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Herman Cain: 'I Am the American Dream'
Parade Magizine ^ | OCTOBER 13, 1996 | Wallace Terry

Posted on 10/30/2011 1:57:57 PM PDT by Kartographer

Cain turned to Win Wallin, the president of Pillsbury, for help. “I can’t get to your job from where I am,” Cain told him. “What do you recommend?” Wallin suggested getting on the operations training track in the company’s Burger King division, which could lead to being a regional vice president. “If you want to run a business,” Wallin said, “you have to start at the bottom and learn it from the ground up.” It would be an unconventional move. Cain would have to resign his title, give up his company car and nice new office, and forgo stock options to start over, flipping hamburgers with the broiler crew.

As with every major decision in his life, Cain turned to prayer for help. He got down on his knees: “Lord, what do you want me to do?” When his wife noticed him lost in reflection and meditation, she told him, “Don’t worry—I know you can do this.” Cain accepted her words as a sign from God that he was making the right move.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cain; cain2012; cainisanti0; donttreadonme; givemeliberty; hermancain; takebackamerica; teapartypatriots; time2partyagain; truthmatters0
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To: BenKenobi

Please tyake me off he Cain ping. Nothnig against him but I can’t find my Israel, the Nachumlist and most Cain thread seem abou the same, I’ll read them when I se them and still think he has a chance if he elects a good runnig mate but so many Cain threads is driving me bobnkers, hope you undrestand.


41 posted on 10/30/2011 9:46:06 PM PDT by Karliner ( Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28, "...this is the end of the beginning."WC)
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To: Kartographer; dixiechick2000

“I believe in America. I believe in the American dream, because I am the American dream."

42 posted on 10/31/2011 12:47:11 AM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Kenya)
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