Who Is Herman Cain?
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Once considered a bottom-tier candidate, with no chance at the White House, Herman Cain is surging.
He came in second in the ABC News-Washington Post poll Tuesday, tying Texas Gov. Rick Perry with 16 percent of support from “leaned” Republicans, behind Mitt Romney with 25 percent. Cain quadrupled his support from a month ago when he was at 4 percent, while Romney didn’t budge.
His win last month at the Florida GOP P5 straw poll - in which Perry heavily invested – was also a big victory for his campaign, which has none of the financial backing or staffing of the other candidates’ campaigns.
He still has low name recognition, especially compared to rivals Romney and Perry, but his rapidly rising stock has many people asking a simple question: Who is Herman Cain?
He’s best known as the former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza and often boasts on the campaign trail that he saved the Omaha, Neb.-based from bankruptcy. Cain, 65, also worked at Burger King, turning around failing stores in the Philadelphia region, was the CEO of the National Restaurant Association, and the chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Mo. He earned a master’s degree in computer science (1971) from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., after majoring in math at Morehouse College, the all-male historically black school in Atlanta. He also has ordained Baptist minister and conservative radio host on his resume.
He has never held elective office but sees that as a bonus, telling voters at every opportunity, “the American people are ready for someone who is a “businessman, problem solver, first” rather than a politician.
Cain is also a survivor of stage-four colon and liver cancer. He lives in Atlanta with wife Gloria. They have two children and three grandchildren. Unlike almost all campaign spouses, Cain’s wife of 43 years does not join him on the stump.
Cain told The Daily Caller, that his wife is “one of the most unassuming, not-looking-for-the-limelight-people you’ve ever met,” adding not to “expect the traditional amount of exposure you normally get from a campaign wife.”
Spencer Wiggins worked for Cain at Burger King, following him to Omaha when Cain took over Godfather’s and says Cain is incredibly persuasive and motivational, bringing success to both companies.
Wiggins met Cain after being recruited by Burger King to join the company when he was an executive at Kraft Foods. Wiggins told the company he wasn’t interested in working for a fast-food company and not interested in meeting Cain, saying it would be a “waste of time” for both of them.
But Cain was persistent and convinced him to stop by, greeting Wiggins with a warm, “Spencer Wiggins, my man. I’ve been trying to get you in here.”
He said it was as though Cain had “known him all his life,” and after a two and a half hour conversation, Cain convinced him to come to Burger King. Likewise, when Cain moved to Godfather’s, Wiggins had no intention of moving to Omaha, saying it was not in “his top 500 places to go.”
But after a visit with Cain, where the weather was so bad they couldn’t even leave the hotel for dinner, Cain was still able to convince him to move to the Godfather’s headquarters in Nebraska.
Cain eventually bought the company with investors and went from president to CEO, although it’s difficult to measure his subsequent track record for the privately owned company. Godfather’s Pizza doesn’t “disclose annual sales figures or financial information,” it said in a statement.
The statement added that the chain takes “no position on political candidates, but we do make great pizza.”
The St. Petersburg Times’ Politifact reviewed Cain’s assertion that he rescued the company and found that he is “largely correct.”
“They had to be very innovative to compete with the big three and with the little guys. They couldn’t rest on their laurels,” John Correll, a pizza industry consultant, told the St. Petersburg Times. “For a number of years, Herman Cain and his management team were able to pull that off.
Former colleague and now close friend Wiggins said Cain was frank with him before he took the job, telling him the company had “one foot on a banana peel and one foot in the grave,” something Cain often repeats now. But he told Wiggins that he thought they could turn it around.
Wiggins said Cain urged his other employees to get into the kitchens themselves – which Cain did as well – and help make pizza. He used motivational speeches to help the downtrodden employees and franchise owners and catchy phrases such as telling his employees to SIN or “solve it now.”
His speech-making prowess helped him win the Florida straw poll with the crowd clearly wowed by his address. Cain’s rivals received some cordial applause, but there was a roar when Cain finished his speech.
