Sergeant Hulka: Lighten up, Francis!
Posted on 10/06/2011 11:46:55 AM PDT by americanophile
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, GOP Presidential candidate Herman Cain had harsh words for the “Occupy Wall Street” movement and the people who blame Wall Street for their financial situations.
Cain would also claim that the “Occupy Wall Street” protests are possibly a planned distraction to make people forget about President Obama’s role in handling the economy.
Talking Points Memo reports:
Cain went on to blame the unemployed for their woes, saying, “if you don’t have a job and you’re not rich, blame yourself!”:
CAIN: I don’t have facts to back this up, but I happen to believe that these demonstrations are planned and orchestrated to distract from the failed policies of the Obama administration. Don’t blame Wall Street, don’t blame the big banks, if you don’t have a job and you’re not rich, blame yourself! [...] It is not someone’s fault if they succeeded, it is someone’s fault if they failed.
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This is precisely the message obama constituents don’t wanna hear.
To quote Pogo, “We Have Met The Enemy, And He Is Us”.
A reasonable response! I’m beginning to think I’m totally out of sinc with the majority of thinking around here.
“He should be placing the blame squarely on Obama and the growth-killing policies of the federal government...”
While I don’t have a problem with what Cain said to a bunch of commie rabble-rousers making a mess on Wall Street and trashing free enterprise, I will agree with you on the above. Attack Obama, and keep the focus on him and out of control government.
I wonder who americanophile’s man is?
It doesn’t really matter because the left will or already has dismissed Cain as an Uncle Tom.
“If this is actually how it “went down” - not a good way to say it. There are ways to state this fact without coming across in a negative way.”
I agree. This is why Herman Cain scares me. He’s too inexperienced in Politics. I like his ideas, but this is going to be drilled into the heads of the American Public in a general election. There are a lot of people hurting right now and it doesn’t sound good. It sounds like he doesn’t care. That being said.....I agree with him, he’s right. Alot of unemployed people are unemployable. They squandered their opportunity in the greatest country on earth. Unfortunately, in politics, you can’t give your enemies a sound bite from H*LL.
There’s no one else TO blame. He’s talking to the lowest scum of the earth, “Occupy Wall Street” urchins. I think it’s refreshing that someone finally is telling it like it is. This is a much deserved cold slap in the face to the “gimme” crowd.
This is EXACTLY what we need.
The Marxists are always talking about “maximizing the contradictions” or some such.
What we need to do in the election is maximize the contrast with Zero, as Ronald Reagan did with Jimmy Carter.
This is NOT the right election to triangulate.
We need to present the American people with the clearest contrast possible between bankruptcy, socialism and misery offered by Zero on the one hand and freedom, opportunity and prosperity on the other hand.
Romney.
"The business of our nation goes forward. These United States are confronted with an economic affliction of great proportions. We suffer from the longest and one of the worst sustained inflations in our national history. It distorts our economic decisions, penalizes thrift, and crushes the struggling young and the fixed-income elderly alike. It threatens to shatter the lives of millions of our people.
Idle industries have cast workers into unemployment, causing human misery and personal indignity. Those who do work are denied a fair return for their labor by a tax system which penalizes successful achievement and keeps us from maintaining full productivity."
What does a deliberate lifestyle choice of dependency (welfare queen) have to do with the genuinely unemployed? Nothing. If you can't make a disctinction between those who want to work and can't find a job (currently more than 14 million Americans) and those who don't want to work and just want a government handout, then there's nothing I can do for you.
I’ve seen the interview.
IMO, not going to play well with the guy or gal who is delivering pizza with no benefits to support their family while sending out 80 resumes a week trying to replace a job that moved overseas, or their friends.
One of the beauties of the Hermanator (sp?) is he can tell it like it is because he’s not white. Cain 2012! Of course, he could be a great VP too ;)
We shall see.
I just can’t imagine a swing voter who’s been unemployed for 12 months thinking he likes a guy that tells him it’s his fault, even if it’s true.
I was afraid of that.
That person was never going to vote GOP anyway. They will vote for the party promising to keep thoese checks flowing.
You want a job?
Get out of bed at 5AM, put on your boots and hit the street.
You'll find work in a week.
That person is never going to vote for the GOP in any situation. They are going to vote for the party promising to keep the money flowing to them from “Obama’s stash”.
I’m only concerned about two segments of the electorate:
1. Republicans
2. Swing voters
Amen...
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