No HFJ can’t win for several reasons now, in NY or elsewhere; it would take the intervention of God at this point. It is a good thing that he pulled himself out of the race to save himself from further humiliation. The fates, angels and or devils have gathered against him to make this the worst non-starter campaign ever. LOL. He must be cursed. LMAO. The excuse he gave was weak, he must have known from the beginning that a rough primary may lead to a Republican win. Top 10 reasons HFJ would lose1) Voting record 2) Flip flopping 3)Poor research on NY 4) NY Times Story 5) Gays 6) Pro- Choice 7)Merril Lynch pay check 8) Tax issue 9)Not from NY and not on the level of a Hillary or Kennedy 10) White wife (NY is still undercover racist, lynched black boy in Bensonhurst, so he will have a problem with white men also. HFJ has no base, not enough support in the Black community). Plus isn’t she an ex- celebrity stylist? Why is he always talking about her influencing his policy decisions? I never really hear any other politicians talk about their spouses who are clearly unqualified influencing their policy decisions. Honestly I do not really want a white ex-celebrity stylist, who is not from NY, influencing policy decisions in my community.

@DB I know your being sarcastic but I have a sneaking suspicion that you may have a little crush on HFJ, be honest now girl to girl who do you find more sexxxxy TJ or HFJ?

@ Isis

I truly enjoy mocking Harold Ford Jr. because I think he's ridiculous and if he never, ever opened his mouth and would get a decent haircut I would probably give him a break of some kind. But then it wouldn't be as much fun. That said, if I had to choose between sexxxxxxy him and My Fair Mittens, I would be torn.

Although, Mittens gets in fights with rappers and is also a habitual flip flopper corporate man. It might be Mittens FTW!

But, c'mon, obvs the Prince of West Memphis will always be king. Although he DID just get all kinds of married on me.

I'm tired of all the publicity this man is getting. Since he has bowed out of the race, hopefully this will be the last we've seen and heard of him.

So long Harold! I was getting ready to leave one morning and I saw when he was on MSNBC and a lady name Melissa Hartwell thanked Pretty Pretty Pundit for running in TN and also thanked him for NOT running in NY. I laughed so loud my sister asked what was I laughing at. You and your wife can start on that family now Harry. I can’t wait to see what the child will look like. I hope it’s light and bright just like you Harry or white like it’s mother. I know that’ll make you real happy. Good luck to Zuckerman, Gillibrand or whoever else . Anyone but Harry. Maybe he’ll have a better chance in TN. I think not, lol! So long dude. What has Ann Coulter said about this since her boy has bowed out?

I liked calling him Princess and Pretty because what man wants to be called pretty and a Princess?

@zen
I don’t think the equipment is working or something is not right or they would have popped out a baby by now. Maybe they’ll do a Michael Jackson and adopt some white baby and name it HF III. I am so tired of hearing about this tired man and his over career, hopefully he will go away now. I wish he would take his tired white wife, go crawl under a rock and never try to run for office in my NY again.

and would get a decent haircut

um, Snob, that would take him going to Harlem or some other place in NY with a lotta Black folk....which is why he will never get a decent haircut.

someone else wrote that they wouldn't be shocked to see Pretty Pundit (love it! ) at Tavis' Obama Haterpalooza , but I corrected them....WAAAAAYYYYY too many Black folk for Pretty Pundit to show his face.

I enjoyed watching the activist groups go after him...it was quite hilarious. The more they got to know Harold, the lower his polling went...LOL

PRINCESS1 aka SUPERBAD....Taught By The POWERful BEST.

All These Inferences About US...Continuously Flattering - Oh My!

Snob,

Could you add the Pretty Pundit to your next installment of SCAN? him and Mittens?

LOL

@Isis
I saw a picture of his wife and am not sure why anyone would destroy their career over that. In my opinion he is either really self hating or she is very rich and he is trying to get half. I wonder if the man normally gets half in NY. Did Al get half from Star?

@PRETTI BOIS PATNA Are you a pro? What is all this “taught by the best, aka superhead” mean?

Snob, forget about the political flip flops and the white wife. If you ever google his family (Uncle John-under federal indictment or Uncle Emmett-you owe how much in back taxes on that property your business sits on), you can see why he is so slippery.

Sorry that was Edmund Sr. not Emmitt, hard to keep them straight.

@Aragon
No one cares about Harold’s relatives, everyone has at least one F’ up relative. This is about the intellectually disabled choices he made. I wonder if I can find some silly rich white girl to give me half her money it is tight on a brother during the Great Depression II. I am not running for any office therefore I probably won’t ever need Black community support; where the rich dumb white girls at? I have never met a sister dumb enough to give me half.LMAO

LOL at rick, riyrah, and Sean.
Rick, I think PRETTI BOIS PATNA is either the Pretty, Pretty Princess or his wife. Get that money Harry

Little Harold should take some time off and spend it with her lily white bleached blonde princess especially before she gets old. Have you seen Harold's mother in law? haha

Wow. We really are going hard on Harold's "tired White woman."

Although I realize Black Man + White Wife brings to mind all kinds of comfortable narratives about "how brothers are," using that kind of analysis on HFJ seems short-sighted and misses the point.

You can't help but judge a politician by the type of family life they have created for themselves, but our judgment also exposes what we think is valuable in a family. I wouldn't care if HFJ was dating a Knoxville Nubian Princess, just as long as he was treating her with love and respect. In the same way, he could be married to Taylor Swift's cousin, but if he was being an honorable man and a good husband, I think you have to call that in his favor. If we really want to find out what his relationship to this other person truly means, we have to get beyond all of these lazy judgments about how "tired" she looks.

There's plenty of reasons not to like HFJ. His choice in wife ain't nowhere near the best.

