Posted on 11/09/2011 10:37:04 AM PST by Cecilia Trent
On Fox News’s Red Eye, Wednesday morning, The Daily Caller‘s Tucker Carlson made a blunt analysis on Herman Cain‘s abilities to govern as president.
“Come on, can we just stop pretending?” Carlson remarked. “I don’t know what happened with these women, the ‘he said, she said, she said, she said’ thing. He is not qualified to be president, and we are all pretending he is. He’s a nice guy. I know him, I like him. I think he’s a great guy. He would be a better president than the current president, but he can’t explain his own economic plan.”
“Isn’t that all we need — is somebody better than Obama?” asked host Greg Gutfeld.
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And Barak “no resume or transcripts” Obama was qualified...right...
Yes of course it would have been racist to ask the Won any questions.
The country-clubbers have decided on Milt and you filthy peasant “tea-baggers” are just getting in the way. Don’t you people realize who runs this country?
I have to ask Tucker, what are the qualifications to be president in addition to the Constitutional requirements? Certainly, Cain meets those.
The liberals have been pretending Obama’s qualified now since his campaign...and I”ve not seen one iota of improvement from what he was when he started out.
Remove the T and add an F...
enough of FOX for ME Proof that Cain has them all running scared... Continue on Herman Cain..Americans are feed up.
He is more qualified than Obama ever was....or is.
The attacks on Cain and Palin are PROOF that the media and the DC insiders FEAR one of us getting elected.
Tucker may, or may not be right about that. But I do know Cain is much better qualified than Barack Obama was 3 years ago; and is now.
Barack Obama was an affirmative action president for the left.
He had no qualifircations. He had only his skin color. No one looked beyond that. Biden was right about that part; he was “clean”.
“not qualified...”
This, coming from the same peripheral anklebiter who said Michael Vick should be executed for his crimes.
I`ll be the first to step up and say Vick should`ve paid a bigger professional price for what he did, but “executed”... please.
Your right, but so does Cain. He has said that he would have no problem being Mittens VP and then slammed Perry. Very odd and it gives one pause.
Barack Obama’s laughable lack of experience does not make the case for doing it again, unless you think the Obama presidency has been working well.
What an ass Tucker is proving to be. Isn’t he now banned from Greta Van Sustern’s show?
Well: He said here that he is more qualified than our current Muslim, but still unqualified.
Carlson is probably right. I know he is right about being more qualified than Obama. I have clipped toenails that were more qualified than Obama.
I’ll forever associate Tucker Carlson with his pushing of that vile porno Mike Tyson/Sarah Palin story in his “Daily Caller.” I swear, when I see his face on tv nowadays, I want to puke.
Ditto that!
0bama was not qualifed to be President, but 50 million voters pretended that he was
An Obama is qualified to be president???...Get a grip!
Well, this pretty much says it all, doesn’t it?
If all these people felt that way, why didn’t they say it when Herman first entered the race?
Why was he allowed to even enter the race?
So its Obama or Romney, right?
Why are we even having any primaries?
Screw you, Tucker.
Never trust a guy with a bowtie.
“And Barak ‘no resume or transcripts’ Obama was qualified...right...”
He said Cain would be a better president than Obama, to those of us who can read.
‘Barak Ubama Is Not Qualified To Be President And We Are All Pretending He Is’
The problem with Obama is not his lack of experience....the problem is his Socialist policies. Something we do not have to worry about with Cain.
I think you've pretty much nailed it.
There's hope yet, but it is depressing. And that's why we're going to get Mitt and yet another half-assed, value-free, vanilla milkshake GOP campaign run by people who'd just as easily work for the other side if they'd only pay more and maybe took more frequent showers.
Yes, if our best argument for our candidate is that at least he’s better than Obama, that’s a pretty low standard to be setting for the Presidency. I like Herman Cain too, but he doesn’t strike me as the best we can do for President.
If a person felt like this about Cain before his press conference last night, they could not possibly STILL have such an opinion of him AFTER his statements or in view of the absolutely honorable and faultless manner in which he delivered his statements and the wholly dignified and even handed way in which he answered reporters’ questions.
I felt like Cain justified the esteem I felt for him already!
hahahahaha.... ‘Schmucker Karl-son’, the Karl ‘Marx’ Rove wannabee of poltiical hacks, thinks what he says is gospel
I suggest we leave the guilt by innuendo tactics to the Leftists. You really do not want people looking too close at your two Ricks backgrounds.
They have a whole lot more to lose then Cain.
Tucker Carlson is not qualified to speak for the USA, and should not pretend that he is.
“An Obama is qualified to be president???...Get a grip!”
I understand people not clicking the links to read whole stories, but never knew so many didn’t bother with anything but the headline. Geez!
That's a given, and the wrong focus, IMHO.
The right focus is: Is Cain more qualified than any other Republican candidate?
Hint: Simply saying "yes!" is not an answer. Please folks, think this through.
But that is not the point.
The point is the hypocrisy of people making that argument, like Carlson, who never ONCE had the same standard for 0.
People like Carlson do not get to selectively pick and choose who their apply their standards too simply because you happen to like his target choice
Is Carlson suggesting we need an uber-intellectual lifelong politician to win? That’s funny, because that exact type of garbage who got America into the problems it faces today.
I guarantee all these pig RINOs will endorse Obama in the coming election!
