Herman Cain: Muslims have no place in US government
So we’ve got two probable candidates for the GOP presidential nominees who claim Georgia as their base. One is Newt Gingrich.
This is the other one.
For those who can’t view the video, Herman Cain is asked whether he would be willing to appoint a Muslim as a Cabinet officer or judge.
“No. I will not,” he said. “And here’s why: There’s this creeping attempt — there’s this attempt to gradually ease Sharia law and the Muslim faith into our government.” According to Cain, many American Muslims “are trying to force their Sharia law onto the rest of us.”
That’s just stupid. As in not very bright. By comparison, the Sharia conspiracy crowd makes the birthers look downright sane and reasonable. It will be interesting to see who, if anyone, among the GOP mainstream steps up to repudiate such nonsense. After all, the Constitution explicitly rules out such nonsense, stating point blank that “no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.”
I guess Herman Cain doesn’t believe in the Constitution.
Oh, and by the way?
In a speech to Texas evangelicals, Gingrich also took up the theme over the weekend, warning that unless America is saved, his grandchildren “will live in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists and with no understanding of what it once meant to be an American.”
“a secular atheist country … dominated by radical Islamists?” Wow. That would be some trick.
It’s the kind of rhetorical collision that happens when you’re merely listing scare words needed to scare your audience and not even attempting to communicate cogent thought.
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Normal
March 28th, 2011
7:14 pm
getalife
March 28th, 2011
6:55 pm
When I saw “Smeat”, the first time, I thought “Smeagol”.
Midori
March 28th, 2011
7:14 pm
so now Obama caused an earthquake?
The Clenis sure must be jealous………….
jack bull
March 28th, 2011
7:15 pm
We already have a Muslim in the US Government, he disappears every year at Christmas time….
Paul
March 28th, 2011
7:16 pm
Hi Midori!!!
Normal
I thought “Mystery Meat”
College dorm days flashback -
Midori
March 28th, 2011
7:16 pm
Hi Paul
Normal
March 28th, 2011
7:17 pm
The fact IS. Barak Obama IS the President of the United States and will be again….Simply because the Republicans don’t have anybody to touch him…sad…but true.
Smeat
March 28th, 2011
7:17 pm
In fairness to Paul:
Perhap Soros Gimp was over the top…. How ’bout Obamunist?
That wurx….
josef nix
March 28th, 2011
7:17 pm
Thulsa
@ 7:11
Ole Hyperbole, been with us many yea-uhs now…
Normal…
Nanh, but they did throw some tomatoes at him…!
DAVE
Love that line…
RW-(the original)
March 28th, 2011
7:19 pm
So how much tax did employees of GE pay?
Dave R.
March 28th, 2011
7:20 pm
“Barak Obama IS the President of the United States and MIGHT be again….Simply because the Republicans don’t have anybody that can play to the mindless American Idol generation that elected him in the first place…sad…but true.”
There Normal. Fixed your typo. No thanks needed.
Normal
March 28th, 2011
7:20 pm
Paul,
When I was in the Navy and it got toward replenishment time, we used to have a contest called “Name That Meat”. We had to give it up because nobody won. The funny thing is, when it was sitting there in all that “soup”, with the ship moving and all…you’d have thought it was alive…
Smeat
March 28th, 2011
7:20 pm
Oh Goodie…. Only 10 more minutes until our President tells the nation why we’re at war with a third Muslim country.
Paul
March 28th, 2011
7:20 pm
Smeat
That might work, but you have to take into account it’s Monday, the last of the month. Tomorrow’s an odd-numbered Tuesday in a month with 31 days, so you’ll likely have to revise your assessment. I’ll have to check with SoCom, but it just might be Be A Libertarian day!
Anyhow, time to go prepare some supper.
No Bambi sauce.
Pleasant evening, all -
TaxPayer
March 28th, 2011
7:21 pm
How will Republicans be able to choose amongst all these great candidates for president. I mean, between Cain and Palin and Barbour and Gingrich and Trump and… it has to be just tearing the Republicans apart with so many good choices and especially with all of them hitting on all the right topics like banning abortion and outlawing Muslims and eliminating taxes. I bet they can feel the trickle down every time they think about it. I’m glad I’ve got it easy with an incumbent to vote for.
Paul
March 28th, 2011
7:23 pm
Normal
One more – when I was at university in the dorms they’d prepare hamburger patties with one of like a dozen sauces on it. We were supposed to think it was something other than “hamburger patties with another weird sauce.”
It didn’t move, though. At least until we mixed in the jello -
Thulsa Doom
March 28th, 2011
7:23 pm
Try keeping up Midori. Obama is like an earthquake in the economic damage he has visited upon the nation.
