Calling Herman Cain a “minstrel” is out of bounds
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A black writer who posts under the name Chauncey DeVega has written a vicious, sophomoric and unfair takedown of black Atlanta businessman Herman Cain, calling him a “minstrel for CPAC.” (h/t Dave Wiegal)
Instead, Herman Cain’s shtick is a version of race minstrelsy where he performs “authentic negritude” as wish fulfillment for White Conservative fantasies. Like the fountain at Lourdes, Cain in his designated role as black Conservative mascot, absolves the White racial reactionaries at CPAC of their sins. This is a refined performance that Black Conservatives have perfected over many decades and centuries of practice. . .
In the money shot, Cain gives the obligatory “black folks who are not Republicans are on the plantation” speech to the joyous applause of his White benefactors. And he doubles down by legitimating any opposition to President Barack Obama as virtuous and patriotic regardless of the bigoted well-springs from which it may flow.
I find that kind of criticism of black conservatives deeply offensive because it presumes that they are not entitled to think differently. Isn’t that the essence of racism — the notion that all black folk must think and act alike? Don’t racists make that very assumption?
There are very few things that Cain and I agree about. He has adopted the most rightwing views of the current Republican party, including the deluded notion that U.S. currency should be based on the gold standard. He is dead wrong about the Affordable Health Care Act, which he compares to health care in Great Britain or Canada. It has little in common with the health care systems of those countries. He believes in a fantasy called the FAir Tax.
But black men and women gave their lives in the civil rights movement so black folk like Herman Cain come applaud those rightwing principles if they chose. He is a wealthy businessman — and the more wealthy black businessfolk there are, the more black Republicans there are likely to be.
Besides, Cain was no more a ‘minstrel” than any of the other speakers who came before a rightwing audience trying to tell them what they wanted to hear.
On Wednesday, I wrote about Cain’s flirtation with a presidential campaign:
WASHINGTON — Herman Cain received no ringing endorsement for a presidential bid here last week, when he spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference, an annual gathering of hyper-conservatives. In the ritual straw poll of delegates, Cain received only two percent of the vote — clustered near the bottom of a list of 15 possible contenders.
That’s not the only suggestion that conservative activists would greet a Cain presidential bid — should he decide to run — as a wealthy man’s folly. At National Review Online, a must-read for inside-the-Beltway conservatives, writer Jonah Goldberg dismissed Cain’s chances in December. “. . .it’s hard to imagine him amounting to more than an exciting also-ran,” Goldberg wrote.
Indeed, Cain himself is given to joking about his prospects. A black businessman, radio talk show host and motivational speaker, he likes to refer to himself as “a dark horse.” He’s never held elective office; he came in a distant second to Johnny Isakson in a 2004 bid for the GOP Senate nomination.
Still, Cain, an Atlanta native and Morehouse grad, has spent a long career challenging the odds. He says that his Web site, set up for his presidential campaign exploratory committee, has drawn volunteers in the tens of thousands. Affluent donors are also ready to support him, he told me last week.
As for CPAC, Cain has at least moved up a bit in the pecking order. Last year, he said, he was given an 8 a.m. speaking slot, when very few delegates filled chairs in the main ballroom. On Friday, he had a 4 p.m. speaking slot and received, at a few points, enthusiastic applause.
But he used his time to give a very un-candidate-like speech — full of slogans and platitudes but lacking substance. It was the very opposite of that given by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, whose speech laid out substantive points of policy — he would replace the Environmental Protection Agency, for example, with an “environmental solutions agency,” he said — as well as the standard Obama-bashing rhetoric.
Still, as Cain would likely point out, Gingrich, who has a national profile, didn’t do much better with the delegates, polling only 5 percent. In an e-mail, a Cain spokesman said: “Mr. Cain came out ahead of other potential contenders such as Haley Barbour, John Thune and Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum, all seasoned Republican leaders.”
