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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ByteMe
June 30th, 2011
2:45 pm
Yes, because it makes perfect sense to lecture Dunwoody residents on what a “strong black man” is like. Heh. Heh hehehehe….
The Ghost of Lester Maddox
June 30th, 2011
2:52 pm
Justice Clarence Thomas learned the lesson the hard way, and Herman Cain will, too – the lesson is as follows:
THOU SHALT NOT BE BLACK AND BE CONSERVATIVE.
atllaw191
June 30th, 2011
2:57 pm
Yeah…well strong black men don’t make stupid statements like Herman Cain!
BW
June 30th, 2011
3:03 pm
You know for a man who thinks he’s having his race used against him, he sure knows how to dish it out himself. No other race of people do this….NONE. Another sad day in a sad story.
KD
June 30th, 2011
3:08 pm
Unbelievable!
The Snark
June 30th, 2011
3:12 pm
Unfortunately, it appears that Mr. Cain did not inherit that “PhD in common sense” from his father.
Gene
June 30th, 2011
3:15 pm
Herman’s just jealous because Obama is a light skinned black man . Yeah I’m being sarcastic but good grief . This is the kind of stuff that perpetuates racism & its being said by a black man . If he ever gains any traction I hope he is called out on saying this .
amazing
June 30th, 2011
3:17 pm
Amen to Mr. Snark!
gm
June 30th, 2011
3:17 pm
Oh uncle will say anything to get attention: He is so stupid he dont know when he is being race baited.
I never heard one journalist ask if Bush was white enough compared to JFK, this is the kind of none sense you get from these rep party of bigots and idiots.
Jeb
June 30th, 2011
3:20 pm
Bush was not a smart man compared to Bonzo the chimp..
gm
June 30th, 2011
3:21 pm
Hey idiot Hermain: MLK was a civil rights leader Obama is the President of the United States, theres a difference.
I dont know which ones is the most stupid him or bachman””’
Road Scholar
June 30th, 2011
3:28 pm
I wonder if Mr. Cain has someone in mind for a “strong black man” for President? He isn’t it!
Ashley
June 30th, 2011
3:29 pm
Enter your comments here
WAW
June 30th, 2011
3:33 pm
With Cain as a candidate, the Republican Party can hit hard on race in the South and spin it away as “”just Herman speaking, you know we love Black Folks, just look at any Republican meeting… oh, just Herman, oh well”
E-Roll
June 30th, 2011
3:41 pm
If you have every listened to Herman Cain’s radio show you wouldn’t be surprised by this type of comment so I am not surprised that he has made such a loony comment.
Brenda
June 30th, 2011
3:43 pm
Looking forward to Jon Stewart getting hold of this!!!
FAN
June 30th, 2011
3:47 pm
sound like a fool cain all you doing is giving away your money for free tom you can do that by standing on the corner
Frederick Douglass
June 30th, 2011
3:50 pm
As stupid as Herman is, he’s probably referring to how much the president can bench press. Cain should feel like the loser he is, dumb assed Michele Bachmann declares she’s entering the race, and his so called followers drop him like a hot slice of Godfather’s pizza.
Last Man Standing
June 30th, 2011
3:51 pm
I see that the Herman Cain fan club is well-attended today. Too bad none of you are even in his league.
James
June 30th, 2011
3:51 pm
That’s a baseless and awful comment to make. Cain would never earn my vote.
td
June 30th, 2011
3:54 pm
Cain is correct about Obama being a weak President but it is not due to race. He is just another pink pantie wearing, bed wetting liberals.
Last Man Standing
June 30th, 2011
3:55 pm
James:
Why do I have the overwhelming feeling that you have always voted Democrat?
Big Daddy
June 30th, 2011
3:56 pm
Cain has yet to account for how he screwed employees out of millions of dollars when he was at Aquila.
Jamal
June 30th, 2011
4:02 pm
@ Last man standing
Why do I have a overwhelming feeling you are white & spend most of your days listening to am radio .
