Posted on 10/24/2011 2:39:59 AM PDT by bullypulpit
“I also don’t like Cain’s comments about black Empowerment Zones, but those things aside, I like Cain.”
They’re not BLACK empowerment zones. The zones would apply to ANY community where there is very high unemployment and few opportunities for the people living there. As I understand it, the states themselves will choose which areas are in the greatest need - they put in an application and the fed will pick the best ones.
Black, white, Hispanic... I’m quite sure some American Indian areas will qualify.
Empowerment zones are race neutral.
(Sarcasm Alert)
So right.
All leftists as you call him, are pro life, pro military, pro gun, pro states rights, against the EPA and Global Warming, have called SS a Ponzi Scheme and a monstrous lie to our young people, have said Bernanke better not print money between now and the election, have written a book against Federal Government illicit power, have written a book in praise of Boy Scout values including their exclusion of homosexuals from Scouting, support traditional marriage, have publicly said they don’t believe in the theory of evolution and...
/sarcasm
I could go on, but I have better things to do with my time than extend a list that is already mind blowing in showing how utterly absurd it is to lie that he is a leftist.
The wasting of Bachmann’s candidacy was about the worst thing the GOP could have done... for me, she’s the real conservative in the race.
At min, her voice was needed in the debate, rather than ignored like now- Bachmann/Bolton or something like that would have worked for me!
Except, why does the Federal Government have the power or the right to do that?
Except, if you are poor, including the working poor, and you don’t live in a chosen empowerment zone, you are out of luck.
Except, areas tend to be racial or ethnic in large portion, with those of a particular race or ethnicity dominating that area.
From my observation, those areas are usually not white, not anglo. There can be exceptions such as maybe in poor appalachia or the ozarks or some places like those, but for the most part there aren’t large areas of poor whites, rather, whites who are poor tend to be scattered.
A mixed neighborhood...one that is old, built before houses were mass produced that were all the same, contains a mix. Right next door or down or across the street from each other are rich, poor and in between.
The Federal Government needs to mostly go away out of lives, rather than be empowered with empowerment zones...
I've been around here for many primaries and have observed that the weaker the candidate the more outrageous the posts attacking the candidates seen as a threat to him.
Indeed, the candidates do the same thing revealing themselves as weak and the subject of their attacks as stronger. Why else would they bother?
Or to put it another way, people tend to ignore candidates they don't take seriously.
It is a back-handed compliment to the candidate being being assaulted verbally. But on this forum, it comes at the expense of the poster. Which is to say, the primary season will come to an end very soon whereas resentments are not easily laid aside.
It creeped me out-—the way Perry stomped on Michelle.
In retrospect, I’m thinking Anita orchestrated the hit on Michelle.
Could be Anita did not want any competition....so Michelle had to go.
I just saw Michele on one of the morning talk shows - I just can’t remember which one. She was sooooo articulate and so well-put together. Compare her to that blowzy Hillary who looks like she needs a bath and a shave.
Bachmann had a very small chance.
She had to impress people that she was Presidential.
She wasted her chance.
She yelled at her audience too much.
She misspoke again and again. She jumped to conclusions and said things she needed to take more time, study and thought on.
She went over the top. Kept talking on and on until she went too far.
She tells too many emotional stories. She’s told the one from the Bible about Jonathan, I don’t know how many times. She did it again in Iowa. Again, emoting over the top.
She must think she is supposed to be an inspirational speaker. Maybe like Reagan could inspire.
The problem is, Reagan was a pro. He had the perfect ear for his own stuff and for his audience, and he was head of a union and a two term governor of CA. She needed to be more like a Thatcher to convince people she was Presidential, and she couldn’t do it.
I defended her against the slime machine that attacked her here because they despised her candidacy.
She lost me.
I have specifically shown you posts of someone insinuating perry was like a rapist.
Then why did Cain refer to them as places with a high concentration of blacks on October 14 th in his CNN interview? Oh right another joke or misunderstanding. Too bad he said it twice.
What this does, because you have a lot of African-Americans located in cities like Detroit, disproportionately, it would encourage businesses to stay in business there or to move there. It would encourage people to work there, because if you live in the empowerment zone, you’re going to pay a smaller percentage in taxes. Herman Cain Oct. 14th CNN
I’m sorry - really. I must have missed that. Can you repost?
“You cannot “destroy” a candidate that is so adorable that the chicks dig him.”
Does he mean like Barry Obama. Yeah the Chicks really dug him. UNTIL THEY LOST THEIR JOBS AND HOMES.
Cains 15 is running out. I’m sure he’s getting po’d that people don’t just take what he says at face value. I think we all have learned the hard lesson of not buying the hype.
conservatives don’t want to EXPAND FEDERAL Programs. Cain can’t wait. Just add bell pepper and call it vegie supreme.
Liz, that is false. It's been corrected repeatedly when it appears here at FR. The "55 million" number was a number that they said they WERE GOING TO RAISE during the primaries, once Perry entered the race. None of it was raised before he entered the race.
I realize you don't mind calling his wife and Perry liars, and I won't respond to most of what you write because it's pure propaganda and not worth the time, but I wanted to correct this misstatment of information; we all have the right to our misguided opinions, but not to our own facts.
Another false "fact". I'm sure you've got others, I usually don't read your comments because they are devoid of useful information, so maybe you make up your own facts all the time and I never noticed it.
You can try to defend your fiction, but realise that if you do, I'll put up the names of at least ONE recipient of a government loan that didn't donate money, and your claim will be proven to be false. Better to just move on and fix your talking points to remove the false charges.
Most of what you wrote in this comment was false, but since it's your opinion, there's no point in refuting it. You'll just make up some more stuff and post it back. Arguing with people who write their own evidence is fruitless.
Bachmann was taken out by Palin supporters before Perry entered the race. They were afraid Bachmann would be seen as a suitable substitute for Palin, and that would block Palin from getting into the race.
So the Palin folks started attacking her, first for the Ed Rollins stuff, and then with anonymous charges about Bachmann aides trashing Palin, a claim that Bachmann lied about talking with Palin, and then a story about how Bachmann and Palin were no longer friends.
None of that had anything to do with Perry announcing his candidacy. And the idea that if Perry had just announced his candidacy a week earlier in another state, Bachmann would be winning now is ludicrous. It’s just that once Perry entered, the Palin folks had to move to tearing him down, because HE was blocking the path.
The only reason they haven’t torn down Cain is that Cain was the winner of the musical chairs game — he happened to be rising in the polls at precisely the time Palin announced she wasn’t running, so there was no point.
However, in the week before Palin announced, the Palin supporters here at FR HAD started their campaign against Cain, with a few well-placed articles and vanity posts. They simply gave up when Palin dropped out.
I must have missed all that, I am a Palin supporter who plans on voting for Cain.
Sure, why not just double-down and attack Anita Perry with more made-up charges. At least you couched it in “opinion” words.
But it is sad that you can be “creeped out” by a candidate announcing his candidacy. Apparently in the fictional world you live in, candidates NEVER try to do things for their own political advantage, and it is considered unfair for them to do so. Or it creeps them out or something.
What should creep you out is how you so freely you attack people you don’t know, charging them with unsubstantiated allegations of wrongdoing.
As to your last claim, Perry is a good Christian man, so his wife would have no reason to fear competition from Michelle Bachmann, who is also a good Christian woman married to a nice man. Why you would think otherwise is beyond me.
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