Posted on 10/08/2011 10:18:22 AM PDT by Kaslin
Herman Cain is entering the American consciousness at a time when ordinary people are more afraid of the future than at any juncture within memory. We Americans are searching for someone to fill the leadership vacuum left by an adolescent gadabout president who believes leadership is nothing more than giving speeches, perennial fundraising, politicking, and playing golf every waking moment in between. Except for the brief moments, when Obama’s Astroturf protesters show up “coincidentally” to make his points, the community organizer in chief can’t seem to organize his way out of a wet paper bag.
Yes, America is leaderless. And Americans know it.
Morgan Freeman seems to think it’s all a movie and his president thinks it’s a game. “I’ve got game,” Barack Obama told Democrats a couple of years ago, but “game” doesn’t fill the real shoes of the real presidency. And when there’s no real grown-up president there, things tend to go down the chute in a great big hurry. That would happen whether the president off playing games was black, white, or purple. It’s just a fact of life. Americans know this and are not the least bit fooled with all the race-baiting hustlers on the airwaves.
This country elected an eternal adolescent in a man’s body. Where’s the president? Oh, he’s off playing on the Vineyard. Where’s the president? Oh, it’s cold in D.C., so he must be off sunning in Hawaii. Where’s the president? It’s Sunday, so he must be playing golf. Where’s the president? It’s a boring weeknight, so he must be having a soiree with movie stars and musicians. I heard it was Paul McCartney, or is it Stevie Wonder this week? Where’s the president? Oh, he’s on The View, or is it the late night show? Honestly, I cannot keep track of this man-child’s social schedule.
Play. Play. Play. While the nation suffers.
Enter Herman Cain, the Republican backbencher who is setting the nominating race on its ear, confounding the oddsmakers of all stripes, and winning voters over one hard-fought day at a time.
Mr. Cain is having an extraordinary effect on all those who see him speak. Pollsters have been quite astonished with Mr. Cain’s effect on people, noting time after time Cain’s ability to win voter confidence in the span of a single debate, especially when he is not even given much opportunity to talk.
Herman Cain’s fatherly presence is so powerful that it literally sucks all the air out of the room in which he stands. Cain emanates fatherly wisdom.
One simply cannot deny Cain’s archetypal appeal as the good, wise, strong, loving-but-firm father.
And it’s down-to-the-marrow genuine. Cain is not putting on airs or going around talking down to voters like he is the one who thinks of himself as a national father figure come on the scene to take charge. It’s the people he encounters who have this sense about him. The man inspires confidence just by walking in a room. Really, is it now any wonder how Cain motivated his employees and turned failing businesses into sterling successes?
Cain demonstrates in his every utterance a deep-down respect for this country and its citizens. For the recent tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Herman Cain didn’t try to politicize the moment or grab an ounce of attention for himself. Instead, he put country over his candidacy and made the most heart-rending video I’ve ever seen, while singing “America the Beautiful” in the background. I’m not ashamed to admit I cried.
Cain’s respect for America, which he emits like a potent aura everywhere he goes, comes back to him ten-fold from the people. It’s as though he had sowed it as a fertile seed in his listeners’ hearts and stands humbly ready to receive the harvest and plow it right back into America’s soil. When one listens to Herman Cain, one has the sense that things actually might have a chance of turning around if we all work hard enough and steady enough and stop playing our childish political games.
Whatever Herman Cain has got, it is something big. Zogby just released its latest polling showing Herman Cain in a surge worthy of shock-value:
In news sure to inject shock and awe into the Republican political primary season, a Zogby poll released Thursday showed Herman Cain leading the Republican field, topping former front-runner Mitt Romney by an astonishing 20 points. Cain would also narrowly edge out Obama in a general election, the poll found, by a 46-44 margin.
Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, would lose by a point to the president, 40 percent to 41 percent. Texas governor Rick Perry, who has slipped in the polls of late, would lose to the president 45 percent to 40 percent.
The poll found that 38 percent of Republican primary voters said they would vote for Cain if the primary were held today. Eighteen percent said they would throw their support to Romney, while 12 percent each said they would vote for Perry and Texas congressman Ron Paul. No other candidate attracted double-digit support.
Writing as a Georgian and a former civil rights fighter, it’s hard for me to remain purely objective when it comes to Herman Cain’s candidacy. My heart swells every time I hear him speak. There are days when I practically get weak-kneed just imagining a debate between him and Barack Obama. I’ve got a deep-down feeling that Obama would leave that debate stage feeling as though he had just had a very painful woodshed experience with a mature father wielding a rhetorical paddle.
