Posted on 11/01/2011 5:07:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Responding to his insurgent campaign’s first crisis, Herman Cain was upbeat and defiant. “To quote my chief of staff and all the people around this country, ‘Let Herman be Herman,’ ” he said Monday. “And Herman is gonna stay Herman.”
I was afraid of that.
Cain’s policy positions range from the ignorant to the unworkable to the just plain goofy – and yet he is running first or second in most polls for the Republican presidential nomination. He trumpets his utter lack of government experience as a selling point and boasts of not knowing foreign leaders’ names. If through some bizarre series of events he were actually elected president, the result would surely be an unmitigated disaster.
It’s not yet clear whether this remote possibility has been made even more unlikely by reports – first published Sunday night by Politico – that Cain faced allegations of sexual harassment from two female employees when he headed the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s.
After some initial fumbling by Cain’s campaign, in which various aides attempted to issue nondenial denials, the candidate himself went on Fox News to declare that “I have never sexually harassed anyone.” He acknowledged having been “falsely accused” of harassment when he was at the restaurant association, but said the accusations were “totally baseless and totally false.”
He did not specifically deny the Politico story, however...
(Excerpt) Read more at thenewstribune.com ...
Applies to the current de facto president more than anyone in American history, as far as I can tell.
Eugene Robinson joins the lynch mob.
Yeah, and Obama could release his academic records, passport history, income tax returns, medical history, and his wife's employment records.
So voters can come to their own conclusions.
BTW, Eugene Robinson used to be a woman. Two unnamed persons told me.
Just a slip of the tongue, I'm sure. /s
Eugene is rather stupid. The confidentiality clause would be part of the settlement which is a legally binding contract not a rule of the Association.
Eugene Robinson. That’s all I needed to know.
Anyone have any of his articles during the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal?
You forgot the birth certificate. I not only want to see it, I want to hold it in my hands.
Sounds like Eugenious is a racist.
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