So, will Cain run? A spokesman said he is “a few months” away from making an announcement. There’s no hurry since none of the 15 potential candidates in the straw poll has formally declared a candidacy.
If he launches a bid, he will have to give up the considerable income he draws from the corporate boards on which he serves: Hallmark, Whirlpool and Agco — a Duluth, Minn.-based manufacturer of agricultural equipment. (He has already suspended his radio talk show, which aired on AM 750 WSB.)
But he actually has little to lose. A presidential bid would raise his profile — and likely increase potential income from speaking fees. He clearly enjoys the attention he receives as the rare black ultra-conservative who commands the respect of newly-empowered tea party activists.
Cain came to national attention in 1994, when, as the CEO of Godfather’s Pizza, he challenged then-president Bill Clinton about his health care proposals in a televised forum. Shortly thereafter, Cain was elected board chairman of the National Restaurant Association, an organization which dedicated itself to beating back what would have been “ClintonCare.” That makes Cain a go-to guy for conservatives who want an experienced businessman to denounce the Affordable Health Care Act.
In addition to tea party bona fides, Cain has the ambition of a man with a new lease on life, having survived State 4 colon cancer.
“I only had a 30 percent chance of being here talking to you today,” he told me last week. “God said, ‘Not yet.’ . That was one of those defining moments that got me to (this) point today.”
That point is a hair’s-breadth from a presidential campaign.
— Cynthia Tucker
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Snafu
February 18th, 2011
10:41 am
MoreRightthanLef:
And it seems like you have a problem with the JOKER we had in office 8yrs prior. The problem is people fail to understand that effects of one President’s policies will often not be seen until well into the next one’s term. Now again..the JOKER who set all these things into to motion had a lot of time to do so for the economy did not just started tanking 2 yrs ago..it was because of INVASIONs into other people’s countries based on lies. This is not in defense of either President but before casting stones you need to look at the road.
MC
February 18th, 2011
10:43 am
Response to Snafu February 18th, 2011 10:34 am: I’m an independant that looks at a person’s resume (not party). If you look at what the ‘job’ of the president is, the two most important roles are ‘leader’ and ‘commander in chief’. Don’t you think having military experience helps when leading our miltary? Don’t you think working your way up to CEO shows tremendous leadership experience? Also, I’m not originally from GA, so I don’t think locally. I’m hoping Herman can capture the national stage. Most in GA aren’t too smart anyway to appreciate his accomplishments. The reality is, Obama opened the door for black politicians. Now race and party affiliation doesn’t matter, which is wonderful for Americans.
Walt
February 18th, 2011
10:43 am
I was reading Matt Taibbi and I thought of some of you guys:
“It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists. They’re completely blind to how offensive the very nature of their rhetoric is to the rest of the country. I’m an ordinary middle-aged guy who pays taxes and lives in the suburbs with his wife and dog — and I’m a radical communist? I don’t love my country? I’m a redcoat? F*** you! These are the kinds of thoughts that go through your head as you listen to Tea Partiers expound at awesome length upon their cultural victimhood, surrounded as they are by America-haters like you and me or, in the case of foreign-born president Barack Obama, people who are literally not Americans in the way they are.”
It’s not like the Tea Partiers hate black people. It’s just that they’re shockingly willing to believe the appalling horses**t fantasy about how white people in the age of Obama are some kind of oppressed minority. That may not be racism, but it is incredibly, earth-shatteringly stupid. I hear this theme over and over — as I do on a recent trip to northern Kentucky, where I decide to stick on a Rand Paul button and sit in on a Tea Party event at a local amusement park. Before long, a group of about a half-dozen Tea Partiers begin speculating about how Obamacare will force emergency-room doctors to consult “death panels” that will evaluate your worth as a human being before deciding to treat you.”
Just sayin’
Walt
hobby
February 18th, 2011
10:45 am
Snafu
“But what is even more striking is these idiots who will vote for this shysters without fully looking intot their backgrounds. ”
—-like Obama?
scott
February 18th, 2011
10:50 am
Herman Cain sure makes the guy who lives in the White House-whenever he’s not on vacation-look like a complete idiot. I’ll vote for him.