@Abdel
I personally do not care who the man marries as long as he stays in corporate. But honestly being from NY many black people just don’t like HFJ’s choice of wife she rubs black people the wrong way. Perception often is reality and when black people see a black man with a white woman, especially one that they think is substandard “sellout” comes to mind. . If HFJ wants to run for public office he has to take into account his choice of mate that is just a fact of life in politics. I personally would not vote for any black man who marries white because I don’t believe that the black community can afford to set a precedent of giving the power (influence) of a politician’s wife away to whites at a time when our communities are in decline. Also for HFJ’s wife to do that interview during fashion week reeked of self promotion, and she did not even consign what her husband said and making him look like a liar who misrepresented her during his already beleaguered campaign. I wonder if she went behind his back to do that interview and if so that is another reason to dislike and mistrust her. So I guess that would be an example of birds of a feather flock together, two untrustworthy birds.

I agree that your choice in mate does say a lot about who you are. But I resist the idea that having a White wife means you are going to "give power" to Whites at large. I don't take it as a good sign when a Black politician has a White wife (Barack without Michelle is like Harold Melvin without the Blue Notes...) but my investigation of a candidate has to go beyond those first color impressions. There may be political "realities," but that doesn't mean I have to let them determine who I support.

I would be more inclined to withdraw my support for a candidate if I found out they weren't acting with integrity in their marriage. Not that anyone's perfect, but infidelity seems to be a pernicious element in the narrative of many of our Black male leaders. Forget about marrying White; marrying a Black woman and then cheating seems like one of the most disrespectful acts you could perpetrate on the "community."

Besides, with all this talk of mixed marriage and it's effects on a candidate's perspective, shouldn't we be looking at class as well? What good is it to have a Super-Chocolate-Afrolicious-Cosby-Couple if they are out of touch with the issues that effect the every day lives of lower income people (many of whom are Black)?

@Abdel
What are you talking about? White men cheat on their spouses at the same rate as Black men. Bill, Edwards, Spitzer etc…
Just because he is married to a white woman does not mean that he is not going to cheat with other white women or black women or other women in general.
Most afro-centric black women would be more concerned about influencing their husband to garner more money for black community development than they would for promoting gay marriage, as Mrs. Ford did. Most people in the black community do not advocate gay marriage because they believe it negatively impacts the holy state of matrimony. Wives of Politian’s are influential, from Mrs. Ford’s own statement, she influenced her husband to change his views about gay marriage and flip flop on his original beliefs. If he were a senator the majority of blacks would not be happy with him voting for gay marriage.
Also, as long as the candidate displays afro-centric values (the Huxtables were portrayed as afro-centric ) most blacks would probably have vote for them regardless of class, so this debate has nothing to do with class issues in my book

@Abdel
Also if I were to cheat I would prefer for my classy black wife to react more like Monique or Jada, than Elin. At least if I cheated I might have a political career left if I had Monique or Jada on my arm, supporting me and having my back, and not destroying all of our hard work for our community over indiscretions.

It would be silly to suggest that infidelity and politics don't go together like beans and cornbread, but I guess I am addressing the pass that men seem to get when they step out on their marriages. Perhaps it's unfair to single Black male politicians out in particular, but I guess those are the ones I feel closest to and who I expect to most represent my political interests.

I wasn't making a judgment about whether HFJ was being true to his wife (I don't know him like that). I was just saying that the race of his mate has less to do with my opinion of him than how he treats her. Now, I'm not talking about just buying flowers and watching Seinfeld every night. I'm also talking about keeping it real regarding who he is, which includes discussing the racial implications of their relationship. It's a bad sign if your relationship is just a means of escape from your own identity (which it is for many). You show someone respect by being unafraid to show your real self.

As far as what the "Black community" would want, I'm not even sure what that means. If Afro-centricism is in opposition to full legal rights (including marriage) for all citizens, than I will have to sit that one out. Just because "most" Black people want something, that don't make it right.

And what does Afrocentric mean in the context you're using it? Cliff Huxtable: Afrocentric? Really?

And if you cheated, that would be a tragedy for you and whomever you were married to. And whomever that person was, they would be entitled to whatever human response (within reason) they could manage at the time. New rule: if you're the cheater, you don't get to determine appropriateness.

Besides, if you have a woman who is that down for you, what are you doing cheating in the first place?

@Abdel
Honestly I am tired of being PC let’s speak the truth. Most black people in NY think HFJ is a sell out and they are not going to vote for him or support him period. At this point I think you are just trolling for this man and his over political career. Most Black people are not stupid enough to vote for sell out black people with white spouses and nothing that you and the other trolls say is going to change that in this lifetime. I do not cheat on my wife you are the one that brought up the possibility of HFJ cheating and that is the only reason we are having a discussion on the topic of infidelity. Find a new candidate to troll for or tell him to marry a sister, if he wants a political career and you want to hang onto his coattails. LOL
I am done debating with trolls, goodbye.

Its funny,im highly 'liberal' have no problem with interracial relationships in 'real life',my sister is in a relationship with a white guy and they are perfect for each yet,unfairly;its different when it comes to high pfofile figures.I can't help but look at HF.JR and think 'damn son,that wife of yours means you aint goin nowhere'.Yep,since the advent of michelle and barack,black love is so visible and attractive that the 'becky wife' trend with public figures seem's so 90's and played,reminds me of wack people like OJ and Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods.I ain't hating you for having a white wife,but sorry I ain't loving you more for it,wheras it make me love Obama even more to know he had such a fly black woman like Michelle.I bet HF.JR secretly hates Obama and Michelle and their 'perfect black family' set up for the way it contrasts with his,but if he were to divorce his wife that would probably be even worse for his public image.Oh well,he has to lie in the WASPY bed he made.