Why Herman Cain is no Georgia Bulldog
GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain visits the state Senate on the final day of the Legislature's special session. Vino Wong, vwong@ajc.com
Stepping off a plane from Israel at 5:30 a.m., a jet-lagged Herman Cain swung through the state Capitol today, announcing himself to lawmakers in the House and Senate this way:
“My name is HermanCain.com, and I’m running for president.”
Introduced at a following press conference by freshman state Sen. Josh McKoon, R-Columbus, the GOP candidate promised to be a true friend of Israel, decried the “foggy foreign policy” of President Barack Obama, pitched his 9-9-9 tax reform plan as a precursor to the Fair Tax, and picked up endorsements from two more state legislators.
They were state Reps. Rusty Kidd, an independent from Milledgeville, and Billy Maddox, R-Zebulon.
Cain expressed resentment at attempts to place him in a second tier of candidates in a Republican field now dominated by Texas Gov. Rick Perry, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota; and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
“Some in the media are trying to narrow this down to three candidates. It is disconcerting, yes,” Cain said. “What I would hope is that it will not discourage people from looking at myself and other candidates.”
The candidate said he had no fear of the field growing even wider. “Cain supporters don’t defect. So I’m not worried about another politician getting into the race,” he said.
A CNN reporter also asked Cain about recent comments by U.S. Rep. Andre Carson, D-Ind., who said that some members of Congress affiliated with the tea party consider African-Americans to be “second-class citizens” and wouldn’t mind seeing them “hanging from a tree.”
Cain’s response was sharp.
“Those remarks are disgraceful. Those remarks are a distraction. Those kinds of remarks are intended to discourage citizens from speaking their voice through the tea party movement,” Cain said. “If there were racism in the tea party movement, I would be one of the first people to recognize it. I grew up in Georgia before the Civil Rights movement, during the Civil Rights movement, after the Civil Rights movement.
“I would know racism if I saw it. I have not seen it, nor have I experienced it in the tea party movement,” Cain said.
The topic of race and the tea party wasn’t new. But Cain’s answer reminded me that, only a few minutes before, the 65-year-old presidential candidate had been introduced to the House by Speaker David Ralston, who noted Cain’s status as a Georgia native.
Cain graduated from Morehouse College in 1967 with a degree in mathematics. Then he left the state for Purdue University and a masters degree in computer science.
In the state Capitol, the omission in the resume screams out. “Did you ever apply to the University of Georgia for admission?” I asked Cain after the press conference.
“I did,” the presidential candidate said. “And Georgia Tech, too.” The year was 1963. He was rejected by both institutions, even though he’d graduated second in his class at Archer High School in Atlanta.
Only two years earlier, the University of Georgia had admitted its first black students, Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes. “They still had a quota system, and were keeping admission tight. I didn’t make the cut,” he said.
But his daughter graduated from the University of Georgia in 1994, Cain said. “What makes this nation great is its ability to change,” he said.
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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125 comments Add your comment
findog
August 31st, 2011
1:27 pm
too bad for GT and UGA
could have been GT’s second president
football guy
August 31st, 2011
1:30 pm
Enter your comments here
Retired Solider
August 31st, 2011
1:31 pm
findog-
Guess I ought to know this, who was the first?
football guy
August 31st, 2011
1:31 pm
So Herman Cain is an outstanding individual!
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
hahahahahahahahahahaha,…………..
Keith
August 31st, 2011
1:32 pm
Yeah that first one worked out really well didn’t it? NOT
GT Alum
August 31st, 2011
1:36 pm
Carter never graduated GT, just attended. Still considered an alum.
The title of this article alone is almost worth my vote.
commonsense
August 31st, 2011
1:37 pm
Hermain Cain is the perfect example of an uncle tom. He hasn’t seen racisim yet he was rejected from GA and GA Tech because of racial quotas. I guess affermative action had nothing to do with him getting in to purdue either. Go back to running pizza joints. The black community will never support you, and the white community thinks yu are a joke!
Clinton "Skeek" Tyree
August 31st, 2011
1:38 pm
I really don’t think it’s the media that’s placing Mr. Cain in the second tier of candidates, they are merely reporting what the polls say and the polls are a direct reflection of real, live, human beings who were asked to choose their candidate.
I’m sure Mr. Cain is a fine, decent human being, but I don’t see him making it to first base.
atlmom
August 31st, 2011
1:41 pm
wow, commonsense: so you are saying nothing has changed in almost 50 years. wow.
Clinton tyree: it’s the same thing as what CNN is doing to gary johnson. He’s not in the debates, or being asked about in polls. SO the media is saying he is irrelevant. But if they reported on him, people would know who he is, and then he’d get more support.
chicken/egg.
DW
August 31st, 2011
1:43 pm
Herman Cain is more interested in furthering his personal career than running for President. How else does one explain Mr. Cain’s going from “I need to place in the top 3 in Iowa” to “I know I’m not gonna finish dead last” while not actively campaigning in the state until the last minute? Mr. Cain has no viable path to the GOP nomination.