At Godfather’s, Cain closed down low performing franchises as CEO, Wiggins said, but he was able to “turn the ship around.” The company lost jobs then but, Wiggins said, Cain created more than he lost under his stewardship. He hired employees who wanted to be at their restaurants, were focused on customer service and didn’t just see the position as a JOB, or “just on board,” Wiggins said.
Wiggins said Cain’s business success would make him a qualified president because “there is nothing superficial about him” and he’s always been humble. Wiggins added that if someone tells Cain he can’t do something, it just “stimulates him more.”
Cain’s catchy phrases and gift for the gab helped him in his pizza parlors, as it’s helping him now on the stump.
GOP political consultant Brian Donahue said Cain’s oratorical skills explain his surge in the polls. Donahue says Cain has “done an excellent job of boiling his message down to an emotional and concise way that people understand. While “the front-runners” have spent “much of the time attacking each other” in the debates, Cain has used the forums to present “his vision and his message.”
“You are seeing a lot of the populist support beginning to coalesce around Herman Cain,” Donahue said. “All signs point that this will come down to Perry and Romney, however, the surge for Herman Cain is indicative of the populist Tea Party activists sending a message to the establishment that they aren’t going to fall in line that easily. They are going to continue to support a candidate that looks and feels anti-establishment and I think they are going to do that until they feel their voice has been heard loud and clear.”
After Cain bought Godfather’s, he got into a well-publicized discussion with then-President Bill Clinton, who was in Omaha holding a town hall to promote his health care plan. Cain told Clinton that he would have to get rid of employees to pay for the health care of other employees.
“On behalf of all those business owners that are in a situation similar to mine, my question is quite simply, if I’m forced to do this, what will I tell those people whose jobs I will have to eliminate?” Cain asked Clinton.
They went back and forth until Clinton told Cain to send his calculations to the White House.
Cain’s been pushing his “999″ economic plan on the stump and on his book tour. It would change the tax code to have a 9 percent business flat tax, a 9 percent personal income flat tax, and a 9 percent national sales tax. Economic analysts have said it could affect Social Security as well as hurt the poor and middle class, but Cain says the plan “won’t touch Social Security.”
Despite Cain’s jolt in the polls, he’s not spending his days in Iowa and New Hampshire, instead dropping by Manhattan and doing the talk -show circuit promoting his new book. Cain told ABC News he’s not shunning the early states and his strategy will ensure he is in the top three in Iowa and New Hampshire while winning South Carolina and Florida.
Craig Robinson, the former political director of the Iowa GOP who founded the Iowa Republican website, said he thinks Cain is “making a mistake by not campaigning in the early states.”
“I think it is a huge missed opportunity for him,” Robinson said. “Instead of doing TV show, TV show, TV show, he could come to Iowa where he would probably pull very big crowds and sell his candidacy that way.”
Cain’s strategy was one reason many staffers left this summer, saying the candidate was not putting the effort in those states that’s needed.
Tina Goff, who was the Iowa state director until she left in July, told ABC News that they were “asked to come up with our own strategy for our state and he wasn’t following the strategy we came up with.”
That strategy? “Visiting Iowa more. We had come up with a 99-counties strategy, visit all 99 counties. He just really wasn’t willing to do that,” said Goff, who worked on Fred Thompson’s 2008 campaign as well as Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad’s.
Goff added that she wanted to work for Cain because he “inspired” her, but he’s not qualified to be president, she said.
“He’s a Baptist preacher, he’s very motivating, but I think he’s more of a motivational speaker and he doesn’t have the background or information to be able to run our country,” Goff said.
Cain hasn’t been back to Iowa since the Ames Straw Poll in August. He said he has been to the state 18 times and although he doesn’t have an exact date, he plans to return in the “next several weeks.”
Matt Murphy, who was the New Hampshire state director, cited the same reasons for leaving. Murphy told ABC News that he had “strategic differences about how much time was spent in the early states.”
He told campaign manager Mark Block that “New Hampshire was an ideal state for a candidate like Herman Cain with low name recognition, not a lot of money,” but he wasn’t able to make the case so he left.
Cain’s press secretary, J.D. Gordon told ABC News, “Iowa is important to them” and the campaign is “running a national strategy.”