Grits
June 30th, 2011
4:08 pm
No one eulogizes himself more than President Obama. He is always a I, I, I… me, me, me… speaker. He must love himself more than even the Hollywood ’stars’. What an egotist.
Merman Cain at least makes sense in his speeches.
Ashley
June 30th, 2011
4:10 pm
It seems like Mr. Cain is floating on a cloud of godfather’s pizza. Instead of focusing on Obama’s manhood, maybe he should concentrate on the economy and the pessimism in this country. If it weren’t for men like MLK you my dear Herman Cain wouldn’t have a voice at all. Who are you to decide that the President of the U.S. is not a strong black man. With all the abuse that has been heap on him (some with just cause) I can concur that a weaker man would have faltered long ago. Why don’t we stop with the I more masculine than you rhetoric and get to the issues at hand. Because you sound like a little girl who’s having a tantrum. There are many things you can say about presidential candidates, but we can all agree it takes a strong man or woman to run for the highest office in the land.
Frederick Douglass
June 30th, 2011
4:14 pm
td @ 3:54,
What you’re pining for is a fake cowboy, or better yet a maverick. my personal belief is that many of you are disappointed that the president hasn’t been disqualified by some marital scandal, or pocketed some ill gotten cash. It must really chafe your loins that the birther crap didn’t bear fruit…….sick as hell.
Clinton "Skink" Tyree
June 30th, 2011
4:15 pm
Well, you can say what you will, but so far, I don’t see anyone who can beat Bam in ‘12.
The Republican/Tea Party is involved in the game of one-upmanship — trying to see who can be the most provocative — who can say the weirdest, most outrageous thing.
Who can make the news with the best talking point of the day.
There’s not a candidate running for the Republican/Tea Party that has a clue about how to handle this mess — a mess created by both sides of the aisle. It’s the same ol’ song about reducing taxes, cutting regulations, freeing up business to do business, bringing jobs home and it’s nothing but horse hockey!
When will the Bush Tax Cuts kick in? It’s been nearly nine freakin’ years.
You guys are impotent. You’re bereft of ideas, but want one thing and that’s the power back. And, the last time you had the power you blew it, so you’re going to have to want for your turn again and it ain’t gonna be 2012.
Sogooden
June 30th, 2011
4:24 pm
Herman Cain is as good for the African-American people as the Tuskegee Experiment. Oh, by the way I am African-American, so I can call this kettle exactly what he is….irrelevant.
Aquagirl
June 30th, 2011
4:30 pm
Cain should feel like the loser he is, dumb assed Michele Bachmann declares she’s entering the race, and his so called followers drop him like a hot slice of Godfather’s pizza.
Friggin’ hilarious!
Amused
June 30th, 2011
4:32 pm
more proof that Herman Cain does not like to read.
OMG...Really
June 30th, 2011
4:33 pm
As of 4:02 pm on June 30, 2011 Jamal officially owns Last Man Standing.
Treat him nice Jamal.
Terd Fergesun
June 30th, 2011
4:34 pm
Cain is only stating the obvious. Obama has the leadership skills of the Captain of the Titanic. The plan is to tell the band to keep playing as we sink further into the economic hole and insist we need another 4 years of his failed policies. It is becoming more and more obvious every week as this man blunders his way into history that he can not lead. 2012 can not come soon enough for this country.
pb
June 30th, 2011
4:36 pm
Doubt MLK, if alive, would like to be identified with Herman Cain, since they would disagree on most everything politically. Cain just keeps saying dumb things. Not helping him in his run for President, except for a few supporters like ones on here, who think he is wonderful. Amazing.
Terd Fergesun
June 30th, 2011
4:37 pm
Jamal
June 30th, 2011
4:02 pm
@ Last man standing
Why do I have a overwhelming feeling you are white & spend most of your days listening to am radio .
Why do I get the feeling Jamal is a racist liberal of color whose only defense is the color of someone’s skin? Hmm, maybe his post that brings in the color of another person instead of a response of facts. You liberals own racism and that’s a fact.
