Ford-Coker Debate #1: Ford Shines, Coker Lies

By all accounts, Harold Ford Jr. clearly won last night's first debate in the TN-Senate contest. As the Ford Report documents, Corker was not only unable to keep up with Ford on the issues, he was also unable to keep up with what he himself has said in the past.

An example:

In last night's debate, Corker said that he's never said stay the course in Iraq -

“All three candidates opposed setting a deadline for the United States to withdraw from Iraq. ‘I support what we're trying to do as a country ... I think we should stay the course,’ Corker said.” -- 7/16/2006 AP

I think we do need to stay the course. I think we need to look at victory there as modest. I think having a government set up that is democratic and people [need to be] in place that are able to, again, securetheir citizens. The people of Iraq did not ask for us to be there.” -- 9/13/2005 Smithville- Middle Tennessee Times

"And I think we should stay the course. I think to go back and argue about what we found when we got there, what we didn’t find, has totally, has no business in what, in our dialogue today. Our dialog today should be about making sure that we do the things that we need to do in Iraq, so thatthey can in fact be a democracy.” -- 7/16/2006 WREG Memphis debate

Corker is not only a liar, but he's also corrupt, he's incompetent, and even though he's in bed with Bush, he thinks the President is a lame duck and the next two years are irrelevant.