Ford Shifts to Damage Control

Having been caught flat-footed at last weekend's Shelby County Democratic Party convention, wherein he didn't bother to attend and his candidate for the Chairmanship got whopped badly, Harold Ford Jr has quickly shifted to damage control mode.

His failure garnered bad notices, but they were largely intra-mural, discussed only by inside-politics junkies like me. But the "Celebration Breakfast" is a high-profile media event intended to completely obliterate any lingering trace of the earlier foul-up. I'm sure David Cocke, the failed Chairmanship candidate, will be playing ball and making nicey-nice.

But will Memphis Democrats eat what he's serving?