Despite the lack of campaigning in the early states, his poll numbers make Cain a contender. If the Tea Party coalesces around him, he could continue to rise and be the anti-Romney, which FreedomWorks’ supporters are actively looking for, spokesman Adam Brandon said.
For FreedomWorks Tea Party-inclined supporters, Brandon said, Cain “checks all the boxes.” They like his 999 plan and that he’s a “straight talker” and “authentic” compared to Romney, whom they see as “more of a politician than authentic,” Brandon said.
They want to support whichever candidate who can take on Romney but, Brandon said, they will only support Cain if he also shows that he “can build a credible campaign through the early states.”
FreedomWorks doesn’t traditionally endorse in presidential elections but they might, Brandon said, if it becomes a two man race and one of the men is Romney.
Amy Kremer, the chairman of the Tea Party Express, calls Cain a “Tea Party candidate,” but it’s too early for the movement to coalesce around a candidate.
“He’s been on the frontlines of this movement for the last couple of years fighting the same conservative causes we are all fighting so he has a lot of support out there,” she said, “but it’s too early to tell.”
ABC News’ Susan Archer contributed to this report.
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Cainunism [keyn - yuh - niz - uhm] – noun
1. A theory or system of economic organization based on a wildly optimistic regard for the fiscal discipline of Congress and the President. Adherence to this theory typically requires the suspension of disbelief concerning the ability of increasing the government’s power to tax, without substantive spending cuts, to actually reduce burdens on taxpayers and to produce economic recovery.
2. The intentional use by politicians of resonant slogans which obfuscate and distract some voters from the otherwise conspicuous absence of thoughtful, realistic or realizable fiscal or monetary plans and policies.
Cainunist [keyn - yuh - nist] – adjective
1. Of, characterized by, favoring or relating to Cainunism; Cainunistic
In a sentence: “Imagining that a ‘9 – 9 – 9’ percent tax ‘plan’ would not soon be 9.9 – 9.9 – 9.9, then 19 – 19 – 19, and so on, is just more magical Cainunist thinking.”
Origin of Cainunism: term used by informed voters to describe the economic-sounding slogans that originated from the 2012 vanity presidential campaign of Herman Cain (1945 – )
Synonyms for Cainunism: 1. Prevarication, 2. Deception, 2. Cozen, 3. Hucksterism, 4. Hoodwink, 5. Sales Pitch, 6. Razzle Dazzle
Antonyms for Cainunism: 1. Common Sense, 2. Objective Reality, 3. Free Market, 4. Tax Reduction, 5. Economic Liberty, 6. Less Government, 7. Constitutionalism
Posted by: Jay | October 7, 2011, 8:23 am 8:23 am
Herman – you cannot run the US like a corporation or business. Well – maybe that isn’t true – I’m sure the GOP would love to run the US this way. Businesses dump people left and right when times are bad. Govt can’t do this. Govt is there to assist people. Businessmen couldn’t care less about the lives they destroy in their wake of layoffs. It’s business – right? Again Herman – you may have made gobs of money in your businesses. And you turned around businesses. How did you do this? Youj probably cut costs – translation? – layoffs and cutbacks. The private sector merrily follows this simple business law – reduce costs at any price when times are bad. The 99% can’t swallow your 9-9-9 plan or your business plan for the US.
Posted by: Bob | October 7, 2011, 8:40 am 8:40 am
JAY, October 7, 2011, 8:23 AM:
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LOL! …….. Jay, a good one!
According to CBO analysis, I currently fall into the FOURTH QUINTILE, i.e., somewhere between the top 60-to-80% bracket of all income earners. According to the CBO, the average pre-tax income for the quintile I fall in is $89,500, and the EFFECTIVE INDIVIDUAL INCOME TAX RATE for this group is 15.6% (an effective income tax rate of 6.0% plus an effective social income tax rate of 9.6%).
So, under the current system, of my $89,500 pre-tax income, I pay $13,962 in taxes… and I’m done with my obligations to the federal government, leaving me with $75,538 to do with what I please (no national sales tax applied).