Clinton "Skeek" Tyree
August 31st, 2011
1:45 pm
@GT Alum — After graduating from high school, Carter enrolled in Ga Southwestern College and applied for Annapolis. He was accepted but had to take additional math couses before he could begin at the Naval Academy. Those math courses were taken at GaTech.
Don’t see how he could be considered a Tech grad when he only took a few math courses there.
Centrist
August 31st, 2011
1:48 pm
Michele Bachmann is also a second tier candidate – the ONLY reason she is getting any attention is that she is from Iowa where they have the first straw poll and Caucus. She drops out of sight after the first real primary.
Democrats (hence the media) consistently try to paint the Tea Party as right wing and racist – it is not working except among the partisan left which rightfully fears this smaller government populist political movement.
Raquel Morris
August 31st, 2011
1:51 pm
Jim, I have a hard time understanding how there could be an “omission” in Cain’s resume. He attended one of the finest institutions of higher learning in Georgia – Morehouse College. There’s nothing that UGA or Tech could have added to his Morehouse education.
Clinton "Skeek" Tyree
August 31st, 2011
1:52 pm
@atlmom —
Heck, I read five or six newpapers a day, everything from the AJC, Miami Herald, New York Post, Daily News and Times, and the Christian Science Monitor etc. etc. to name a few and I’ve never heard of Gary Johnson.
I would think it’s the task of the Johnson Campaign to at least make a ripple in the pond — heck, what has he done to report?
Of course, I understand your chicken and the egg analogy, but can’t imagine a guy running for the top office in the land when he has done nothing to merit name recognition or deeds worthy of reporting. .
liberalefty
August 31st, 2011
1:54 pm
sorry CAIN
liberalefty
August 31st, 2011
1:57 pm
in CAINS efforts to appeal to racist christians, he has to become racist himself, which is why he made the bigoted pledge that no MUSLIMS will be allowed in his administration. Still no matter how far right CAINS policies are, the white christian racists who claim they will vote for him won’t. HES BLACK!!!!!
CalvinCool
August 31st, 2011
1:58 pm
@ DW – Herman Cain has no desire to further his career, he’s a multi millionare that worked his way to the top with hard work and determination and has achieved more in his life than any of the other career politicians he’s running against. He’s running to restore the Republic and preserve freedom for his grandchildren and future generations. Also, you are mistaken. He has visited Iowa over 22 times, spoken at over 50 Tea Party events, and even went on a bus tour leading up to Ames. This man works his ass off. The 5th place finish is amazing considering how much the establishment media ignores this man, had people vote at Ames AFTER hearing his speech, spent $0 on advertising and only bused in 4 groups, has zero campaign debt, and half the name ID of other candidates. Cain’s path to the nomination involves politicians with hypocritical records self destructing, while positively intense supporters (leading on Gallup with an intensity score of 27 for the 13th week in a row) promote him from the ground up through word of mouth. How about listening to his ideas, his brilliant economic recovery plan, consider his impressive back story/resume, and give him a chance instead of supporting whoever the establishment media tells you to? Also, polls this far out are still largely irrelevant, very likely manipulated, and I wouldn’t be surprised if status quo left leaning or Republican establishment owned pollsters are undersampling and throwing out Cain supporters to make it look like he’s a second tier candidate (while oversampling Romney and Perry supporters). I’ll trust the latest Zogby poll that put him at 18% support and rising, thank you very much.
Bad Habit
August 31st, 2011
1:59 pm
commonsense, you are a joke. The reference to not seeing racism was the Tea Party.
CalvinCool
August 31st, 2011
2:01 pm
How about you people stop being haters, support the best candidate running, and stop the media from manipulating you into voting for their hand picked establishment candidate? Aren’t you people tired of special interest owned sell out phony politicians that put what’s best for their party before country? You all know the definition of insanity. Well it’s insane to think we are going to solve all the problems created in this country by career politicians by nominating and electing another career politician.
honested
August 31st, 2011
2:02 pm
The headline is too complicated….
It should have been ‘Why Herman Cain is Just a Misguided Windbag’.
Most folks would get it.
LW
August 31st, 2011
2:04 pm
@commonsense You miss read the article. Herman Cain did not say he hasn’t experienced racism, but the contrary. He says he hasn’t experience racism in the Teaparty. The Teaparty had nothing to with his not getting into Georgia since it didn’t even exist then.
Many people like Herman Cain (Herman Cain had led in positive intensity in Gallup for many weeks), but are afraid to fully support him because they are listening to the media and people who think they “know it all”. It is time for people who care to support the candidate who will make the best president and support them.
Bonifa
August 31st, 2011
2:07 pm
“Cain expressed resentment at attempts to place him in a second tier of candidates in a Republican field now dominated by…”
Attempts? Herman IS in the second tier. Is he saying that he is actually a front runner and that we’re only imagining that he’s back in the pack? Herman is a good guy but once he starts asking us to suspend reality then he’s done.
honested
August 31st, 2011
2:07 pm
centrist,
You continue to show no grasp of reality.