OMG...Really
June 30th, 2011
4:42 pm
Terd Fergesun
It would seem like someone with a name ripped off from one of the funniest moments in SNL history would have at least a modicum of sense of humor.
td
June 30th, 2011
4:46 pm
Frederick Douglass
June 30th, 2011
4:14 pm
That fake cowboy’s presidency is looking better and better everyday now when being compared the bed wetting liberal.
yuzeyurbrane
June 30th, 2011
4:49 pm
Cain who?
Concerned
June 30th, 2011
4:49 pm
None of this really matters, CAN YOU SAY ONE TERM….
Say what you want!
June 30th, 2011
4:53 pm
OBAMA killed OSAMA!!!! remember that and you know who im speaking of, as far as Hermain the man can’t even give specifics on how to handle issues as POTUS what kind of leadership is that! That’s not leadership that’s a mo’fo that doesn’t know what the hell he is talking about.
bjohndawg
June 30th, 2011
4:54 pm
Funny stuff. Seems everybody wants to be President. I can see Charlie Sheen running,Heck then he can make CBS put him back on 2 and a half men.
Cain is good for a laugh….not much else. I think Republicans should dig up Reagan. He has a better chance of winning then the present field.
ReelCainSugah
June 30th, 2011
4:55 pm
Look at who Dr. King was and who Herman Cain is and you’ll see that Cain is right. If we give his children and grandchildren Viagara it will bring up the black man.
Say what you want!
June 30th, 2011
4:58 pm
I’d also like to see some of these republican/tea party conservatives to tell their elected officials to get off there ass’s and start getting things done to get this economy back on track, but no, they are hell bent on trying to make obama look bad so they can get the white house back, they want the economy to fail so obama will be voted out of office. Well we’ll see just how that works for them come 2012. They really don’t seem to understand they have NEW DEMOGRAPHICS to deal with and the fact they are becoming the MINORITY that’s what all this HATE really boils down to.
OBAMA/BIDEN 2012!!
Clinton "Skink" Tyree
June 30th, 2011
5:02 pm
@Terd: A year is a life-time in politics — time for the economy to turn and time for the Republican/Tea Party candidates to show how inept and how clueless they really are.
What it’s going to come down to is selecting between a known quantity — a president who may not be perfect, but is not an embarrassment — and a candidate that suffers from chonic hoof n’ mouth disease and who can’t discern between Libya and Lickskillet.
td
June 30th, 2011
5:17 pm
Clinton “Skink” Tyree
June 30th, 2011
5:02 pm
“a president who may not be perfect, but is not an embarrassment”
You are absolutely correct that this will be the strategy of the Democratic party and if they get away with it then Obama may be re elected. History shows that a second term of a President is usually a referendum on what the person did during their first term (remember Clinton “its all about the economy stupid”) but the Dems know if they run Obama on his record he loses. They are already using their liberal media friends to try to bash any potential conservative candidate so that the moderate will be the only one left standing.
It will be interesting to see who’s message will get out the best. Sort of the same strategy Barnes used against Deal.
gm
June 30th, 2011
5:27 pm
The Rep party has yet to pass one job bill since being elected back in Nov: no the bills the Dem passed were not perfect, but at least they were trying the retards you idiots selected are doing nothing but trying to make Obama fail.
How may times has the debt ceiling been raised under Bush? can you say 17 times you did not hear one hypocrite Rep whine about it did you?
How can anyone support these idiots? oh, I know why, the bigots on the right rather see the country in ruins then to let history show thise strong Black President of the United States help pulled America out the worst recession in history”
Ask them
June 30th, 2011
5:28 pm
Ask those Somali pirates and Bin Laden how strong he is. I bet Cain would have ordered air strikes to protect his political behind just in case something went wrong.
Mandy
June 30th, 2011
5:29 pm
You all and Herman Cain all deserve each other…nothing but name-calling and one-upsmanship…..puh[-lease….
