Harold Ford is so Annoying. He's a Prick

[Thrill]

Just saw him on MSNBC. He's such an asshole.

He says "Obama's new ad is powerful and good. But not all accurate"

What the hell is that suppose to mean? This is supposed to be a Democrat????

[jgraz]

1. Last week he was on TV calling for more oil drilling

What a disgusting character he is.

[hokies4ever]

43. He's also in favor of the gas tax holiday

and a few weeks ago had the most absurd advice for Obama one could imagine. He cited the Democrat who won that Mississippi runoff election. The Dem was a cultural conservative, pro-life. Harold Ford Jr.'s advice to Obama and other Democrats was to become more culturally conservative to win more votes in the south. I think Harold has been pandering to Tennessee people a little bit too long.

[tekisui]

2. DLC.

When he is talking I sometimes am relieved he didn't win.

[HowHasItComeToThis]

3. HE FREIGHTENS ME

WITH HIS ARROGANCE

[madfloridian]

4. He is DLC chairman...says they will set policy for the nominee.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/1019

And they are already. The advice of that group was to grant immunity to telecoms. Guess what. :shrug:

[Zodiak]

10. And to think that our 4th amendment rights are traded for 10 House seats

Ten Congressmen, I might add, who didn't bother to present any evidence they they stood to lose if FISA was an issue. They just asked Pelosi, and she went along....I don't even know who they are. Do you think that if we were about to lose our rights over 10 seats, we could at least know which congresscritters demanded it (other than Hoyer)?

Effectively, we are being sold down the river in an election year where we stand to gain a ton of seats. If their seats weren't in trouble in 2006, they are not in trouble now when the mood of the country is worse.

I think this is the DLC trying to get as much as they can for their corporate masters before the clock runs out. To hell with our party presenting a united front...not when there are Republicans and the most unpopular President in history to please.

10 Blue Dogs...to me, we are not getting much for our 20 pieces of silver.

[dailykoff]

38. I think the ten seats thing is horseshit.

More and more I think they're covering up their own collusion in 911, or at least Hoyer is. Pelosi could just be a sucker.. she's been rolled many times before.

[demokatgurrl]

48. Not to be a "shit stirrer" (term from another thread) but

what makes you think the DLC clock is running out? They haven't gone away AT ALL, they are very powerful in the party, they just don't fly their flag any more. I submit that both of the leading (last-standing) presidential candidates were non-DLC in name only.

Of course I'll vote for any Dem, but I know who I'm voting for. DLC moderates, all of them. The progressives were pushed out early by the media. And much earlier this time than in previous elections. And now we even have people right here on DU suggesting, hopefully in jest but I fear not, that maybe a Republican running mate for Obama would be a good idea. :puke:

Scary if you ask me.

[Zodiak]

50. Because it is running out

For one, as you point out, they had to go underground. Ten years ago they were out in the open and proudly proclaiming their status.

#2, you better check who is DLC and who is not. Clinton is proudly DLC...."not-DLC in name only" does not apply to her.

Obama denounced the DLC and does not adhere to their principles, which go far beyond "moderate". To be DLC, you have to be a corporatist and somewhat of a neocon. You also have to be an authoritarian. Obama is none of those. He is a garden variety moderate.

The DLC used to control the DNC...they no longer do.
The DLC used to be the major source for campaign funding for a lot of Congressinal Democrats....they no longer are.

So yeah, they are on their way out, but they will kick, bite, scream and sell away everything we stand for before they leave.

[Eric J in MN]

32. Please call the Obama campaign to say you hope he votes against the FISA bill.

Obama’s presidential campaign: [phone]

[AmyDeLune]

5. Misread the name as *Harrison* Ford...

...must get new glasses soon...

[shadowknows69]

21. Holy shit I did too

That's why I clicked on it, I give a shit about Harold Ford lol.

[anonymous171]

6. DLC, what did you expect?

[tularetom]

7. In 2006 my cousin in TN asked me to donate to his senate campaign

so I did. Then I heard what he had to say. I was almost immediately sorry I had made the donation.

I've seen him many times since then. This asswipe is just slightly more of a democrat than joe loserman.

[my3boyz]

8. Someone needs to kick his @ss all the way back to Memphis. However, my mom does not want

want him there either! LOL Just get him off my screen as he supposedly represents dems.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

9. I've despised him since he kept making that flippant comment about the Playboy mansion party

"I like football. I like girls." With that cheesy smirk on his face. Not that I thought him going to the party was a big deal, but acting like women were a hobby interchangeable with spectating sports the way he did is unbefitting of someone aspiring to be a Senator.

And now the more I know about him the less I like him. :puke:

[AllentownJake]

17. Actually

Perfect qualifications for a GOP senator.

[Raine]

20. That remark sure came back to bite him in the ass

when the rePUKEs used the blonde phone bimbo to defeat him.

[Cha]

11. Did harold ford jr say what

wasn't "accurate" about the ad?

[Thrill]

19. No. Thats the thing that really pissed me off. I went back and watched the ad

and can't figure out what that jerk was talking about. Its something you expect from a RW nut job.

[Cha]

23. Thanks, Brent..could you tell

me what ad it is? 'Cause I'll look at too.

[Thrill]

25. Its the first General Election Ad by Obama

The one released last week

[Cha]

28. Thanks, I figured that out after I posted

the question. It would nice if harold swarmy jr let us know what he didn't think was accurate so we could call him on it.

