Robert Ford's comments about Obama

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NYT: February 19, 2007
Clinton Woos Black Voters
By Patrick Healy

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton signalled to
black voters this morning that they could think of the 2008
presidential contest as a barrier-breaking election even if
they voted for her instead of one of their own, Senator Barack
Obama of Illinois, who is competing with Mrs. 
Clinton for the Democratic nomination.


Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama are aggressively courting black
voters; she made her first visit to South Carolina today as a
presidential candidate, appearing before a predominantly black
audience of about 2,500 people at historically black Allen
University, while Mr. Obama was in the state this past
weekend.

At her town hall forum at Allen, Mrs. Clinton also put her own
gentle spin on a controversy that erupted last week when one
of her most prominent black supporters (and a paid consultant
to her campaign) in South Carolina, state Senator Robert Ford,
said Mr. Obama would be a political disaster as the nominee.

“Every Democrat running on that ticket next year would lose,
because he’s black and he’s top of the ticket,” Mr. Ford said.
“We’d lose the House and the Senate and the governors and
everything.” The quote has been a big deal in South Carolina,
and Mr. Ford has apologized for it....

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[We are the Deciders]

1. I was

wondering what he said. The news just said he "made some remarks that upset...some people"
I am tired of having to find the full story, on the internet. I have just gotten to the point of not watching local at all.

[China_cat]

2. Even if you heard him in person

you'd be wondering what he said.

Frankly, I truly believe that the only way the Democratic party would regain the White House with Hillary on the ticket would be for the Republicans to run another Bush.

It isn't that I don't think she's qualified. I do. But, like so many others, I don't want a Clinton in office (with the attendant shit-throwing that we've had for almost 16 years now) and this country couldn't survive another Bush.

Give us some names that aren't known, that aren't carrying a lot of baggage with them. If that means electing somebody with little experience, so be it...at least s/he won't have any bad habits to unlearn.