Cain reportedly faced sexual harassment complaints
The big political news of the moment involves allegations that as president of the National Restaurant Association, Herman Cain was the subject of complaints of inappropriate sexual behavior by two separate female employees, both of whom received cash settlements and left employment from the association.
The story was broken by Politico, which reports:
In a series of comments over the past 10 days, Cain and his campaign repeatedly declined to respond directly about whether he ever faced allegations of sexual harassment at the restaurant association. They have also declined to address questions about specific reporting confirming that there were financial settlements in two cases in which women leveled complaints.
POLITICO has confirmed the identities of the two female restaurant association employees who complained about Cain but, for privacy concerns, is not publishing their names.
Cain spokesman J.D. Gordon told POLITICO the candidate indicated to campaign officials that he was “vaguely familiar” with the charges and that the restaurant association’s general counsel had resolved the matter.
The latest statement came from Cain himself. In a tense sidewalk encounter Sunday morning outside the Washington bureau of CBS News — where the Republican contender had just completed an interview on “Face the Nation” — Cain evaded a series of questions about sexual harassment allegations.
Cain said he has “had thousands of people working for me” at different businesses over the years and could not comment “until I see some facts or some concrete evidence.” His campaign staff was given the name of one woman who complained last week, and it was repeated to Cain on Sunday. He responded, “I am not going to comment on that.”
The story has several levels. On the most basic of facts — two women complained of harassment by Cain and received financial settlements — it seems solid. Cain’s supporters are nonetheless charging foul, with his campaign responding that “sadly, we’ve sadly, we’ve seen this movie played out before – a prominent conservative targeted by liberals simply because they disagree with his politics.”
As you’ll see in this clip from Fox News, however, the Cain campaign is having a hard time bringing itself to deny that the payments were made:
Assuming the payments in question were indeed made, Politico has a journalistic obligation to report them. Such a record is absolutely relevant in assessing a candidate for president of the United States, just as it would be relevant in assessing a candidate for a corporate executive job.
Furthermore, the claim of conservative victimization doesn’t seem accurate. Democrats Bill Clinton and Gary Hart, you may recall, also had to face allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior during their presidential primary runs. Clinton survived it; Hart did not.
From there, however, things get much murkier. It is difficult to impossible to assess the validity of complaints made well over a decade ago by women who continue to remain anonymous, especially since we still have with no idea how extensive or candid an investigation was mounted at the time.
Politically, it is entirely feasible that such charges can redound to Cain’s benefit, at least temporarily, depending on how he handles them and whether additional cases emerge. His supporters are already defined by a deep alienation and distrust of both the political system and the media; such allegations could do more to inflame those resentments than to cast doubt on Cain’s fitness for high office among his followers.
It’s certainly not how Cain hoped to spend this week.
– Jay Bookman
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A PIMP NAMED CAIN
October 31st, 2011
1:43 pm
@kamchak
yeah he had a birth certificate, duh
Jm
October 31st, 2011
1:44 pm
PIMP you’re an embarrassment to humankind and….
Nevermind. Head shaking.
Mick
October 31st, 2011
1:44 pm
gll
See, according to all you cons, obama is a failure, the stimulus was a failure, is a very myopic view. In reality, obama has done OK with what he inherited and the stimulus saved many more people from entering the poor house but in your world the previous guy was a success? Yeah right..
Cain You Believe It! Heaven Help Us!
October 31st, 2011
1:45 pm
@Good little liberal October 31st, 2011 1:24 pm Cain You Believe It! Heaven Help Us! YOU SAY – “Keep posting. You are saying more about the racism and bigotry of Democrats than I ever could.”
I SAY – When you don’t have something of substance to say, you BERATE the people that do have something of substance to say.
Granny Godzilla
October 31st, 2011
1:45 pm
Jm
Would you mind holding yours?
A PIMP NAMED CAIN
October 31st, 2011
1:47 pm
@mick
to repubs 9/11 showed how BUSHY BOY kept america safe. theyre judgement as u can see aint very good. lol
Kamchak
October 31st, 2011
1:47 pm
yeah he had a birth certificate, duh
Yep, and the long form too.
