Oh please.
Not even close.
NONE of you bothered to address the statements in the article. You went right into childish personal attack mode. The same tactics you use any time Cain's name is mentioned positively.
So spare us the pompous arrogant posturing as if you were some sort of exemplars of intellectual ability. Your behavior on this thread proves that self image you try to portray a total lie.
This is the stupidest and most assinine piece I’ve read in ages! Garbage...pure and utter garbage!
I like this. Cain seems to “forge” himself stronger through the media attacks. G-d bless Herman Cain. As he said last night, “Do you think I am doing this for FUN??”
Oh please. This article is such horse crap I can’t even believe someone posted it. Herman Cain is done.
and George Washington’s Mom was a Loyalist and supported those same “British enemy”
I like Herman Cain but after describing a number of Washington’s characteristics the article fails to point to a single characteristic of Cain to make the comparison. The article fails on an academic basis. Half of an analogy is no analogy at all.
I truly believe that all the GOP candidates would be thoroughly embarrassed by some of their rabid, fanatic FReeper supporters.
For the record:
Newt Gingrich is my final answer. He is qualified to take the reigns of CIC.
Herman Cain is a true American patriot, self-made man and in a different time would have made a wonderful President.
Rick Perry is a decent man, a military patriot with good instincts. He is just a little too rustic for these modern crises.
Ron Paul - a good man - but too long braying at the moon.
Rick Santorum - a good man - with a wounded heart.
Jon Hunstman - well presented and a good man.
Michele Bachman - hysterical in a good way.
Mitt Romney - steady, upright, laudable private life - lousy liberal.
.George Washington was a friend of mine.
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.I knew George Washington well.
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.I know it gives my age away, but who cares!
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.And I agree, Herman is same as George with a much better tan and much better teeth. No wooden teeth in Herman’s mouth.
Hardly.
“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.”GWashington
There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This within certain limits is probably true; and in governments of a monarchical cast, patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume.
It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositaries, and constituting each the guardian of the public weal against invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiments ancient and modern; some of them in our country and under our own eyes. To preserve them must be as necessary as to institute them. If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit, which the use can at any time yield.
Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked: Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
It is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government. Who that is a sincere friend to it can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric?
He makes it very clear that when on dept of Gov encroaches upon another , despotism is the result.
It is an insult to even mention Cain in the same breath with GW.
Amen !