It’s only a shocker that people who claimed to be smarter than democrats would vote for someone who has no experience and makes his living as a motivational speaker.
Actually it’s quite shameful.
I'm tired of apologies.
so you’re voting for 0bama, since he is the ONLY one running with experience as president? ;-)
That’s quite shameful.
Claiming to be smarter than Democrats is not much of a claim. Have you seen the OWS protesters. They aren’t that bright. Calling Herman Cain a motivational speaker is like calling Newt a mere professor or Palin a plain housewife. Herman Cain has a strong impressive resume and you know it.
Its a bit silly but I would still pick him over Obama the community organizer.
Cain was employed by the Department of the Navy for six years, is an associate Pastor, was Chairman of the Kansas City Federal Reserve and was a successful corporate turn around specialist. Yeah, no experience there which would be of any value in leading America out of its morass.
People were really stupid to support George Washington - after all he was never a Senator, or a Representative, or a judge. The only thing Washington REALLY had experience in was leading the army, and being from a rich family! How crazy were those people???
[Disclaimer: I have a great amount of respect for George Washington. I’m only using him to make a point...]
In the REAL WORLD - most people understand that our forefathers never intended people to be CAREER politicians. With all the corruption in Washington DC I believe our only chance at really getting rid of the corruption IS to back someone whose experience is on the ‘other side’, and NOT someone who is backed by the current political establishment of EITHER party.
Herman Cain HAS executive experience, and a PROVEN track record of excellence. The fact that the media and the GOP elite are scratching their heads indicates to me that he is one of US - and NOT one of the political insiders. That increases his value, it doesn’t detract from it AT ALL.
Who would YOU rather see win the nomination? Romney? Perry? ETC? Everyone else on that stage seems to have such great experience - within the government that has led us to where we are today! I don’t want more of the same, do you???
However, I can add considerably to Cain's resume:
So much for your ludicrous statement that Cain has "no experience" and is nothing but a motivational speaker. Though I must say that with that much life experience, he is well-suited to be a motivational speaker. Hell, I got motivated just reading through his resume. What an impressive list of accomplishments for a man with such humble beginnings (his father was a janitor and his mother was a cleaning woman).
Contrast that to the current occupant of the White House who never did an honest day work in his life. The current president never even ran a hot dog stand and his only experience outside politics was "community organizing" which is basically getting people on welfare and food stamps and getting socialists/marxists elected to public office.
So I think it is quite shameful that you would attempt to marginalize the accomplishments of Herman Cain. Cain may not have the "political" experience that voters have been conditioned to believe that a candidate should have but Herman Cain has a track record of getting things done and he is the kind of leader we need to send to Washington.
Because what we need to pull us out of this mess that the politicians have created, is an experienced and seasoned politician.
Political experience is the only kind of skill that will be of any use to the country now.
Cain has a mile-long list of credentials, education that can be verified as opposed to Obama’s, and tons of high-level corporate experience.
And Obama’s experience was... hmmm... let me see. NOTHING. He never even ran a lemonade stand, and most likely never did an honest day’s work in his life.
Your ignorance is... actually quite shameful.
If that were Cain's only bullet points on his resume, you might have a point. We need executive experience with a record of success.
After completing his master's degree from Purdue, Cain left the Department of the Navy and began working for The Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta as a computer systems analyst. In 1977, he moved to Minneapolis to join Pillsbury, soon becoming director of business analysis in its restaurant and foods group in 1978.
At age 36, Cain was assigned in the 1980s first to analyze and ultimately to take the reins of Burger King, which at the time was a Pillsbury subsidiary, where he managed 400 stores in the Philadelphia area. Under Cain's leadership, his region went in three years from the least profitable for Burger King to the most profitable. According to a 1987 account in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Pillsbury's then-president Win Wallin said: "He was an excellent bet. Herman always seemed to have his act together." At Burger King, Cain “established the BEAMER program, which taught our employees, mostly teenagers, how to make our patrons smile” by smiling themselves. It was a success: “Within three months of the program’s initiation, the sales trend was moving steadily higher.” His successes at Burger King prompted Pillsbury to appoint him President and CEO of another subsidiary, Godfather's Pizza. Cain arrived on April 1, 1986, and told employees that, "I'm Herman Cain and this ain't no April Fool's joke. We are not dead. Our objective is to prove to Pillsbury and everyone else that we will survive." Aiming to cut costs, Cain, over a 14-month period, reduced the company from 911 stores to 420. As a result of his efforts, Godfather's Pizza became profitable. In a leveraged buyout in 1988, Cain, Executive Vice-President and COO Ronald B. Gartlan and a group of investors, bought Godfather's from Pillsbury. Cain continued as CEO until 1996, when he resigned.
Later in 1996 he became CEO of the National Restaurant Association, a trade group and lobby organization for the restaurant industry, where he had previously been chairman concurrently with his role at Godfather's Pizza.
Cain became a member of the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City in 1992 and served as its chairman from January 1995 to August 1996, when he resigned to become active in national politics. Cain was on the board of directors of Aquila, Inc. from 1992 to 2008, and also served as a board member for Nabisco, Whirlpool, Reader's Digest, and AGCO, Inc.