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...John W. Snow at Treasury is one of the blasts from the past. Former chief executive officer of CSX Corporation, a large railway and shipping company based in Richmond, Va., Snow first joined the government in the Ford administration. Although as a business leader he has stressed the importance of balancing the budget, he has recently begun to tow Bush’s policy line and has almost magically become an outspoken advocate of slashing taxes for corporations and individuals, even if that means running short-term deficits...
...wonder if House Democrats will someday regret that they chose Nancy Pelosi instead of brash, young Harold Ford Jr., to lead them for the remainder of George W. Bush's first term. Unlike Pelosi, a savvy but utterly predictable liberal whom Republicans will delight in caricaturing as a "San Francisco Democrat," Ford would have been, in his own words, "hard to put in a box." Republicans would have had difficulty pigeonholing a black, 32-year-old, three-term Congressman who voted against Bush's tax cuts but in favor of such conservative perennials as the prayer-in-school and anti...
...quotation also describes the hostility Ford's bid to lead House Democrats provoked from backward-looking members of the older generation of black activists and politicians, including some of his colleagues in the Congressional Black Caucus. The sheer meanness - and downright stupidity - of the vituperation is an indication of the intellectual bankruptcy of what currently passes for black leadership. Ford is too shrewd to talk openly about the insults himself, but they obviously stung him. Not content to criticize Ford on the legitimate grounds of his callowness and lack of legislative accomplishments, some dredged up his "high yellow" skin color...
...Such accusations are not merely preposterous. More important, they miss the point. What truly distinguishes Ford and his fellow Generation X black politicians from their forebears in Congress and elsewhere is not simply their willingness to take moderate or even conservative stands on issues such as school vouchers or capital gains taxes. Rather, it's the realism of their aspirations for winning higher offices that older black politicians could only dream of. Ford's challenge to Pelosi was premature, but his time - or the time of someone his age - is coming soon. The unprecedented number of African Americans who were...
...Harold Ford Sr., who represented the ninth congressional district in Memphis for 22 years, Ford Jr. is only one of the aggressive young politicians to emerge from a budding black political dynasty. His colleagues in the House include Chicago's Jesse Jackson Jr. (with whom Ford attended St. Albans, the prestigious Washington prep school that also produced Gore); Missouri's William Lacy Clay, whose father, William Clay, dominated the same district in St. Louis for a generation; and Florida's Kendrick Meeks, who just won a Miami district vacated by his mother, Carrie Meeks. "There were three things...