ITS ALL BUSHS FAULT
October 31st, 2011
1:48 pm
Another one bites the DUST…GOP.>>>>>>>>LOSERS
JamVet
October 31st, 2011
1:48 pm
I demand that Herman produce all of the birth certificates of ALL of his children.
(And none of that short form stuff either!)
LOL…
Jay
October 31st, 2011
1:48 pm
“Pimp” is now banned.
Good little liberal
October 31st, 2011
1:48 pm
Keep Up the Good Fight!
Funny how you just popped up like that. It’s almost like you’ve been here all along, maybe even being someone else.
JKL2
October 31st, 2011
1:48 pm
taxpayer-
I just can’t wait for this campaign season to get in full speed ahead. The Demwits have laid out their strategy of calling for more class envy in order to buy the votes of their supporters. Haven’t helped the poor since WW II, but why change anything now. They “hope and change” we’ll do something while laughing all the way to the bank. This is gonna be a great campaign season.
PS: It’s Bush’s fault. ha ha ha ha ha…….
Jm
October 31st, 2011
1:50 pm
Jays blog content partners (pimp) continue to go steadily downhill and degrade the level of discourse
Good little liberal
October 31st, 2011
1:51 pm
Mick
The numbers say that Bush was a success.
And yes, it takes years to recover from what the Democratic Congress did to our economy, but that is years of recovery, not years of stagnant growth.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 31st, 2011
1:51 pm
It’s even funnier that if I were “Pimp” and banned, that I am still posting as me….. so much for the accusations. Now Sherluck GLL, I guess if you figure out who else was banned when Pimp was banned you’ll have your indirect evidence….. go for it
Welcome to the Occupation
October 31st, 2011
1:51 pm
Woodstock Mike: ““Conservative media bias is much more prevalent than any other type of bias out there. / Really, besides Fox News, which media outlets are you talking about?”
Ohh, NPR, CNN, CNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, even MSNBC at times, what else do you want?
Adam
October 31st, 2011
1:51 pm
GLL: Wow. It takes balls to be racist? Bringing up Nazis for no reason? You must not have heard of Quark’s corollary to Godwin’s Law (but after a Google search, will undoubtedly claim you knew all along!)
Jm
October 31st, 2011
1:51 pm
Jay 1:48 thx
Kamchak
October 31st, 2011
1:53 pm
Red card
Jm
October 31st, 2011
1:53 pm
Granny 1:45
. Um no
But my cell battery will shortly do you a favor…
Good little liberal
October 31st, 2011
1:55 pm
Adam
None of that maters. The NAZIs took over one of the most advanced and educated countries the world has ever known and turned them into people who killed millions because of their race,
So why do you think that liberals are so desperate to avoid talking about them?
The point I was making to you is that you said that people in the middle east should have the right to put who they want in office. I said that Hitler was elected, proving that democracy isn’t always the best option.
Mick
October 31st, 2011
1:56 pm
gll
Yout timeline is slightly off, all the real estate bubble occurred in 05, 06, and 07. Dem. congress didn’t take over until jan 07, please reconcile your fiction with reality, thanks…
JamVet
October 31st, 2011
1:56 pm
Just wait til the Democratic operatives start mining the innumerable idiotic things Herman said while sucking up to his radio lord and master, Neal the Brave.
I suspect that thing’s are only gonna get worse for the (other) unwitting comedian from Georgia.
Speaking of head scratching statements, Bush was a success???
Outside of the insane asylum known as the RNC, I doubt many sentient beings would agree…
Good little liberal
October 31st, 2011
1:57 pm
Keep Up the Good Fight!
But in that big Law Firm that you own, there has to be lots of computers and lots of servers. Right?
Armed Liberal
October 31st, 2011
1:58 pm
Adam
…Quark’s corollary to Godwin’s Law…
I thought he was the Bartender on Deep Space 9??
Jm
October 31st, 2011
1:58 pm
GLL democracy isn’t perfect by a long shot
But it is better than the alternatives
Adam
October 31st, 2011
1:58 pm
GLL: Germany had a right to elect Hitler if they wanted, and the rest of the world had a right to respond when he started steamrolling over other countries. Unfortunately that isn’t EXACTLY what happened. The basic idea that someone can lie and dupe a bunch of people until he or she has consolidated enough power to take over everything and everyone else should not ever become a lost lesson of history.