Virtually no Democrats (left,right or center) voted for any teapotty candidate in 2010. Any who did are so nauseated at their mistake they would never do so again.
The tea potty is an ‘r’ problem as more of the voting population realizes as far as intelligent solutions to governance, the tp has ‘got nothin’.
The real fact is the constant drumbeat pretending there is much to be gained by returning to abjectly failed policies (see shrub) IS NOT WORKING. So all they do is turn up the volume.
Now that clear majorities of both parties have come to accept INCREASES IN REVENUE are necessary to ever return to solvency, the tp’s 15 minutes is up.
And it is certainly about time.
Anon
August 31st, 2011
2:08 pm
Honested, sounds like you are the misguided windbag. How about showing a Purdue mathematics/physics major, rocket scientist for the Navy, successful CEO/business analyst, late stage colon and liver cancer survivor, gospel singer, preacher, columnist, and talk radio show host a little more respect? What have you achieved in your life? Staying up to play X Box? Loser. I’m sick of politicians. As far as I’m concerned, Cain is THE ONLY choice for 2012. Hermanator 2012!
Dear Old Morehouse
August 31st, 2011
2:10 pm
I wonder if Cain will be attending Morehouse’s homecoming to campaign.
To Old Morehouse, and her ideals
and in all things that we do!
honested
August 31st, 2011
2:12 pm
anon,
You vote for cain.
That will bring the total to 10.
Then herman can go back to preaching to those with nothing better to do than listen to talk radio, AT NIGHT.
Centrist
August 31st, 2011
2:13 pm
honested – you are simply rude, and like to call names. I’m no longer responding to your posts. There are a few others here that have similar M.O.’s – not worth acknowledging anymore.
honested
August 31st, 2011
2:14 pm
centrist,
Good for you.
But you still cannot identify the fact that the tp failure is a republican failure.
Democrats want nothing to do with that nonsense.
Centrist
August 31st, 2011
2:21 pm
The success of the Tea Party was illustrated by those swept into the House of Representatives in the last election. Their common sense principals of reducing excess taxes, spending, government, and debt have captured the imagination of grassroots voters. The left can only resort to repeating lies about this movement in an attempt to distort their attraction.
CalvinCool
August 31st, 2011
2:24 pm
Yea honested, you’re an a-hole. Last time I checked Cain still has more FB followers and a higher intensity score than the supposed front runner, Slick Rick Fraud Perry. And even with name recognition at 75% to Cain’s 50%, he somehow has 29% national support to Cain’s 4%. Those stats don’t add up, don’t make sense. That’s bs, and I’m calling out Gallup for manipulating polls to make Herman look weak. I also happen to know that for his polls, Rasmussen doesn’t even offer Cain as a choice. Listening to polls and special interest owned media to decide who you support is SO pre-2008, and you’ll be shocked how much support Cain has and continues to develop.
Missy
August 31st, 2011
2:25 pm
Ole Herman has never ever been elected to any office and he wants to be President? Someone explain that to me please. And by the way, WSB radio is looking foolish for so blatantly supporting this windbag.
Reel
August 31st, 2011
2:28 pm
You must be approved by Israel…..the litmus test for all presidential aspirants.
honested
August 31st, 2011
2:28 pm
calvin and centrist,
You guys make quite an echo chamber.
I hope November 2012 does not let you down too hard, because reality is obviously not your strong suit.
honested
August 31st, 2011
2:29 pm
missy,
Careful, apparently ‘windbag’ hits a sore spot.
CalvinCool
August 31st, 2011
2:30 pm
Windbag? Have you ever been a rocket scientist or led an organization with millions of employees? Yea, didn’t think so. Why should be elect someone who has held office? The people who have held office have DESTROYED this country. We prefer someone who has had executive experience OUTSIDE of the political establishment. People in this country are so disgusted with politicians and politics as usual, we are fully prepared to elected a true outsider who is one of us, We The People, to go DC and break up the status quo. There’s your explanation. Are you too dense to get it?
Missy
August 31st, 2011
2:31 pm
CalvinCool-why bless your heart. Touch a nerve did I?
honested
August 31st, 2011
2:31 pm
calvin,
Since when did it take ‘millions of employees’ to make cardboard pizza?
Maybe that’s why every outlet of the aforementioned outfit in Metro Atlanta closed at least a decade ago.
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Anon
August 31st, 2011
2:33 pm
@ honested – The political and media elite (that you are very obviously in the tank for) still don’t seem to get that We The People will be deciding this election, not the media. Their stranglehold on the flow of information and political system is coming to an end thanks to internet, YouTube, and Facebook. Can’t wait to point you jerks to the exit come 2012 after Cain, after building his campaign slowly but surely, gets elected.
