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HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA: Harold Ford Junior, who voted for a constitutional ban on gay marriage while representing Tennessee in the House, is of course now an avid and lifetime supporter of both gay marriage AND civil unions, whatever that means? “I love you youze fags,” Ford told New York voters today. [Ben Smith]
It goes to show that there are very rich gays, too.
The irony is that if we didn’t have net neutrality, I’d never see this video.
Suck on that, Harold.
He certainly has a way with white people words and light skin.
I mean, there’s is something to be said for shameless, unprincipled political chameleons: pandering to one’s base without regard to any moral stances of your own is LITERALLY the best way to represent that “will of the people” thing. And therefore, I don’t think it’s overstating things in the slightest to say that it this sort of shameless, dirty, unprincipled pandering is the greatest democratic impulse there is.
Does this carpetbagger think he can come into my state, live here a year or two and just run for Senate, … oh, wait, yeah,… we keep electing people doing that, we really got a stop that. That being said I don’t see how Kirsten can hope to not lose in a primary unless Obama/Schummer promised her no one of substance would be allowed to run against her for her Health Care/Whatever vote.
Apparently, ol’ Bill Clinton “persuaded” him on the whole gay-stuff thing. He really is very persuasive.
Remember when people called him a Democrat In Name Only? Silly us, the banker’s latest errand boy-wannabe (the errand being to wear his empty suit to Congress to siphon task money once Wall Street’s bets go bad again) is really a Politician In Name Only.
I’m guessing he’s changed his opinion several time since January 11, 2009.
It makes a nice change that politicians are now supporting gay marriage for cynical political reasons.
red sky: I find it amusing that you can’t help resist the charms of southerners. And by “charms” I mean “AHAHAHAHA you got tooked again, motherfucker.”
“I’m thrilled to be joining the executive team at Merrill Lynch,” said Mr. Ford. “For generations, the Merrill Lynch brand has represented the path to economic opportunity for millions of Americans and citizens the world over. It’s a great tradition that I look forward to helping build on during my tenure with the firm.”
Please, give this man some power!
Harold Ford Jr. has been fighting for gay marriage for years in his role as vice chairman of Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Come on. Everybody knows teh blackz don’t like gay marriage. Even the light-skinned, non-Negro dialect ones.
“I’m the Brown Mitt Romney. Just tell me what you want me to be, I’ll be it.”
Can we please release a raft of polling that indicates New Yorkers are strongly in favor of Panda fucking?
Where does he stand on mulatto marriage?
He’s not as black as Blackojevich.
“Hey Harold, I’m gay. Call me….”
We here in Memphis are so proud of our Ford family. [/single tear]
Harold was for walrus auto-fellatio before he was against it. Another flip-flop*!
*Haha, remember that “flip-flop” shit from ‘04? Sucked hard.
You know, people, there is this thing called “evolution.” Sometimes it takes a while for a politician to evolve and get comfortable with a progressive, blindingly, obviously fair and right position to hold. And sometimes, though not always, this evolution results in a random mutation where “balls” come to be where they weren’t before.
Elwin Tinklenberg, the man who almost beat Bachmann went from socially conservative to socially liberal just for the special occasion of losing to that batshit crazy lady. But he’s white, also.
Good move- Fox News recently told me that NYC was 234% gay. Then it tried to sell me a camo snuggie.
And he has no Negro dialect unless he wants to!
Hey Jim, what about the sexy sexytime story from Northern Ireland?
KilgoreTrout_XL: FOXNews is all about equality for robot lovers nowadays. Progress!
Chickensmack: You mean southerners like RFK (Boston) and Hillary (Chicago), not sure I catch your point, as for Ford, he doesn’t have a chance in NY.
He’s also straight until he walks into a gay bar — and that’s been his policy for years.
Harold just threw away the orthodox rabbi vote in NY.
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/leading-rabbis-applaud-rejecting-same-sex-marriage-81146007.html
He’s missing his Mets hat, Yankees pennant, and Islanders underwear.
Hon. Jewington Analplay: Please. That raises some very disturbing images.
gurukalehuru: True. Rod is so black, he’s purple.
What’s up with the “private video” stuff?
SmutBoffin: OK, that’s pretty funny, in a humanity-is-completely-doomed kinda way.
KilgoreTrout_XL: I’d buy the former before I’d buy the latter. Why do you think they call it Queens?
I am to the point where, if people finally come around to doing the right thing in the name of craven opportunism, I am sort of OK with it. As long as he doesn’t visit Uganda any time soon.
Harold Ford could some day be the first black president of the United States that Joe Scarborough likes, so be nice.
SmutBoffin: Bleah! Looks like Blagojevich.
