Obama Too Good
Posted on August 15, 2008 at 1:15 pmEven the Barack-leaning Andrew Sullivan feels some personal affection for John McCain:
Maybe it’s my upbringing, in an all-boys British high school, where this kind of banter was quite normal. But there’s a great deal about McCain’s humor, sense of fun, emotional reticence - and not the dry drunk psychic shutdown of Bush - that appeals to people. Even his obvious emotionalism in a situation like Georgia - which may not make him the steadiest commander-in-chief. The coolness of Obama is hard to latch onto.
Time To Turn The Page: Barack Obama Rebukes Nikki Tinker
Posted on August 7, 2008 at 12:31 pmSean 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?
The Cardinal Sin: Tinker Removes Her Flirtation With Antisemitism
Posted on at 9:01 amWhile putting a progressive Congressman’s beside an image of Klansman with a burning cross would appear to be all in good fun, suggesting that same Congressman, a Jew, is an interloper in the Black community is not.
As of this posting, Democratic insurgent Congressional candidate Nikki Tinker’s infamous Nathan Bedford Forrest ad remains featured on her YouTube channel. An ad suggesting that Congressman Steve Cohen was preventing black children from practicing their faith, however, has been removed.
Keith Olbermann’s declaration of Tinker as “The Worst Person In The World” for her tactics probably didn’t help, but it was likely a rebuke from Emily’s List, her financial benefactor in both this and her 2006 race, that led to the video’s removal.
Post Politics has been unable to reach the Tinker campaign for comment at the time of posting.
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Waiting For Junior: Will Harold Ford Condemn The Tinker Toy Tactics?
OTHERS ON TINKER:
CQ Politics
Ilissa Gold
Skeptical Brotha
The Moderate Voice
The Nigh Seen Creeder
Cohen’s Castle: The Congressman Shows His Keitel Side
Posted on at 8:14 am“In my house! In my bedroom! Where my wife sleeps, where my children come to play with their toys. My home.”
~ Michael Corleone in Godfather Part II
While a press conference’s intended message, to denounce scurrilous religious and racial attacks by an opponent, went entirely off the rails for Congressman Steve Cohen yesterday, some think it might have been the best thing for him.
“I think it probably helped Cohen,” said John Ryder, a well-known local Republican and a GOP national committeeman. Like numerous other Memphians, Ryder saw the TV footage of the congressman physically ousting an uninvited Tinker supporter who, posing as a photo-journalist and documentarian, was attempting to infiltrate a group of newsmen convened at Cohen’s Midtown residence for a press conference.
“Maybe it’s a guy thing, and it goes beyond black and white,” said an admiring Ryder. “I think all of us around here realize that you can’t just meekly put up with the presence of a hostile invader in your own household.”
Waiting For Junior: Will Harold Ford Condemn The Tinker Toy Tactics In His Former Stomping Grounds?
Posted on August 6, 2008 at 11:00 pmAunt 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.”
Questioning Whether Gray Has The Minerals
Posted on at 3:38 pmThe autoegocrat goes upside the head of Tennessee Democratic Party Chair Gray Sasser for his anemic response to the negative campaign tactics of Nikki Tinker:
The Nikki Tinker campaign and its surrogates have spent a few hundred thousand dollars and a tremendous amount of energy trying to portray an incumbent Democrat in good standing as a Jesus-killing atheist gay Jewish Klansman, and the chairman of the Tennessee Democratic Party interprets this as “a commitment to civil rights which transcends partisan labels and political attacks.”
If this is the Chairman’s take on the craziest shit to come down the pipe since, oh, I don’t know, a member of the TNDP Executive Committee accused the Democratic presidential nominee of ties to terrorism, it will be very revealing indeed when Mr. Sasser finally does find something that puts a fire in his belly.
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Vibinc
Down With Tyranny
Red State
Ben Smith
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Tinker Acolyte Says Incendiary Ad Has Nothing To With Race
Posted on August 5, 2008 at 7:59 amWell, of course, not. Silly us.
Former Shelby County Commissioner Walter Bailey said Monday that the Nikki Tinker ad featuring pictures of a Ku Klux Klan rally and denunciations of incumbent Congressman Steve Cohen’s vote not to remove the statue and remains of Nathan Bedford Forrest from a Memphis park “has nothing to do with race.”
Asked if injecting the incendiary television images into Thursday’s 9th Congressional District Democratic Primary contest would be seen as racially divisive, Bailey said: “That may be an ancillary side of it, but that’s not the main focus, and it’s not the intended focus.”
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