I guess my answer to that is another question, how would it benefit him to have disclosed "allegations?"You can't be that naive.
How old are you?
How long have you lived in the United States?
How many presidential campaigns have you followed in your lifetime?
If you are over 21 and grew up in the US then you are either incredibly naive or you are dissembling to defend your chosen candidate. I suspect the latter.
If you honestly think that this thing wasn't going to come out, in a CAMPAIGN AGAINST BARAK OBAMA AND THE CHICAGO MOB, then you are incredibly, incredibly naive.
But then, you aren't asking me to vote for you for President of the United States.
Herman Cain is. I expect more of him than I do of you.
He SHOULD f*ing know better and he acted (and continues to act) like he doesn't.
And that's pathetic. Seriously pathetic.
I'm willing to blame his dipsh*t campaign manager but if that's the case, then it's time for a change of staff, stat.
I am not naive and you are exhibiting the exact thing this aritcle notes.
How old are you? How old are you? Really? How long have you lived in the United States?...Really? Campaigns followed...Really? C’mon you are a better FReeper than that, you’ve been around a long time and I am not a spring chicken here anymore either. None of those questions are pertinent to the discussion as the discussion is not about me.
How many discrimination or harassment cases have you handled in your lifetime? How many times have you had to testify or make statements to lawyers, the EEOC, worker’s compensation and the like? Obviously my previous posts indicate I’ve been around the block with this stuff more than once. How about you? Ever discuss such matters with your HR department or lawyers? Ever have to sit and listen to testimony given in an EEOC office?
I am not saying it would not come out, but I am asking you to consider the issue may not have been in his court to bring it up. He may not have been legally able to out himself. He may have had to wait for someone else to do it.
I provided you with a point by point response to your ‘he should have’ straw argument. All of them reasonable and having a strong probablity of being the legal reasons. You may not like them, but rarely is litagation of any kind likeable.
You are free to stubbornly reject them, but your attack on me personally is uncalled for. There was no right way or wrong way for Cain to handle this issue. If he outed himself the MSM would still be in this frenzy and if you can’t see that...well I can’t help you.
As far as how Cain is acting...you’d have to ask him. I can’t answer for him other than to remind you of what they did to Sarah Palin and her baby. You are correct, this is going to be one of the dirtiest campaigns in our lifetimes and campaign staff not up to the task need to be removed. But with that in mind, in my very first post to this thread, I asked the pertinent question...
Who are we electing and is it perfection of a king, god, or savior? With an election this dirty...looking for perfection in a GOP candidate to pass muster with “them,” is the trap. This article is correct. We are going to have to ‘forgive’ a lot in our candidates...if they are going to win the White House.