Under Obama we went from hopey and changey to destruction and desolation
Thulsa Doom
March 28th, 2011
7:24 pm
Taxnonpayer,
I’ld take Elmer Fudd over the community organizer. He couldn’t possibly do any worse.
josef nix
March 28th, 2011
7:24 pm
JAY
Okay, what’s he gonna say…? Y’all have gotten the text down to the AJC, doncha?
getalife
March 28th, 2011
7:24 pm
Smeat,
We won that one.
When we want to lose another one, we will give you a call.
TaxPayer
March 28th, 2011
7:25 pm
Under Obama we went from hopey and changey to destruction and desolation
Obama really rocks Thulsa’s world.
@@
March 28th, 2011
7:25 pm
Paul:
‘Cause he said if you want the same treatment from the gov’t that corporations get, you have to go out and buy your OWN loopholes!
You and your nitpicking ways.
md
March 28th, 2011
7:26 pm
RE: the topic…….not big on fear mongering, but when the Heads of State of Britain, France and Germany say they have an assimilation problem, folks might want to ask why??
Smeat
March 28th, 2011
7:26 pm
The Conservatives are taking their advice from Sun Tzu.
2012 will follow his plan.
Thulsa Doom
March 28th, 2011
7:28 pm
Taxpayer,
I love Obama. I never run out of comedic material.
TaxPayer
March 28th, 2011
7:28 pm
I’ld take Elmer Fudd over the community organizer. He couldn’t possibly do any worse.
You’d do a write in when you have such fine choices as Gingrich and Trump and Palin and Barbour… I suppose I cannot really blame you for choosing Elmer over those choices though.
lovesmarvin
March 28th, 2011
7:29 pm
I love that the right winger Christian a$$hats have been trying to shove their fricking religion down everyone’s throats for 200 years. The laws of this country are not to be founded on any religion.
Your mythology ends where the laws of our country start. That’s the way the founding fathers intended it…if you think you’re going to change it then bring it up and we’ll all vote on it…otherwise, shut the frick up!!!
I’d ironic and sickening that you now turn it on to the Muslims for trying to do it. Hypocrisy is its clearest form.
Midori
March 28th, 2011
7:29 pm
keep up with what, Doom? You incessant shrieking about Obama shooting the Pope and other nonsensical posts?
Thulsa Doom
March 28th, 2011
7:30 pm
My prediction- Obama says UH in a seemingly cool way about 6,000 times in a 40 minute speech. That’s the over under. Takers?
lovesmarvin
March 28th, 2011
7:30 pm
correction to previous comment:
It’s ironic and sickening….
Jay
March 28th, 2011
7:30 pm
fresh libya thread upstairs, with Obama about to speak…..
TaxPayer
March 28th, 2011
7:30 pm
I never run out of comedic material.
A good comedian can make people laugh.
Thulsa Doom
March 28th, 2011
7:31 pm
Midori,
Obama shot the pope? What? And here I only thought he blew up the economy.
getalife
March 28th, 2011
7:32 pm
RW,
Should I bet on Butler to win this time?
@@
March 28th, 2011
7:33 pm
With nearly 150,000 employees, I’m willing to bet GE pays millions in income, payroll AND sales taxes. Property taxes? Not sure about that one.
Herman Cain can tell us how much corporations pay in taxes. It’s not chump change.
josef nix
March 28th, 2011
7:34 pm
md
We were watching the CNN program last night, and that question of assimilation came up. I’m not out to ban any form of dress, but wearing the hijab–not required by the religion btw–is itself stymying the assimilation process. Unmentionable brought up the how much this current Muslim bashing has in common with the Jewish immigration of the last half of the 19th Century and that once the shttlites ditched the medieval garb, assimilation came in short order and the “fear factor” faded into the woodwork….
Smeat
March 28th, 2011
7:34 pm
This boob, our POTUS, can’t even be on time for an international address?
Who is he? — Kanye West?
Thulsa Doom
March 28th, 2011
7:34 pm
Taxpayer,
Interesting that you left out Pawlenty, Romney, and possibly Rubio and or Scott Brown. You just a hopin against hope that none of them run aren’t ya?
josef nix
March 28th, 2011
7:35 pm
JAY
@ 7:30
Am I good or what!
Smeat
March 28th, 2011
7:37 pm
The POTUS looks stoned and weak !!
Smeat
March 28th, 2011
7:39 pm
He looks like his suit is two sizes too large.
Smeat
March 28th, 2011
7:40 pm
MethMan ObamMao??
That’s what he looks like…..
jack bull
March 28th, 2011
7:42 pm
bout as stupid as packing your bags and leaving your job, that you were elected to do , when you don’t get your way..
Smeat
March 28th, 2011
7:42 pm
Watch the video… Look at his shoulders… He can’t weigh 160….
Smeat
March 28th, 2011
7:44 pm
BUT WHY DID WE US BOMB THEM PRESIDENT UNICORN?
BADA BING
March 28th, 2011
7:44 pm
obama was just in South America. I wonder if he wore his ‘Madre Jeans’?
