Posted on 10/04/2011 5:38:28 AM PDT by jimjohn
Just heard Herman Cain being interviews on Imus in the morning on WABC. Seems he's cleared up all the controversy - showing how the media takes things out of context. Not necessarily a Cain supporter, but could become one very easy. He's saying the right things. NOTE: you can probably catch the interview on WABC if they archived it.
Did you actually watch Cain’s original comments? He expressly directed them to Perry. He can go lie about it now, “clearing things up” on the radio, and most people, like you, will probably believe it.
But he’s now accusing the media of something they didn’t do, not acknowledging what he did do, and not offering a due apology to Perry.
I don’t care. None of it was ever an issue for me.
Bachmann and Palin lack the “executive experience” Perry has. Out of the three Cain has the most executive experience outside of politics. You do know that if nominated the MSM is going to paint Cain as a sickly old man next to the young, healthy Obama.
:-)
If only that were true.
He didn’t just “back away”.
He now claims he never said anything against Governor Perry, only the rock.
I just posted the words he said. He most certainly, exactly, precisely, said it against Governor Perry.
The reason he now denies attacking Perry on the matter is that the truth caught up to him. The truth that the Perry family did not do what he accused them of, but did just the opposite, caught up with Herman.
My problem is, when people say he cleared that up, no, he didn’t. He simply started claiming he never said what we have his own words out of his own mouth on national television, saying.
It's what Perry has done during his "executive experience" that bothers me. It should bother all conservatives.
Well, it isn't going to be so easy. He trashes someone and then says he doesn't want to deal with it?
Right now, I support Cain first, Perry Seoond, and Bachmann third. Romney comes in a distant last and I’m not sure I could vote for a Christie.
How does Palin have more executive experience than Perry?
Explain.
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Which proves that Cain, like all the candidates, is not (ta da!) perfect. I don't like Cain's reaction to the basic non-event either. But I won't dismiss him for it either.
I think Cain made the same mistake Obama did with the whole beer summit episode. Obama made a public statement that the police “acted stupidly” before he had all the facts. Likewise Herman spoke before he had all the facts in this case.
I can appreciate that as a black man he would have an intrinsic reaction to the “N” word. Not knowing all the facts you would expect him to condemn that.
What water?? We’re in a dought down here.......(sigh). :(
Both of the principals, Cain and Perry, have responded to each other. Effectively, they have reached a truce.
When a battle is over, quit fighting and prepare for the next one.
No doubt someone in the MSM, in concert with the Obamanistas, will dig up some more dirt somewhere. In this case, they literally turned over a rock and brushed dirt off of it to take a picture of words no longer recognizable.
I agree, people are making a big deal out of it when the enemy has said a lot more offensive things, it wasn’t even that offensive to me.
Melissa.
Being a weak and second rate governor as the Texas governor is set up to be also needs to be factored in.
I don’t care that you don’t care.
You are welcome to trust a man who attacks Perry directly as racially insensitive on national tv, then runs around after the truth catches him and lies that he never attacked Perry as racially insensitive, only a rock.
Trust away.
But the truth of his words give the lie to your trust.
I stand on Herman’s original words. His denials now that he said it, when we have the record of his words, doesn’t intimidate me, and neither do you.
LOL, especially when they disagree with you.
I have to say, outside of Sarah getting in, which I hope she will, he has my vote at this point.
His life story, particularly about growing up in the segregated South, and the stories about him and his brother at the department store sneeking a taste of the "white" water and then comparing it to the "colored" water, about saving his money and going into the Hamburger place to get a real "store bought" hamburger and then being told to pick it up in back and thinking that was just the way they did business.
And then relating the principles his parens (mom and dad at home) taught him about working hard, self reliance, and setting dreams and goals and working for them. I tell you those stories will resonate with Americans. Particularly when he said, "these things did not make me hate America, no, what has happened as I have seen my nation change and right the wrongs is that these things have resulted in me loving America and being proud of her."
I found myself saying to myself in my car as I drove along, "God bless you Herman Cain for telling the truth, for working hard, making something of yourself despite the odds, and finding pride and love in it instead of hate and devisiveness, and Gpod bless your parents for bring youi up with the moral teachings to do so."
So, please, Sarah Palin, if you are going to get in, do so now. If you do and are blessed to win, then choose Herman Cain to run with you...and if he wins, be willing to run with him.
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