Better yet..challenge him to cite the "inaccuracy".

[Cha]

29. The ad is Obama saying why he loves his country

and a little of his history..is harold ford contesting Obama's Illinois Senate Record? He needs to be held accountable for those dlc loose lips.

http://www.barackobama.com/index.php

[DJ13]

12. Two words come to mind whever I see him

"Smarmy" "Kiss ass".

(Okay, its three words.....)

[polichick]

13. He certainly likes to hear himself talk - blah, blah, blah.

[Truthfulone]

14. Never trust a DLC'er

That's my golden rule.

[msongs]

15. there ya go again picking on republicans in the message boards nt

[TahitiNut]

16. It's a good thing he's in politics. If he were a rocket scientist ...

... people would be killed in their sleep. :shrug:

[RNdaSilva]

35. Well said...

[Tatiana]

18. And there are many here that espouse capitulation just like him.

I do not understand the logic in running our campaign based on what the Republicans might do or say.

We are in the driver's seat. WE need to be the one's setting the agenda, framing that agenda, and selling OUR undiluted message to the country.

The right-wing is out of step with the public and it's our job to highlight the differences between us and them.

And save any "BUT BUT... we don't want to seem weak on TERRA!" responses. The people losing their homes, the people who can barely afford to fill the gas tanks of their vehicles, the students who can't afford to continue their education... the economy is of paramount concern to them.

[ruggerson]

22. Are you sure he said that

I was listening in the car and thought it was the other guy (the repuke)

[Thrill]

37. No it was Harold

[ellacott]

44. He was rebutting the Rep who said it

Stephen Hayes said it wasn't accurate and Ford said no ad is totally accurate.

[PresidentObama]

24. Harold Ford is a moron.

D-I-N-O, and DINO was his name-o!

[mtnsnake]

26. What show was he on? Olbermann? Hardball?

[Thrill]

36. Road to the WH. He's regular on that now. He also was claiming Obama should admit the surge is

working.

[uponit7771]

27. Ford is hatin...no seriously at this point Ford has some issues he needs to get out

[butterfly77]

30. Agreed...

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

31. He demonizes liberals and fellow Democrats more than he does the Repukes!

But you know it goes. DLC Scum = Repuke-Lite!! ALL OF THEM!!!

[Robeson]

33. Ford is strange brew...

...he's hitched his ride to the DLC and a quasi-Republican line here in Tennessee. But the bubba's here aren't going to vote for a quasi-Republican, when they can always have a nice lily white one to vote for.

As much as I don't care for Ford, he was light years ahead of that creep from Chattanooga, yet he still lost.

I guess Ford is assuming his star is ascendant with national party politics, but I think he's relying on the old model. Times have changed.

[Clark2008]

34. Agreed

And I'd still rather have Ford as Corker for my senator. At least I'd agree with Ford about 75 percent of the time as opposed to the NEVER, ZILCH, NADA times I agree with Corker.

[PylesMalfunction]

40. It sucks doesn't it?

:( There's not a damn person that actually represents me in the Senate or House from my district. Harold sucks ass but he's better than Corker.

I think Obama threatens Harold a bit. Harold is very jealous.

[knixphan]

39. DOWN WITH the DLC.

[ashling]

41. When you get pissed off at Pelosi (and belive me, I AM!)

just remember who she ran against to get the leadership: Ford

[grantcart]

42. can you imagine him as a Senator? most folks have to be a Senator for

a decade to become that pompous

[hedgehog]

45. I have an odd reaction to him. Instead of reading him as "black",

I read him as "privileged". He tends to get my blue coller hackles up. One symptom: he went to good schools but failed to pass the bar exam. I'll grant you he was campaigning at the time, but in 10 years he apparently hasn't taken it again. It's irritating to me, because my brother passed both the Ohio and NYS bar exams first time around, but without connections had a hell of a time finding work.

[papapi]

46. From blackcommentator.com......

Thanks to corporate recruitment and campaign dollars, Clarence Thomas has lots more company now – and not just on the Republican side of the aisle. The Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), which vets corporate contributions to the party, has purchased a chunk of the Congressional Black Caucus and threatens a wholesale subversion of African American politics down to the grassroots level. The DLC appears to be working in tandem with rightwing foundations and think tanks that are busily cultivating Black Trojan Horse politicians with the aim of imposing a “New Black Leadership” – politicians like Rep. Harold Ford, Jr.

Harold Ford Jr. is a conehead.

[hulka38]

47. He's a black Democratic politician that nearly won a Senate seat in Tennessee

and still has aspirations in that state. Don't expect him to talk like Bernie Sanders.

[wyldwolf]

49. that's exactly how some here expect him to talk

To these people, all politics are national.

[harun]

51. I don't know why he doesn't just switch and be a Republican (n/t)

[truebrit71]

52. He's a DINO...no surprise he rubs you the wrong way...

...he bugs the shit outta me...

[malik flavors]

53. My favorite Ford moment was when he said the gas tax holiday could "buy alot of lunch meat"

What a douche this guy is. Everbody in the media knew it was a gimmick and that it would never be signed into law, and here's Harold Ford supporting it and talking about buying lunch meat with the money he'd save.

Stupidest ish i've ever heard.

[Blue_In_AK]

54. I really don't care for him either, for what it's worth. n/t