(Harold)Ford asks Kerry to apologize

Chatanooga Free times Press ^ | November 1, 2006

[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.”

[Coldwater Creek]

Because Jr. is going to be campaigning with Wesley Clark in Clarksville, home of a huge Army base.

[N. Theknow]

It's too late for one of Kerry's non-apologies. He had his chance yesterday.

John Kerry - the skidmark on the shorts of the Dem Party.

[Coldwater Creek]

I guess that Halliburton should do all of that reconstruction for free. The Dems still think that Halliburton is an oil company.

[evad]

You know what...he will apologize but it will be some kind of "nuanced" thing about how he meant one thing but it came out as something else.

His LIPS made him do it!

[incredulous joe]

cool, i'd love to see the heiress pump a couple million dollars into a race for this numbskull before realizing what a big mistake it is.

i'm for a kerry candidacy all the way in '08! i hope he gets the nomination.

[billhilly]

There is a new video about Kerry's SNAFU on the GOP web site.
http://www.gop.com/

[maggief]

[doug from upland]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=h5polbXf7-Q

[romanesq]

That's not fair to Harold Ford. There's nothing wrong with him running, except he's in the wrong party.

He's running as a Republican for the Democrats. Maybe that'll work. Throwing Kerry under the bus won't hurt.

[Schwaeky]

Hopefully it is toast, but unlike a lot of northeastern and midwestern liberal dems, Harold Ford Jr has something that not a lot of Dems have. Of course, being a southerner, its something common in southerners of either political stripe.... class.

[billhilly]

Generalissimo Wesley Clark said Kerry's remark was wrong, but...this morning on FOX. He is a sorry sack of shinola and I don't know from shinola.

[bushfamfan]

Translation: Shut up Kerry because we are not supposed to tell the American people what we really think. Jr. is a fraud and his election would only empower these leftist nutjobs.

[romanesq]

Cool. I already called Kerry's office and after 30 rings told the woman I wanted Kerry to apologize but moreso, his resignation.

[GailA]

JUNIOR needs to apoligize himself for calling our Finest and Bravest OIL COPS

[3AngelaD]

Hope you emailed the editor. They think if they don't print it, we don't know about it. MSM sinks slowly into the sea of irrelevance.

[kabar]

It would mean something if he said that unless Kerry apologized, he was returning the Kerry Pac contributions to his campaign.

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[Starboard]

This has to go down as one of the biggest, and worst-timed, political gaffes in US history.

[oyez]

Klueless Kerry still hasn't figured out what he said.

Another slimy move by Mr. Jr. It amazing how Harold slips and slides to to draw from the popular side of an issue. He should rename himself K.Y.(Jelly) Ford.

[mainepatsfan]

We'll find out in a week. If the Dems fall short the same MSM claiming this won't be an issue will point the finger right at Kerry. It'd make the Wellstone funeral debacle seem minor by comparison.