Paulo977
October 31st, 2011
1:58 pm
WOODSTOCK
MIKE
Just to update you!!!!!!
http://obamaachievements.org/
1811/0311
October 31st, 2011
1:59 pm
LICENSE TO LIE !
Headline: “On FOIA, Obama wants a license to lie”
.
“It’s not often that the liberal American Civil Liberties Union and conservative Judicial Watch agree on anything, but the Obama administration’s lack of transparency has brought the two together. Obama’s Justice Department has proposed a regulatory change that would weaken the Freedom of Information Act. Under the new rules, the government could falsely respond to those who file FOIA requests that a document does not exist if it pertains to an ongoing criminal investigation, concerns a terrorist organization, or a counterintelligence operation involving a foreign nation.”
Kamchak
October 31st, 2011
2:00 pm
Yout timeline is slightly off, all the real estate bubble occurred in 05, 06, and 07.
But…but…but….Fannie, Freddie, CRA, Barney Frank, Jimmy Carter….
Good little liberal
October 31st, 2011
2:01 pm
Mick
Jan. 2006 Unemployment: 4.6%
Jan. 2007 Unemployment 4.7%
Jan. 2008 Unemployment 5%
Jan. 2009 Unemployment 7.8%
Jan. 2010 Unemployment 9.7%
http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000
Nothing says bad leadership like a worsening unemployment rate,
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 31st, 2011
2:02 pm
Sherluck GLL, well as a proposition that perhaps Jay’s IT people can’t catch all IP addresses or other information and that someone could be posting from 2-3 computers, I guess it is possible that you are doing that. Have no idea. So basically you are claiming you have no evidence but are creating lies to blame others based on whatever you want to make up?
Yeah that is consistent for your posts… you seem obsessed with lying when you have no facts or evidence.
Adam
October 31st, 2011
2:02 pm
GLL: Nothing says bad leadership like a worsening unemployment rate,
Thank you for providing Bush’s numbers.
Why
October 31st, 2011
2:04 pm
So many seem to feel that President Obama has not been vetted, or that he has gotten a free pass. Makes me wonder – why are you berating a liberal slanting columnist on a daily basis? Do it yourself people.
Good little liberal
October 31st, 2011
2:04 pm
Adam
- -The basic idea that someone can lie and dupe a bunch of people until he or she has consolidated enough power to take over everything and everyone else should not ever become a lost lesson of history.- -
My point exactly. So again, why are liberals, who have no problem with Obama attacking neighborhoods in countries where we are not at war, who have no problem with his using executive privilege like a college kid with his Daddy’s credit card, would not want to talk about Germany and what happened to them in the 1930s?
Grasshopper
October 31st, 2011
2:05 pm
Wipe the drool off your mouth Jay.
Good little liberal
October 31st, 2011
2:06 pm
Adam
Bush’s numbers were 4.6%, 4.7% and 5%
Glenn
October 31st, 2011
2:06 pm
Really surprised to hear the rightwing sheep talking about a liberal conspiracy . The benefactors of this story are the Republican candidates still in the running .
Kamchak
October 31st, 2011
2:06 pm
Nothing says bad leadership like a worsening unemployment rate
And just check out that worsening rate starting in mid 2008 and almost straight lining up.
Just who was leadering in 2008 again?
Good little liberal
October 31st, 2011
2:08 pm
Keep Up the Good Fight!
My computer is in another state I’m pretty sure that he could figure out if different posts were coming from the same server in a different state.
But while you are denying things, how about that lie that you told about me wanting to bring a lawsuit?
Adam
October 31st, 2011
2:09 pm
GLL: Bush’s numbers were 4.6%, 4.7% and 5%
And 7.8% in 2009 before Obama was in office. All in all, Nothing says bad leadership like a worsening unemployment rate
That Black guy
October 31st, 2011
2:09 pm
How much validity do you give this accuation?
“New Book Claims Obama White House Is a ‘Hostile Workplace’ for Women”
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/new-book-claims-obama-white-house-is-a-hostile-workplace-for-women/
1811/0311
October 31st, 2011
2:09 pm
Hummmmm …………………………
Headline: ” More signs Israel preparing to launch attack”
“Leaves canceled, helicopter traffic surging ………. “
HDB
October 31st, 2011
2:10 pm
GLL: If news came out about Obama from a Conservative source, saying the same things that are being said about Cain with the same amount of non-proof, would liberals believe the story?
