Posted on 06/18/2011 6:52:02 AM PDT by Kartographer
“The race card is going to be played a lot [in the campaign] because it has been played a lot for the first two-and-a-half years of this presidency,” Cain predicted to reporters Friday at the RLC. “Every time somebody disagrees with the president, one of his surrogates want[s] to play the race card. Well, if the policies aren’t working, that’s not racial, that’s just simply a failed policy.”
“I’m running as a Republican, let’s make no mistake about that,” he explained, seemingly unnecessarily, to reporters and a few conservative activists at the press availability following his speech. Then he picked up a line he often uses on the stump.
“I guess because I’m black somebody thought I was going to run as a Democrat – I don’t think so,” said Cain as the Republicans in the room smiled and nodded. “I left that plantation a long time and I ain’t going back. Yeah, you can quote me and I’m going to get a lot of hate mail and I’m going to get a lot of bloggers all over me. I does not care, as my grandfather would say.”
In a 20-minute interview Friday, Cain went so far as to distance himself from the term African American.
“I label myself: American black conservative,” he said. “Deal with it.”
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You are ever a troll or you don’t not understand that TARP is NOT the same thing as the sitmulus.
justsaynomore,
Took less than ten replies. We have to stop posting Herman Cain threads so close to the bridge.
Of which the government forced them to hand out loans.
I followed TARP and the economic collapse closely. I wrote a blog about it before it happened, because I knew it was coming. I sold my house and rented in 2005, and bought back for 1/2 price in 2008. I think a lot of people get TARP mixed up with what the Democrat Congress did later with the stimulus.
But here’s an article. You can google Cain and TARP — not that I hold it against him, but a lot of libertarian/Paul types get the hives.
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