(D) H.Ford jr. Caught Lying:I`m a Lawyer(TFP)

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Ford called self a lawyer but did not pass bar exam
By Michael Davis Staff Writer

Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful Harold Ford Jr. referred to himself as a lawyer earlier this week, but the congressman has not passed the bar exam.

Michael Powell, senior adviser to the Ford campaign, said U.S. Rep. Ford took the Tennessee bar exam in February 1997 and failed. He said that was the only time Rep. Ford has taken the test...

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Rep. Harold Ford, Jr., who wants to become a U.S. Senator from Tennessee, has sunk lower than a snake. He has defamed his grandmother, and his great-grandparents, by claiming that their lives were frauds and lies - that they were whites passing for Black.

There seem to be no limits to the young congressman's perfidy and stupidity. In the process of depicting his own ancestors as people living a lie, Ford has also insulted the Black public and Black history - not to mention common sense, a quality of which Harold Jr. seems to be totally lacking.

Ford's allegation, now mimicked by much of his highly political family, but never mentioned by any family member before the 35-year-old senatorial candidate casually smeared his grandmother in USA Today, in December, defies all reason. Grandmother Vera Ford, who died in 1994 at the age of 78, was the daughter of John Davis and Lottie McGinnis, both of whose death certificates list them as "Negro" - as skillfully reported by the Memphis Commercial Appeal's Wendi C. Thomas on March 19.
http://www.blackcommentator.com/177/177_cover_harold_fords_grandmother.html


The Memphis Democrat talks about his white grandmother and black grandfather, the funeral business they built and the 12 children they sent to college. He also talks about the ammunition his "big, big family" gives his rivals.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-12-22-ford-profile_x.htm