Brent
June 30th, 2011
5:37 pm
Poor Herman, he had the audacity to actually step off that Democrat plantation.
Frederick Douglass
June 30th, 2011
5:46 pm
td @ 4:46,
The shoe thrower put the quintessenial icimg on Dubya’s presidency, that’s what’ll be memorialized in that blithering idiot’s legacy. I’m sure his picture looks good in your 1970ish wood paneled den, hanging over that 13 inch Motorola.
Y D Dandy
June 30th, 2011
5:49 pm
You ever had any Godfather’s Pizza. I’m telling’ ya. It’s good stuff. But this doesn’t sound like somebody who does their homework. There’s no way to explain away these kind of comments. Stupid. But he his good company as long as he stays in GA. Check this out.
http://www.atlantaunfiltered.com/2011/06/28/ga-goes-commando-leaves-interstate-compact-for-juveniles/
The State House makes Cain look like a PHd.
Will
June 30th, 2011
5:52 pm
“Clinton “Skink” Tyree”
You obviously are one ignorant person when it comes to electing or backing up liberal ideas. For one, the only people who even have a clue about how to fix the financial mess is the republicans. See what you dont get is that by shoving all of this money into social programs that truly dont benefit the country, it creates further mess in the future. What it then will ultimately create is a drive to do nothing in this country. You just want to keep handing out money here and there to people who dont want to better themselves off, because you created a way for them to accept their choices in life. With no drive, there comes a wave of mediocrity. Who wants to live in a country where there is no strive to better off yourself….? Not me.
Will
June 30th, 2011
5:54 pm
Not saying I would vote for Cain though.
actionjack31
June 30th, 2011
6:02 pm
Its weird b/c Cain says he’s an ABC- American first, Black second, and Conservative for third…and he talks about hyphenated american status that he hates…. so much for understanding your culture of what a strong black man really is
Ackshun
June 30th, 2011
6:07 pm
Republicans made it clear that their primary objective, the reason they were returned to power, was to make sure Barack Obama was a 1 term President. So don’t expect too much action out of congress because if they take action and it works, people might credit the President. But if they stall and let ol BO flail around helplessly as conditions for the average American grow steadily more grave, they could run go-go the gorilla and the snuffilupicus in 2012 and they will win. Don’t kid yourselves people. The unvarnished truth is that NEITHER party has your best interests at heart, they could care less. It is all about POWER getting it and keeping it as long as you can. The two biggest threats to the freedom you wish to enjoy are the GOP and the DNC. And until you sheep realize that nothing will change. You ever wonder why Presidents have term limits but congressmen do not? And yet you keep sending the same impotent cast of characters to Washington every 2 and 4 years. Fat ass, lazy, corrupt, ignorant, money-grubbing, imbeciles, who can’t effectively run their own lives much less the lives of 307 million Americans. Every now and again you get your feathers ruffled and you will send up some doe-eyed naive idealist. 10 seconds after he has moved into his office the infection starts. Lobbyist, special interest, oil, commerce, all looking to buy their own little piece of you. The idealist are assimilated or neutered by the machine that you all created. Barack Obama is a useless president because he will never be allowed to do anything. And if someone at the GOP could have stopped the Bin Laden hit, they would have. We are at the point of critical mass in this 235 year experiment called America. And right now things don’t look very good.
What's the Matter with Georgia
June 30th, 2011
6:08 pm
This excerpt from today’s AJC opinion page shows why Cain’s politics don’t work. In just 8 years of his brand of governance, the incomes of GEORGIA’s PEOPLE fell from just out of the top 20% to just short of the bottom 10% of the rest of the country.
“Georgia has become a haven for low-wage jobs and unemployment. In 1999, Georgia ranked 21st in per capita income. In 1979, we ranked 35th. However, by 2009 we had sunk to 39th place, sending the state backward.
Our closest competitors for low-paying jobs are Vietnam and Bangladesh. Since 2002, Republican leadership has failed to make the necessary investments in public infrastructure such as education, transportation and quality-of-life projects. These factors are the key elements that attract businesses and spark job creation.