CalvinCool
August 31st, 2011
2:35 pm
I was actually talking about the National Restaurant Association, the largest organization (with millions of employees) in the 90’s that he led to prominence, aside from his executive experience with Burger King, Godfathers, and as a business analyst for Coke. But of course you don’t do any research.
td
August 31st, 2011
2:36 pm
honested
August 31st, 2011
2:14 pm
centrist,
“But you still cannot identify the fact that the tp failure is a republican failure.
Democrats want nothing to do with that nonsense”
You are wrong my friend. There are a great deal of today’s Tea party member that use to be called “Blue Dog Democrats”. These people are physically conservative and socially liberal so they did not fit with either party.
liberalefty
August 31st, 2011
2:37 pm
if OBAMA was white their would be no PEE PARTY.
liberalefty
August 31st, 2011
2:38 pm
@calvincool
so what he ran a business, so did BUSH! and he has no chance at being nominated in the conservative republican party.
CalvinCool
August 31st, 2011
2:38 pm
And let’s not forget that Godfather’s is the 5th largest pizza chain in the US thanks to Cain. Just because you don’t like their pizza doesn’t mean its not an absolute success story. Plus, franchises can close all the time due to poor lower level management, but considering your grasp of facts, I doubt what youre saying is even true.
Centrist
August 31st, 2011
2:41 pm
The 2012 election is way too far off to predict for control of the White House and Senate – they are thought to be current toss-ups by most pundits (more Democrats up for re-election than Republicans). The House is almost certainly going to remain in Republican Party hands, thanks to the Tea Party members who often chastise Republicans over “earmark” spending.
liberalefty
August 31st, 2011
2:42 pm
@calvin
big deal, GODFATHERS is the 5th largest pizza chain! and i’m sure CAIN wont be nominated no matter how many times u tout the sucess of godfathers.lol
Willprayforyou
August 31st, 2011
2:42 pm
Liberal Lefty – you need some serious help. You yourself at a very minimum have all but proven to be a bigot with your comments. “Christian White Folk” must all be racist huh.
Shame on you… I’m Christian. I’m white. And likely have more friends of color than you do. True friends. And yes my friend – even if you happen to be black.
Bitter/angry and one who lacks the the interest or ability to really understand other’s do not have that many true friends.
In short. I feel sorry for you.
CalvinCool
August 31st, 2011
2:42 pm
@ Liberal lefty – He’s run several businesses and organizations, had success against all odds at virtually everything he’s applied himself to in life, and is conservative with a capital “C” on absolutely every issue. The only reason he wouldn’t get the nomination is because there’s still too many mushy brained idiots out there that let Republican establishment tools like Rush Limbaugh and Fraud News decide who they vote for. I think enough of us are sick of that though, and quite a few of us have woken up.
liberalefty
August 31st, 2011
2:43 pm
i wonder if CAIN wanted the federal government to step in to stop UGA and GT from discriminating against blacks? nah hes a PEE PARTIER
honested
August 31st, 2011
2:46 pm
I get it now.
Cain will win because of magic!
That is the only chance he and the tea potty have of holding sway.
But follow the shrub doctrine ‘In the face of overwhelming evidence, never admit an error or make a course correction’.
joe
August 31st, 2011
2:47 pm
@ lib lefty…Obama IS partially white you idiot.
@ liar ed…the 2010 elections were just the beginning. Most independents who voted for Obama won’t do it again and that is why his approval rating is in the 40s…and getting lower by the week. Stick a fork in him, he’s done.
honested
August 31st, 2011
2:48 pm
td
Most of the ‘blue dogs’ lost in the primary because Democrats are not republicans. It may take a couple of cycles to put the right butts in the Democratic seats, but when it happens there won’t be any squishy neocons among them. Just true BLUES.
Don Abernethy
August 31st, 2011
2:49 pm
Most whites have tried hard to become color blind these past 30 plus years but there are so many blacks that will not drop the race issue and this really causes whites to rethink their position on race. Most whites have accepted Obama as their first Black President but refuse to vote for him just because he is Black like so many Blacks will do.
Retired Solider
August 31st, 2011
2:50 pm
GT alum, thanks.
Reads_before_talking
August 31st, 2011
2:52 pm
Hey “commonsense”, try reading it again. He said that he had never seen racism in the tea party. He has said on numerous occasions that he experienced racism while growing up.
I, as a white voter, have a lot of respect and support for Mr. Cain.
Centrist
August 31st, 2011
2:54 pm
@ joe – Obama is far from done. The Republican presidential field is weak, and Obama is triangulating, dealing with the GOP on tax and spending cuts via the debt deal.
Incumbency creates a campaign contribution advantage, and many strings can be pulled in an election year to buy votes.