That’s just me, of course. But from the looks of the way this is going, a whole lot of American voters are sensing the same thing – or something very close to it.
And well deserved at that.
While I agree with the tone of the article, I disagree that he’s the frontrunner. I have him still behind Romney and Perry, but he’s catching up quickly.
What’s your point?
Yep, I have to fan myself, too. :o) My dream team: Cain/West. Wooooot!!
Amazing, isn't it. The "Taxed Enough Already" people are throwing their support behind the guy who will pretty much increase taxes for nearly everyone in the country. Point this out though and you're a "Perrybot".
I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Sigh...
Great. So let's support a guy while hoping congress won't pass the abysmal plan that is the cornerstone of his campaign?
bttt
I will take a wise, mature, successful in business, father figure type IN A NEW YORK MINUTE over a adolescent in a man’s body, narcissistic, zero business experience, spread the wealth community organizer................!!!!
“Yes, America is leaderless.”
The truth is, The Establishment behind Obama is planning to change the world and is unqualified to do it. They have the power but not the knowledge or experience.
The big money men of the world banks, centuries-old world royalty and various career politicians like Kissinger and Gorbachev, with the support of the foundations, using the untested social ideas of ivory tower college professors who write books, is destroying the greatest economy and society in history (you gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet) and throwing away what is known to work in order to install a system that will probably not work.
It’s based on human pride and greed - and the lust for power.
There’s nothing wrong with wanting an ADULT in the White House.
I appreciate Cain’s honesty and his total belief in this country. He’s confident, and he has plenty of foundation to base that confidence on. He’s proved that he makes excellent decisions. I want to see what he can do to turn the country around.
Even a lower middle income family is better off on the 9-9-9 plan.
Here is an example (all figures per year)
Gross paycheck =$40,000
Under current system:
Federal tax $2000
Payroll tax = $6000
Mortgage = $13,000
Car payment = $3500
Savings & contributions to retirement plans = $2000
Total tax paid = $8000
Under 999 plan:
Federal tax = $3600 (9% of 40,000)
Sales tax on (40,000-3600-13,000-3500-2000) x 9% = $1611
Total tax paid = 3600+1611 = $5211
Savings under 9-9-9 plan = 8000-5211 = $2779
which is additional purchasing power or to be used to save
for future purchases.
I’m going to take the opinions of Laffer and Forbes over yours. They’re behind 9-9-9, as a transition to the fair tax.
I guarantee Cain would not hire Cain. I guarantee the only executives Cain hired in Godfather’s Pizza were those with a RECORD of SUCCESS.
The only job anyone without a resume would get in Godfather’s Pizza is delivery man and even then he/she would have to show proof of a drivers’ permit.
So you want to hire a guy with no resume as a proven leader? You also would not mind if he were to hire others to assist him that also have no record or resume for the position they are appointed to?
One can’t be asked to be the President of the USA without a record of experience to judge him/her by. We can’t pick someone just because he/she tells you what you want to hear and makes you think he will do it becuse it SOUNDS GOOD.
That’s what those Dummies on the other side did in the last election.
Is there a website with more detail about your scenario?
Thanks! :)
“You are right, Maceman. Cain is either the best candidate for the JOB of president, or he isn’t.
“Father figure” is just as much stupid BS as Obama being “the One”.
The writer should be ashamed for posting such school-girl emotionalism.”
I disagree with criticizing the writer.
I love just about everything Herman stands for, some people feel more strongly about one policy or another.
If we have a policy discussion between us here on FR, without emotion, that is fine and dandy for us, but don’t discount Herman’s appeal to the less informed or less sophisticated.
There are millions of people who might see her article, and if even a few of them tell their friends, and some of them tell their friends, it will add to the ‘snowball’.
I say, bless her heart for writing good things about my favorite candidate.
More people than ever are paying attention this time around, so let’s start educating them.
Keep in mind that because of government schools and current culture, there are a lot of forces pulling in the opposite direction.
Well it's great you will vote for him. He's my choice too.
But seeing him as a "father figure" is just too creepy, although I understand why he would be a good father figure.
But as I say, we're not looking for a father figure. It's not about whether you vote for him, it's about whether people start emotionally projecting on him, and seeing him as some kind of more-than-human leader. Real Americans don't deify their leaders.
There's a reason why we refer to the president as "Mr. President" rather than "His Excellency the President" or "His Majesty the President."
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