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"The Dems are trying to sound like a republican with the way they are spinning their words"

Yep and Harold Ford was spinning like a top in his debate w Corker last night! Ford's ACU rating is the lowest of any TN congresscritter (I added it to the thread below - 2005-21; lifetime -19)

Here's a live thread on the debate:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1715609/posts

Whoa! Just saw this:

Harold Ford Jr Insults His Grandmother and Our People
The Black Commentator ^ | Unknown | Glenn Ford & Peter Gamble

Posted on 10/07/2006 6:54:42 PM PDT by mcg2000

Rep. Harold Ford, Jr., who wants to become a U.S. Senator from Tennessee, has sunk lower than a snake. He has defamed his grandmother, and his great-grandparents, by claiming that their lives were frauds and lies - that they were whites passing for Black.

There seem to be no limits to the young congressman's perfidy and stupidity. In the process of depicting his own ancestors as people living a lie, Ford has also insulted the Black public and Black history - not to mention common sense, a quality of which Harold Jr. seems to be totally lacking.

Ford's allegation, now mimicked by much of his highly political family, but never mentioned by any family member before the 35-year-old senatorial candidate casually smeared his grandmother in USA Today, in December, defies all reason. Grandmother Vera Ford, who died in 1994 at the age of 78, was the daughter of John Davis and Lottie McGinnis, both of whose death certificates list them as "Negro" - as skillfully reported by the Memphis Commercial Appeal's Wendi C. Thomas on March 19.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1715657/posts

AP article on the debate:
Corker says Ford part of political 'machine'
AP ^ | 10/8/6

Posted on 10/07/2006 9:23:29 PM PDT by SmithL

MEMPHIS, Tenn. In their first debate tonight, Bob Corker went after Harold Ford Junior's family while Ford accused Corker of flip-flopping on abortion. Republican Corker said his Democratic opponent for the U-S Senate was from a family engaged in--quote--"machine-type politics."

Ford, a Memphis congressman, said he loved his family and asked Corker not to bring them into the debate.

Corker, a former Chattanooga mayor, had not brought up the Ford family so far in the campaign. Ford's uncle is a former state legislator awaiting trial in a federal bribery case.

Corker also criticized Ford's votes against a ban on late term abortions. Ford responded that he has changed his position on abortion and said Corker has flip-flopped on abortion in the past.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1715699/posts?page=11