Reply #18: That's BS [View All]

[demhistorian]

1. He isn't grinning.
2. He isn't posing.

From your link: "Come on. I would hardly call that a “posing” shot. It was obviously caught by a press photographer whose editor, like you, picked up on the irony and ran with it. I dislike a lot about Ford (i like some as well) but I think your hatred of him is a little over the top."

"These pictures were at the Little Rebel Bar and Grill, the place he was warmly received and written about in the New York Times."

Something I've never understood about some politically engaged people. You'll twist things into what you want them to be, facts be damned. And this has nothing to do with my feeling for Harold Ford - I don't care for him much at all. But I do know saying he lost in 2006 because he ran a bad campaign is like saying Max Cleland lost in 2004 for running a bad campaign. Complete bullshit. They were leading their races but were victims of last minute smear ads.