Mr Ford like his big brother Obama need to go somewhere and get an identity of their own. Here are two educated guys who think things should be handed to them because they can speak well, please. You have to earn the right to be a congressmen or president but these two guy don't seem to think so. I guess they are both from the same cloth and that cloth needs to be thrown away before someone gets hurt.
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If we talk again a little more than a year from now, after the presidential election is over, what do you think we'll be discussing?
I believe we will be discussing two things: one, how this next president will govern. I'm going to lay out the three or four things the president has to do, regardless of party. And if it's my party that's in the White House I may be a little tougher, just to say, "We've gone through so much. We've worked so hard. The country's placed so much trust in us. Let's not squander this." If there's one thing I've seen and heard in the 10 months I've been out of politics, there's total disgust and a complete lack of appetite for the silliness of politics. So my message for Democrats will be: make this thing work again. Finally, I'm going to make clear to the next president, whoever it may be, that if you don't get serious about means-testing, indexing, and raising the retirement age for some of the entitlement programs, you're not serious about solving the financial challenges the government has. I'm not a proponent of Bush's privatization, but I [do believe that] millionaires in this country may have to see fewer Social Security dollars and Medicare payments than those who need it most. Otherwise we're going to bankrupt the country for the next generation of Americans. It's easy to run around the country—Democrat or Republican—and say "I'm going to cut taxes, and I'm going to increase spending, and we're going to make the country great and strong." [But] you can't do that. You learn that in first grade. It's called mathematics.
You're saying to the activist wing of the Democratic Party, which refers to the DLC as irrelevant—
What I'm saying to them is, "Look at the facts." We're going to need both wings of the party to win. And my fight is not with them. To anybody who thinks we're irrelevant, the only point that I'd make is that Jon Tester, Claire McCaskill and Jim Webb certainly are not campaigning in [Montana, Missouri and Virginia, respectively] as liberal Democrats who want to take us back to the '60s. They're campaigning on a new kind of progressive platform and program that says that government should work for everybody. We're going to keep taxes as low as we possibly can. We're going to find ways to deliver health care. We're going to find ways to encourage renewable and alternative fuel development … It's hard to challenge people or argue with people who just won't pay attention to the facts. Markos [Moulitsas, founder of Daily Kos] and I have gotten beyond it. We've had our conversation. Those who want to continue the fight between the DLC and the left of the party, the only thing you're doing is strengthening John McCain, Fred Thompson, Mitt Romney, and Rudy Giuliani. Our fight is not with one another. Our challenge is to convince the majority of people in this great country that we have the ideas, the fortitude, and, frankly, the discipline to lead the country.
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