I filmed most of the discussion between Harold Ford and Markos Moulitsas at Netroots Nation. I don't have time right now to get the whole thing posted to YouTube (it's likely going to have to go in multiple parts), but I will give a teaser.
I had a great question to ask Harold Ford. I was going to get up there and tell him that I was an intern of his during the campaign. He kept referencing Phil Bredesen as an example of a conservative Southern Democrat who won overwhelmingly. I wanted to ask, in that case, why he thinks Bredesen won and he lost--after all, he ran as a similar type of conservative Democrat, and it couldn't have JUST been the "Hey Harold, call me" ad that caused him to lose.
But I couldn't ask my question. I was at the front of the line when they announced they were out of time. The five people who had asked questions before me had all asked quite possibly the most long-winded questions possible. Most of them were about FISA.
That wasn't the point of the discussion though. It was about the future of the Democratic Party, something that my question pertained too. Yet all anyone wanted to talk about was FISA, FISA, FISA. You know what? Fuck FISA. That may sound harsh and uncaring, but it wasn't the point of the discussion!
I was allowed behind the barrier after the speech was finished. Ford was in a hurry to get out of there, so I didn't get to ask my question then. I just had time to ask "Are you going to run for Governor in 2010?" He just said "I'm not sure." It didn't sound like he was leaning against it though.
I'm glad I got to ask that at least, but I'm still mad that everyone else spoke for too long and that I didn't get to ask my question. Maybe I'm just being whiny, but if you're given a chance to speak in a huge forum like this, why must you give your entire life story and political manifesto before asking the damn question?
Sometimes I really hate bloggers.
Friday, July 18, 2008
Harold Ford At Netroots Nation--The Prelude
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3 comments:
It's not bloggers, it's people in general. Everyone wants to bask in the Q & A limelight with an Important Person. Remember Huckabee at Cornell?
What was up with Harold saying the only way Obama could win the general is by getting Republicans to vote for him?
That is a direct slap in the face of the hundreds of thousands of Americans who registered to vote for the first time to lend there support for Barack.
This election will be won, not due to a 'come to Jesus' moment from a large group of Republicans, but from a new contingent of voters ready to undo the damage that had been done the last eight years.
I wish you had been able to ask your question. It was a good one.
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