Herman Cain

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GAVol said:
in the end, I'm afraid youth right. But at least there's a conversation going on.
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Needs to start somewhere.

I just don't think any pol is willing to relinquish the enormous power of influence they are able to exert through the tax code.
 
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#202
Let's be honest, it's not the guy smoking as much as it is that eerie grin at the end by Cain that is so disconcerting.
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lawgator1 said:
Let's be honest, it's not the guy smoking as much as it is that eerie grin at the end by Cain that is so disconcerting.
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that's completely Cain's personality though. The smoking thing is just bizarre . . . Of course, 3 days later and people are still talking about a web ad.
 
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RealClearPolitics - The Left's Race Baiting of Herman Cain

Let's leave aside the question of whether Herman Cain, the businessman and activist currently leading the anti-establishment contingent in the Republican primaries, is truly presidential material. Whatever his merits or electability, Cain has inevitably drawn attention as the only African-American in the field. And, as a black Republican linked to the Tea Party -- a movement often accused of racial animosity toward Barack Obama -- he has become a magnet for a peculiar left-wing brand of race-baiting.
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Nonetheless, some left-wing blogs have cheered O'Donnell's supposed takedown of Cain -- and others have peddled even nastier fare. Chauncey de Vega, a blogger at OpenSalon.com, calls Cain a "professional racism apologist," a "race traitor" and a "human parrot" for right-wing white bigots, and even accuses Cain of using his memories of growing up black under Jim Crow to pander to racists. Cain has told the story of how he and his brother once daringly drank from the "whites only" fountain, and then "looked at each other and said, the water tastes the same! What's the big deal?" Clearly, his point is how absurd racism looks through the innocent eyes of a child. Yet de Vega manages to twist this into a defense of segregation as harmless.

Such bizarre distortions are echoed by leftist posters on other sites. In comments threads, the vileness reigns almost unchecked: Cain has been labeled a "house Negro" (or worse) and a "lawn jockey," and mocked in blatantly racist terms.

Meanwhile, Slate.com columnist David Weigel asks whether Cain's rise as a Tea Party favorite refutes charges that the movement is racist, and predictably answers no. For evidence, Weigel turns to Christopher Parker, a University of Washington political scientist and lead author of a 2010 study which concluded that Tea Party "true believers" tended to be more racist than other white Americans. Of course, Parker defines racism broadly enough to include the belief that "Irish, Italians, Jewish, and many other minorities overcame prejudice and worked their way up, blacks should do the same without special favors" -- a sentiment that Cain both endorses and seems to validate by his own example.
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I don't get the hate. This stuff is as racist as a lot of the photoshopped pics of Obama you find on the internet.
 
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GAVol said:
that's completely Cain's personality though. The smoking thing is just bizarre . . . Of course, 3 days later and people are still talking about a web ad.
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Mr. Cain is going to soon realize that his "say what I feel like saying" and "act how I want to act" is not going to jive with the "establishment" when the rubber hits the road.

Trump, Palin and Bachman are all casualties of that sort of mentality. I'm surprised he's lasted as long as he has frankly.
 
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#207
the thing that makes cain different from Trump, Palin and Bachman, is that is skin is hard as a rock and he doesn't give a damn what others think of him. People can relate better to Cain then the others you mention.
 
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Like the grin.

It kinda goes up ... pauses ... and goes up again.

very creepy
 
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EvanStalcup1990 said:
the thing that makes cain different from Trump, Palin and Bachman, is that is skin is hard as a rock and he doesn't give a damn what others think of him. People can relate better to Cain then the others you mention.
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"he doesn't give a damn what people think of him"

Seriously? You are aware he's running for President aren't you? I think he cares very much what people think of him. So far his style is working, just like it did for the three others I mentioned - until it starts not working.

Having an "i don't care" attitude in politics is a career limiting move, he may have been successful using that style in the corporate world but it won't fly in the oval office.
 
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Not sure if im buying it really because Cain is running at the top of some polls and you are target number 1 at the top, but my question is if there is nothing to the allegations, why did the National Resturant Assoc. pay these women massive settlements?
 
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myrobbins7 said:
Not sure if im buying it really because Cain is running at the top of some polls and you are target number 1 at the top, but my question is if there is nothing to the allegations, why did the National Resturant Assoc. pay these women massive settlements?
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This is my question as well. Of course, it could be that it is just easier to pay these women instead of going through the hassle and the media circus of a harassment suit; however, Cain's response of "Have you ever been accused of sexual harassment?" is not exactly confidence inspiring.
 
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