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Quote Of The Day - Micky Ward
"I cant support Scott Brown. I just cant do it. I found out Scott is anti-union and Im a Teamster guy. I found out hes also against gay marriage and I say if you love someone you should have the same rights no matter who you are." - Boxing legend Micky Ward, retracting his endorsement of Sen. Scott Brown, who was about to appear at Ward's gym for a photo op. Mark Wahlberg played Ward in the Oscar-winning movie The Fighter.
http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2012/09/quote-of-day-micky-ward.html
dsc
(52,169 posts)I just can't believe that a boxer of all athletes said this.
Bjorn Against
(12,041 posts)But if the movie portrayal is accurate I don't think he is your stereotypical tough guy boxer. He has actually gone through some adversity in his life, the movie portrayed him as a pretty decent guy. I would recommend watching the movie, you don't have to enjoy boxing to enjoy it as it focuses more on his personal life than the sport and it has some great acting performances particularly Christian Bale's performance as the crack addicted brother. While the movie is not political it seems hard to imagine someone who grew up in the setting he did would be a right-winger.
Cha
(297,808 posts)really helps Elizabeth! Imagine if it were the other way around..
Lone_Star_Dem
(28,158 posts)Someone took the time to explain it to him, and he got it. That's our jobs. We're supposed to be feet on the ground clearing the fog for the dim sighed out there.
Note: I did not say the blind. Too many people waste time fighting with lost causes. As if they're going to earn a Dem merit badge for it or something. The small minded belong to the GOP. The misinformed are ours to rehabilitate.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)In the listing of endorsements in Wikipedia (at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_in_Massachusetts,_2012#Endorsements), I added Ward's endorsement of Brown as "rescinded", although linking to the original Boston Globe article (at http://www.boston.com/politicalintelligence/2012/08/31/report-boxer-micky-ward-cancels-planned-endorsement-scott-brown/PbrbEtkRDhlP5tTvgkmaDL/story.html) rather than to the blog about it.