The media is firmly behind him, and will get even more partisan as the election draws near.
honested
August 31st, 2011
2:56 pm
It was nice mr. cain could get his entire State organization and all his supporters to be at the Capitol with him.
liberalefty
August 31st, 2011
2:59 pm
CAIN must have felt proud that UGA and GT stood by their racism and discrimated against blacks when he applied. too bad the evil federal government stepped in to stop these conservative practices.
liberalefty
August 31st, 2011
3:00 pm
does CAIN wanna bring back JIM CROW which was outlawed by big government liberals in washington?
liberalefty
August 31st, 2011
3:02 pm
IS CAIN mad that the federal guvment stepped in to stop discrimination,like the rest of the PEE PARTY is?
liberalefty
August 31st, 2011
3:03 pm
all the christian racists looooooooooooooove them some HERMAN CAIN. too bad they won’t actually vote for him, lol
liberalefty
August 31st, 2011
3:04 pm
po HERMAN, too black for conservatives, too ignorant for liberals,lol.
coachx
August 31st, 2011
3:22 pm
Hermain Cain should be respected by all people regardless of party.
I hope Perry and Cain and run together for President and VP. That is a winning ticket no matter what order you put them in.
coachx
August 31st, 2011
3:24 pm
To liberallefty – Liberals would appreciate it if you stopped making them look bad.
honested
August 31st, 2011
3:51 pm
coachx,
You may be on to something. A perry/cain ticket would save the Democrats boat loads of money to redirect into Congressional races.
td
August 31st, 2011
3:52 pm
honested
August 31st, 2011
2:48 pm
td
Most of the ‘blue dogs’ lost in the primary because Democrats are not republicans. It may take a couple of cycles to put the right butts in the Democratic seats, but when it happens there won’t be any squishy neocons among them. Just true BLUES
And this is the reason the Dems are not in the majority in the House right now. Rhaim (sp) made a concerted effort from 2002 to 2008 to recruit (Blue dogs) in a rural areas to run and win to give the Dems the majority in the house. If you libs are going for purity in the party then you will never hold the majority again. This country is still leans to the right and the true libs mostly live in the NE, West coast and in the major cities. That vote will not constitute a majority. You see what becoming a pure party has done to the Dems in Georgia. You go ahead and purge the Blue dogs from rural NC, Ohio, Penn, Indiana, Iowa and see how the party shinks.
rod
August 31st, 2011
3:52 pm
Go Cain you can be in the republican party and be in the RNC. You can forget about getting elected but hopefully you will reach whatever goal you are trying to attain.
honested
August 31st, 2011
3:53 pm
td
Just keep believing that nonsense.
We’re counting on that!
Mama Says
August 31st, 2011
3:56 pm
Commonsense is an example of what is wrong with the country. In face of the facts he/she insist that race be a factor in the politics of the day. Clearly democrats feel they have a llicense to abuse, ignore and take for granted the black community all while demanding that republicans are the problem.
Herman Cain is a republican canidate for president, he is black and he talks on issues that are very important for EVERYONE in this country. I am white and I support Herman. Why ? because he is the only person in the field who seems to understand the true problems.
Commonsense, read and listen before you throw your race baiting accusations. The democrats have owned the black vote for 50 years. Clinton and Obama had both the house and senate with a veto proof majority and they did nothing–nothing for the black community, but pander . If you had any ” commonsense ” you would focus on the fact that the black community is paying a high price for no return. Then again you can just ignore the truth and keep supporting the very party that has abused race for almost a century.
frank
August 31st, 2011
3:57 pm
Cain is a delusional puppet who wants to remove things that the poor need to survive. He is a monster and supports a group of retards who have no idea what they’re actually following. Power and money breeds callousness. If you support the tea party let’s see some seven and eight figure bank statements. They don’t care about the middle class, they’re trying to abolish it.
Ned
August 31st, 2011
3:57 pm
What a joke. What was the last time you had a slice of Godfather’s Pizza? Obviously, he didn’t do THAT good a job as CEO.
georgiadawg70
August 31st, 2011
4:01 pm
Hey honested why are you at work earning a living like the rest of us. I case you are wondering, I’m retired.
RealTalk
August 31st, 2011
4:04 pm
Common Sense is the Real Racist Idiot! Go Herman. A Real American Hero who doesn’t think everything is about race. You Liberals are a joke and have no limit to how far down you will go. The Liberal Dream is failing and dieing right before our eyes.
Can’t wait til we take this country Back from all the moochers…
2012 can’t come fast enough.
CAIN 2012
RealTalk
August 31st, 2011
4:05 pm
I don’t miss Cynthia either. I bet that will be a great Class at UGA……
georgiadawg70
August 31st, 2011
4:08 pm
RealTalk If you are referring to Cynthia Tucker, she went to Auburn, would’t you know.
Mark C
August 31st, 2011
4:15 pm
This third-tier moron would be LUCKY to be relegated to the second tier.
td
August 31st, 2011
4:17 pm
honested
August 31st, 2011
3:53 pm
td
Just keep believing that nonsense.
We’re counting on that!
Are you denying that Emanuel had the strategy of electing more Blue dogs (Conservative rural white Dems and that strategy was the one that gave the Dems back control of the House of Reps in 2006? Without them how are the Dems ever going to become a majority party again? Please explain.
Big Daddy
August 31st, 2011
4:27 pm
Cain as kenny-boy.