Well…..here’s one reporting the leak…
Herman Cain Sexual Harassment Allegations: Mike Huckabee Accuses GOP Campaigns Of Leaking Story
WASHINGTON — Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee said he could “almost guarantee” that the recent Politico story about sexual harassment allegations against Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain came from information leaked by another GOP campaign.
The Politico report revealed that while Cain was head of the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s, “at least two female employees complained to colleagues and senior association officials about inappropriate behavior by Cain, ultimately leaving their jobs at the trade group.”
When asked on Laura Ingraham’s radio show Monday morning if it was likely the scoop was provided by another Republican campaign, Huckabee agreed with the suspicion and questioned the legitimacy of the Politico report, saying, “Quite frankly, knowing some of the reporters involved — they’re not that good.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/31/huckabee-could-almost-gua_n_1067168.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009#
1811/0311
October 31st, 2011
2:10 pm
That Black guy:
Now, now …………… that’s been out for weeks.
You didn’t excpect Jay do ever do a thread on that one did you ??
Mick
October 31st, 2011
2:11 pm
gll
No credibility when you play that game. If I have a new car and drive it for 7 years then drive off the road and flip over three times, then hand it over to you, what have you got left?
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
October 31st, 2011
2:12 pm
Well, when I heard about this down at the warehouse this a.m. the boys said it was some kind of sex complaint. I feel so releived now that I know Cain ain’t gay. Us Republicans can put up with some guy feeling up women or having two or three women on the side, but the gay got to go. It’s against the Bible, and besides, you could catch it.
Have a good p.m. everybody.
JamVet
October 31st, 2011
2:13 pm
Anybody on the planet who is STILL trying to defend the utterly disgraced Bush administration as something other than a complete disaster, and arguably the very worst administration in modern history – if not ever – is so far off the charts, they probably contend that the first 73 seconds of the STS-51-L flight was a huge success…
Lily White Conservative
October 31st, 2011
2:13 pm
The Perry campaign is at work. They are good at the smear.
Jm
October 31st, 2011
2:13 pm
Mick 2:11 recycling material and a death certificate.
That Black guy
October 31st, 2011
2:15 pm
“Isn’t Herman in the talk-radio biz?”
No
Mick
October 31st, 2011
2:17 pm
jm
Yes, correct…what the previous guy left was a totalled economy on life support. Obama has done a hell of a job to at least get the economy out of its coma and stabilized, much more rehab is needed…
HDB
October 31st, 2011
2:17 pm
Good little liberal
October 31st, 2011
12:57 pm
Let me fix this for you:
No Black Republican will ever be allowed to achieve without a lynching from the Party of Jesse Helms and Trent Lott! Look at what they did to Richard Steele!! Even Colin Powell got BOOED by Republicans at the Convention!!
Jm
October 31st, 2011
2:17 pm
Obama made the right decision on Iraq
He did a poor job of positioning us so that our troops could stay longer
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 31st, 2011
2:18 pm
GLL, I’m still waiting on your 41+16 math explanation that is not 57….other than its your foray into math….
BILL
October 31st, 2011
2:18 pm
TommyMaddox: Don’t think the Paula Jones and Jennifer Flowers allegations were events that occurred while Clinton was running for President or while he was President. And, that wild commie organization, the New York Times, was a leader in investigating the matter.
Jay’s column was very fair to Cain. It was largely about how the Cain campaign deals with the allegations. He didn’t convict Cain of anything. The Politico story is obviously true that 2 employees were settled with over sexual allegations. If Obama had ever settled with anyone over such allegations, even if 30 years ago, the right-wing media would have a field day, and all of you right wing hypocrites would be foaming at the mouth over the allegations.
Billybob
October 31st, 2011
2:18 pm
pile on bookman and all you libs……these leftist media tricks are exposed to larger and larger swaths of the electorate by people like me and will continue to backfire unlike 15, 10, even 5 years ago…….false charge, was exonerated from any wrongdoing, now all you libs on to the next opportunity to portray a republican candidate as a some type of ‘ism’ or ‘ist’……good luck, nothing with re-direct the publics’ eyes off of the complete policy failures of harry reid, nancy pelosi and ultimately barrack hussein obama….mmm, mmmm, mmmmmmm!
