Congressman Harold Ford, Jr.

[Razorback]

This man will be president some day, mark my words.

He is the most centrist politician I have ever had the pleasure of listening to, and he is the least agenda driven personality in the government. I keep waiting for something to happen to this guy because he is nearly too good to be true.

This (http://democrats.senate.gov/radio/radio062803.html) is from a July speech (the article says May for some reason) in which he brilliantly deals with the realities of this country and doesn't slam anybody, while getting his point across. Amazing. No hyperbole, no fiction, no talking-points. Genius.

Check this site out (http://sa.hbs.edu/aasu/conference_keynote_ford.htm) for some basic information about the man, and his 2000 Democratic Convention (http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/DailyNews/DEMCVN_trans_ford000815.html) speech that makes me cry like a baby.

Do your own investigation... get ready to vote for Ford in 2008. /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif

RB

[Matt1]

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No hyperbole, no fiction, no talking-points. Genius.


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Exactly why he'll never be President. /forums/images/icons/frown.gif

[Razorback]

I see your point... plus, there must be like a dead hooker in his closet. He is everything democrats pretend JFK was and more... no one can be as good as he seems!

Still, he is my great American hope. He could change the world.

RB

[Matt1]

Yeah, I've seen him on plenty of the talking head shows and he always comes across as the one sane person. But if he's going to have a shot in 2008, Terry McCaullife and his whole lot is going to have to go. I loathe that man. /forums/images/icons/mad.gif

It would be so great to have someone to believe in. I thought maybe that would be Clark, but so far all he's really done is bash away, and not really offer up any alternatives.

From Ford's Speech: </font><blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr />
But some in the other party would have us go back.
Back to a past where prosperity touches only the well-off and well-connected.
Back to a past where children learn from outdated textbooks and parents can’t scrape together the money to send their kids to college.
Back to a past where polluters write our environmental laws.
Back to a past where politicians run up enormous deficits, run factories out of business, and run the economy into the ground.


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Does he own a crystal ball? /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif

[Razorback]

That part of his speech could probably be used by either party during one administration or another and it would apply. /forums/images/icons/smile.gif

RB

[Matt1]

Sadly true.