Similarly, House and Senate Republicans have not prioritized investment in k-12 education. Our ranking of near-dead last in education funding in the nation proves this out.”
Rep Doug Stoner
What's the Matter with Georgia
June 30th, 2011
6:15 pm
So, to summarize: from Joe Frank Harris through Roy Barnes and with Tom Murphy as Speaker GA rose from 35th in per capita income to 21st. (79-99) Since then, per capita income in GA fell from 21st to 39th (99-09). Even a high school grad from a state that is “near dead last in education funding” can do the math on this one.
Straight Talk
June 30th, 2011
6:19 pm
Herman Cain is a proven, successful leader…one who knows how to spot leadership in others…or lack of leadership as in the case of Obama. Herman spoke the truth. When Herman is elected President in November 2012 he will become our first successful black President in history.
Concerned Voter
June 30th, 2011
6:22 pm
If everyone would look at the facts of President Obama’s successes since he took office, the citizens would see how much better off we are since he took office. There is far too much negative diatribe on both sides of the political aisle. You can’t make true progress when your focus is simply taking the opposite side of the opponent no matter what he says or does.
Herman Cain is Georgia’s Joke on the Repbulican party. I find no humor in this.
Randy
June 30th, 2011
6:24 pm
So let me get this straight. One man is President of the United States. The other man is in charge of delivering pizzas. And the man in charge of delivering pizzas says that the man who is President is “not a strong black man.”
Yeah, riiiiiiiiiiiight.
Mr. Cain, at every speaking engagement, you make a fool of yourself in 30 minutes or less.
rock steady freddy
June 30th, 2011
6:38 pm
Many black men are stupid and weak, but Cain is a perfect example for the black youth to model themselves. Whatever they are doing now is not working and hasn’t ever; look at Africa. Cain has embraced education and opportunity; not the give me society in which blacks have always lived. If it wasn’t for black people like Cain and all the white people in America, most of you blacks would starve to death. You are pathetic and should atleast try to open your mind and get off your lazy butts.
rock steady freddy
June 30th, 2011
6:40 pm
Oh yeah, hahaha, your hero is a zero, people, but you are to ignorant to understand.
Last Man Standing
June 30th, 2011
6:40 pm
Randy:
“So let me get this straight. One man is President of the United States. The other man is in charge of delivering pizzas. And the man in charge of delivering pizzas says that the man who is President is “not a strong black man.”
So let me get this straight. One man was a community organizer and a lawyer who “surrendered” (ha-ha) his law license. The other man is an economist, a CEO and has served on boards of major corporations. And the former community organizer and out-of-work lawyer is not a strong black man.
There! Fixed your mistakes!
RGB
June 30th, 2011
6:42 pm
If Obama were strong he would have put the U.S. on a path to prosperity by now. If he were strong the real unemployment rate of 17% would have been halved. If he were strong he would know that ATMs don’t cause unemployment and that the year isn’t 2008. He would know that corporate jets and hedge fund managers aren’t the cause of our budget deficit but that Obama’s reckless spending is the cause of our accumulating an additional $3.5 trillion debt in just over 2 years. And he would certainly know the age of his daughters. If Obama were strong he would have regarded his fellow Americans as strong and would not have wrecked their economic and healthcare systems in an effort to make them weak and dependent on government. And if he were strong he would have stopped Iran from building nuclear weapons and the delivery systems to carry them across continents. Finally, if he were strong he would not have chosen the weakest, most inept, most buffoon-like man for his vice president. Joe Biden was the only person weaker than Obama from a real-world experience standpoint and the president couldn’t stand having a VP who was smarter than him. In that lone effort, President Obama succeeded.