Under Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 plan, I’ll pay $8,055 in federal income tax (9% of $89,500), leaving me with $81,445 in after-tax income….. but that $81,445 will also be subject to a “national sales tax” of 9%. So, in effect, if I want to do better tax-wise under Cain’s 9-9-9 plan, I BETTER NOT use more than $65,600 of my after-income-tax $81,445 to buy anything…. otherwise I’ll be paying more in federal taxes under his plan than I did under the current system.
Herman Cain’s plan has limited me to spending only $65,600 of my after-tax income ($81,445), IF I want to do better in tax savings. If I spend more than that, I’m paying more in federal taxes than under the current system…..
…… LOL! ….. and somehow this is supposed to “stimulate the economy?”. Give me a break. Herman Cain’s “9-9-9 plan” is TROJAN HORSE gift presented by corporate America to the country’s MIDDLE CLASS, and believe me America, when that 9% “national sales tax” is applied to every single dollar of your after-income-tax income, you’re going to regret it… BIG TIME.
Posted by: Forrest Gump is a Republican | October 7, 2011, 9:09 am 9:09 am
Cain is the nicest and Dale Carnegie equipped gentleman I have ever seen on the presidential trail. Cain could talk the salmon out of spawning. We have already experienced the downside of missing critical experience in winning the presidency. Being a soothing and quick on your feet candidate is a bad reason to vote for a candidate if all the other attributes are not there. Politics is a nuanced profession and a President needs to know the features of actually having held an office. Although if Cain gets the nomination in 2016 with political and diplomatic experience I will vote for him, I do like him.
Posted by: Jay Adler Comment | October 7, 2011, 9:48 am 9:48 am
Posted by: Bob—–Governments do it all the time, they end programs, they reduce payments and benefits, the US can no longer afford to keep people who have outlived their usefulness or have no use around. It’s cold and It’s hard, but I is true. You have the right to the life you were born to, if that life doesn’t allow you to get very far, you get as far as you can. Do we need to give people hand-ups, by all means, give them enough to survive to get training and skills, but people begging for scraps, aren’t entitled to any standard of living beyond survival.
Posted by: snewsom2997 | October 7, 2011, 10:31 am 10:31 am
Perhaps Hermain iz Francais? Oui!
Posted by: Claude | October 7, 2011, 11:45 am 11:45 am
Herman Cain seems to forget that every opportunity he has is largely due to the courageous efforts of those civil rights workers in the 1950s and 60s. And I’ll almost bet, that somewhere along the line he got help from a government program, possibly for his education.
Posted by: tferretti | October 7, 2011, 12:01 pm 12:01 pm
Herman Cain is 999% better that Barack Obama ever thought about being. At least Herman Cain has actually worked in the private sector and knows what a job is. Or we can just let the Government keep spoon feeding society.
Posted by: Matthew | October 7, 2011, 12:33 pm 12:33 pm
I’m not in favor of a 9% national sales tax. Mostly because I think that’s too high to start with. (You know it will only grow.) However, it does insure that everyone pays an equal share of taxes. That is, no one can avoid paying taxes except through failing to spend money. Which mostly defeats to point of having money. In any case, we need to take a serious look at our current tax structure.
Posted by: CarsonCitySteve | October 7, 2011, 12:44 pm 12:44 pm
Who is Herman Cain?
Who cares! After the Republican primaries he will be just another wealthy Republican businessman, we’ve got LOTS of those in this country……
Posted by: Searambler | October 7, 2011, 12:56 pm 12:56 pm
The GOPs poor attempt at looking like they are “inclusive”. First it was their token gesture of making Michael Steele RNC chairman, now since they have no viable candidate with any substance who better to go against a democratic black president then a republican black president. My guess is they will elect a white candidate and use Hermann as their token VP.
Posted by: Rich | October 7, 2011, 1:04 pm 1:04 pm
I find it hilarious that people are actually arguing about Cains stunningly simplistic and unfair 9-9-9 plan, considering this man hasn’t got a snowball’s chance in hell of ever getting the Republican presidential nomination. And even if, by some miracle he did, he would lose to Obama. And even if by some BIGGER miracle he actually defeated Obama – does anyone realistically think Congress would support such a bad tax overhaul plan? I mean seriously, people, think for one minute. This entire discussion is moot. Cain’s ‘bumper sticker’ plan, designed specifically for the stupid people in his Party that cannot handle complex thoughts or higher reasoning, is a joke. Remember, THIS is the guy who said that, as president, he wouldn’t allow any bills over 3 pages long. Simplistic, simple, banal – call it what you like. I call it ‘dead on arrival’……….