Smeat
March 28th, 2011
7:46 pm
Ground troops are in Libya Mr. Obama –
Special Forces have to mark the targets.
josef nix
March 28th, 2011
7:50 pm
BADA
You’ve been getting some good ones in…loved that “…radiating in the rain…”
Gone upstairs…
Smeat
March 28th, 2011
7:51 pm
Who is the leader of the Libyan opposition, Mr. Obama?
Is it ???
Smeat
March 28th, 2011
7:57 pm
A Harvard man should have done much better… What a BS speech !!
Smeat
March 28th, 2011
7:59 pm
BOO !! BARF !! BOO !!
I need to drop ‘em at the pool.
Barf !!
FAIL !!
Smeat
March 28th, 2011
7:59 pm
Enter your comments here
Smeat
March 28th, 2011
8:03 pm
Analysis?
joe
March 28th, 2011
8:57 pm
yall sum gumps
SRX
March 28th, 2011
9:14 pm
“No. I will not,” he said. “And here’s why: There’s this creeping attempt — there’s this attempt to gradually ease Sharia law and the Muslim faith into our government.”
Herman you are a smart, articulate guy but you’re just pandering to the blue collar guns and religion crowd with his kind of talk. You know the ones, the pot belly truck drivers and parts counter heehaws who listen to Hannity on the radio and think they’re Republicans (most actual Republicans wouldn’t let them come close without a good dousing in Lysol). Herman, there aren’t enough of those Larry the Cable Guy votes out there to even get you out of the starting gate.
Paulo977
March 28th, 2011
9:55 pm
Dusty
“Dinner time….Oncor beef patties tonight’
Ever tried the Jamaican ones?
ODDOWL
March 28th, 2011
10:07 pm
Herman Cain ====> The Godfather of Uncle Tom’s big house.
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mike
March 29th, 2011
1:09 pm
What is going to be funny is when those goobers Cain is pandering to call him the n-word. This country has been treating people who look like him a lot worse a lot longer than any Muslims.
you are slaves
March 29th, 2011
2:36 pm
Funny thing is the same thing was said about Black folks less than 50 years ago. Now you have a Black man speaking that same way about Muslims. You sheeple are too funny HAHAHA. Oh and 911 was an inside job. Dont blame Muslims for the greed of the CIA and thier military industrial complex puppet masters.
SirMagpieDeCrow
March 29th, 2011
2:41 pm
Has anyone considered the fact that Herman Cain, an African American would need a significant (but maybe not a majority of support) from the African American community to plausibly win a general election?
African Americans also comprise a significant portion of the Muslim-American community. Cain may not allow a Muslim to serve in any prominent position in his future administration but that still doesn’t negate the fact that muslims can still vote. His position I imagine would undermine his support among a significant demographic.
I think people forget Muslims can still be significant players in American elections. After all, in the 2000 Presidential Election most Arab-Americans/non african-american muslims voted for George W. Bush. If you alienate that vote too much it could hurt you in critical states like Ohio in a close election.
I think Cain’s statement is very problematic in a general election environment, not just with muslims, but also with independents who may be disturbed by such a hardline position. I know of many people who feel that a person can be authentically loyal to the United States regardless of their religious orientation or ethnic creed.
If “suspect” religious affiliations were used to determine a person’s loyalty to the country there would probably be official bans against Mormons and Catholics serving in office. I personally think Cain’s position undermines that long held American tradition of “fair play”.
Jared H
March 29th, 2011
10:03 pm
Awesome. This guy was already a strong contender for my vote. Sending funds to his campaign via paypal now!
vuduchld
March 30th, 2011
12:33 am
You pilgrims continue to wonder why Jawja continues to slide down the shyt hole of irrlelvancy, well, all you have to do is look at this video. Is this the best you retards can do, find some psycho, babble pseudo bizness chump to lay your laurels on. Is this chickenhead all you got. Pray tell I moved out of this pathetic state. You idiots will continue to be flushed down the toilet and frankly, that is where all of you belong. This is one funny racoon who needs to go back to cookin Uncle Ben’s rice!! LMAO
Brad Spencer
March 30th, 2011
1:30 pm
Sharia law? Don’t you know Sharia law needs far fewer lawyers? Won’t ever happen in the US.
Also, just for history’s sake, note that Sharia law predates Islam. “Let he who is without sin amongst you throw the first stone.” Sound familiar? Islam was hundreds of years in the future when that was said.
Gandalf, The White
March 31st, 2011
12:31 am
JAY, are you saying the Birthers are wrong? Why doesn’t he show his birth certificate? Are you so gullible or a co-conspiritor?
Jezel
March 31st, 2011
6:20 am
The Democrats will not have much to worry about in coming presidential elections as long as the Republicans continue to parade candidates like…Herman, Palin and Newt… around the country. Haters will never win. And if they do…it will not last for long. Come on GOP_ is this all you got?