Posted on 10/23/2006 3:23:53 PM PDT by SmithL
WASHINGTON — Hands in his pockets and a far-away look in his eyes, Harold Ford Jr. stares out from the cover of next week's Newsweek magazine, which calls him the Democrats' best hope for taking the U.S. Senate.
The October 30 cover story, "The Path to Power," follows the Memphis Congressman through a day of campaigning that begins at a church service in Chattanooga, and describes the centrist Democrats' effect on various audiences.
"Two weeks before the midterm elections," the story says, "the Democrats' fate lies not in the hands of the party's much-dissected antiwar left but with a handful of careful, calculating centrists like Ford."
The article carries a picture of Ford praying with his staff before a recent debate, and reprises his history, and his family's history.
"Coming of age in establishment Washington and the Republican South, he learned moderation as a matter of survival, and it carried him away from the fractured racial politics of his family's past," the story says "The story of his journey to the political center sheds light on why control of the Senate and the shape of the final years of Bush's presidency may rest on a thousand or so votes tucked in the lush planes and hills between the mud of the Mississippi and the rise of the Great Smoky Ridge."
The story ends with the observation of Phil Singer, the spokesman for the Democrats' effort to win the Senate for the party.
"If he wins, they are going to write textbooks on his campaign," he says.
Yo Mamma's Democrats.
Puff Daddy's Democrat.
Or should I say "Pouf Daddy Democrat".
Newsweek wouldn't time this obvious puff piece for maximum benefit to Ford would they?
This presents another delimna for Hillary: She will want to be on the covers of Time, Newsweek, etc. but won't want even the half-a$$ed scrutiny they might provide.
I like this weeks cover of NR much beter.
How dare you question their patriotism...
You're a teacher....tsk tsk.
Boy, I love that Newsweek's such an evenhanded, hard-hitting objective news source.
Doesn't mention that he was praying backwards while offering a ritual chicken sacrifice over a pentagram-shaped table.
"the centrist Democrat"
This is strange ... I have never heard of any Democrat interviewed by the Press who was other than a centrist moderate. How can this be ... a center with no left or right?
Why not just have a VOTE FOR THE DEMOCRATS! cover?
Did they airbrush his package for him, or did they just bring in a fluffer?
How did you guess their next cover...
Did the radical priest come and get him released?
Regards, Ivan
Obama/Ford '08!
This is so sickening. Newsweek is just now making itself into a campaign brochure for the Democrats, making them look so pure, moderate and effective while we all know what slimey beasts those Republicans are.
And newsflash Newsweek, you're damned right they're not our daddy's Democrats. Our daddy's Democrats were moderate, reasonable, understood the importance of low taxes, at least until the 1960s understood the importance of standing united against a common foreign foe and most of all patriotic. This diseased rabble at the head of today's Democratic party are the most extreme left wing radicals this nation has ever seen, a bunch of craven seditionists who have worked over time to divide the nation in a time of war and to embolden our enemies.
EVERYONE needs to cancel their subscription to DemocratWeek. Their shilling for the Democratic party only a week before an election is shameless and should be brought in front of the FEC as an illegal in-kind political contribution to the Democratic party.
I wonder if Newsweek prepared several covers of Democrats running for Congress/Senate and decided at the last minute which to feature, depending on who had the most negative press this week.
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