Posted by: Searambler | October 7, 2011, 1:05 pm 1:05 pm
According to Hermann he was in high school during the civil rights so he couldn’t participate, actually between 63-67, during the height of the civil rights movement, he was in collegeas during the height of the civil rights movement.
Posted by: Rich | October 7, 2011, 1:08 pm 1:08 pm
MATTHEW
Running Godfathers Pizza (who by the way was over priced and they are now out of Arizona) is not kike running the most powerful nation in the world with a population of 300,000,000.
Posted by: tferretti | October 7, 2011, 1:13 pm 1:13 pm
At least Herman Cain has actually worked in the private sector and knows what a job is. Posted by: Matthew | October 7, 2011, 12:33 pm.
He should know what a job is, as CEO of Godfather’s Pizza, he closed over 400 locations in his first 14 months and put a ton of people out of one. More than half of the stores got the ax, in his plan to make the company profitable. Rather than figure out a better way to do business, or make a better product, or market the product better, he just kept on cutting until the red ink turned to black. He sure SOUNDS like a Republican……………..
Posted by: Searambler | October 7, 2011, 1:17 pm 1:17 pm
Liberals hate Cain because he’s a black man who refuses to call himself a victim. They hate him because he’s a black man who refuses to toe the government dependency line. They hate him because he’s a black man who has escaped off the democrat plantation. Cain’s achievements fly in the face of the liberal mantra that blacks can’t succeed without handouts from democrats, and that terrifies them.
Liberals have always reserved their most bitter hatred and racism for black conservatives – Colin Powell, Michael Steele, Michael Powell, Condi Rice, Clarence Thomas, Alan Keyes, Allen West, etc. It is the same hatred and racism slave owners had for free blacks.
Posted by: Steve | October 7, 2011, 1:32 pm 1:32 pm
Cain is ahead 20 points in the latest Zogby national GOP poll of likely GOP votes. He is not in second place. He is also ahead, according to Zogby, in a head to head match up with Obama, though the latter is within the margin of error.
Posted by: kcfield | October 7, 2011, 1:33 pm 1:33 pm
Herman Cain has a great personal story. Still don’t agree with him politically on much of anything.
Posted by: rippedpockets | October 7, 2011, 2:01 pm 2:01 pm
I have NEVER donated money to a political campaign. I WILL be donating to Herman Cain’s campaign. I’m not completely sold on the 9% national sales tax, but I support his plan to completely overhaul the tax structure to have everyone pay their fair share.
Posted by: so what, who cares | October 7, 2011, 2:05 pm 2:05 pm
Mr. Cain is a successful mathmatician, I’d like to see how he came up with this 9-9-9 plan. Details Herman, details. BTW is that 9% national sales tax on top of the 8.25% state and local sales tax? , Doubt that will drive growth. At almost 20% I’d be petrified to buy anything, but the essentials.
Posted by: rippedpockets | October 7, 2011, 2:10 pm 2:10 pm
Some republican pundits complain that Herman Cain does not have political experience so therefore should not be president. I’m tired of politicians! How about someone who’s actually worked for a living……unlike the current president. Look where he’s gotten us. Cain’s got my vote!!
Posted by: Kathy in Pa. | October 7, 2011, 2:29 pm 2:29 pm
Herman Cain is a businessman… not a politician. Tell him to go back to his corporation. “Godfather’s Pizza” and sell some dough. LOL
Posted by: Lorrie | October 7, 2011, 2:57 pm 2:57 pm
his 9 9 9 plan would make us worst off and the rich richer. LOL
Posted by: Lorrie | October 7, 2011, 2:58 pm 2:58 pm
“the American people are ready for someone who is a “businessman, problem solver, first” rather than a politician.” — This is actually true. We have a group of “politicians” running this country now and they can not do a bit of good.
