Oh Harold
Harold Ford continues to have trouble cloaking his jealousy of Barack Obama, whose progressive, smart candidacy is everything that Ford's run for Senate was not. Yesterday on MSNBC, Joe Scarborough asked Ford if he would have beaten Corker if he could have outspent him as much as Obama did Hillary Clinton in Pennsyltucky. At first, Ford tried to duck the question graciously, but then Scarborough needed to ask it only one more time for the former Memphis congressman to take the bait: Ford snidely replied if he had more money he could have made up those 25,000 votes, saying that as matter-of-factly as if he were reciting the alphabet.
Throughout his little banter with Scarborough, Ford repeatedly proclaimed his neutrality, but if he delivered a single criticism of Clinton and her last-minute scare ads, I missed it. Instead, he delivered a series of subtle put-downs of Obama, which I suppose is only fair since everyone else on MSNBC hates the Clintons. So there's that.
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Not everyone else...Joe Scarborough and Pat Buchanan loves them some Hillary.
Regardless, a Hillary victory would do wonders for Harold Ford Jr., as it increases his chances at being picked as the VP nominee.
Posted 04/23/2008 at 12:43:05 PM