Herman Cain: Barack Obama’s not a ‘strong black man’ like MLK
In this Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, Georgia businessman and GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain said he wasn’t questioning President Barack Obama’s racial authenticity when he declare that liberals are afraid “a real black man might run against Barack Obama.” From the Q&A:
Cain: A real black man is not timid about making the right decisions, that’s what I meant. Look, I’m not getting into this whole thing about President Obama. It is documented that his mother was white and his father was from Africa. If he wants to call himself black, fine. If he wants to call himself African-American, fine. I’m not going down this color road.
NYT: But you’re saying he’s not really a black man.
Cain: Not in terms of a strong black man that I’m identifying with. I identify with a strong black man like Martin Luther King Jr., or my dad, Luther Cain Jr., who didn’t have a lot of formal education, but he had a Ph.D. in common sense.
If you want Cain to expound on the topic, he’s celebrating Social Media Day by hosting a 6 p.m. “meet-up” at Perimeter Hotel and Suites, 11 Perimeter Center West, in Dunwoody.
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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Dirty Dawg
July 1st, 2011
12:18 pm
The irony of Herman Cain, and the rest of the Republican Party for that matter, is about as thick as concrete. He, and they, go after Obama for ‘not being a leader’, or ‘not being a strong black man’, when the irony is any lack of ‘leadership’ or ’strength’ is based on his not going after Republicans hard enough, and before now, for their deceit, obstructionism, greed and prejudice – and, in fact, gutting them for it. Schumer was the first, since Alan Grayson left office, that called a ’spade a spade’ when he said that the Repugs were willing to take the economy even deeper into this hole if it meant they might be able to win more seats come next year – and maybe even the WH. Well be careful Repugs, it won’t be so easy to get away with that strategy, the Dems will hang that dead skunk around your neck and see to it that you stink for the next generation…be careful what you wish for.
By they way Herman, maybe what Obama’s doing is his version of the ‘rope-a-dope’…I just hope he’s ropin’ the right dopes…you’re easy, some of the others might not be. After all, you don’t really think the Republican ‘base’ supporters would actually vote for a black man, do you? Oh they might parade you around, like the guy they put in charge of their Party apparatus for a while, then ran him off as soon as the coast was clear to do so, but actually vote for you? Man you need to have been listening to Boortz’s callers a little more – they hate you and only tolerate you because, like the juxtaposition of an incongruity, it draws attention.
Lawrence
July 1st, 2011
1:36 pm
Obama is half-white. Maybe, that is his problem.
td
July 1st, 2011
3:58 pm
deegee
July 1st, 2011
12:13 pm
” It just makes my blood boil knowing that Rachel Maddow only gets 900K viewers that actually understand what she’s talking”
Do you really think they know what she is talking about? I have seen quiet a few of her talking points on these blogs by people I know do not understand what she is talking about.
Dc
July 1st, 2011
6:26 pm
Focus on the issues impacting the nation. Tell us your plan for the country. I don’t care about race. President Obama has his! What are you going to do for the people you claim you want to SERVE?
Frederick Douglass
July 1st, 2011
7:42 pm
Lawrence @ 1:36.
“Obama is half white. Maybe, that is his problem”.
It is, if it’s the bottom half.
Jezel
July 1st, 2011
8:44 pm
There has not been a strong man…black,white or whatever….like MLK in quite awhile. Where are our leaders period ?
Jezel
July 1st, 2011
10:14 pm
Straight up Cain. We are not interested in what you think of Obama…Jesus Christ, Budha, or Mohammed. We are not interested in how good a Christian you think you are.
We want to know if YOU have what it takes to confront the doctors, health insurance companies and the drug companies…who have ruined health care in this country. Do you have what it takes to challenge the banks, oil companies and wall street? Do you have what it takes to create a climate in this country where the laws of supply and demand once again rule? Can you get government out of our lives?…a goal traditional Republicans once worked for.
Stop talking about it..be about it. Show us what you are made of. I seriously doubt that you have the courage.
Pewter
July 1st, 2011
11:05 pm
Why would anyone waste their time debating a stupid, retarded, Bush loving, Retard-Ronald Reagan loving, Republican? These are the same folks that worship and pray for their pedophile priests, who molest their kids, but would pass a starving human on the streets without helping. These are the same people that would pull the plug on their dying mother, father, brother, sister, wife, or husband, just to collect the insurance money. Republicans are the SCUM of the earth! It amazes me the number of white people who don’t have a “pot to piss in”, that still call themselves Republicans. You do it just to feel like you belong to a group. Yet you fail to realize that when what’s left of the middle class, you, too, will be left out in the cold. Republican are a bunch of pathetic, non-thinkers, who get ALL of their info and ideas from idiots on talk radio. If your talk radio heroes were so smart, why don’t they have the courage to run for office themselves? Sean-the-molester-hannity wrote the debates for McCan’t and Failin-Palin, and they still lost. Republicans are a total joke! You have ZERO chance of wining in 2012! Republicans are, once again… the SCUM of the earth, that the entire world hates! That’s why we seldom get attacked when Democrats are in office, you Republican Scumbags!!!
deegee
July 2nd, 2011
7:52 pm
yes, td. I am certain that Rachel Maddow’s 900K viewers understand what she is talking about considering the demographics of the audience. I would speculate that about 900K of O’Reilly’s viewers think that they are watching Pat Sajak.
now, what
July 4th, 2011
12:16 am
A brand of socialism that is often overlooked demands that people feel that authorities should be followed and as a result of this submission, all manner of social regulation is accepted (read: dramatic increase in criminalization of conduct, reduction in civil liberties – justified intrusion into the lives of citizens.) Submission to authorities, and government aggression towards those who do not conform is buttressed by disingenuous promotion of established traditions. This social authoritarianism usually masks an elitism that is without concern for the general public, but is designed to reward only a small elite class. Prejudice underlies this form of social construct.
JWC
July 4th, 2011
10:54 am
See you all in 2012….
….bright and early
JWC
July 4th, 2011
10:58 am
If the police will allow, I might pitch a tent so I can be 1st to vote in 2012….
….just a note from one of those “scummy” Republicans
Bye Bye Bo
Bye Bye Obamacare
Hello economic growth
Madison
July 4th, 2011
2:09 pm
“Hello, economic growth?”
Let’s look at the fact checked comment that ran yesterday, “The ‘Bush tax cuts,’ passed in 2001 and 2003, remain the single largest cause of America’s structural deficit — that is, the deficit not caused by the collapse in tax revenue when the economy goes into recession” F Zakaria
poo poo’d by some the following appears from the editors of truthsquad -
We find this quote to be true. The analysis by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities relies upon numbers provided by the Congressional Budget Office, which are generally accurate and undisputed. Some of our reviewers question these numbers because they don’t include estimates of additional income that may have been generated by the tax cuts when people spent that income on other items. However, when we measure other items that contribute to the national debt, such as the wars which also create spending that is then taxed, we don’t include a similar qualification, mainly because those numbers are soft estimates prone to manipulation. — Kelly McBride on behalf of the TruthSquad Editors