a Hillary guy all the way which explains why her bitter supporters are slagging MJ.

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