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.
I used to write tax computation software before Turbo Tax & Taxcut etc came on line. So, no, I did not have to go to any help to get an idea how the 9-9-9 plan would work.
No matter that he has never walked the walk or has a real resume for the job. Let’s just stir up emotionalism?
And we agree...my choice is much more based on his business experience, methodical way of tackling problems, common sense, not afraid to speak the truth, etc. The father figure thing came to mind only because Obama is such a juvenile.
We hire folks now because they are mathemeticians?
He has a very nice resume for getting a job in a coporation but a thin resume for the office of President of the USA. And you think you can sell him on the national stage from that resume? Sounds like he was a successful businessman but there are lots of successful businessmen around and that alone does not make him quaified.
Carter was a governor, The Bushes had great resume’s, Clinton was a governor, and Obama has spent many years as elected politician.
Sorry, none of the above were resounding success. So this time I will go with common sense, successful business experience, not afraid to tell the truth, rocket scientist for the Navy, and someone who had to make decisions WHICH HAD DIRECT CONSEQUENCES.
We don’t have a Fatherland, we have a Republic. The writer may (or may not) mean well, but this analysis is somewhat anti-American.
Maybe we should hire you? Bet you have a lot of good ideas too.
Cain has loads of rhetoric, just no record to judge him on.
Nothing. Nada. Zippo. ZERO!
To some folks, Romney sounds like a conservative too.
" I am an American. Black. Conservative. I don't use African-American, because I'm American, I'm black and I'm conservative. I don't like people trying to label me. African- American is socially acceptable for some people, but I am not some people."
~Herman Cain
Might be time to make and post in the front yard homemade signs showing support for Herman Cain? What would be more grass roots?
But clearly you’re smarter than the guy with the degree in mathematics and minor in chemistry who’s saved more than one failing business, so by all means we should trust your judgment regarding the impact of his plan.
All humans are imperfect though some think they shouldn’t be or aren’t. I’d prefer an imperfect good man as president over a man idolized as meeting the left’s standards of perfection.
We don’t hire by the number of degrees and neither does a ssuccesful businessman.
Right. And be sure to ignore his track record, too. No employer would ever look at that.
Observing Herman Cain best Lawrence O'Donnell in a twenty-three-minute attempted mugging convinced me the man is coming from principles lived.The twenty-eight-minute address to the value voters was inspiring--as a leader ought to inspire.
The mosque remark goes to the heart of the Manson death cult hiding behind the skirts of the First Amendment--
Michelle Phillips, Bruce Bawer, Mark Steyn, Tony Blankley are just some who've warned what's coming.
Open Borders courtesy of the compassionate astroturf of George Soros will remove Texas from the electoral votes for the Constitution and insure perpetual Orwellian utopia.
Mr. Cain has a forty-year curiam vitae which arcs ballistically from his intellectual service to the U.S. Navy's rocket assisted projectile program--
--to the visceral of assuring on Day One that Israel is our friend, so, Ahmadinejad, go ahead. Make my day.
Though Romney hustles to move up the primaries, it matters not.
America already registered on the GPS--
It's heart and soul is seen November 2010.
We will be pushing this shining city back up on its hill.
You can be Cain’s campaign manager and sell your guy to the country on that.
RAISE CAIN
Why do you say Obama is loving it? He is gonna get his arse whooped.
I didn’t question your numbers, I just was a little confused on what each one was. :)
Thanks.
Now you went and done it.....introducing math and facts to the conversation.
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