JamVet
October 31st, 2011
2:21 pm
So now, Herman’s getting the “McCain’s black baby” treatment?
Or maybe it was just a disgruntled SwiftBoater.
What a stitch…
Adam
October 31st, 2011
2:21 pm
See, Libertarians? The free market DOES fix everything. Hands off the free market!
Jm
October 31st, 2011
2:21 pm
Mick 2:17
Oooo. You were speaking metaphorically. Well. I wouldn’t blame it all on Bush. This has been building for a loooooong time.
Sallie
October 31st, 2011
2:21 pm
Bookman and his buddies in the press did their best to hide Clintons serial affairs but cant’ wait to talk about something that in the words of the reporter who filed the story “may or may not have happened”.
Interesting that there is zero interest in the liberal press about where the story came from. That might be the real story.
Not that you will EVER learn anything from Jay Bookman that you haven’t already read on HUFFPO.
HDB
October 31st, 2011
2:21 pm
Good little liberal
October 31st, 2011
1:03 pm
“You need to take about a year and start reading. the Voting Rights Act of 1964 was drafted by Republicans. JFK wanted to water it down, but the Republicans refused. LBJ was a Southern Racist who was certain that the bill would be defeated so he put it out there where it was Filibustered by the democrats.”
Lest YOU forget…..when LBJ SIGNED the Civil Rights Act of 1964, he said: “Democrats have lost the South for a generation!” What’s happened…the Southern Democrats with the racist paradigm went to the GOP!! Better re-examine what really happened!!
Mick
October 31st, 2011
2:22 pm
Kim kardasian packing it in after 72 days, that’s not a marriage, that’s more like the republican candidate flavor of the month…
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 31st, 2011
2:22 pm
was exonerated from any wrongdoing
A settlement with a payment to the accuser is an exoneration?
I don’t think that exoneration means what you think it means, Billybob.
Cain You Believe It! Heaven Help Us!
October 31st, 2011
2:22 pm
@Mid Ga Retiree October 31st, 2011 8:12 am YOU SAY – My biggest concern about this story is the timing.
Does it matter when the story broke? Or does it matter if the story is TRUE?
You people are a bunch of hypocrites. One minute you are spewing christanity and the next minute you are spewing hypocricy.
YOU CAN’T SERVE TWO MASTERS. YOU EITHER LOVE THE ONE OR HATE THE OTHER.
Billybob
October 31st, 2011
2:23 pm
bill,
you mean like reverend wright and obama on video admitting he wants universal healthcare and that it would take 10-15 years, and that he gravitated to the communists and marxist in college while sealing off his college records and an insight into his thoughts and beliefs or maybe starting his political career in bill ayers (you know, the unapologetic domestic terrorist’s) living room that the liberal media completely ignored and gave him a pass……you mean like those things
Impressive
October 31st, 2011
2:23 pm
Jay, you were in on hiding Clinton’s affairs? I never knew you had such juice.
Paul
October 31st, 2011
2:23 pm
Scout
“LICENSE TO LIE !
Headline: “On FOIA, Obama wants a license to lie””
You gotta expand your reading list.
Even Fox reported the Obama Administration was one in a succession of administrations relying on a policy first promulgated by Reagan’s Attorney General, Edwin Meese.
Yet now, under Obama, it’s news -
Scooter
October 31st, 2011
2:24 pm
The Obama reportedly sat in the pews of Reverend Wright’s church for 20 years and never heard anti-Americanism, or anti-semetism. I will pay as much attention to the Cain story as “the media” paid to The Obama’s choice of Pastors.
Billybob
October 31st, 2011
2:25 pm
kutgf,
was he found guilty of anything? easy question…..
Paul
October 31st, 2011
2:26 pm
Sallie
“Bookman and his buddies in the press did their best to hide Clintons serial affairs but cant’ wait to talk about something …”
Sallie, if you’re new here, you assume quite a bit. If you’re not new here, well….
Jay’s on record as saying Pres Clinton should have resigned over the Lewinsky affair.
Adam
October 31st, 2011
2:26 pm
Billybob: I assume that if Obama admitted such a thing on video, you actually HAVE said video to show us, right?
