Posted on 11/01/2006 7:08:19 AM PST by Dane
MEMPHIS — Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Harold Ford Jr. issued a statement this morning calling on U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., to apologize for comments that Republicans including President Bush contend disparage U.S. troops in Iraq.
“Whatever the intent, Senator Kerry was wrong to say what he said,” Rep. Ford said. “He needs to apologize to our troops.”
But Rep. Ford, who served as an honorary co-chairman of Sen. Kerry’s 2004 failed presidential bid, said that the senator’s “words don’t alter the fact that the stay-the-course strategy pursued by President Bush and supported by Bob Corker isn’t working. We need a new direction in Iraq. I know how hard our troops work, and the sacrifices they make, for our freedoms. They deserve a plan for victory as good as they are, and as senator I intend to see they get one.”
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If you look at his voting record, Ford is in the right party. He has an ACU lifetime rating of 19, the lowest in the TN congressional delegation of either party. Believe what he does, not what he says.
This guy really IS the black version of Bill Clinton.
LOL! That is a great YouTube video you posted, especially the end showing john kerry and jane fonda, hand in hand.
I'm sure that ACU rating of 19 is well deserved, but I'm just saying he's running as a moderate Republican.
It's been tried before. Shoot, Kerry ran as a moderate not a liberal and of course he introduced himself the nation as "reporting for duty."
Now that is going to go down in his political obiturary well.
Make no mistake JUNIOR is a LIBERAL Dem to his core. Pro-abortion, anti-2nd amendment, and never met a tax hike he didn't vote for.
As one FR poster put it, he'll become a political leper.
I'm certain this will be kerry's response. kerry has a record on this type of attitude as do many other demonrats. kerry should do the right thing and resign. I would have had more respect for harold ford if he had demanded kerry resign. As it is....I have respect for neither of these girly-men.
Check it out: Harold Ford Calls On Kerry To Apologize...
Saw him on FNS and couldn't believe my ears. What a strange thing to sound like a Republican and want to support the Democrats. Sounds like pure hypocracy or a flat out lie.
Wonder if Mr. Sher will report on JUNIOR calling our Troops OIL COPS? E-mail Andy Sher at asher@timesfreepress.com
Junior may have done all those things, but he's no John Kerry. :)
Under the bus with you, Senator Kerry!
Signed,
I really wanna be a Senator
Harold Ford
it's too funny
I wonder if Lamont will even still want to be seen with him?
Thanks!!
Hello,Hillery are you their? Howie Dean? any Liberal? I can't hear you!
One of those morons thinks this will "backfire on us right wing idiots". Yeah that's why the Dems can't stay far enough away from Kerry.
What we should ALL be doing is calling any DEM US House Reps and Senators in our own states and asking them what they think of Kerry's remarks. That will make THEM feel the heat and get on record about how they feel about the troops.
When Clinton was Governor of Ark., he spent a ton of time over the river in Memphis with the Ford family. Jr. cut his teeth on Clinton.
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