Posted on 05/30/2011 4:18:29 PM PDT by Rennes Templar
After Barack Obama, America's first African American president, is America now prepared to vote its first black president into office? This week, the Republicans' best shot for a presidential win, staunch conservative Herman Cain, takes to the campaign trail. After an impressive showing in the first debate amongst GOP hopefuls, Cain, rather than Romney or Gingrich, could be the one to beat in 2012 -- a true black man.
To clarify, being black in America is not about the color of one's skin or the curl of one's natural hair, though part of it. It is about a shared history of a robbed heritage -- a culture that has developed over several centuries unique to any other in human history.
President Obama was never robbed of his heritage. He knew which of his relatives came from Africa, from whence he came, and under what circumstances. When we talk about black people in America, we speak of people who in the view of history had no name until Harriet Tubman and precious little in terms of property until the generation of black people represented by Herman Cain.
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Cain is Donald Trump minus theatrics. Despite a long history of voting Democratic, black voters, at least at the ballot box, choose traditional Judeo-Christian values which the G.O.P. Can capitalize on with Herman Cain. A little bit of Trump and a little bit of Jesse Jackson, he is smart, straight forward, and you don't get the sense that he's lying to you when he opens his mouth.
I'm a Democrat, and I can tell you that because he's hard to hate, and because he embodies the dreams we have for a new kind of candidate, Cain is a force to be reckoned with. He might just become our nation's first black president.
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Technically, yes. Practically, no way.
That would be an interesting poll.
Further technical question: If a guy is anatomically male but is a catamitic "bottom" and former chicken, then is he technically "a man"?
I can think of one woman FR poster who thinks the 20th Amendment should be repealed. She thinks women voting with their emotions have been damn near the ruin of the Republic, and the source of most of the socialist, PC claptrap in government that we put up with every day.
Women in submarines? Bah!
Look, maybe the men in Wyoming made a mistake, giving women the franchise.
I have nothing bad to say about Sarah Palin (one of the five patriotic dynamos that are quite acceptable to me), but I think that a) Herman Cain could electrify this 2012 race so easily, and b) absolutely, definitely take ol' Obongo to the cleaners during any debate were they to have. Obongo would be like a deer in the headlights...heaven help him if his teleprompter would fail, Herman Cain would absolutely clean his freaking clock. I know it in my heart of hearts. Seen Herman Cain in action in too many videos now and live streams (plus South Carolina debate) to think otherwise.
I can think of several.
“a major issue could be made that it was a mistake to elect someone with so few qualifications.”
True. If Joe the plumber were running, I’d say yeah, he’s inexperienced. But Cain, as busisness CEO and board member of a Federal Reserve Bank, I think has had at least some interface with politicos to know the scene.
“She thinks women voting with their emotions have been damn near the ruin of the Republic”
Were going down a slippery slope here, but I’d say liberal women voting with their emotions...
I am impressed by Cain, but would like the see him brush up on foreign policy. He is an extremely bright guy, so I am sure that he will he ready when the subject comes up again.
“He is smart, straight forward, and you don’t get the sense that he’s lying to you when he opens his mouth.”
IOW, he’s NOT a politician.
The definiton of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results.
And conservatives are the worst about this.
If there is one defining characteristic of the Tea Party, it is they understand we need to shake things up and do something different.
+1
I don’t care what color Herman Cain is. The original post is just an attempt to inject race.
(1) good post
(2) “I see problems with Cain’s lack of foreign policy experience”
Who running doesn’t have problem with foreign policy experience?
Romney?
Pawlenty?
Palin?
Perry?
If were going to make being a foreign policy expert a requirement for running for president, then we’d have to eliminate 90% of the GOP field.
The question we should be asking is do they have good foreign policy instincts. There will always be some foreign policy event that occurs that nobody was ready for. The question is how will the president’s instincts lead him?
We know Obama’s instincts are appeasement, follow the UN’s lead, and apologise for it being America’s fault. I’m sure anybody in the race will be an upgrade from that.
The suggestions that Cain should be supported just because he is black are really turning me off on his candidacy. Is it fair to judge someone based on the quality of their supporters? Yes.
I’m on board the Cain Train too! With his rising poll numbers, his fundraising will take off too. America is desperate for a change of course, before Obama ruins us.
Check out this humorous little bit of Hollywood trickery that pits a stuttering, stammering Barack Obama against Herman Cain as they debate the merits of health care reform. Barack Obama’s worst nightmare, indeed!
http://www.youtube.com/user/Hollywood4Cain#p/a/u/1/WoXwM-suu4s
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