JAYBO
February 18th, 2011
10:50 am
CT- there is a teachable moment here for you- some of us who virtually never agree with your absurdly shallow and liberal diatribes might actually support you when you have a valid point
try rethinking or trying out a different perspective on your position once in a while for a reminder that some of us will actually agree when you are on target- but you rarely give us the chance
scott
February 18th, 2011
10:53 am
Obama was the first black president. Herman Cain could be the first competent black president.
MC
February 18th, 2011
10:54 am
Snafu – I do agree with you that Nathan Deal was a poor choice for govenor. Again, I look at the resume of the ‘person’ (not party). He has a history of shady and failed business dealing and is personally bankrupt. Definately don’t understand how people voted for him. Does Cain have any ‘dirt’ yet? So far, I haven’t see any evidence of it.
Gm
February 18th, 2011
10:55 am
MoreRightthanLeft: liberal dont have a problem with Cain, we have a problem with your hypocrite white conseratives who would pass on Cain and vote for undeducated, misinform Palin, please stop with the lies, Cain was not even mention among the people who would vote Rep for a nomination.
Obama has pulled and still pulling these country out the ditch GW left for him and most conservatives whites hate him, had he been white conservatives would have been calling him FDR2.
MiltonMan
February 18th, 2011
11:00 am
Cain running for US president is like the clown Baker in this state running for state office or the clown Vernon Jones in this state running for state office, etc., etc.
CT only like to point out those on the GOP side.
Gm
February 18th, 2011
11:00 am
scott: You are the idiot I guess Obama really is incompetent, thats why wall street is making record profits again, car industry is make a profit, American growth is surging.
Maybe if you Obama haters who are jealous of his success become true Americans and stop being bigots from your trailer this will be a better country.
Patricia Finley
February 18th, 2011
11:01 am
Only those who feel threatened use this method to intimidate. Just like I am called racist or a radical because I disagree with Obama. Herman Cain knows whereof he speaks and it would be best for those opposed to sit down and listen rather than to use tactics that only show how little they know about the situation or “we the people.” Keep going Herman because if you run you have my vote ten times over!
Wilster
February 18th, 2011
11:13 am
Is Chauncy racist for his comments?
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February 18th, 2011
11:16 am
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williebkind
February 18th, 2011
11:17 am
Gm
February 18th, 2011
10:55 am
You do not use the term hypocrite correctly! The progressive liberals are deceivers which includes hypocracy. You talk about Obama’s competency well what about the new budget? Is that competency in your eyes?
Walt
February 18th, 2011
11:20 am
“Obama was the first black president. Herman Cain could be the first competent black president.”
People who say that are somewhere between half awake and half asleep.
Obama really in many ways IS carrying out a third Bush term. He has upped the number of predator drone strikes in Pakistan by 10%. He has said that we can kill American citizens overseas without any form of due process, there being a particularly odious Al Qaeda leader who happens to be a citizen. Some U.S. special ops soldiers were killed in Pakistan a couple of months ago. He has had a serviceman locked up since last July, mostly in solitary and often stripped to his underwear, an awful violation of Civil Liberty.
It was Bush who signed off on the TARP deal, not Obama. But Obama is willing to let Wall Street make obscene piles of money and do nothing to protect the People or to prosecute these financial guys who almost wrecked our economy.
Obama has flatly refused to let the laws operate – Bush and Cheney have openly admitted they ordered torture. That is a felony under U.S. law. But Bush is sitting on his veranda in Dallas, probably having a non-alcoholic beer.
It REALLY makes one wonder about some people’s motivation when they just lie and lie and lie about what Obama has done. He might as well BE George Bush.
Walt
Kamchak
February 18th, 2011
11:21 am
Ms. Tucker: New thread, please.
