Posted on 10/02/2011 4:22:21 AM PDT by SueRae
Both President Obama and Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain went to graduate school. Obama got a degree at Harvard Law School. Cain did his graduate work at Purdue and Burger King University. That doesn’t tell you all you need to know about the difference between Obama and Cain, but it explains a lot.
Obama and Cain are African Americans, but there the likeness ends. Obama is a liberal, Cain a conservative. Their parents, their upbringing, their education, their careers, the lessons they learned from life—these are as dissimilar as where they’ve wound up, Obama in the White House and Cain as a successful corporate executive.
Until recent months, there was no reason to consider the contrast between the two. But now Obama’s presidency is crumbling. His reelection in 2012 is in jeopardy. The economy is weak, and Americans disapprove of his handling of it by a two-to-one margin. Even in the Democrat-controlled Senate, there aren’t enough votes to pass his new jobs bill.
Cain’s campaign is surging. After strong performances in four nationally televised Republican debates last month, he jumped into third place in the GOP race in a Fox News poll at 17 percent, close behind Rick Perry (19 percent) and Mitt Romney (23 percent). A Rasmussen poll of likely voters in late September found Cain trailing Obama, 39 percent to 34 percent.
Thus the interest in the backgrounds of Cain and Obama. Much of Obama’s is known. His mother was an academic with a Ph.D. in anthropology. She had two failed marriages to foreigners. Obama’s father, a Kenyan student, left the family when Obama was a toddler. From ages 6 to 10, Barack lived with his mother and his Indonesian stepfather and half-sister in Jakarta, then went back to Hawaii to live with his grandparents.
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Obama and Cain are African Americans
One fictional and makebelieve and one original and authentic
One is.
And one if not even full-blooded African American. Can’t Barnes get anything straight? Obama is bi-racial. Sheesh.
“Obama and Cain are African Americans..”
I think the one with a white mom is 1/2 African American.
Reading this I could think of only three words, “We The People”.
Mr. Cain will tell you he is black, Obama is African American. Obama’s daddy was African.
Fred did not even get Obama’s background right from the get go. His father left the family when Obama was a toddler? How about his father was never a part of the family — period. We are not even sure, to this day, who his father is.
Obama is African.
Cain is American.
born December 13, 1945 in Memphis, TN (Meets the Jus Soli Requirement)
Parents were
Luther Cain Jr., born March 16, 1925 in TN, died March 29, 1982 in Atlanta, GA
Lenora Davis, born July 27, 1925 in GA, died August 20, 2005 in Atlanta, GA
Both parents were US Citizens at the time of his birth (Meets the Jus Sanguinis Requirement)
Herman Cain is a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN
Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama ISN'T!
Herman Cain- YES!
Good indication Mr. Cain is WH bound when Bill Krystal writes an article like this. JMHO.
I have seen no factual documentation that the usurper even finished grade school, let along high school, college, or post graduate studies.
If he really did, where are the transcripts, thesis papers, 100s of people coming forward saying how brilliant he was in class? I have seen none of this - so as far as I am concerned, his background is not even as solid as a KGB legend, who would actually be able to produce these things.
Obama in the White House ....yes by hiding his true intentions, his true origins, and misleading the common people.
Herman Cain grew up in Georgia with wonderful parents and little else. Cain’s father worked three jobs because he wanted his family to have more opportunity. As a result of his dad’s encouragement, Cain earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Morehouse College in 1967. He earned a master’s degree from Purdue University while working as a mathematician for the Department of the Navy. Upon graduation, he worked as a business analyst for The Coca-Cola Company. In 1968, he married Gloria Etchison; they have two grown children and one grandchild.
IN 1977, CAIN JOINED THE PILLSBURY COMPANY AT AGE 31. WITHIN THREE YEARS, HE ROSE TO THE POSITION OF VICE PRESIDENT OF CORPORATE SYSTEMS AND SERVICES. HE RESIGNED HIS SENIOR POSITION IN 1982 TO BEGIN WORK AT PILLSBURY’S BURGER KING DIVISION. USING HIS BUSINESS EXPERIENCE, CAIN WORKED HIS WAY UP IN THE ORGANIZATION, EVEN FLIPPING BURGERS ON THE GRILL TO BETTER UNDERSTAND EVERY ASPECT OF THE INDUSTRY. NINE MONTHS LATER, HE WAS MANAGING 400 BURGER KING UNITS IN THE PHILADELPHIA REGION, THE COMPANY’S POOREST PERFORMER. WITHIN THREE YEARS, HIS REGION RANKED NUMBER ONE.
