Posted on 11/04/2006 9:58:42 AM PST by mcg2000
The following report is from an political insider:
If the truth be known, HF Sr would have succeeded in promoting Jake's candidacy, if some Democrats had not alerted Clinton’s office about what the President was getting ready to step into when he came to support Jr.
In fact, the Fords were going to have Jake on the dais with Clinton and Jr, Cohen was just given seats in the audience. Clinton would have appeared to lend his support to the Independent candidate, Jake, who is running a racist, anti-Semitic campaign against the elected Democratic candidate for the 9th District, Steve Cohen.
This did not happen because Clinton’s office was made aware of the Ford shenanigans and forced the Fords to keep Jake off the dais. And neither Jr nor Sr. were to acknowledge Jake as a candidate.
Cohen was given front row seats by the President’s staff not by the Fords.
In fact, the until the bitter end, the Ford people tried to keep Cohen off the front row even as Cohen was trying to be seated. The Ford staff only acquiesced when Clinton’s staff intervened to force the issue.
The other Democratic candidates could not be on the dais with the President because Cohen would have to be there as well. This rally should have been for all Democratic candidates. Jr and the Party would have benefited from such a show of solidarity with his fellow Democratic candidates.
One Ford family member was heard telling Cohen that he shouldn’t be there because this was a Ford rally.
The Fords were going to use President Clinton to serve their needs not the needs of the Democratic Party. They did not care if they embarrassed the President and certainly do not care about the interest of the local Democratic candidates.
It is this very self-promotional, total self-absorbed character flaw in the Harold Ford Sr family that may cost HF Jr the election.
It is known that harold Ford Sr. tried to prevent Cohen supporters,with Cohen campaign buttons from entering the rally,in fact one woman with a Cohen T-Shirt on was asked to remove it but refused.
heh, heh, heh
They thought they could out-Bubba Bubba.
Notice they call Clinton (6 years out of office) "the President" while President Bush is consistently called "MR. Bush". This infuriates me.
There are still plenty of old yellow dog democrats who worship FDR. It's a democrat thing.
Massa' Clinton decides who sits at the big table.
FNC said a few minutes ago both Corker and junior will be at the UT game, ought to be some interesting fireworks, maybe.
Corker has been a season ticket holder at UT for years ... Jr is a grad of Univ of Michigan and doesn't even attend games in Memphis ...
It infuriates me also. Ex42 is entitled to "President Clinton" but we have only one "the president" at a time. Today his name is George W. Bush.
He's so dumb on civic that he doesn't even know that Corker can't give himself a single pay raise, little on the 3 junior said Corker gave himself. Only governing bodies, councils, commissions or legislatures can raise the mayors, presidents salaries. BUT JUNIOR could raise his own...hmm wonder if he voted for his last 10 pay raises, which exceed what he votes to give SS receivers.
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