MoreRightthanLeft
February 18th, 2011
11:40 am
snafu
i had a huge problem with bush’s 2nd term…and i get the effects of presidents after they leave office..at some point Obama will have to quit blaming his old boss. And INVASION..and LIES, really??? are we going to start that again…the Congress(majority) backed up Bush in freeing Kuwait and Iraq…please find a solid arguement.
I noticed we’re still in Afghanistan and Gauntamono. The Joke is he talks out boths sides of his arse..while blaming other for his incompetence
The economy started tanking when the dems took over congress….Barney Frank, Chris Dodd ring a bell.
This Pres. would get stumped with the likes of Hermain Cain.
MoreRightthanLeft
February 18th, 2011
11:49 am
GM….
IM ARICAN AMERICAN…and Palin??? i didnt mention her.
i love how you bundle , racist, trailerparks, white trash and bigots…as Conservatives…
Libs pull the race card anytime they want…has it benefited you yet…
and your party has no room to talk when it comes to hypocrisy and double standards…
I completely disagree with Obamas policies- I am not a Racist or an Uncle Tom..let it go dude…
MoreRightthanLeft
February 18th, 2011
11:50 am
AFRICAN
buck@gon
February 18th, 2011
11:51 am
It’s nice to see civility on Friday, CC. Try and have enough discipline to use it all the time, please.
buck@gon
February 18th, 2011
11:52 am
Though I’m still waiting for you to equate Republicans with baby killers like you did last week because we supposedly don’t fund enough government programs that you daft liberals equate with life.
DebbieDoRight
February 18th, 2011
11:54 am
Herman Cain isn’t running for President; he’s running for more people to listen to his radio show. He may not be a minstrel but he is a shrewd self promoter. Go Herman Go!
Walt
February 18th, 2011
11:56 am
“Ms. Tucker: New thread, please.”
What difference does it make? No matter what the subject, the comments never change. It is like watching a waterfall.
Walt
buck@gon
February 18th, 2011
11:56 am
KamChak:
“Ms. Tucker: New thread, please.”
See! Even the liberals can’t stomach this “civility-for-thee, but-not-from-me” censorship nonsense you’re peddling today CC. Besides, you thrive on the meanness of calling us racists, bigots, ….. oh, we all know the drill.
Love to see you stick up for Thomas Sowell or Bill O’Reilly.
DebbieDoRight
February 18th, 2011
11:58 am
What difference does it make? No matter what the subject, the comments never change. It is like watching a waterfall.
Or the roller derby.
DebbieDoRight
February 18th, 2011
12:00 pm
Bill O’Reilly has enough people to “stick up” for him and his outrageousness. He doesn’t need Tucker’s apron strings.
Get It Right
February 18th, 2011
12:01 pm
@southern living…
Good point. How is it the Left can permit such racist vilification of Clarence Thomas (calls to have him “lynched” in California) and Herman Cain? CT endorses it with her silence – plus she probably can’t find an article to cut and paste from.
S Reality
February 18th, 2011
12:09 pm
Congrat’s C Tucker….. I follow all the blogs and you easily have the fewest commnets to your off the wall statements!!!!!! You found a way to get some actual responses!
But you got people like me to respond…. won’t happen again! I don’t mind reading or responding to people I disagree with but most people don’t have a certain slant or intention to all their posts!
"Banned"
February 18th, 2011
12:18 pm
“OK, James@9:11. Let’s see.”
Well I guess we saw.
That was fun, but I’m kind of bored with it.
I think I’ve made my point.
Kamchak
February 18th, 2011
12:18 pm
See! Even the liberals can’t stomach this “civility-for-thee, but-not-from-me” censorship nonsense you’re peddling today CC.
No, I’m merely bored with this topic.
In the future, please don’t try to speak for me — you don’t have my authority to do so, sport.
This just in
February 18th, 2011
12:58 pm
Kamchak if your bored go somewhere else then. This blog wouyd be much happier without you. Or do you have to wait for your keeper to come and help you find another blog?