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/05/herman-cain-aquila-lawsuit-2012
Dr. Thorne
August 31st, 2011
4:41 pm
Dumb headline for this column. It sounds like the writer is saying that Cain rejected UG or is not a bona fide Georgian. Slanted editing, probably.
Dr. Thorne
August 31st, 2011
4:45 pm
To Big Daddy – Mother Jones? Really? Why not something from al-Jazeera or the Workers World Daily or maybe the National Enquirer for something with more veracity?
Schrodingers Cat
August 31st, 2011
5:02 pm
WOW…the stupid is heavy here
Rafe Hollister
August 31st, 2011
5:06 pm
commonsense, you’re the racist!
ByteMe
August 31st, 2011
5:09 pm
“My name is HermanCain.com, and I’m running for president.”
Is this really what he said?? Did he really call himself “HermanCain.com”?? If so, that’s very presidential!
honested
August 31st, 2011
5:12 pm
td,
Rahm had a strategy, yet unlike republicons, not everyone need agree with it. It produced an unworkable ‘majority’ riddled with weak need wannabe conservicons that did not represent the Democratic Party nor it’s positions.
In short, with friends like those, might as well give the tea potties a couple of years to show the public how absolutely incorrect their twisted world view is relative to governance of the world’s greatest country and to ensure that adults will be returned to the necessary business of reflection, introspection and compromise.
Michael
August 31st, 2011
5:12 pm
@commonsense – affirmative action did not exist in 1963. What are you, 12?
Georgian
August 31st, 2011
5:13 pm
Herman Cain just got back from getting permission from his master (Israel) to run for President. He also said that he would not care to audit the Rothschild controlled Federal Reserve! Another RINO!!!!!
honested
August 31st, 2011
5:14 pm
wow I made a spelling boo boo.
Should have been ‘weak kneed’.
Thogwummpy
August 31st, 2011
5:17 pm
The ONLY reason “talk of racism with the Tea Party isn’t new”…is because ANYTHING that a Leftist doesn’t like, they’ll automatically slander as racist. Why? Because media twits, so absorbed with their alleged mission to create images (based on fact or fantasy…doesn’t matter!), love to be ’social justice crusaders’—anointing themselves with righteousness cache. And just like sex sells in advertising, the charge of racism gives these activist creeps the fuel they need to invent demons where there aren’t any; just so the Left can foist off a pretense of being the saints…they clearly aren’t. But “racism” is akin now to shouting “wolf”—-a discerning person doesn’t quite buy prima facia.
gm
August 31st, 2011
5:19 pm
Yea Hermain those bigots that you are defending are not out there talking about electing you President’
I wonder why since they love you so much, do yourself a favor and call Michael Steele who raised more mony for GOP then any one previous.
Please get out now, the tea party are laughing behind your back, its shows in the polls”””’
honested
August 31st, 2011
5:22 pm
thogwummpy,
So as not to run afoul of your little pedestal, tell me when does the con/teapotty philosophy kick in and start to benefit the whole of society.
Or is the goal to enrich the top at the cost of the many?
As for ‘racism’ I haven’t and won’t make the charge.
Buck Hayek
August 31st, 2011
5:24 pm
Cain is a pizza flipper who is completely ignorant about the US Constitution but evokes it every other sentence.
States/counties CANNOT ban religious buildings – you idiot!
Fedup
August 31st, 2011
5:25 pm
I live in a Tea party county. The language they use about Obama cannot be printed here. These folks are God fearing and go to church twice a week. In public these Tea folks deny they are racist.
RGB
August 31st, 2011
5:27 pm
If the Tea Party is a failure, I pray that we fail at least as big in 2012 as when we took over the House of Representatives last year.
I suppose with upside-down thinking, Barack Hussein’s economic and energy policies are successes.
Corpsmen in all 57 states will be celebrating the Destroyer’s defeat next year as Guam tilts and the American flag planted by the astronauts waves proudly on the surface of Mars.
robert m. simon
August 31st, 2011
5:32 pm
But we know one thing.Even though Obama went to Harvard,he’s no Jack Kennedy…Obama couldn’t create jobs if his re-election counted on it….
honested
August 31st, 2011
5:35 pm
rgb,
When will boner and canter turn on those ‘laser focus’ dealies they used to elect so they could concentrate on jobs.
What,….someone here just told me they were lying to get elected.
How sad.
RGB
August 31st, 2011
5:37 pm
Libs have to work overtime to invent and fabricate transgressions allegedly suffered at the hands of dastardly Tea Partiers.
Remember John Lewis claiming to have been spat on and called the N word during the time he and others taunted and baited citizens during the ObamaCare debate. But when Andrew Bartbreit offered $100,000 to anyone who could prove it, suddenly people grew silent. Crickets….
And remember the Atlanta-area woman who said her house was burned by an anti-Obama force while she claimed to be attending his inauguration. Turns out she set the whole thing up.
Libs have to make up things to attribute to conservatives because conservatives behave themselves almost all the time.