When you hear these people say "qualified", what they really mean is "can actually win".
And Tucker is actually just being honest. The real truth is that pretty much no one at Fox (or most major other conservative outlets) really takes Cain seriously. They try to be pretend to be nice because they don't want to piss off the Tea Party folks, but in realty they consider Cain a joke and you can see it very plainly in the way they sneer at his very name. Carlson, Krauthammer, Hayes, Hume, etc, etc, think they are humoring the Tea Party people for now by not outright laughing at Cain, but they would savage him if it actually looked like he might be the nominee.
A Summary Of Herman Cain’s BIO That’s Better Than Any Candidate Of Any Party
* Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics.
* Master’s degree in Computer Science.
* Mathematician for the Navy, where he worked on missile ballistics (making him a rocket scientist).
* Computer systems analyst for Coca-Cola.
* VP of Corporate Data Systems and Services for Pillsbury (this is the top of the ladder in the computer world, being in charge of information systems for a major corporation).
All achieved before reaching the age of 35. Since he reached the top of the information systems world, he changed careers!
* Business Manager. Took charge of Pillsbury’s 400 Burger King restaurants in the Philadelphia area, which were the company’s poorest performers in the country.
He spent the first nine months learning the business from the ground up, cooking hamburger and yes, cleaning toilets. After three years he had turned them into the company’s best performers.
* Godfather’s Pizza CEO. Was asked by Pillsbury to take charge of their Godfather’s Pizza chain (which was on the verge of bankruptcy). He made it profitable in 14 months.
* In 1988 he led a buyout of the Godfather’s Pizza chain from Pillsbury. He was now the owner of a restaurant chain. Again he reached the top of the ladder of another industry.
* He was also chairman of the National Restaurant Association during this time. This is a group that interacts with government on behalf of the restaurant industry, and it gave him political experience from the non-politician side.
Having reached the top of a second industry, he changed careers again!
* Adviser to the Federal Reserve System. Herman Cain went to work for the Federal Reserve Banking System advising them on how monetary policy changes would affect American businesses.
* Chairman of the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank. He worked his way up to the chairmanship of a regional Federal Reserve Bank. This is only one step below the chairmanship of the entire Federal Reserve System (the top banking position in the country). This position allowed him to see how monetary policy is made from the inside, and understand the political forces that impact the monetary system.
After reaching the top of the banking industry, he changed careers for a fourth time!
* Writer and public speaker. He then started to write and speak on leadership. His books include “Speak as a Leader”, “CEO of Self”, “Leadership is Common Sense”, and “They Think You’re Stupid”.
* Radio Host. Around 2007—after a remarkable 40-year career—he started hosting a radio show on WSB in Atlanta (the largest talk radio station in the country).
It’s about time for the Tea Party to leave the GOP and we’ll see how well the RINO party does on its own.
As if I needed another reason to support Cain. The elites don’t think we know what frauds they are for remaining silent on zer0’s ineligibility. Cain is the best way for us to get revenge. I support Cain!
When you think about it, you know it is true that Cain is the best qualified.
Who is the ONLY candidate purposing a plan to fundamentally restructure how the US Government works in a Conservative fashion.
Cain. Everyone else merely wants to screw around changing this or that to “Fix the system”. Cain is the only one who sees the system itself is the problem.
Does Tucker still look like his mommy dressed him???
Tucker, like many media elites, posit that one must be a professional politician to be qualified for the presidency.
Bull eff’n shiite!!! Being a professional politician is the equivalent of being a full time liar and confidence man. The fact that Cain is NOT a professional politician gives him far more appeal than all the others at the outset.
I was thinking this way about Cain before any of this stupid sexual harassment rubbish even came up. It’s obvious he’s being targeted by all the usual suspects because by his mere existence he’s a threat to the Obama narrative that any opposition to O is based on racism. But that’s beside the point to me. I’m still focused on who I’m going to have to vote for next November, when all this tempest in a teacup is a mere memory. I want to have the most effective contender possible who’s still recognizably a conservative.
They are doing to this guy what FOX and all the rest of the bastards did to Palin. GOD have vengeance on them all!! Of course the majority of the sheeple will fall for their crap again!! SOMETHING needs to be done and I think EVERY CONSERVATIVE WOMEN IN THIS COUNTRY SHOULD FILE A FAKE LAWSUIT ACCUSING CAIN OF harassment! THIS needs to be treated as a freakin joke and make the MediaWHORES LOOK LIKE THE KKK trying to lynch a black man!! WHERE ARE THE FREAKIN ADS showing a tree and a rope?? HELL BALLESS RNC!! I’m so mad, I’m spitting NAILS!! I’m undecided on whom to vote for in our party, but this really pisses me off!! Palin redux!!! BASTARDS!!
When you think about it, rather then just cheering on the candidate from your local area, you know it is true that Cain is the best qualified.
Who is the ONLY candidate purposing a plan to fundamentally restructure how the US Government works in a Conservative fashion.
Cain. Everyone else merely wants to screw around changing this or that to “Fix the system”.
Cain is the only one who sees the system itself is the problem.
The rest of the career GOP politicians in the race do not even know what the problem is, must less how to fix it.
Lol!!
Don't know about that, but he isn't on Special Report much anymore. See him on Red Eye too frequently as well. That cannot be a good thing for his career.
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