Posted on 09/28/2011 9:01:42 AM PDT by justsaynomore
If elected president, Herman Cain is promising that you won’t find many Hollywood celebrities on the invite list for dinners at the White House.
“My guest lists for state dinners and other important occasions will be light on A-list celebrities and heavy on normal Americans who work each day to restore our nation to greatness,” Cain promises in his book “This is Herman Cain,” which goes on sale Oct. 4.
The autobiography tells of Cain’s rise to CEO of Godfather’s Pizza and president of the National Restaurant Association. But the GOP presidential candidate also goes into detail about how his White House would differ from those of other presidents.
The long-shot candidate, who has earned more attention recently by winning the Florida Straw Poll over the weekend, also promises to “sharply decrease the number of inaugural night balls.”
“I will reduce the number of protocol-oriented events that presidents are seemingly required to attend,” he writes. “At a time of deepening national crisis, I simply cannot afford to allocate valuable time to things that do not advance solutions to this nation’s problems.”
Cain also promises in the book that, “unlike the practice of certain previous administrations, there will be no ‘paying’ guests staying in the Lincoln Bedroom.”
He says members of his administration — “from the most junior clerical person to my chief of staff” — will also “be expected to have a copy of the Constitution of the United States nearby.” (RELATED: Cain annoyed by ‘stupid’ questions from Ron Paul supporters)
Cain has never held elective office before and doesn’t have any foreign policy experience. In his book, he pledges to “convene a summit meeting of the heads of state and also the leaders of the opposition parties of our trusted allies” thirty days into his term.
“Doing so will enable me to outline my views on foreign affairs,” Cain writes, “as well as to take the measure of the men and women with whom I will most closely work in resolving the tensions that are eroding our confidence.”
Cain’s book also includes entertaining items, including his desire for his Secret Service codename to be “cornbread.” He writes that former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty — who has since dropped out of the presidential race — asked him to play tic-tac-toe with him at commercial breaks during one of the debates.
Huh? What’s your point? Did you read the comment I was replying to?
The poster said they were a Sarah supporter, liked Cain and wanted to donate. I figured they may like to get a collectors edition of the book and maybe learn more about the candidate while making the donation. I personally think it’s a great idea and purchased several as Christmas gifts for some relatives.
I think many of us SP waiters will join the Cain Train if she doesn’t run. While we were watching Sarah last night I told my hubby she wasn’t running but she would endorse Cain. That, of course, was just a reaction to what she was saying, I don’t pretend to know what she is really thinking! ;-)
She has said all along she wouldn’t run if the right candidate entered...........
If citizen A's wishes are not carried out in favor of the wishes of a greater number of his fellow citizens in a particular state, the system was set up to afford citizen A the freedom to relocate himself to another state who's citizens’ beliefs are more in line with his own.
Our Founding Fathers were some pretty smart dudes.
I thought you were trying to make a point that $150 was extravagant for a book.
If you weren’t, then I apologize. I have been having to deal with Ron Paul trolls, Obamabots and haters all day.
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Agreed. But who would heed it. The world would revolt at the idea that they need to repent of anything. Unfortunately, so would most of the church.
Talk like that will have the establishment elites in a huff.
me too
And your doing a great job at dealing with those trolls and haters. Your responses have been point on and quite frankly have satisfied some of my own personal concerns regarding 9-9-9. Your a very effective advocate for Cain. My wife and I are with you 100% and are spreading the word to the folks here in our South Jersey community.
You didn’t double-post this time! You’re getting better, Noob.
Vey thoughtful scenario. Excellent idea.
Thank you for that. Glad you are aboard the Cain train :-)
Herman Cain ran a branch of the fed, and also liaised while at the restaurant assoc. It is not the strongest though. Maybe Palin for VP again?
Yes, and the current WH residents do have big ones to have pulled the stunts they have. ;)
How about Mrs. Cain? Will she be flown to multi-million dollar resorts in Spain, surrounded by security details, will she return in separate planes, wear $4,000 bracelets??
I wager she likely would not ....
You wrote:
“Although Cain says he supports the Second Amendment, in the next breath he says he *fully* supports *any and all* state gun control/prohibitions.”
In contrast stand the facts of what he actually said, in context:
BLITZER: All right. Let’s talk about gun control. Do you support any gun control?
CAIN: I support the Second Amendment.
BLITZER: So you don’t — so what’s the answer on gun control?
CAIN: The answer on gun control is I support strong — strongly support the Second Amendment. I don’t support, you know, onerous legislation that’s going to restrict people’s rights in order to be able to protect themselves as guaranteed by the Second Amendment.
BLITZER: Should states or local governments be allowed to control the gun situation? Or should...
CAIN: Yes.
BLITZER: The answer is yes?
CAIN: The answer is yes. That should be a state’s decision.
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