Posted by: NoSpin1600 | October 7, 2011, 3:17 pm 3:17 pm
Lorrie — How do you figure a flat tax would make the rich richer and poor poorer? A flat tax is truly the only fair way. If we simplify our tax codes and implement a flat tax we would be better off.
Posted by: NoSpin1600 | October 7, 2011, 3:19 pm 3:19 pm
” How do you figure a flat tax would make the rich richer and poor poorer?”
A person making $20,000 is taxed at 10%. He has $18,000 left to support himself (and his family if he has one.) A person making $200,000 is taxed at 10%. He has $180,000 left. The current tax code does not take this much from the one making $20,000. It takes more from the one making $200,000. $18,000 is not enough to pay basic living expenses where I live. If you really believe this is FAIR and cannot see where it would make the rich richer and the poor poorer, then I do not need to say anymore.
Posted by: savethemiddleclass | October 7, 2011, 3:36 pm 3:36 pm
IS ANY ONE SURPRISED that Mayor Bloomberg is against demonstrators on Wall Street? Bloomberg is, and always will be for the banks and other Wall Street exploiters of the middle class. He is the one who impelled Obama to appoint as members of his economic team those who in different ways contributed to the economic crisis of 2007-2008. Nothing frightens the selfish rich more than giving a part of their wealth to common cause. Even more frightening to them is an autochthonous authentic mass movement that demands social justice! The moneyed class and the political class they corrupt are against any genuine people’s mass protest. In the current economic crisis, the selfish millionaires and their lackeys in the US Congress are the ones who are quick to shout “class warfare” in America’s political discourse as a tactics to silent critics of their selfishness. Those demonstrating in Wall Street are exercising their free speech right; but so-called right wing “libertarians” feel threatened. Mitt Romney called the “occupy Wall Street” protest “dangerous” and of course “class warfare.” Herman Cain, who has benefitted prodigiously from bank patronage for his business, tells those demonstrating to blame themselves for being poor and/or unemployed. Herman Cain’s “blame themselves” chiding of demonstrators will be remembered as America’s version of “let them eat cake” especially given existing high level of frustration and lack of enough jobs for applicants. Eric Cantor (House Majority Leader), type-casted demonstrators as a “mob.” Yet, he never condemned the Tea Party in its inception and evolution as the true mob given that they used threat of violence as a strategy of to advance their political goals. Many of their members carried firearms to public events! The selfish rich (according to recent polls, only about 35 percent of rich people are ) and their allies in Congress are against paying more. The selfish ones, however, seem the most unpleasant and ruthless. They make the most noise, hoard their money, refuse to invest in America to create jobs in order to hurt Obama. They hold great influence in Washington and the state houses of the nation. They influence legislative activities in their favor (mostly those that deal with government regulations, climate change and empowerment of the middle class). They are overall mostly the money baggers for Republican and Tea Party lawmakers. The idea of the rich paying more is anathema to him even as prepares to enlarge one of his many mansions. Wall Street, and most of the super-rich, missed the best opportunity to demonstrate the positive side of capitalism after the near collapse of the US and world economy in 2007. Now, 65 percent of them are ready to do something positive to help revive the economy. Those that resist change should not forget that Americans bailed them all out towards the end of the Bush Jr. Presidency in 2008.
Posted by: Dr. Sam | October 7, 2011, 3:48 pm 3:48 pm
NOSPIN1600 WROTE: “Lorrie — How do you figure a flat tax would make the rich richer and poor poorer? A flat tax is truly the only fair way. If we simplify our tax codes and implement a flat tax we would be better off.”============================================
BS – Why should the rich pay the same flat tax as the poor or middle class does? You, as well as your Republican counterparts, show your greed everytime I hear this stupidness! What horrible people you are to think that you are above everyone else. If i could give more, I woulld, because I DO LOVE MY COUNTRY!!