By contrast, Herman Cain is a successful, experienced, God-fearing man. Those three things alone bring out the secular, hateful, anti-America Left. Not one of you could discredit his ideas or his approach to getting things done. So you resort to name-calling and cheap shots. It is you people who are the scum American left who are responsible for the sorry state we are in. You have even invented a name for it: The New Normal. It may be “normal” for you but our once prosperous America will never regain her rightful place in the world by relying on the hapless, helpless, dependent statists that are America’s Democrat party.
Smoke THAT.
rock steady freddy
June 30th, 2011
6:45 pm
Also, obama is a scorned black muslim with no right to have his position. He and his cronies are trying to destroy this country, but it won’t happen.
uno
June 30th, 2011
6:45 pm
Cain couldn’t get elected even if he were the only candidate running. The only thing real about Cain is he’s real misinformed, miseducated, misguided and mistaken.
rock steady freddy
June 30th, 2011
6:49 pm
hahaha, ok uno, looks like you are the one that is “MISEDUCATED”. And, that would be uninformed, for those of you like uno that are uneducated.
Brent
June 30th, 2011
6:49 pm
Thanks for fixing Randy’s mistakes Last Man, well stated. However the biggest problem is fixing the Randy’s of this world who go through life with blinders on regurgitating only what he hears from the “community organizers” of this world. God help us.
Aquagirl
June 30th, 2011
6:52 pm
When Herman is elected President in November 2012 he will become our first successful black President in history.
I hope you handle disappointment well, fanboi.
Frederick Douglass
June 30th, 2011
6:56 pm
Y D Dandy @ 5:49,
” You ever had any Godfather’s Pizza. I’m telling’ ya. It’s good stuff”.
I’m not saying I don’t buy the stuff. I’ve found that two wedges of pepperoni stacked atop eachother, makes an excellent doorstop, sort of accentuates the door mat that Cain has become for the GOP.
Frederick Douglass
June 30th, 2011
7:05 pm
“He and his cronies are trying to destroy this country,but it won’t happen”.
Regrettably you’re right freddy, Dubya and his cronies beat him to it.
Morgan
June 30th, 2011
7:07 pm
“It is documented that his mother was white and his father was from Africa. If he wants to call himself black, fine.”
BHO may look black, but he has the intellect and drive of a white. Which is why a whole lot of white people including me vote for him.
Brent
June 30th, 2011
7:11 pm
Sorry Morgan, I’m not an Obama fan but that was a dumb comment.
uno
June 30th, 2011
7:13 pm
Rock Steady Freddy – You do realize that education enables one to recognize the difference between miseducated and uneducated.
double
June 30th, 2011
7:14 pm
Yeah Lms got election results over a battery powered AM radio.Truman/Dewey-that was before 54″HDTV.I think Cain would be goood vp material.Dont think Obama will drop Biden so forget that.
Itsmeagain
June 30th, 2011
7:22 pm
Wow. So Cain is saying a real black man doesn’t have much formal education…
Is Cain a racist against blacks?
Alabama Communist
June 30th, 2011
7:23 pm
More Breaking News On Cain calling Obama a Black Sissy…….A Whitehouse Spokensperson confirmed today that President Obama played Candiate Cain on the Whitehouse Basketball court and beat him 14 games to 0.. Candiate Cain a 65 year old Black Man suffer a pull muscle when he try slam dunk over Obama by jumping from a Home Depot 4 foot ladder and landed in the Whitehouse Rose Garden. President Obama said Cain has proven that 65 year old black dude can’t jump like most white republicans..and said he expected Cain to pay for the Damage Government Roses…
Steeler
June 30th, 2011
7:26 pm
Enter your comments here
Doug in Douglasville
June 30th, 2011
7:34 pm
Obama, whatever his genetic creds, appeals to Caucasians because he’s smart, poised and articulate. He doesn’t act black, in fact he almost never mentions race. There aren’t nearly enough blacks to elect him on their own. As someone already noted, he is the President because large numbers of white voters support him. Anyone who doesn’t understand that is dreaming.
I Know You Are But What Am I?
