  I heard via the bootleg news in Memphis (WPTY 24) that our hometown politician, Rep. Harold Ford, Jr. is featured in this month’s issue of Details Magazine and credited at the next, next President, making him, if not apparent, the official people’s choice as the first Black President. But lo and behold, a new Great Black Hope has surfaced in Barack Obama, the charismatic Chicago Democrat who is currently running for the US Senate. On the surface, they are symmetric. Both are fair skinned with that good hair which equals a less than intimidating demeanor.
Both are Democrats. Both can sell ice cream to an Eskimo. Most notable is that both have been key-note speakers at a DNC (Democratic National Convention). So I decided to weigh the options on what mainstream in professing as the next President and a first for the African American community. urlLink Barack Obama Education: Obama, 42, graduated from Columbia University with a degree in political science and a specialty in international relations. He went on to Harvard Law School, where he graduated magna cum laude and served as the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review.
Currently a senior lecturer specializing in constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School, Obama has served on the boards of some of Chicago's leading foundations and chaired the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a $50 million philanthropic effort to reform the public schools. Lineage : Obama was born in Hawaii. His mother is white and originally from Kansas. After moving to Hawaii with her parens, she met a foreign student (Barack Obama, Sr.) at the University of Hawaii. Soon after she had Obama, his father left to attend school at Harvard and then went on to work as an economist in Kenya.
Obama’s mother remarried to an Indonesian oil manager who moved the family to Jakarta. At age 10, Obama moved back to Hawaii and lived with his grandparents. He attended prep school and then on to Columbia. Family : Wife, Michelle, is also a lawyer and they have two little girls. I’m lazy so to look at a pic of the wife and kids go urlLink here His wife grew up on the South Side of Chicago in a working class family. On other words, folks, she is ‘hood, which means she can switch it on ya’ll. She’s trilingual, meaning she can probably speak English, Boughetto, and Ebonics.
Possible Scandal : Obama admits that as a teen, he smoked and weed and tooted a little coke. He says he included this in his memoir, “Dreams from my Father”, because he “wanted to show how and why some kids, maybe especially young black men, flirt with danger and self-destruction.” Harold Ford, Jr. Congressman urlLink Harold E. Ford, Jr (TN-09) was sworn in to represent the Ninth District of Tennessee in 1996 at age 26. Ford represents a new generation of political leaders who seek to replace the partisan politics of the past with fresh ideas and a pragmatic approach to the challenges of the twenty-first century. " Education : Congressman Ford received his law degree from the University of Michigan School of Law in 1996.
He earned a bachelor's degree in American History from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992. Lineage : Born in Memphis, Tennessee on May 11, 1970, Congressman Ford is the eldest son of former U.S. Representative Harold E. Ford and Dorothy Ford. He has two brothers, Jake and Isaac Ford. Family : This is where the brother gets lost. He was once engaged or dating seriously but reportedly, through the Memphis rumor mill, she was uninterested in being a politician’s wife and said Ford is too consumed with politics, his career and his success.
Obama has about 10 years on him so effectually he has a little time to get hitched. Possible Scandal : The Ford name is synonymous with scandal in Memphis. Alcoholics, sexual harassment, embezzlement, you name it. They are the Kennedys of Memphis so everybody is watching them. Honestly, we all have some crackheads, lose brains and dependents in our family, so who are we to judge. The jury is still out on who’s better looking and the truth of the matter is, I think I’d vote for either one. You be the judge….Peace. Love.Steph 
