Just another "Oops - I didn't really mean that" momentary state in Box Car Herman's Flip Flip circuitry.
FAIL.
Posted on 10/16/2011 9:18:08 AM PDT by kristinn
At two campaign rallies in Tennessee on Saturday night, the Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said that part of his immigration policy would be to build an electrified fence on the country’s border with Mexico that could kill people trying to enter the country illegally.
But by Sunday morning, in a dramatic change of tone, Mr. Cain, a former restaurant executive, said he was only kidding.
“That’s a joke,” Mr. Cain told the journalist David Gregory during an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” where he was asked about the electrified fence. “That’s not a serious plan. I’ve also said America needs to get a sense of humor.”
Mr. Cain’s attempt to pass off incendiary comments as nothing but a joke may take more effort, however. In making the initial remarks about an electrified fence killing illegal immigrants, Mr. Cain was detailed and repetitive. He did not introduce his thoughts as anything but serious commentary, beginning with the words, “We have a crisis of illegal immigration.”
And the crowds responded with cheers, not laughs.
(Excerpt) Read more at thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com ...
The joke is on David Gregory.
The electrified fence will be built.
It was, but it sure brought the perry amnesty supporters to the light of day. Some of the perry anti border security went nuts.
well, some people are fed up enough to take that comment seriously. the people coming here are convinced they are the indigenous people and we are the invaders. they have the attitude that everything here belongs to them.
I read somewhere that hitler had that plan to tell them the same lies in order to keep the US out of WWI & WWII. well the story got out anyhow and we are now dealing with the attitude here from a lot of them today.
When he’s talking to the media elites. Ah come on dave buddy, wink wink, I was just feeding some red meat to the crazies. un I mean...my voting base.
Yeah a real man of integrity.
They may first have to build an electrified fence around Wall St.
Having a sense of humor is one thing but talking policy of a joke, without clarifying is wrong. Some people will believe it.
It seems a sneaky, slick, back-door way to lead people on.
LOL and you are one of the amnesty supporting perry people that went nuts,
Thank you for bringing the Open Boards Perry camp’s opinion to this thread
Thank you for bringing the Open Borders Perry camp’s opinion to this thread
“That’s not a serious plan”. I felt that way about 9-9-9.
Cain is sure funny. Like when he said he’d never appoint a muslim to his cabinet, before he had to say he didn’t mean that either. Or calling Perry insensitive for a rock Perry had nothing to do with.
I don’t think Cain is used to having people call him on his words. As CEO he was a dictator, he would decide what to do and his will was done. As a lobbyist, he said whatever he needed to do to get politicians to pass bills to help his clients. As a talk show host, he said what his audience wanted to here.
Now he has people hanging on his words, as if they mean something, and it’s biting him again and again.
Of course, some people here at FR are probably upset he doesn’t think crossing our border illegally should be a death sentence.
I wonder when he’ll tell us that his praise for Romney was a joke, or he was just kidding when he said he thought Greenspan was a great fed chair. Wonder what else was just a joke — so far, it’s only been things that turned out to bite him, so maybe he’s only “kidding” if he says something people don’t like.
The bombing starts in 5 minutes (or was it ten:?
I'd say half the respondents supported zapping anyone trying to illegally cross the Tex-Mex border.
Some said if that doesn't work to use land mines. A few even suggested machine guns as an option.
I think joke or not, Herman Cain opeNd a can of worms with his questionable rhetoric.
I’m loving this. Cain is going to be one of the toughest border hawks of our lifetime but he is going to keep the leftist media guessing.
Conservatives know what he means ;-)
Just another "Oops - I didn't really mean that" momentary state in Box Car Herman's Flip Flip circuitry.
FAIL.
“It’s going to be 20 feet high. It’s going to have barbed wire on the top. It’s going to be electrified. And there’s going to be a sign on the other side saying, ‘It will kill you — Warning.’” At an earlier rally, on the campus of Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville, Tenn., he added that the sign would be written “in English and in Spanish.”
I dont know Herman. I thought you were serious - and I liked the idea myself.
I guess we cannot expect anything rational or factual from a poster dumb enough to be supporting a candidate who calls 3/4’s of his voting base “heartless”.
Remember that?
Maybe you might start thinking before posting "Reagan Man"
“Conservatives know what he means ;-)”
EXACTLY. He just looked up this issue, as we now know which side of the border his ‘heart’ lies on.
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