Time To Turn The Page: Barack Obama Rebukes Nikki Tinker

By Kleinheider Posted on August 7, 2008 at 12:31 pm

Sean Braisted posts up Barack Obama’s condemnation of the campaign tactics of Nikki Tinker:

“These incendiary and personal attacks have no place in our politics, and will do nothing to help the good people of Tennessee. It’s time to turn the page on a politics driven by negativity and division so that we can come together to lift up our communities and our country,” Obama said.

In light of this, I must ask again, where is Harold Ford, Jr. on this?

He rebuked his brother when he went off the reservation on the subject of race. Is what Nikki Tinker is doing somehow less offensive?

Does Harold Ford disagree with Barack Obama on Nikki Tinker — or not?

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Waiting For Junior: Will Harold Ford Condemn The Tinker Toy Tactics In His Former Stomping Grounds?

By Kleinheider Posted on August 6, 2008 at 11:00 pm

Aunt B. asks and answers her own questions on where Nikki Tinker’s money to create of those racially and religiously inflammatory ads comes from — but only partially. Yes, Tinker gets her money from Armenians. Republicans? I’m not so sure.

Regardless, one place we know Nikki Tinker did get her money from was Emily Threlkeld Ford, wife of Harold Ford, Jr. the former Congressman from the very district in question here.

In 2006, the year Cohen originally won his seat, Ford the U.S. Senate candidate was noticeably cold towards the candidate Cohen — and for good reason. His brother Jake, supported by Harold, Sr., was an independent candidate for the seat.

However, when his brother again filed to run against Cohen this year, again as an independent, declaring that the Ninth District should have a black Congressman, Harold Ford, Jr. condemned him in the harshest possible terms.

“It’s beyond concern. I want to make clear my brothers’ comments are not mine. I reject them. … I don’t believe any candidate’s fitness for office should be measured or determined by race or gender.”

Where is Harold Ford, Jr. now? This is not just one negative ad, it is a pattern. Nikki Tinker is attempting to divide Harold Ford’s former district along racial and religious lines. Where is the reprimand, the censure?

The blowback on Tinker has been significant. The rebukes are starting to roll in.

Post Politics has made its requests for comment formally to the office of Harold Ford and those requests have gone unanswered. I hate to get all Scenester on the issue but, in this case, I have to say, “Harold, call me.”

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Tags: Emily Threlkeld Ford, FUBU, Harold Ford, Jake Ford, Junior, KKK, Klan, Nathan Bedford Forrest, negative ads, Nikki Tinker, Steve Cohen, That's racist