[sickoflibs]

RE :”Could anyone have imagined even a few years ago that the 2012 U.S. presidential race might end up as a contest between two black candidates? I certainly couldn't have. Yet, with Republican candidate Herman Cain's recent surge in popularity, the possibility is there. This says a great deal about race in America — all of it good.
In many respects, Herman Cain's advance in the Republican primary contest is more striking than Barack Obama’s rise in 2008. Unlike Obama, whose father was African and who was raised largely in Hawaii by his white grandparents, Cain is a product of the segregated South.
Obama benefitted from affirmative action, attended Ivy League schools and taught law at one of America's most prestigious institutions, the University of Chicago. He lived and worked in a rarified world where being black (or in his case, being of mixed race) was — if a factor at all — an advantage.
Cain, on the other hand, was raised in the South by a father who worked three jobs — as a barber, a janitor and a chauffer — and a mother who was a cleaning woman. Cain grew up at a time when schools were still mostly segregated and attended Morehouse, a historically black college in Atlanta, where he earned a degree in mathematics.
After Cain earned his master's degree in computer science, he went to work in business. He started at Coca-Cola in Atlanta and then worked his way through a series of corporate jobs until he became CEO of Godfather's Pizza — a company which he took from the brink of bankruptcy to profitability in short order. His was a slow, steady climb up the economic ladder in an environment in which being black meant you had to prove yourself each and every day”.

The above is the part of the article I like (author Linda Chavez is a RINO) . Seeing these two completely opposite black men (liberal and conservative, privileged and self-made, government and private sector, grew up in the affirmative action North vs segregated South) compete for the WH is the only really interesting and exciting possible scenario that I can see now.

[stephenjohnbanker]

” In many respects, Herman Cain’s advance in the Republican primary contest is more striking than Barack Obama’s rise in 2008. Unlike Obama, whose father was African and who was raised largely in Hawaii by his white grandparents, Cain is a product of the segregated South.
Obama benefitted from affirmative action, attended Ivy League schools and taught law at one of America’s most prestigious institutions, the University of Chicago “

Cain busted his hump for many years to rise to the top. Obama is a well known sloth to his peers at the University of Chicago Law School. Take your choice, America!

[Kaslin]

(author Linda Chavez is a RINO)

Because you disagree with Linda Chavez on certain positions; remember she is not a politician, she is not a RINO.

RINOs are those politicians who vote mostly with the rats

[Gilbo_3]

only really interesting and exciting possible scenario that I can see now.

bring on the 'debates' tween Mr Cain and the halfbaked halfbreed...

just as with holder vs bambam, i forsee der reader gettin flustered and tossin out a middle finger and ghetto n word...

[Marine_Uncle]

This development is driving the far left crazy.