Posted on 10/02/2011 3:00:31 PM PDT by Baladas
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said Sunday that he should not have stayed silent after the audience at a GOP debate booed a gay soldier serving in Iraq.
The Georgia businessman told ABC's "This Week" that it would have been "appropriate" for him to have defended the soldier. None of the candidates on stage at the Sept. 22 forum responded to the boos.
"In retrospect, because of the controversy it has created and because of the different interpretations that it could have had, yes, that probably — that would have been appropriate," Cain said, when asked if he should have asked the audience to respect the soldier.
Cain said it wasn't immediately clear to him what had drawn the audience's scorn, adding, "I happen to think that maybe they were booing the whole 'don't ask, don't tell' repeal more so than booing that soldier."
The so-called don't ask, don't tell policy barring gays from serving openly in the military was officially lifted last month.
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First he insulted his brothers by calling them brainwashed and to then make up for that gaffe, he went out and played the race card on a white guy. After that, he further insults his base by saying he should have corrected them.
Cain - just another politician.
Beer summits....for people acting stupidly. :)
LSM scores one.
Perry could have found a spot in the debates or in a speech (weeks ago) where he could have said. "You know, words have meaning. My family leased a ranch that had a horribly inappropriate racial epithet for a name. the first thing we did was change that name to "Paint Creek".
If he would have said that weeks ago he'd be fine now. Perry doesn't seem to grasp or even consider the future consequences of his actions.
“In 2010, when I was deployed to Iraq, I had to lie about who I was, because I’m a gay soldier, and I didn’t want to lose my job. My question is, under one of your presidencies, do you intend to circumvent the progress that’s been made for gay and lesbian soldiers in the military?”
from a self-admitted liar.
Why are you posting what McCain said? We are talking about Cain. You ignore the fact that he said he didn’t think the audience was even booing the soldier.
You pick and choose what you want to hear.
“For me, it’s Sarah. I’m praying every day that she will run. “
The grass always seems greener on the other side.
Wallace once asked Palin about DADT repeal and she said “I don’t think so right now. I’m surprised that the President spent time on that in his State of the Union speech when he spent only about 9 percent of his time in the State of the Union on national security issues. And I say that because there are other things to be worried about right now with the military. I think that kind of on the back burner, is sufficient for now. To put so much time, and effort, and politics into it, unnecessary.”
Is this one, narrow, "old" story REALLY enough that we should dismiss Herman Cain out of hand, or is it more likely being used by a biased media to inflame conservatives? Hmmmmm..... I wonder.
Re: Herman Cain: “So why the attacks on him here? PerryBot desperation?”
The whole thing stinks. I guess if it smells like a fish...
In this case how do you separate the two?
“I happen to think that maybe they were booing the whole ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ repeal more so than booing that soldier”
Maybe they were booing a soldier who’s a perfect example of why faggots, with their screwed up priorities, shouldn’t be serving... This is the question a service man in war time thinks to ask a presidential candidate?
Self-immolation by the flavor of the week... see ya, Herb.
"In retrospect, because of the controversy it has created and because of the different interpretations that it could have had, yes, that probably — that would have been appropriate," Cain said, when asked if he should have asked the audience to respect the soldier.
Why demand the audience "respect the soldier" when the soldier is an admitted liar and why does he want to dress down his own audience?
Don’t depend on CNN for the complete story.
On Monday Cain will be getting a new spokesman. He was an aide to Rumsfeld and have a very impressive resume.
http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/archives/43509
“Self-immolation by the flavor of the week... see ya, Herb.”
Dream on
Perry is strongly FOR border security. As Governor, he has spent hundreds of millions of Texas tax dollars securing and patrolling the border with Mexico. NumbersUsa, who finds fault with EVERYTHING (Perry=D-, Palin=D) finds Perry "good" on border security, and says he would be rated "excellent" on border security if he would publish his presidential plan for securing the border.
Perry doesn't want to fence off the Rio Grande and cede a valuable river to Mexico. I agree with him. Some think stopping one illegal is worth giving up valuable land to a foreign country, but I don't.
BTW, a major problem we have is that people come into the country LEGALLY, through the legal checkpoints, but then overstay their welcome. In Texas, Perry has pushed for ways to track legal aliens to make sure they leave when their visa expires -- a fence does NOTHING for this major problem, and every candidate should have to give us their plan for that to be called "good" on border security.
Cain is still my first-choice among announced candidates (Palin is top, if she gets in). But damn, he’s got to learn quickly and avoid being lured down the garden path by the scum in the media. He’s proving to have a real blind spot on this, and it’s going to totally do him in, if he doesn’t get a grasp on this problem.
“Cain is as good as it gets.”
I think some of these comments appear like plants. It’s as if they’ve gone deaf to the FACTS.
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