Posted by: Lorrie | October 7, 2011, 4:57 pm 4:57 pm
NOSPIN1600 WROTE: “Lorrie — How do you figure a flat tax would make the rich richer and poor poorer? A flat tax is truly the only fair way. If we simplify our tax codes and implement a flat tax we would be better off.”===================================================
BS…. You really believe the crap coming out of your mouth, so I won’t call you ignorant, because you would only deny that you are. Why should someone making $20,000.00 per year pay the same flat tax that someone making $2,000,000.00. Do you know how stupid that sounds??? LOL Goodness… righties really could care less about anyone else but themselves!
Posted by: Lorrie | October 7, 2011, 5:00 pm 5:00 pm
I will not vote for Cain! Mr. Cain points his finger at American citizens and say it is their fault for not having a job! This statement by Mr. Cain is disingenuous because there are people looking for work with degrees and without degrees but they are not being hired because conservative leadership is cutting back on jobs and funds that aid in creating jobs,but at the same time fight for tax cuts for the same corporations and conservative leadership that are leading the charge to cut needed funds and jobs! Also Mr. Cain goes out of his way to say he is a “good black,” what is up with the Amos and Andy persona (look up Amos and Andy)?
Posted by: bobbob7779311 | October 7, 2011, 5:21 pm 5:21 pm
Sounds like some liberals have a touch of right wing when it comes to Cain.
Posted by: newcountryman | October 7, 2011, 7:07 pm 7:07 pm
Lorrie (2:57 PM) said; “Herman Cain is a businessman… not a politician. Tell him to go back to his corporation. “Godfather’s Pizza” and sell some dough. LOL
Sometimes I wish Obama would go back to Baskin&Robbins and sell some ice cream. LOL
Posted by: newcountryman | October 7, 2011, 7:10 pm 7:10 pm
! Cain, the show must and will go on without you (wink)!
Posted by: bobbob7779311 | October 7, 2011, 8:11 pm 8:11 pm
He’s a LOSER with no EMPATHY!!!! When he said people occupying wallstreet were Un-American and they need to get a job…….he is a loser!!!! People ARE trying to find jobs and it is their constitutional right to PROTEST on wallstreet! He will not get far!!!
Posted by: congress and people are you listening | October 7, 2011, 8:47 pm 8:47 pm
Cain will be a true ‘healer’. Since Obama has been in power Racism, Class warfare, and Guv corruption has been growing in this country. Most of the ‘hating’ seems to come from the left oddly enough. Go figure. They in turn blame the Tea Parties. Those false claims have made the numbers surge upward for Tea Parties nation-wide. As it should be in a free Republic. Well, after Cain is elected and our Republic experiences an economic BOOM that creates jobs jobs jobs and prosperity for all of the diverse peoples that call America home….let’s just say he will make ‘believers’ of them. They’ll be saying…”What were we thinking”…LOL. Racism, Class warfare and Guv corruption have NO place in a just, fair and free nation.
Let the healing begin! Vote for Herman Cain!
Posted by: leetrav | October 8, 2011, 2:33 am 2:33 am
the PC left is hilarious….now we need to see who is the ‘blackest’…real important in light of the bs the Obama admin has accomplished…zero. the PC hate that comes from the left is a joke. they blame anyone and everyone for the failures of the Obama crowd and themselves. Cain sleeps just fine at night and is, rightfully so, very proud of his accomplishments, relationships with all peoples, and his life in general. People LOVE Herman Cain because he is a good man and has done so many good things with and in his life. Hopefully, after he is elected he can ‘heal’ and put to bed some of the racial divides, class warfare, and Guv corruption brought to us by the PC left. Pathetic bunch really….
Posted by: leetrav | October 8, 2011, 2:37 am 2:37 am
leetrav | October 8, 2011, 2:33 am post:
LOL!!!!! Just about the most delusional rant I’ve ever seen. The Tea Baggers are fading in popularity, not increasing. You really need to turn off the Right Wing propaganda media and look at things as they REALLY are, not as they portray them. Oh wait, never mind. We BOTH know that will never happen…….
Posted by: Searambler | October 8, 2011, 9:47 am 9:47 am
Liberals hate Cain because he’s a black man who refuses to call himself a victim. They hate him because he’s a black man who refuses to toe the government dependency line. They hate him because he’s a black man who has escaped off the democrat plantation. Cain’s achievements fly in the face of the liberal mantra that blacks can’t succeed without handouts from democrats, and that terrifies them. Posted by: Steve | October 7, 2011, 1:32 pm.