EmmanuelHall
February 18th, 2011
12:58 pm
It hurts my soul that Mr. Cain is a Morehouse man and I cannot Imagine where he got his non-sense from. However, Ms.Tucker is correct, He has a right to say and believe any pollitical foolishness he chooses. Mr.Cain has as much chance of being President as Dr. would have had trying to get Bull Conors to turn the fire hoses off the students and take the dogs back to the kennel. Dr.King a great Morehouse man, wadged that war aganist hate and racism so people like Cain could speak their minds without fear of harm. Too bad its the worng speak.
willie lynch
February 18th, 2011
1:09 pm
Get It Right
February 18th, 2011
12:01 pm
I guess it’s probably the same way the right permits much of the same towards President Obama, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and others on the left.
The funny thing about Clarence Thomas is he is a good example of Black achievment to a point. Herman Cain seems to be an ok guy but he’s playing under the wrong banner. What Black people do (as all culture’s do) is send our own throught the litmus test of Blackness. Jews don’t elect as representitives those who are not going to represent Jewish interests, nor do Indians ask Pakistani’s to govern them, we all apply this standard.
Black people don’t have to feel bad about questioning the loyalty of one claims they represent us.,
Pat
February 18th, 2011
1:22 pm
To “Not at the Trough” …
So you say “the novelty of having a black President has worn off?”
That’s the whole problem with Republicans running the occasional token minority. When the GOP puts forward a black person, woman or other minority on the public stage, it is truly only as a novelty – as a cheap publicity stunt… a way to argue that protecting civil rights just isn’t necessary because, “look, here’s a rich one – and he/she likes our policies!” Deep down, they just don’t believe such folks are really qualified for their jobs – and because they believe it, they invariably pick unqualified tokens for “show pony” visible posts to add color to their sea of old white farts. Similarly, because they hate or disrespect government, they just don’t think governing is a serious job requiring serious people.
They think any dunce can do it – that’s why they tolerated Bush junior. He had a big war chest, and a deadly-serious overseer (Cheney) to handle the important mission-critical business of speeding our transformation from a democracy to a plutocratic oligarchy.
Democrats don’t run minorities as stunt candidates – that’s the Republican trick, and that’s why, Cynthia, I would respectfully have to disagree with your offense with the term “minstrel.”
While Mr. Cain may himself be a qualified serious candidate, I can assure you the Tea Party Republikooks who put him up on their CPAC stage did so for a show. “Look – we have a black guy! And so well-spoken, too!”
Lack of respect – or any real belief that blacks or women can be really taken seriously explains the entire Palin VP nomination. They thought, hmmm, the Dems are kicking butt in the primaries with Obama and Hillary – so they went and dug up Michael Steele and Palin. If they’d been seriously considering them as serious candidates, they had several smart, qualified blacks and women in their party to consider. Not many, mind you – but several – and those folks deserved a shot.
Instead, they picked a brain dead beauty queen they thought was hot, and the first black dude whose name came to mind.
I feel sorry for Cain, if he is actually serious and well-intentioned.
A party that tolerates birthers, racist signs at Tea Party rallies and watermelon internet jokes from Party-supported candidates will applaud him if he speaks their talking points.
They will never respect him.
A Lumpkin Resident
February 18th, 2011
1:34 pm
Actually, CT, “the notion that all black folk must think and act alike? ” is DISCRIMINATION and STEREOTYPING.
The notion that all blacks are racially inferior is RACISM.