IN 1986, CAIN WAS APPOINTED PRESIDENT OF THEN FINANCIALLY TROUBLED GODFATHER’S PIZZA, INC. CHAIN. IN 14 MONTHS, THE CHAIN REGAINED PROFITABILITY AND IN 1988, HE LED HIS EXECUTIVE TEAM IN A BUYOUT OF THE COMPANY FROM PILLSBURY.
CAIN WAS ELECTED TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE NATIONAL RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION (NRA) IN 1988. WHILE SERVING AS CHAIRMAN, HE DEVELOPED THE ORGANIZATION INTO A PRO-BUSINESS VOICE THROUGH NATIONAL DEBATES AND SPEECHES CONCERNING HEALTHCARE REFORM, EMPLOYMENT POLICIES AND TAXATION. FOLLOWING THIS EXPERIENCE, HE WAS APPOINTED TO SERVE ON THE ECONOMIC GROWTH AND TAX REFORM COMMISSION. HE THEN BECAME A SENIOR ADVISOR TO THE 1996 DOLE/KEMP PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN.
WHILE CONTINUING AS PRESIDENT AND CHAIRMAN OF GODFATHER’S PIZZA, INC., CAIN BECAME A NATIONAL KEYNOTE SPEAKER. USING HIS POWERFUL MESSAGES AS THE FOUNDATION, CAIN CREATED A LEADERSHIP FIRM AND HE HAS AUTHORED THREE BOOKS ON TOPICS RANGING FROM LEADERSHIP TO SELF-EMPOWERMENT. IN 2002, HE BECAME AN EXECUTIVE LECTURER FOR THE GALLUP ORGANIZATION.
IN 1996, CAIN WAS ELECTED CEO AND PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION. CAIN LEVERAGED HIS RESTAURANT EXPERIENCE WITH THE TECHNOLOGY MARKET WHEN HE BECAME CEO AND PRESIDENT OF RETAILDNA, A SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY COMPANY, IN 1999. DESPITE HIS GLOBAL INDUSTRY REACH, CAIN DEVOTES TIME AND ENERGY TO HIS FAMILY AND INDULGES HIS PASSION FOR MUSIC AND GOLF. NOW FORMER CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF GODFATHER’S PIZZA, CAIN IS STILL ON THE BOARDS OF DIRECTORS OF VARIOUS COMPANIES. CAIN ALSO SERVES AS AN ASSOCIATE MINISTER OF ANTIOCH BAPTIST CHURCH NORTH IN ATLANTA.
HERMAN CAIN STATEMENT OF FAITH
“THE LORD IS MY STRENGTH AND SONG, AND HE HAS BECOME MY SALVATION; HE IS MY GOD, AND I WILL PRAISE HIM; MY FATHER’S GOD, AND I WILL EXALT HIM.”
~EXODUS 15:2 (NKJV)
“WHEN MY FATHER LEFT HIS FAMILY’S SMALL FARM AT THE AGE OF 18 WITH JUST THE CLOTHES ON HIS BACK, HE HAD HIS BELIEF IN GOD, HIS BELIEF IN HIMSELF AND HIS BELIEF IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. WITH THESE BELIEFS HE ACHIEVED ALL OF HIS DREAMS IN LIFE.
“USING THOSE SAME BELIEFS, I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO ACHIEVE MANY BLESSINGS IN LIFE WITH THE STRENGTH, WHICH COMES FROM GOD. MY FAMILY AND FRIENDS, MY CHURCH, MY SUCCESS AND THE OPPORTUNITY TO LIVE IN THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD ARE ALL BLESSINGS FROM GOD.
“THERE IS MORE TO LIFE THAN GETTING MORE. THIS IS WHY MY SONG UNTO HIM IS TO USE ALL MY TALENTS TO SERVE MY FELLOW MAN, AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE FUTURE OF OUR NATION.
“IN GOD WE TRUST EXPRESSED THE FAITH OF OUR FOUNDING FATHERS. IN GOD I TRUST IS MY FAITH.”
Yes, me too. Herman Cain speaks as a member of “We the People”, not a politician. Although he does a much better job of it than I can.
I’m checking my local libraries for copies of his earlier books, as well as his newest one, due out Tuesday. It is obvious that the dreams of his father were much much different than the current occupant’s.
Normal fonts would make that much easier to read, imo.
Excellent excellent point. I hope everyone gets what you said here. It truly does speak volumes about a man and his capabilities.
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