Oh, and btw, there is nothing wrong with wanting some social programs. I grow tired of people thinking that means some nefarious intent. Yes, the nefarious intent is to stop the corporate masters from controlling everything.
kayaker 71
October 31st, 2011
2:27 pm
The MSM wouldn’t touch the Edwards story for weeks after the Enquirer outed Edwards and his gaff was a little more significant that sexual harassment. Hell, Kennedy was screwing Marilyn Monroe in the WH swimming pool and the press was mum. Probably how he got a bad back. Cain’s aide was SMOKING!!!!!…….. and the media can’t wait for their politically correct rant. One day before long, this country is going to implode on itself and the result will not be pretty. People are pissed…. really pissed about the direction this country is headed.
JamVet
October 31st, 2011
2:27 pm
Don’t go so apoplectic, Cainiacs.
Watching a slime merchant get slimed, is just good clean American fun.
Especially when the Republican circular firing squad starts up in earnest…
Billybob
October 31st, 2011
2:28 pm
paul,
was bookman saying it then or after the fact……there’s a big difference….please enlighten us…..
Bosch
October 31st, 2011
2:29 pm
“Bookman and his buddies in the press did their best to hide Clintons serial affairs but cant’ wait to talk about something …”
Wow, I missed this nugget —
Yeah, the media did EVERYTHING like talk about it non-stop for like years and years!!
Welcome to the Occupation
October 31st, 2011
2:29 pm
Scooter: “The Obama reportedly sat in the pews of Reverend Wright’s church for 20 years and never heard anti-Americanism, or anti-semetism”
What did Rev. Wright say that was even the slightest bit exaggerated or untrue? I’d like to know.
Jay
October 31st, 2011
2:31 pm
At the time, Billybob.
In a personal column and also in an AJC editorial.
Adam
October 31st, 2011
2:31 pm
Conservatives:
I HATE THE MEDIA (unless it serves my purpose)
I HATE GOVERNMENT (unless it stops those liberals and homosexuals)
I HATE STIMULUS (except for money for my district)
I HATE EDUCATION (except when they teach my children that science is god magic)
Billybob
October 31st, 2011
2:32 pm
adam you have heard of youtube right, find it yourself…..and a socialist healthcare system has been in the sights of the leftists for decades…….and when obama loses in a landslide next year and the new pres repeals obamacare, maybe you’lll understand the difference between helping people with a safety net and socialist healthcare, which is obama’s true agenda……wake up
Keep Up the Good Fight!
October 31st, 2011
2:32 pm
Billybob…. “was he found guilty of anything?”
I hope that ignorance is feigned. OJ was found not guilty criminally but guilty in civil court….was OJ “exonerated”? You better call Nancy Grace and explain that and any number of her other shows. Was there a trial that you can point too? You do realize that in criminal court its a finding of “not guilty” and not “innocent”. One does not mean the same as the other. You are claiming a settlement in favor of the accuser is an exoneration to the accused?
Communists Unite
October 31st, 2011
2:33 pm
the rain in spain now falls mostly on the cain. swift boat, shmift boat, cain is now a goat.
Communists Unite
October 31st, 2011
2:34 pm
Adam – you forgot:
I LOVE PROTECTING LIFE BEFORE BIRTH AND AFTER DEATH; DURING, MEH.
Scooter
October 31st, 2011
2:34 pm
Welcome to the Occupation, apparently nothing in your view; but not everyone operates from your world view.
Adam
October 31st, 2011
2:36 pm
Billybob: adam you have heard of youtube right, find it yourself
Oh come on, Billybob, you know I’m just a lazy libt*rd and I need everything force fed to me. Why not just give us a link. It would prove you right and I would suddenly become a conservative and think just like you!
Or, you could just back up statements you make instead of hiding behind the “I don’t do research for you” line that is too often used by conservatives as yet another way to avoid responsibility.
scott
October 31st, 2011
2:37 pm
It’s just so coincidental that this story is breaking while Cain is starting to move up on the polls. Why exactly isn’t the media dedicating the same amount of attention towards important things such Solyndra, Beacon Power, Fast and Furious, etc? It seems to me as if they are trying to release these stories in order to lower the attention on these other things that should gain much more attention than they have. hmmmm……. Wouldn’t want to actually perform journalism and cover things that would make Obama’s presidency look worse than it already does. No. We definitely do not want that.