How many gay abortions does Ford have to have/perform to win this race? He will do them!
Oh hell to the no: Elwin Tinklenberg existed before that election? I thought he was sprung fully formed from Zeus’s forehead or something.
ManchuCandidate: Rumor has it down in Elvisland that Junior’s been “sucking on that” for a long time now. But it’s only a rumor, people!
SmutBoffin: Lascauxcaveman: We’ve come a long way since Portnoy did the liver.
I also hear he likes to put it in young white ladies, which I think is kind of rad.
queeraselvis v 2.0: But how does that fit the rumors of his sexing up the white ladies at the Playboy mansion?
JMP: All of the above is also true. Also. Kinda like Tiger.
JMP: Publicity stunt. I mean, the man has more beards than Ross Douthat. Or so goes the rumor.
Later he was heard to say, “Where the white men at?”
Meh, it’s no publicity stunt. Scientists need to study Ford. His personal journey is an evolution on meth. He was not merely against abortion and teh gay marriage.
In 2006, writing in Time magazine, Ta-Nehisi Coates notes that Ford’s campaign,
“had no problem deploying the vague rhetoric of family, in hopes of demonstrating that a Democrat could be staunch in discriminating against gays. Ultimately Ford’s hope was to build a rainbow coalition, one that would unite rednecks and the ghetto in mutual homophobia.”
And then there’s this:
The Memphis Flyer wrote:
“Beyond the convenient descriptors of race or party label, there was in fact not much in the way of ideological difference to distinguish between [Republican Bob] Corker and Ford. Whatever their private convictions, both had progressively moved from their party’s moderate wings to positions that were clearly right of center.
“Both candidates, formerly pro-choice on abortion, now described themselves as pro-life. Both opposed gay marriage. Both favored an extension of the Bush tax cuts, opposed immediate troops withdrawals from Iraq, and supported the president on the so-called ‘torture’ bill. Their differences even on issues like tort reform and Social Security were even being fudged.”
http://www.bestcyrano.org/gFordStopSupportingBlackFaces.htm
So to anyone who says Ford is a political opportunist, I say to you, you’re the type of person who would say Ford joined Merrill simply to make money.
Lascauxcaveman: Accordion-o-rama:
The article tries to insinuate that the robot will be popular among nerds. This is incorrect. The weird-looking robot will only be purchased by Brian Kilmeade.
SmutBoffin: This is true. Nerds have a certain enthusiasm for robotics, less so for the Uncanny Valley.
SmutBoffin: GodDAMN…it DOES look like Blago. And those teeth look pretty threatening too.
Hon. Jewington Analplay: Is that the same Billy Bob Clinton that signed the Defense of Marriage Act?
Speaking as one of the great unwashed mass of fags, I volunteer to help Ford explorethis new-found, delicious, mocha-tinted love.
(singing) The Harold, my friend, is blowing in the wind
The Harold is blowing in the wind.
(he may be blowing other things too, but don’t have music for that part yet).
http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2006/10/ford_allen_stat.php
Rep. Harold Ford, Jr. (D-TN):
“I do not support the decision today reached by the New Jersey Supreme Court regarding gay marriage. I oppose gay marriage, and have voted twice in Congress to amend the United States Constitution to prohibit same-sex marriage. This November there’s a referendum on the Tennessee ballot to ban same-sex marriage - I am voting for it.”
Tommmcatt: Harold’s like most garden-variety Mormon boys. Once you pry off his magic undie-fundies, he’s magically delicious!
WHY IS HE EVEN RUNNING
Why can’t I get the dang video thing to play? Is there a secret code or something?
red sky: How can you call a black southerner a carpetbagger? I call racism, and think you should resign your post as majority leader of the majority of Loyal and Ancient Elks, or whatever.
Also, Harold Ford Jr. is an asshat. It’s Monday at 6:00, and I needed to use that word today. It’s a New Year’s resolution.
What happened to this video when I click on it youtube tells me it’s private and I need an invite !!!
BTW you all these posts are the most entertaining on the net. You all rock.
Katydid: Rainbow Coalition, you say?
Anything but.
Katydid: “So to anyone who says Ford is a political opportunist, I say to you, you’re the type of person who would say Ford joined Merrill simply to make money.”
An epic “Hey Yo!” to you.
MzNicky,ella, hard2by4: Embedded video don’t woik. But this should be the same thing. Harold Ford Jr. is an asshat.
Witness this straightforward clarification of his position: “Maybe in the language, but I’m a believer that benefits should flow to same-sex partners. and if indeed the fiction of the language, the title should be changed, much like Chuck Schumer who changed his mind on it, and Bill Clinton, who’s evolved.”
At least half those words don’t mean what he thinks they mean.