June 30th, 2011
7:40 pm
I see your strong black man and raise you two strong asian men.
td
June 30th, 2011
7:47 pm
Doug in Douglasville
June 30th, 2011
7:34 pm
You are correct. White surburban women put Obama in office because they liked the “Hope and Change” message and it made them feel good about themselves to say they voted for a black man for President. The question is are these same White surburban women going to vote for him again since their gas prices have gone up 107% and foo prices by 40% since he was elected?
You can mark my words now, the answer to the above question WILL be the difference in next years election.
Terd Furgeson
June 30th, 2011
7:47 pm
Clinton “Skink” Tyree
June 30th, 2011
5:02 pm
@Terd: A year is a life-time in politics — time for the economy to turn and time for the Republican/Tea Party candidates to show how inept and how clueless they really are.
What it’s going to come down to is selecting between a known quantity — a president who may not be perfect, but is not an embarrassment — and a candidate that suffers from chonic hoof n’ mouth disease and who can’t discern between Libya and Lickskillet.
Spoken like a true liberal. Vote Obama because he is not an embarassment. Yeah, the whole world laughs at how weak this clown is and you liberals think he is respected. God, is it a prerequisite to be ignorant to have a liberal mind? I do believe it is. Pleanty of posts on here today to prove the theory.
Talk to the hand.
June 30th, 2011
7:48 pm
I don’t know about Herman being a strong black man. But I do think that Obama is Carter 2.0. Wishy washy and weak.
Terd Furgeson
June 30th, 2011
7:53 pm
Doug in Douglasville
June 30th, 2011
7:34 pm
Obama, whatever his genetic creds, appeals to Caucasians because he’s smart, poised and articulate. He doesn’t act black, in fact he almost never mentions race. There aren’t nearly enough blacks to elect him on their own. As someone already noted, he is the President because large numbers of white voters support him. Anyone who doesn’t understand that is dreaming
Uh, Doug, check the latest polls. Whites, women, and the all important independents are leaving this guy like he has herpes. As far as being articulate? Yes, he speaks very clearly and sounds very intelligent. Anyone can do that when they have a teleprompter with them 24/7. The guy is one of the weakest leaders since Georgia’s finest, ol’ peanuthead Carter. In fact, he has an economy worse then Carter did and it will take a Republican to fix it like Reagan had to. Ooooo, I sense you liberals steaming from here.
Terd Furgeson
June 30th, 2011
7:55 pm
Aquagirl
June 30th, 2011
6:52 pm
When Herman is elected President in November 2012 he will become our first successful black President in history.
I hope you handle disappointment well, fanboi.
Aquagirl, your name fits you. You have water on the brain. The only disappointment in 2012 will be you libs crying racism after obama goes down. And you know you will because it is all you have for an excuse for anything for this President.
Frederick Douglass
June 30th, 2011
7:59 pm
Talk to the hand @ 7:48
Okay tough guy, let’s try Chris Christie or Rick Perry. Those two verbal bulls in a china shop, could sell just enough wolf tickets to embroil us in WWlll. We can’t afford to have another blowhard saber rattler in the White House, that ship sailed with Dubya and Cheney.
Terd Furgeson
June 30th, 2011
8:00 pm
One of many ways to tick off a liberal:
CABLE NEWS RACE
WEDS., JUNE 29, 2011
FOXNEWS OREILLY/INGRAHAM 2,330,000
CNNHN NANCY GRACE 2,242,000
FOXNEWS HANNITY 1,967,000
FOXNEWS BAIER 1,697,000
FOXNEWS BECK 1,691,000
CNNHN DR DREW 1,667,000
FOXNEWS SMITH 1,536,000
FOXNEWS GRETA 1,535,000
MSNBC MADDOW 900,000
MSNBC ODONNELL 705,000
CNN COOPER 632,000
MSNBC SHARPTON 630,000
MSNBC HARDBALL 616,000
CNN PIERS 405,000
Ohhh, that has got to hurt!