LOL! Your racist rants aren’t doing you any good here. Liberals don’t “hate Cain”. We disagree with his positions, we think he is clueless when it comes to politics, we KNOW he has no experience in things like foreign policy, immigration, or the myriad other things that presidents have to deal with daily. But we don’t hate him. Why should we? The fact that the vast majority of Blacks in America are Democrats and vote FOR Democrats is apparently completely lost on you. The fact that the Republican Party deliberately supports wealthy white Christians over everyone else (see Nixon’s Southern Strategy) is also apparently lost on you………
Posted by: Searambler | October 8, 2011, 9:53 am 9:53 am
Very happy with the gop field right now. Cain, Romney, Newt are all in my site of vision. Will continue to listen to all candidates particularly Ron Paul and Huntsman also. I will not settle on one until the very end. Not due to the bogus claim the no nothing pudits are making that gop voters are not happy with the field. Quite the opposite, i’m overly happy at how strong and credible the field is for the gop in this election. but the country is at a major cross road and in crisis, we all must vet these candidates thoroughly before deciding. Obama and his liberal agenda must end. Employment must rise. This country can not afford anothter 4 years of division, economic chaos and global decline.
Posted by: chris | October 8, 2011, 10:39 am 10:39 am
Who is Herman Cain? Next year, he will be nothing more than a footnote in American political history. Just one of hundreds of presidential wannabe’s who couldn’t cut the mustard. Or in his case, the mozzarella……………..
Posted by: Searambler | October 8, 2011, 10:42 am 10:42 am
This country can not afford another 4 years of division, economic chaos and global decline. Posted by: chris | October 8, 2011, 10:39 am.
And you believe a Republican in the White House will change all that? Wow. Do you sell what you smoke, or do you just have it for your own personal consumption?
Posted by: Searambler | October 8, 2011, 10:44 am 10:44 am
Those who say Herman Cain is a token Black candidate for the Republican Party speak in ignorance. I have listened to his radio show in Atlanta since it first started, and he is the same today as he has always been. He is nobody’s puppet.He entered this race after many encouraged him to do so, only after much consideration and prayer. He wants to bring back a thriving economy and make the US a county that other countries respect once again. Today at an international Exchange program in Japan, I met a Canadian who was very much pro-Cain and said that others ouside the United States are following the presidential election and like what they are seeing and hearing from Herman Cain. They believe he is just what this country needs as a leader and that he has a good chance in the presidential race.
Posted by: Jack Randall | October 9, 2011, 4:21 am 4:21 am
Herman Cain, who calls himself “the Black Walnut” numerous times during several interviews, will NEVER win the Republican presidential nomination. Anyone who thinks otherwise is totally delusional…………….
Posted by: Searambler | October 9, 2011, 10:48 am 10:48 am
Republicans are hilarious because Powell and Rice were not good enough for the likes of Cheney, Rush, and many of the hardcore conservatives even though Powell and Rich were indeed conservative! Cain is nothing but a token piece that the conservative need to point too as evidence and Cain is an opportunist, that don’t mind being used in hopes that he will be given a crumb of the spoils!
Posted by: bobbob7779311 | October 12, 2011, 8:48 pm 8:48 pm
………..Powell and Rice were indeed conservatives( but hardcore cons like Rush and Cheny did not like them)! Cain is nothing but a token piece that conservatives need to point to as evidence! Cain, is an opportunist! He don’t mind being used. He hopes that he will be given a crumb of the spoils!
Posted by: bobbob7779311 | October 12, 2011, 9:01 pm 9:01 pm
Cain supports Paul Ryan’s ideas–that’s not good. His 999 plan is simple, which is good, and abolishes loopholes, which is good, but it isn’t fair to low-income citizens. There’s a huge gap between a low-income person paying 9% of their income in taxes and corporate or wealthy paying 9%. Paying taxes based on income is still fair in our tax code, it’s the loopholes and deductions for wealthy and conglomerates that is the problem.
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