Adam
October 31st, 2011
2:38 pm
Billybob: Do you have an Amazon wishlist? I’d like to gift you a plush Reagan doll to cry in the corner with when Obama wins in 2012.
Your comment saved for when this happens. Oh yes, I am DAMN WELL going to do a BIG I told you so once it happens.
Communists Unite
October 31st, 2011
2:39 pm
one more thing: the forcefulness of cain’s response to the allegations suggests – to the rational, reasonable, non-regressive mind, at least – only one thing: he be a guilty brother.
mm
October 31st, 2011
2:40 pm
“and when obama loses in a landslide next year and the new pres repeals obamacare”
Wow, I didn’t know presidents could repeal laws. I guess we don’t need congress anymore.
Billybob
October 31st, 2011
2:41 pm
adam,
you just graduated form LIB 101 didn’t you? keep trying though…..
Jay, that is good to know and I applaud that you spoke up and followed your gut. We both know that this was a political attack on cain about a non-story from almost 20 years ago. The pertinent question is who leaked this story, dems or repubs, wouldn’t you agree? That is the real story here. That should have been in the politico story instead of just throwing out some pieces of this and letting people’s imaginations run…..that is why this is a political hit instead of and open and shut investigative journalist news story…..
Communists Unite
October 31st, 2011
2:41 pm
billyboob – we didn’t get socialist healthcare (ie, single payer); we got instead a republican plan.
Welcome to the Occupation
October 31st, 2011
2:41 pm
More evidence that Herman Cain has problems with logical assertions and consistency.
Cain: “Number one, in all of my over 40 years of business experience … I have never sexually harassed anyone. Number two, while at the restaurant association, I was accused of sexual harassment. Falsely accused, I might add”
It’s not necessary to add “falsely accused, I might add” since the previous assertion already states that.
One of my biggest problems with Cain is that he just isn’t that bright.
mm
October 31st, 2011
2:42 pm
“Why exactly isn’t the media dedicating the same amount of attention towards important things such Solyndra, Beacon Power, Fast and Furious, etc?”
Yeah, they’ve totally ignored those stories. What they HAVE ignored is outing the GOP for tanking the economy to oust Obama.
Adam
October 31st, 2011
2:43 pm
Billybob: you just graduated form LIB 101 didn’t you? keep trying though….
Keep up the personal attacks. It makes no difference to me, but I think you might have trouble appeasing the blog gods.
mm
October 31st, 2011
2:43 pm
“we didn’t get socialist healthcare (ie, single payer); we got instead a republican plan.”
Commie, don’t let the cat out of the bag, just let the wingnuts stew in their own ignorance.
Talking Head
October 31st, 2011
2:45 pm
“One of my biggest problems with Cain is that he just isn’t that bright.”
Yeah, I guess becoming a self made millionaire by taking on difficult challenges turning bankrupt organizations into profitable entities qualifies someone as not being bright.
scott
October 31st, 2011
2:46 pm
Adam “Or, you could just back up statements you make instead of hiding behind the “I don’t do research for you” line that is too often used by conservatives as yet another way to avoid responsibility.”
Yeah and that line is NEVER used by all of the libs on this blog.
Cain You Believe It! Heaven Help Us!
October 31st, 2011
2:46 pm
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said that a man should be judged by the content of their character.
All we are saying is – Cain should be judged by the content of his character. If he is guilty of sexual harassment, then let him be JUDGED BY THE CONTENT OF HIS CHARACTER.
Billybob
October 31st, 2011
2:47 pm
communist unite,
first step on the road to a socialist single payer healthcare system which hussein is on video saying he wants and will go for and which the leftist have been trying to install for decades…..the way it is written and the mandates slowly push private sector out and only leaves the gov’t beauracrats to be judge, jury, and executioner…..will not let you misdirect the purpose of this system that was forced upon us and that the overwhelming majority of the public doesn’t want and sees it for what it is and where it leads to…..
Communists Unite
October 31st, 2011
2:50 pm
Billybob – i certainly hope you’re right. seems as if you have sought to educate yourself more than the typical regressive and for that i commend you.