Posted on 05/22/2012 12:01:44 PM PDT by neverdem
Newark mayor Cory Booker may have been reduced to filming “hostage videos” in which he apologizes for throwing sharp spikes of reason and temperance beneath the madly spinning wheels of the Obama re-election bus, but the Booker Insurgency continues to grow.
Harold Ford Jr., formerly a Democrat congressman from Tennessee, was welcomed to the ranks on Monday. Ford was no small-time back-bencher. He took a credible shot at wrestling House leadership away from Nancy Pelosi, and served as leader of the Democratic Leadership Council - a now-forgotten artifact of an earlier time, when there really were “moderates” in the Democrat Party. As Ford proudly notes in his biography, President Bill Clinton, another exponent of the DLC, once called him “the walking, living embodiment of where America ought to go in the 21st century.”
Ford is still walking and living, and like Booker he’s on board with the Obama re-election effort. In a March 2012 Wall Street Journal op-ed, he made a point of beginning with a salute to President Obama’s “underappreciated” successes and “ignored” accomplishments – hilariously including “unemployment is down” – before grumbling about high gas prices. Ford went on to offer the President some sound advice on energy policy, which unfortunately could not be heard over the roaring motor of the algae-fueled Obama campaign bus.
More grumbles were heard from Ford on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Monday, where he said, “Overall I agree with the substance” of Booker’s complaint about Obama’s “nauseating” attacks on private equity, and “would not have backed off the comments if I were Mayor Booker.”
“Having said that,” Ford continued, “I understand as a servant to the campaign you have to have one of your key and most effective surrogates at least clarify or at least bring some context to his statements… But I...”
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The Clinton Machine is awakening from its long twilight slumber.
Be afraid, Barry. Be very afraid!
I understand as a servant to the campaign you have to have one of your key and most effective surrogates at least clarify or at least bring some context to his statements…IOW, all these "critics" are 100 percent onboard with Zero's reelection effort, and are scripted to give the gullible a rationale for voting for reelection -- even though Zero remains an anti-capitalism demagogue. This is the "Have Cake, Eat Too" tactic. Another part of that is the way the Partisan Media Shills (including the media queen Anderson Cooper) appear to be seriously attacking Zero's position whenever it's one of his proxies (not Zero himself) is around.
Wow! A few hundred more and there will be as many wobbly dem pols as there are republican!
Wow! A few hundred more and there will be as many wobbly dem pols as there are republican!
It would be too bad if they put a kink in the hose of federal bennies flowing into their districts, wouldn’t it?
I think what you might be seeing is the moderate Democrats setting themselves up for a possible attempt to regain the party after an Obama defeat.
Nah. I call it campaign outreach to old Blue Dogs disgusted with Ozero's openly Leninist policies and politics. Get on the bus! (We'll throw you under it later ....)
The fruits of cynicism -- more future-victim endorsements.
How many of these Guys were Hillary supporters,Does anyone Know
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