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Herman Cain~Newt Gingrich in Lincoln/Douglas-type Debate C-SPAN Sat.11- 5: 8 PM EDT - LIVE THREAD
C-Span ^ | 11-5-2011

Posted on 11/05/2011 3:16:26 PM PDT by blueyon

Republican 2012 presidential candidates Republican 2012 presidential candidates Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich met in a Lincoln-Douglas style debate on current economic and social issues facing the U.S.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cain; caingingrichdebate; cainmachine; caintrain; debate; frontrunner; gingrich; gop; newtcannotbenominee; vote4newtsawin4obama
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To: County Agent Hank Kimball
Sorry, but you must not know much about LeanSS. I work for an organization that has been fundamentally transformed - I’d even say saved - by its implementation. It’s hard. It involves breaking a lot of eggs. But it’s very real and very VERY impactful.

Hank...

While they are at it, make them also do...

* Taguci
* Kazien Events
* Get their ISO 9000 Certs....

Half of them would quit rather than go through the painful changes, nevermind downsizing 40 or 50% they might self downsize. This is what the real world went through just to stay profitable and deal with Washington's insane regulations, turnabout would be fair-play at this point....

1,721 posted on 11/06/2011 9:17:20 AM PST by taildragger (( Palin / Mulally 2012 ))
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To: CharlesWayneCT
Charles, this isn't a court battle. It's a discussion thread on an internet forum. I'm sure you posted several thousand words to me in your last three posts, all in an attempt to prove to me that Herman Cain's track record as a CEO isn't as impressive as many people think it is.

I noticed that you sent your last voluminous post at 4:17 AM CST. The one prior to that was at 3:47 AM. Why? Why are you staying up all night battering your keyboard to smithereens over this? Are you really that invested in trying to save Rick Perry from himself?

I hope you don't think I'm going to read all that. It's not communication. It's bludgeoning with text. Those are articles, not forum posts. Put 'em up on a blog and see if you can build an audience.

1,722 posted on 11/06/2011 9:28:49 AM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: UKrepublican
if he turned millions of dollars loss making company into a millions of dollars profit making company there is no other case to answer on the issue....

Yep. That's kind of the irrefutable truth of the thing, isn't it?

Interesting that our Perry supporting friend stayed up all night posting tens of thousands of words at me, to try and convince me otherwise.

1,723 posted on 11/06/2011 9:33:21 AM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier

Too bad you didn’t read it. The research backs up the assertion that Cain was, at best, an average CEO. There’s a talking point that Cain was some superstar CEO, which he clearly wasn’t. That doesn’t lessen his resume, but just sheds additional light on his ACTUAL accomplishments, not his campaign back story. A man with no political record has nothing but rhetoric and a work background. Vetting is good.


1,724 posted on 11/06/2011 9:35:02 AM PST by magritte
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To: ken5050
Indeed..it was a joint catch..both had control until they hit the ground, after which the LSU defender pulled the ball away. BUT ONCE THEY HIT THE GROUND THE BALL SHOULD BE DEAD, and belong to Bama.

LOL And here I thought I was the only person in America who saw it that way!

1,725 posted on 11/06/2011 9:59:49 AM PST by ExSoldier ("Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil: It has no point.")
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To: magritte

They don’t want vetting. I’m resigned that this will be the election where supposed conservatives will be acting as the liberals did in the past. A result of being so pompous that it couldn’t happen to them, as they are so well informed.


1,726 posted on 11/06/2011 10:03:52 AM PST by presently no screen name (NO OBAMITT in '12)
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To: Politicalmom
Obama is a moron without his little teleprompter.

He's a moron with it.

1,727 posted on 11/06/2011 10:07:20 AM PST by glock rocks (Wait, what? Channel surfing without a remote since 2001)
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To: glock rocks

Touche’.


1,728 posted on 11/06/2011 10:18:08 AM PST by Politicalmom
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To: magritte
Too bad you didn’t read it. The research backs up the assertion that Cain was, at best, an average CEO.

Sorry, but I feel no obligation to read some poster's rambling, thousand word screeds. Those were articles, not posts. Better to make your point with a few pertinent facts, and link back to more in-depth research.

Here's the irrefutable truth: Cain took a company that was operating in the red to the tune of billions of dollars annually, and made it profitable again. Say what you will, but I think that's better than average performance for a CEO.

1,729 posted on 11/06/2011 10:18:53 AM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier

took a company that was operating in the red ...

I understand the talking points. A look at the record contradicts your assertion, but obviously you’re not interested in facts. Godfather’s Pizza situation was like many companies: way too complex to narrow down to a simplistic talking point that is accurate. Since I’m not a True Believer, I prefer to get facts on candidates.


1,730 posted on 11/06/2011 10:24:30 AM PST by magritte
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To: jageorge72
Yeah. Newt was spectacular.... his applause from the audience was probably 5X what Cain got. I like Cain, but he is VP material at best. He clearly was thrown off by some of the questions, and some answers were lacking any real depth. I’m guessing Herman walks out of there and thinks: “Whew... I did it.”, Whereas Newt didn’t even break a sweat.

AMEN!!! I'm excited to vote FOR Newt!

1,731 posted on 11/06/2011 10:37:27 AM PST by Right_in_Virginia
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To: chilepup
"This was a great night...but I am still in the Cain camp"

I agree with you!.