As far as blacks in the conservative movement…
A study came out this past week that talks of blacks moving back to the south, and that Atlanta/Georgia has more black-owned businesses than just about any where else. I make presumption that most of us… be it black/white/asian/latino/etc…. really mostly want the same things: we want security, we want families, homes, we want economic opportunity, we want liberty and freedom. Given this, then as people move up the economic ladder and achieve those things, they WILL think more conservative (at least economically conservative). Nobody operating within an middle class family budget could possibly think that the deficit spending that the Democrats have imposed is a good thing. Yes, you might think that society could be more fair to the poor. But you CANNOT break the system in order to make it “fair”. That is called “killing the golden goose”. So conservatives, unlike liberals, understand that some “unfairness” is inherent in the system, and that it is and must be acceptable in order for opportunity to exist at all. Herman Cain embodies this. He has been a black businessman. He has run a company and knows that blacks DO have opportunities, and CAN take control of their own destiny. He also knows that the system is fundamentally broken, and that breaking it further will not help anyone… much less the poor.
willie lynch
February 18th, 2011
1:44 pm
A Lumpkin Resident
February 18th, 2011
1:34 pm
So conservatives, unlike liberals, understand that some “unfairness” is inherent in the system, and that it is and must be acceptable in order for opportunity to exist at all.
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That sounds like Mubarak’s argument.
MC
February 18th, 2011
1:45 pm
I think it’s interesting that people thing Cain is a token for the GOP. I’m not a big fan of Bush, but you have to admit he had a VERY diverse administration with Condi Rice and Colin Powel. I don’t see any influential visible minorities in Obama’s administration. It looks to me like he works for the Clinton and Warren Buffet and most likely owes them something. Cain seems to be self-made.
MC
February 18th, 2011
1:49 pm
willie lynch February 18th, 2011 1:44 pm: I pay my mortgage with interest and can only afford 1 child. My neighbor is a sigle mom with 6 kids in free section 8 sponsored housing. The landlord told me that he collects his rent directly from the government. I accept that things aren’t fair even with ‘liberal’ social programs.
SaveOurRepublic
February 18th, 2011
1:50 pm
Cain’s a sharp, successful man & he seems like a nice, approachable fella. However, he strikes me as “conservative lite”. He never gets beyond superficial, softball points on his WSB radio show. In my estimation, I’d said he’s a standard NeoCON (ala – Gingrich, Romney & Huckabee…all Globalist puppets). Out of the ‘12 GOP candidates (potential or otherwise), Dr.Ron Paul is (far & away) the most Constitutionally adherent.
MC
February 18th, 2011
1:55 pm
SaveOurRepublic February 18th, 2011 1:50 pm: I like Ron Paul too. Very fascinating person. I’m not sure if American’s are smart enough to see value his accomplishments. I think most Americans will thing he’s too old (like they did McCain – which us unfortunate). Palin is not polished enough, Mitt will have trouble with healthcare (since Obama basically stole is policy); plus Americans don’t really like Mormans unless you’re the Osmonds, and Rudy & Newt have too much baggage. Huckabee is probably not charasmatic enough to beat Obama.
Thulsa the Doom
February 18th, 2011
1:57 pm
Well, since we are talking about race and the way black conservatives are treated by those trying to keep them on the groupthink plantation…
Yep. I just got through watching all the video clips of the liberal white people protesting judge Thomas last week. Otay- heeeere we go!!
Video 1 of older white man saying Clarence Thomas should be put to work in the fields- Nice slave analogy old feller.
Video 2 of a liberal middle aged white woman saying judge Thomas AND his wife also should be strung up and hung- niiiiiice, real nice lady there.
Video 3 of a younger liberal white women saying Judge Thomas should have his toes cut off and fed to him.
Video 4 of a young liberal white couple saying once again that Judge Thomas should be lynched. Real nice folk them liberal yuppies. Yesssssirrreeee.
What did you say Cynthia? Go- “I find that kind of criticism of black conservatives deeply offensive because it presumes that they are not entitled to think differently. Isn’t that the essence of racism — the notion that all black folk must think and act alike? Don’t racists make that very assumption?”- Cynthia T.
Right on Cynthia. Right on. And who is it that presumes to tell black people how they are supposed to think? Who are these racists making that assumption about a whole group of people???
