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Posted on 10/31/2011 2:47:44 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Uh, the question was: “I’m still trying to figure out what a verbal gesture might be.
2 posted on Monday, October 31, 2011 2:51:23 PM by Paladin2”
And my answer was: A certain sexual movement of the tongue while speaking. You know, like Obama talks when describing his wife Michael.
I was being sarcastic, guess my tongue in cheek comment could be considered sexual by some.
When I worked at BP America in the 90’s, a charge of sexual harassment was the quickest way for a woman to get promoted “away from the offender”.
It happened a lot.
Can hardly believe people are continuing to make issue of this...it’s the oldest political smear trick in the book for the media to have a scandal....that will keep Obama off the front page.
This is a transparent slander by the Left.
The left? Have you ruled out Romney?
Excellent point - if this were coming from the left they’d wait until he became the nominee. I guess it is possible that the left would release this now to eliminate him so as to keep Romney at the top.
Corporations have lots of lawsuits at any one time. This one was small potatoes. Forgettable.
You, moose, have all the markings of a troll. In 10+ years at this site, to the best of my recollection, I’ve never called any poster by that term. So you are really *special* If you are not a paid Obot, you should apply and at least get paid. You’ve spent a good deal of your FR time trashing both Cain and Palin in the standard Obot passive-aggressive style.
Your comment to which I replied had nothing whatsoever to do with revealing the facts, only Cain’s response: “Nice try but I would have a hard time trusting somebody who doesn’t remember having been sued for sexual harassment to run this country...especially if the accusations were false.”
Having been called naïve as to the real world in which powerful people such as Cain operate, you pull the old hypocrisy card, and change the topic: “If this were obama or clinton or romney or perry you’d be screaming for the facts to be revealed. You know it. We know it.” Who’s this “we” by the way? Pure Obot.
So, your initial comment was about Cain’s memory of events TWENTY (20) years ago, that by your lights he should remember with perfect clarity, but you then change the subject to exposing ‘the facts.’ Your initial comment appears to have conceded the allegations as not true.
If you really cared about truth and the facts, you would be calling for the accusers to step forward and lay out their case, offering Cain a fair and open rebuttal (as I have done over the past 24 hours) but you seem perfectly okay with just letting the anonymous smear sit out there, and finding fault with Cain’s recollection of 20 year old events. Yeah, you are some Christian. Ha!
OK, I consider myself educated in a subject I find despicable and pitful.
A settlement isn’t “minutiae.”
Truth is not in you.
Good, now we’ve established your IQ and character.
Keep spouting.
No, he said he did not know there WAS a settlement, was surprised to learn there was a settlement, and hoped it wasn’t for much.
Now he says he remembers his counsel telling him about the settlement. That would be an odd way of saying it if his counsel told him TODAY. More likely he forgot all about the settlement, but now that he is thinking about it and talking to others, he is slowly remembering things.
Except he had 10 days to do this, so that’s not a good explanation. But it can’t be (as the article speculates) that he was being “coy” this morning — because what he said was clearcut, not coy, and if he really knew this much about the settlement this morning, what he said this morning would have been a lie, and I don’t believe Cain would lie to be coy.
No way Cain is going to argue that he gets sued for harrassment so often he didn’t remember this one.
That would require him to be part of the agreement, so he would be bound by it. No way he was part of the agreement and didn’t remember it.
How could it be a “slander” by either the left or Romney? The complaints were filed in the 1990s. Cain has now admitted that there was at least one complaint, and that the woman worked for the association, and that she was paid a settlement.
So how is reporting that a slander? How would the left have set this up to get the woman to file a false complaint in the 1990s? How would Romney?
The “slander” would have been the woman making the charge, if it was false. Not reporting the charges now. And the problem with “settling” a charge is it’s very hard later when it comes up to argue that the press should IGNORE it.
being an interviewee in a department is a bit different from being president of the organization. And it’s still weird for a person to not care what became of the complaint. I would be too curious to let it drop, and you’d think a guy ambitious enough to be President wouldn’t ignore things like this.
If that makes sense to you then knock yourself out.
To 39 - You’re exactly right about that. If this were Perry they would be champing at the bit. I watched the Cain Q&A with Jenna Lee Monday and in my opinion he handled the queries impeccably. Now I get home after a flight from Dallas and learn there is more to the story. With Jenna Lee, Cain was adamant that he knew nothing of these women, now he later speaks with Greta and gives this recollection of a gal being offended because he compared her height to his wife’s. I still give Cain the benefit of the doubt but for him to go from ‘not recalling’ to later ‘recalling one incident’ makes me want to step back a bit and see how this plays out.
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