Posted on 09/25/2011 6:47:11 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright
In the shadow of the CNN complex and totally ignored by much of Atlanta's local drive- by media, Herman Cain officially divulged a very poorly kept secret Saturday: that he is running for the Republican nomination for President. And in case anyone is not sure exactly what Mr. Cain's intentions are, he clearly said that he is running with only one thing in mind -- which is to finish number one.
So while that idea may seem fanciful to the pundits and the mainstream media (and of course beltway bubbled conservatives like Charles Krauthammer), the impressive size and staggering energy of the 15 thousand folks at Olympic Centennial Park gave the rally the feel of a winning movement. Sure, I am hardly objective. However, as a veteran of political rallies and campaigns off and on since 1980 -- and a sometimes operative since 1992 -- I do not reach that conclusion lightly. Frankly, I've never been to a political event that had this energy. The closest thing I can think of to describe it was the televised introduction of Sarah Palin in September of 2008 and a Reagan rally I attended in 1980 in Columbia, S.C.
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Cue up Al Sharpton, Jessie Jackson and why not Jessie Jackson Jr. even. This will be their big guns but they’ll also use their second tier black guys like Juan Williams, Keith Ellison from CAIR, Marc Lamont Hill: a professor at Columbia U and a regular guest on Bill O Reilly and maybe even former Obama administration guys like Van Jones and Rahm Emmanuel to bash Cain.
Best headline of the week!
Cute!
You are like a Herman-Cain,
there's calm in your eye.
And I'm getting blown away,
to somewhere safer where the freedom stays ...
One thing we know is that within a few weeks he’ll no longer be considered black. The CBC will call him Oreo.
Honestly, I care not a whit about Mrs. Cain. It would be great to meet her, but I think this country needs a break from the constant attention on the First Lady role with all the silly causes and all the silly attention — and in the recent case, from all the vacations and flaunting of wealth in front of Americans, many of whom are struggling financially.
If Cain is happy with his wife, that’s all that’s important to me. This time, let’s leave the spouses out of it.
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