Posted on 11/01/2006 2:31:09 PM PST by SmithL
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Former President Clinton told a Memphis church congregation Wednesday that if Democrat Harold Ford Jr. wins next week's U.S. Senate election, it will represent a "victory of going beyond race."
Clinton spoke in Ford's hometown at the 4,500-seat Temple of Deliverance Church of God in Christ, a black church in downtown Memphis.
"You know what it will mean if Harold gets elected on Tuesday," Clinton told the crowd. "It won't mean what all those columnists and commentators say. It won't mean that it's a victory of race; it will be a victory of going beyond race."
Ford, 36, hopes to become the first black senator elected from the South since Reconstruction.
Recent polls have shown it to be a tight Senate race, with Republican Bob Corker leading Ford among likely voters. An Opinion Research Corp. survey released Tuesday found Corker favored by 52 percent of likely voters to 44 percent for Ford. The margin of sampling error was plus or minus 4 percentage points.
Ford, a five-term congressman, and Corker, a former Chattanooga mayor, are vying to replace Sen. Bill Frist, who is retiring.
(Excerpt) Read more at knoxnews.com ...
Bubba just went to Tennessee hoping to meet the "Call Me" girl.
If you keep referencing the guy's race, how are you going beyond it? Typical Clinton having-my-cake-and-eating-it-too remark.
http://iraq.billhobbs.com/2006/01/ford_says_troop_morale_high_in.html
Ford says troop morale high in Iraq According to this, we oil cops are too stupid to know how terrible Iraq is:
After making his fourth trip to observe conditions in Iraq, U.S. Senate hopeful Harold Ford Jr. reported Thursday that U.S. troop morale is "high" and soldiers are not in favor of a quick pullout.
"Troops are excited about the progress being made," the Memphis Democrat told reporters during a teleconference. "They are more concerned about America and U.S. policymakers getting the policy right on the ground and are more concerned about doing their jobs. They don't believe we should leave prematurely because there are fears that if we do, their kids will have to come back and fight this war."
Well this bit of Ford hypocrisy does not quite square with what he has said in the past:
"There's no need to overstate the progress we're making on the ground," Ford told The Associated Press yesterday. "You [Presient Bush] risk losing America's confidence."
...Ford said yesterday that the United States needed a better international image to earn the support of allies while fighting terrorism.
The progress we have made in Iraq is undeniable.
Posted by Lance Frizzell at January 24, 2006 10:36 PM
http://bloggingforbryant.blogspot.com/2005/04/ford-american-troops-shouldnt-be-oil.html
Monday, April 25, 2005
Ford: American Troops Shouldn't Be "Oil Cops"
Chattanooga Times Free Press 4/24 reports U.S. Rep. Harold Ford Jr. and State Sen. Rosalind Kurita visited the Chattanooga Choo-Choo 4/23 to speak to the TN Fed. of Dem Women.
Kurita: "We need people in the Senate who care about people. I could be described as a populist. As a nurse, mother and small business owner I have real life experiences. We need senators who care about jobs, social security and health care. I'd be the only registered nurse in the Senate. Someone interested in taking care of patients and not special interests."
Ford: "I love what I do, but we are facing daunting new challenges. Washington isn't a bad place; we just send too many bad people there." He said this campaign will center on "coming up with answers to the big questions" concerning foreign policy, energy, education and health care.
Ford also "said the nation needs to free itself from dependence on imported oil and ensure a different, more prosperous world." Ford: "(A world where) no American soldier will ever have to be sent overseas as an oil cop." (Is Ford saying the war in Iraq was all about oil?)
http://bloggingforbryant.blogspot.com/2005/07/ford-jr-refers-to-us-troops-as-oil.html
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
Ford Jr. Refers to U.S. Troops as "Oil Cops"... Again! From the Carroll County News-Leader 7/13: "It [reducing dependence on imported oil] will reduce the likelihood of U.S. soldiers having to serve as oil cops in the Middle East," said U.S. Rep. Harold Ford Jr.
This isn't the first time Ford has referred to U.S. troops serving in Iraq as "oil cops." For someone who supported the war in Iraq, Ford has become quite the critic lately. I know of someone who might disagree with his assessment.
http://nashvillefiles.com/blog/archives/001040.html
Topics discussed ranged from the troops in Iraq to ethics reform. On the former, Kurita is a strong supporter of the troops (calling them "her troops") and condemned Ford, Jr. for calling the troops "oil cops." I don't think she supports the war, but she will not back away from supporting the soldiers and their families. Too bad there aren't more Democrats like that.
Ding! Ding! Ding!
Of course, that would never occur to the first "black" president, would it?
The only people still concerned about race are the professionally agrieved and white liberals.
The rest of us got over a long, long time ago.
Did Bill Clinton make this appeal to a black congregation, a white congregation, or a diverse group of Hispanics and Asians?
If billy the sexual pervert predator likes ford ya know he's a bad dude.
I mean would you want clinton to support you?
Would you stand next to this guy that gave nuclear technology to the chi-coms for political donations?
Would you stand with a guy tha sold presidential pardons to low life felons?
Hell would you stand beside a boboso that married the hildabeast?
You mean the race pimps? I think so, too.
Ford's race has never been an issue with Tenn. Republican voters. It is the Ford machine and corruptness that turns us off.
Translation: Tennessee, show America that you are not the racist rednecks that you are.
We have also heard that Firefighters were paid 80.00 to stand behind Clinton at the church.
Yes. I regard it as a triumph of the human spirit that this country acheived racial harmony between the African and white races with as little turmoil as we did. Oh, it was a rough road - but, I challenge anyone to show its equal in human history.
Yes, there are still animosities from both sides; but it is a teeny tiny subset from both groups.
I guess these firemen knew well enough not to boo. When the NYFD booed Hillary Clinton at the Concert for NYC after the 9-11 attacks, Viacom overdubbed their boos with cheers and that is the propaganda that Sony preserved to DVD for the masses.
that's the logic, right?
can you confirm?
THAT would be a story, Desperate Ford pays $80 per firefighter to stand behind clinton and look supporting.
What is Ford's race anyway? He looks whiter than the "Playmate" in that ad, and only "talks Black" in churches.
Ok Bill, so if it's not about race, than why isn't a victory for Corker "going beyond race" too?
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