Are there no butt-kissers left in the world?
What a mess his campaign has become. Remarkable, given what a head start he had from 1993.
Mistake #1.
Don’t those people know that muslims want to kill Americans????
anyone who apoligizes is OUT!
You can support the Constitution, or you can grovel at the feet of Muslims. You must choose. You cannot do both.
Cain is a huge disappointment.
What Muslims are saying that they are not trying to inject sharia law into the U.S. and have proof. I’m just dying to know.
Hope his pizza had more weight than this dismal Presidential campaign. We already have one guy who apologizes to the Japanese for Pearl Harbor, we don’t need another.
Herman is done.
As a conservative and a patriotic American who believes in the Constitution and our American culture, I completely understand where Cain was coming from when he made his initial remarks.
That said, he was speaking as a presidential candidate, and what he said was politically dangerous to his campaign’s prospects. Not saying I agree with that, but it’s the way it is.
That was his first mistake.
Back-peddling and apologizing for so boldly speaking his mind, is his second mistake. In national politics, the second mistake is practically suicidal. Remember Nixon and his wife Pat’s coat? He barely got away with that, but it’s about the level of smooth that a politician needs, to get past Mistake One.
Say it isn’t so!
Better to Cain reveal his weakness towards Muslim sensitivities is unveiled now rather than after a nomination or election into presidential capacity.
I continue to admire Mr. Herman Cain for his achievements, but in good conscience, I cannot support his further pursuit towards nomination as GOP’s 2012 presidential candidate. Good luck with non-presidential endeavors, Mr. Cain. Godspeed.
This is the AP, color me suspicious of an ‘apology’.
I think the AP just made up the story.
“Never apologize! It’s a sign of weakness!” - Captain Nathan Brittles
Surely to be fair there is no particular need for the community to respect the religion outside of the grounds of its building, either. If a “mosque” goes up near Ground Zero, then churches and synagogues have at least as much of a right to spring up next door cheek by jowl, and pork barbeques, puppy pet shops, strip teases, etc. have a right to occupy adjacent sidewalks.
Mr Cain is going to lose with this position of appeasement.
I’m not motivated by AP to condemn Cain. What did he say, and what was the context?
Well, there goes Cain...
Sigh...
Did he also bow?
He’s done.
Cain has just been converted and downgraded as a choice for me. His earlier statement was about all I could accept as to Muslim influence. Now he shows the influence is real and not beneficial to this Nation’s heritage. Apparently he came away acknowledging Muslim rights but not getting any Muslim acknowledgement to our Constitution as law of this land. This is a huge disappointment which he cannot remedy.