Terd Furgeson
June 30th, 2011
8:02 pm
Frederick Douglass
June 30th, 2011
7:59 pm
Talk to the hand @ 7:48
Okay tough guy, let’s try Chris Christie or Rick Perry. Those two verbal bulls in a china shop, could sell just enough wolf tickets to embroil us in WWlll. We can’t afford to have another blowhard saber rattler in the White House, that ship sailed with Dubya and Cheney.
No, it is much more fun to have a non-leader who is more interested in a round of golf and can not remember his own kids age because he is to busy campaigning every waking minute of the day instead of leading our country. Yeah, that is much better then two men who are decisive in their decision making. You are truly a libtard.
Obama
June 30th, 2011
8:49 pm
Jim Galloway is a racist. It’s pure and it’s simple.
Say What?
June 30th, 2011
9:10 pm
Why do you say that JG is a racist?? Because he publicizes what Herman Cain actually says?
Frederick Douglass
June 30th, 2011
9:15 pm
Terd Furgeson:
You’re obviously a small person, miniscule. Is that the best you can come with, kid’s ages, golf?????
I’ll say again, saber rattlers say stuff like, ” let’s go to war, and hey, we’ll pay for it with oil money”. Just because someone makes a quick decision, doesn’t mean it’s not going to be a harebrained decision.
Clinton "Skink" Tyree
June 30th, 2011
9:25 pm
@Terd: There are around 350 million people in this country and the best program Fox offers is O’Reilly and he gets 2.3 million or .006 percent of the population.
Now that’s pretty good I suppose for a TV channel, but in the world of national politics hardly a number that turns the tide of American history.
A year is a lifetime in politics and the Republican/Tea Party is writing a premature obituary for Bam.
Big Hat
June 30th, 2011
9:47 pm
When Herman is elected President, he will become our first President to speak English as a second language.
Tammy
June 30th, 2011
11:31 pm
Do you Southerners realize that the people from DC think you are idiots?
Guess not.
You think they give one sheet about you?
They don’t.
I lived and worked on BOTH coasts of this country, and people from Atlanta are considered idiotic rednecks–by both coasts.
You can think you’re “all that” all you want to.
The elites from both parties think you are dumb asses.
I know better, but you should realize how much the “coasts” hate you.
Wake up, Atlanta!
LW
July 1st, 2011
12:21 am
Mrs. Caine should have kept looking for that strong black man, only a weak ass man would say something stupid like that.
Proverbs 18:3 Fools have no interest in understanding;they only want to air their own opinions
Jon Lester
July 1st, 2011
9:37 am
@Frederick Douglass 5:46 – that’s not fair. Some of us with fondness for 1970’s wood panel interiors also happen to be progressive.
Jon Lester
July 1st, 2011
9:39 am
Hey, TF: Jon Stewart’s ratings beat every one of those programs you list.
Jon Lester
July 1st, 2011
9:43 am
I doubt if Cain’s attempts to define a “real black man” are working to win the AA vote.
Also, when you invoke “Amos ‘n’ Andy,” as Cain did a few days back, it only has racial connotations for those old enough to remember. To everyone else, it only makes you look old.
Bill Orvis White
July 1st, 2011
11:56 am
Hussein Obama is not a strong black man, period. “The man” is weak. “He” cannot make firm decisions on anything with the economy or foreign relations. This installed president is a spineless jellyfish who will thankfully be a blip in the once-free nation’s history. This nightmare will come to a close when President Cain will be democratically elected and rightfully inaugurated. Compared to Herman Cain, Lil Hussein is a scared little girl.
Amen,
Bill
deegee
July 1st, 2011
12:13 pm
I just get so steamed when I see those ratings for Fox News. Every time I go visit my parents in the old folks home I see Fox News on the TV in every activity room in the home. You have at least a dozen viewers in each room that can’t remember what they had for lunch sitting there watching O’Reilly and Hannity. It just makes my blood boil knowing that Rachel Maddow only gets 900K viewers that actually understand what she’s talking about versus O’Reilly’s 2.3 Million viewers with dementia. It’s just not fair and balanced!
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