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This fine Friday I have a question to fro the good people of Dkos.
For any of you who are not aware I am a foreign Kossac, one of many I'm sure, And as such my knowledge of your politician's political tendencies within the democratic party is mediocre at best.
So I turn to you American kossacs to fill me in on Harold Ford Jr. Is he a liberal progressive or a conservative democrat?
I have been Watching him lately on MSNBC and I remember all he praise that was showered on him during the last congressional elections, which he lost I gather, and something of an incongruent picture of him has developed in my mind.
He is so deceptively objective in his views about the race on MSNBC's R.T.W.H that while continuously ignoring blatant facts, he in fact is propagating Clitonian talking points on every single issue. I have heard him say that he likes both candidates and will remain neutral until the convention. Yet his views on issues raised, from Rev. Wright to polls favouring Obama to the effects of a divisive nomination fight, have been amzingly parallel to the Clinton line.
Now there is no doubt in my mind that he is a brilliant young man, but so far I have found his intellegence calculating and manipulative.
Am I wrong? Am I judging him too harshly? fill me in kossacs please.
"Beware the terrible simplifiers" Jacob Burckhardt, Historian
by notquitedelilah on Fri Mar 28, 2008 at 06:10:34 AM PDT
but he pissed me off last night when he was bringing up Wright.
Obama/Henry '08
by juslikagrzly on Fri Mar 28, 2008 at 06:34:15 AM PDT
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Harold Ford Jr. is heir to a political machine in Memphis. To what extent he participates in that old mechanism I do not know. But it's still lying in the weeds if he wants it.
Beware all ventures which require new clothes, and not a new wearer of clothes. -- Henry David Thoreau
by Shocko from Seattle on Fri Mar 28, 2008 at 06:43:38 AM PDT
The DLC -- Democratic Leadership Council -- is the old Clinton triangulation organization. I see it as the anti-progressive side of the Democratic party. It is the Landrieu's who don't vote with the anti-war crowd. The business as usual NAFTA crowd. They hate the Dean 50-state strategy.
He also was seen as the rising African American Dem, destined for national prominence in the party. I imagine he has mixed feelings about Senator Obama, who obviously surpasses Ford in talent, but came seemingly out of nowhere.
by bethcf4p on Fri Mar 28, 2008 at 07:00:42 AM PDT
I'd like to see someone write a diary profiling him. He's an intriguing figure,very ambiguous, one worth keeping an eye on.
After all one should always know one's friends well and one's enemies better.
by notquitedelilah on Fri Mar 28, 2008 at 07:09:06 AM PDT
wide narrow
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