If you answered Liberal White people then correct you are!!!!!!!!
willie lynch
February 18th, 2011
1:59 pm
MC
February 18th, 2011
1:49 pm
willie lynch February 18th, 2011 1:44 pm: I pay my mortgage with interest and can only afford 1 child. My neighbor is a sigle mom with 6 kids in free section 8 sponsored housing. The landlord told me that he collects his rent directly from the government. I accept that things aren’t fair even with ‘liberal’ social programs.
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I’m insulted. MC, you should be more discerning.
willie lynch
February 18th, 2011
2:02 pm
Thulsa the Doom
February 18th, 2011
1:57 pm
You’re getting sloppy. Old habits die hard.
MC
February 18th, 2011
2:08 pm
Willie – Didn’t mean to insult you. I was just pointing out that there is ‘unfairness’ in any type of political philosophy. I agree with most social programs, but when you live right next to section 8, it is frustrating to watch as you struggle to pay your own way.
Big D
February 18th, 2011
2:09 pm
Head line:
Idiot Black and white liberals eat themselves…can no longer be found.
Wishful thinking.
Thulsa the Doom
February 18th, 2011
2:13 pm
Willie,
Sloppy? Where? If so I’ll be sure to up my game just for you! Actually I’ld have to lower my game to make it more even. After all I’m all about “fairness”.
Big D
February 18th, 2011
2:17 pm
Head line:
Atlanta among the most violent of all American cities.
A little common sense here…Atlanta has been run by Liberal Blacks for 38 years…I believe it’s time to get your head out of the sand or where ever it may be.
A Herman Cain type for the country and Atlanta just may give Blacks a chance in an ever degrading environment…it should be painfully obvious that Liberal Democrats in any form are just plain wrong.
Pablo
February 18th, 2011
2:26 pm
The column referred to by CT proves once again that whenever you cannot defend your position by its merits, you resort to gratuitous attacks. I would personally would vote for Herman Cain, based upon his qualifications (which probably exceed the ones over 90% of the current crop of politicians have), and his ability to see a problem for what it is and offer a solution that actually makes sense. He would certainly would be a much better President that the last 3 or 4 in my opinion…
buck@gon
February 18th, 2011
2:35 pm
Memo to: Cindo
From: Jay Jar Bookman
Dude! You’re all like so “civil” today. Oooooh! I’m like so “you’re hypocritical, dudes”.
I’m like really not aware of what the tenth amendment says, or the history of civilization, the meaning of marriage, the laws of economics, the fact that much higher taxes leads to like totally no economic growth, the science of global warming, but you know, I’m all for hope and change. I’m all for changing it dude.
Anyone who believes in these things is in the way of change anyway, I mean like TOTALLY, so you know, screw them! You get in my way I’ll call you a hypocrite all day, dude. I mean I’d love my kids if they were like, gay, (giggles) and all, but if they go Republican…. Oh man, I’d be like, “hey little dudes, I took care of you for like 18 years for eff***ing FREE. How do you think people today can survive without that kind of support?” That’s why I’m like todally down with HIM.
I’m like completely and totally down with the President, ya know. To prove it, I always post my blues songs mix on Fridays. You know, like I’m really white, but, ….well, I mean like really really really white, I can hang with you. I have street cred.
Do you think I have street cred?
Anyway umm. …..
I’m not going to like be there tonight, but I heard like maybe, you know, one of the assistant junior deputies to the CDC hangs out there sometimes on Fridays, and he’s you know, like only thirteen or so steps away from the Pres and all, so I don’t know, if you want to go, it’d be like, “hey, I’m Cynthia, I really love your boss. Can we hang? I’ll buy your drinks tonight and I give great neck rubs. Do you like get to ride on AirForce One.” CC, I’m sorry, but I forgot to ask him if he does or not. I know you told me to find someone…. Hey maybe you could network. Anyway, I’m not sure if I have his email anymore, but hey it’s cool. Gotta go. See ya Monday …… boss. (giggles again).
Later Duuuude!