Pretty soon they’ll claim we’re responsible for JFK’s assassination, the destruction of the Hindenburg, and the high rate of illegitimate births among black women.
Today’s Democrats are like the Klan. They demonize certain groups of people with curses and lies in order to foment violence against their political opponents.
Remember the Tea Party member whose ear was bitten off by a tolerant liberal? Or the black Tea Party vendor who was beaten by members of those capitalist-hating members of SEIU?
These people have nothing else to sell but fear and violence.
gm
August 31st, 2011
5:37 pm
RGB
You won in 2010 by lying to the America people that you were concern about jobs, the tea party idiots have not pass one singe job bill.
Please tea party hypocrites, return your femma checks, medicaid checks since you hate government spending, whats amazing these hypocrites on the right never said a word when Cheney and his company were building up Irag with our tax dollars.
Yet these bigots march against this President when he wants to spend money to build up are infrastructure, who are the real terrorist ?
RGB
August 31st, 2011
5:41 pm
I wonder if Mr. Obama will introduce a real jobs program before he gets into his fourth and final year of his presidency.
RGB
August 31st, 2011
5:44 pm
I really like former VP Cheney.
His book is en route to me from Amazon.
It’s invigorating to read about a patriot who has been successful not only in service to his country but also in the private sector.
Did you know that Cheney has more private sector experience than Obama’s entire cabinet? And you wonder why we’re in a ditch.
Didn’t Obama claim he was in the front seat driving?
Does that mean the rest of us are on the back of the bus? Was he delivering a racial message?
gm
August 31st, 2011
5:49 pm
Yea, I guess the 20 million people that were held in slavery by the so called white christians was made up to, or the jim crowe laws that were passed by rep conservatives were made up, or saying the President of the United States is not a real American were all made up.
When will you hypocrites of the tea party come clean, and realize you dont love America you are in love with the thought of going back to the 20th century, and the people at your rallies look like the klan of the past.
Tired Voter
August 31st, 2011
5:51 pm
This is no longer a Bid for the presidency as much as it is a media blitz to line up future speaking engagements after he establishes his relevancy by this run for office.
gm
August 31st, 2011
5:55 pm
Did you know Dick Cheney and his company got rich off the Irag war and taking shots at a decorated General shows what a bigot of a scum he really is.
If he was so smart we would not have 3,000 Americans dead under this administration””””
hermancain.com
August 31st, 2011
5:55 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hvaeHllwtw
Buck Hayek
August 31st, 2011
5:56 pm
I like Flava Cain but he has no experience, no charisma, and no chance.
honested
August 31st, 2011
6:08 pm
rgb,
Yep I bet you are fed up with ‘liberal thought’ (and other fact related concepts). I mean if we would have followed liberal, fact based philosophy under dickcheney, we wouldn’t have found all of those WMD saddam was hoarding getting ready to loose on Austin. We wouldn’t have stopped his imaginary chemical, noocleeur (shrubs word) and biological weapons program. Several thousand American youth wouldn’t have been sacrificed for no apparent reason other than to settle a fetid family dispute (”You will remember, he did try to kill my daddy”).
And I haven’t even gotten to cheney.
Yes that follow the evidence and set the higher example model is so passe’. I can see why a small subculture is ready to jump on the tea potty train and ride it off the cliff.
Will America really miss that 18%?
red herring
August 31st, 2011
6:09 pm
the people constantly playing the race card are usually the most racist folks around. the principles of the tea party have nothing to to with racial issues.
Soapy Johnson
August 31st, 2011
6:12 pm
Support for Herman Cain and all African-American GOP candidates vs. ridicule from Janeane Garofalo and her obvious racism … http://placeitonluckydan.com/2011/08/janeane-garofalos-true-ideological-grit/
LawdHamercy
August 31st, 2011
6:13 pm
I can’t believe this guy went to Archer HS. He must hate blacks. I understand, Archer was a tough school back then. He must’ve been bullied by his classmates so bad, he only felt comfortable with white people. Where he felt safe. I can understand being a Republican, but a member of the Tea Party? Either he’s playing them for fools, or he’s just the coward thats getting back at the bully.
honested
August 31st, 2011
6:16 pm
All of this banter does not change the simple fact that cain is not likely to get above 8% in the GA primary, which will probably be his best showing.
OBAMA 2012!
West Indian Charlie
August 31st, 2011
6:33 pm
Hey, Mr. Cain I have a lot of respect for you. You are a black man but you didn”t make your skin tone; something you have no control over turn you into a victim. I have no doubt you have experienced some ugly moments in your lifetime but you didn”t let it deter you from becoming an American success story.
That being said, do I think you will become the next President of the USA. No. Why not? You may ask. I think if it comes down to you and the Texan Cowboy you will lose out. “What makes this nation great is its ability to change” you are quoted. Yes I agree but sometimes change happen too fast for some people then all of sudden they want their country back.
Buck Hayek
August 31st, 2011
6:48 pm
Herman Cain 2012 = Alan Keyes 2008.