1,732 posted on 11/06/2011 10:55:04 AM PST by LADY J ( Change your thoughts and you change your world.. - Norman Vincent Peale))
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To: TexasFreeper2009

“I agree completely Cain/Gingrich is the winning ticket that will not only destroy the zero but will save our country.”

I’m tending toward the same conclusion.


1,733 posted on 11/06/2011 11:16:29 AM PST by RKBA Democrat (Cain & Gingrich for co-President 2012..there is plenty of work to be done!)
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To: Sir Beowolf

“Who “won” the debate? The American people—by listening to two leaders who care deeply about the future of this great nation.”

Hoo-rah! I think we have a team ladies and gentlemen.


1,734 posted on 11/06/2011 11:18:28 AM PST by RKBA Democrat (Cain & Gingrich for co-President 2012..there is plenty of work to be done!)
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To: stillafreemind

“They compliment each other..it’s almost uncanny.”

Yes, they seem to. And very importantly...they seem to get along well and have for some time.


1,735 posted on 11/06/2011 11:20:03 AM PST by RKBA Democrat (Cain & Gingrich for co-President 2012..there is plenty of work to be done!)
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To: altura

“So... nobody’s allowed here who isn’t a Cain/Newt supporter?”

It’s just a no troll zone. I note that you haven’t ridden the lightning yet. Jim certainly is tolerant, isn’t he?


1,736 posted on 11/06/2011 11:25:51 AM PST by RKBA Democrat (Cain & Gingrich for co-President 2012..there is plenty of work to be done!)
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To: dools0007world

You just post personal opinion, bias. Not convincing.


1,737 posted on 11/06/2011 11:42:39 AM PST by hocndoc (WingRight.org Have mustard seed: Will use. Cut spending, cut spending, cut spending, now,now,now!)
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To: ohioWfan

I said I wouldn’t respond to whatever you wrote over there, and I kept my word to you.

I also owe you an apology, because at least once I said you were a Cain supporter, and in at least one response you said you were not and that was an unsupported assumption on my part.


1,738 posted on 11/06/2011 11:47:36 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Norm Lenhart
Charles, all you ever had to do was answer/admit then what you just did now

Except everything I said I lifted from one of my several posts in the other thread where I answered this question both for you and for at least one other freeper.

And I didn't admit an error in this referenced post, I admitted I was pretty rude to you, and in the interest of comity, I apologized. It wasn't an error -- I certainly intended to be rude, which is why I apologized.

In a post in that other thread, I apologized to you for answering your posts in order, which meant I did not look for your responses until I got to them -- this isn't itself an error, but I started complaining that you weren't answering MY questions either, when you already had, so that was an error. But I apologized for that back then in the other thread. I merely mentioned in this thread that I had apologized.

On the other hand, it's pretty uncivilized to start a flame war with someone simply because you don't think they have answered a question. The reason I was rude to you in that thread was in part because you were harassing another freeper who wouldn't answer your question. I thought that was inappropriate -- not pointing out that they hadn't answered, but harrassing them until you get some answer.

I still think it was bad form to drag that discussion over here. We could have just as easily completed this over there, had you pinged me over there to say you didn't think I had answered your question yet.

I realise that wouldn't have served your purpose here.

1,739 posted on 11/06/2011 11:54:51 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Norm Lenhart; Jim Robinson
What trick Charles? Just another way to duck the issue and question?

You may have had pure motives, although given your demeanor I doubt that. But the rules of this forum are that you don't post anything defending Romney. Since that rule was established, I have followed it meticulously. There is no way I could answer your question without defending my beliefs about Romney in 2008, which would violate the rules.

And if you didn't report it, I'm sure someone would. As I do not support Romney in any way, shape or form, it would really suck to get banned for him.

Democrats and liberals get massively upset when conservatives bring up past statements and positions on issues when they become relavant.

That is not a trait unique to liberals and democrats. Cain supporters get pretty upset with me if I quote something Cain said that isn't the "latest" clarification on a subject. Or put in a more positive light, people will also get upset if they have denounced a prior opinion and others falsely accuse them of still holding that position.

Charles gets massively upset when I bring up his past statements and positions on issues when they become relavant

Actually, I have not gotten upset at all over you bringing up my past statements. I even asked you to link to them so everybody could read them, and offered my entire posting history to the thread. I have plenty to regret, but nothing to hide. I don't hide my identity, and know that the web is forever.

Note complaints over supposed ‘rules violations’ made on this very thread

That wasn't a complaint. I was NOT complaining about the rules put in place regarding Romney. I was EXPLAINING to you why I could not answer your question. I pinged Jim because they are his rules, so if you didn't like them, you could take it up with him, and so if someone later suggested I was breaking the rules, Jim would already be aware of the conversation and see that I was studious in avoiding the appearance of violating the rules he has established. Please don't suggest I complained about the rules -- I have not.

Notice also the attempt to ‘blame’ me on any number of things so far.

I preemptively blamed you for trying to get me in trouble. I apologize, because now that I have had some sleep, I once again know that I am not a mindreader, and would not know your motives. I cannot answer your question, and I have explained why. You are wrong that it has anything to do with me being upset, or that I complained about the rules or that I cite the rules to save me from answering your question.

I welcome people to look up my past statements on positions and issues and my past post history shows me making that very comment MANY times

I'm not sure what "comment" you are refering to here, so I cannot look up to see, nor do I think anything I've said would have any bearing on any prediliction on your part to make a comment repeatedly.

1,740 posted on 11/06/2011 12:08:18 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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