They float one every time.
bamaman36744
August 31st, 2011
6:50 pm
as always the paul fans are at it again. in a head to head debate between paul and Mr Cain . cain would blow him out of the water, and burn his pot plants while he,s at it
bamaman36744
August 31st, 2011
6:54 pm
and Honested– obama will not win a 2nd term unless his cronies steal the votes and stuff the boxes as Demacrats ussally DO here in the south
Big Hat
August 31st, 2011
8:35 pm
This country needs a President that speaks English as a second language. He be the man.
honested
August 31st, 2011
11:44 pm
rgb,
So tell me why you don’t see dickchianie (the ED correction device) as a traitor?
Sarah Hart - America's Third Party
September 1st, 2011
3:09 pm
David Jon Sponheim is running for President under America’s Third Party. TELL HIM WHAT YOU THINK in his LIVE CHAT every weeknight on BlogTV.
He is a centrist and appeals to everyone across the political spectrum because he’s an everyday American, just like us.
tracy
September 1st, 2011
4:02 pm
commonsense… you seriously need to come up with a new usename
you wrote “Hermain Cain is the perfect example of an uncle tom. He hasn’t seen racisim yet he was rejected from GA and GA Tech because of racial quotas”
idiot… where did YOU learn to read???
Cain did NOT say he has NEVER experienced racism EVER… he is said he’s never experienced it in… the… TeaParty
the fact that i had to explain that to you speaks VOLUMES about those who refer to black conservatives as Uncle Toms…. YOU’RE JUST NOT THAT BRIGHT ARE YOU ???
tracy
September 1st, 2011
4:23 pm
Herman Cain may not be the typical presidential candidate with his gregarious personality and vibrant vernacular, but he sure as hell is needed in this primary season. he brings a solid no nonsense perspective to the debate and a brass tacks approach to a historic financial tipping point. he’s one of the smartest up there, he and Newt, and i wish like HELL that the moderators would’ve asked him more pertinent questions during the Iowa debate. there were so many times when you could tell Cain was choppin at the bits to jump and say something on BIG issues.
the man’s resume may not include U of GA or GA Tech, but damn!!! …it …is …impressive
i think a GOP White House would do very well to include Cain in an economy-oriented cabinet position
Cain is a GOOD descent man… a family man… a church going man… a self-made man
so to the writers of race-based comments on here, puleeeeeease. spare me your comparisons to oBozo
Herman Cain is EVERYTHING that Obama is not.
Herman Cain is an example of American Exceptionalism.
Fun Fong
September 4th, 2011
3:44 pm
I like Herman’s 9-9-9 plan and I am contributing to his campaign monthly. Haven’t read it? Here’s an article: http://www.veteransnewsnow.com/2011/08/22/herman-cains-9-9-9-common-sense-plan/
pattie
September 4th, 2011
3:47 pm
Wow is this guy impressive. Each time I hear him speak nothing comes out of his mouth but good, downright common sense and no beating around the bush. He’s got my vote and will work my fingers off working to make his name known. A complete 180 deg turn about from what we have now in Obama who has made blacks look dumb and incapable of assuming responsibility. I have approached a couple neighbors who commented no way would they vote for another black person. I reply, stop looking at the skin, listen to what he says and look at his background.
Uncle Joe
September 4th, 2011
8:09 pm
Thanks for the nice article, Mr. Galloway. Its not important what school Mr. Cain attended, but that he kept applying. Now he has applied for the the job of President of the United States, and I hope that a majority of “We the People” will join me in elected him.
cain2012train
September 4th, 2011
10:02 pm
@commonsense
PRESIDENT CAIN was referring to a lack of racism within the TEA Party. Not that he never experienced racism.
@Missy
The Federal Government is VERY similar to a business, and businessmen like Herman Cain KNOW what it takes to bring JOBS and FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY to a business. More money, more workers. More workers, more production. More production, more sales. MORE SALES, MORE MONEY.
Herman Cain KNOWS what he’s doing. He was VP of Pillsbury. He became the regional vice president of Burger King. Herman was assigned to lead a low performing region of 450 of their restaurants. Within three years, it became the best performing region in the company. He was President and CEO of Godfather’s Pizza, a company that was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. In just 14 months, Herman returned Godfather’s to profitability and he led his management team to a buyout of the company. His professional successes garnered the respect and admiration of industry peers who named him the President of the National Restaurant Association. He was on the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, and he was subsequently elected their chairman. In this role, he analyzed economic conditions in the region and notified the Federal Reserve of how their policies should respond.
cain2012train
September 4th, 2011
10:05 pm
@ tracy
Thank you
Donald Johnston
September 4th, 2011
10:29 pm
For all the naysayers of Herman Cain, if you think you can run this country better, then go out and put your own name on the ballot. Then I’ll know who not to vote for.
wildcat hank
September 5th, 2011
8:02 am
Centrist
Have reading a lot of your comments, I wonder how big your check is from the Govt. And if that is the cast you are part of the problem and need to get out of your pockets and go to work.