Herman Cain Doesn't Want to Talk to the Little People
There's something fishy about Herman Cain's candidacy. Other than the distinct possibility that Republican voters are suffering from some sort of collective brain damage, I cannot begin to explain how Cain is leading among the admittedly sad slate of Republican candidates. But that's not the fishy thing. His campaign infrastructure appears to be next to nil, other than a rather cushy underpinning from Koch Enterprises.
And now a former campaign worker has revealed a man who is more than just ignorant of basic economic theory and prone to conflicting statements, but also tetchy, distant and haughty:
If Herman Cain feels his management skills are up to any challenge, some of his former staff members think he should have started with the disorder in his own campaign.
Mr. Cain has hardly shown up in New Hampshire and Iowa, they said, spending the bulk of his time on a book tour through the South. He occasionally mishandled potential big donors or ignored real voters. His campaign churned through the small staff; last week, his campaign announced the appointment of the veteran campaigner Steve Grubbs, his third Iowa leader in four months.
Even bumper stickers have been hard to come by.
And then there was that e-mail to the staff about traveling in a car with Mr. Cain: “Do not speak to him unless you are spoken to,” the memo said.
“I found it odd,” said a former staff member who liked to prep Mr. Cain for appearances while driving. The aide, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, quit not long afterward, citing the e-mail as one of the deciding factors.
You know, there's just enough of a conspiratorial nugget in my brain to wonder if Herman Cain isn't some really wacky performance art experiment being inflicted upon us.
They have no problem ginning up phony Democrats to steal elections... it's not a big step to create phony Republicans they want to win. No shortage of obedient sociopaths, apparently.
... is unfit to be a school crossing guard, let alone President of the United States.
Of course, this country did elect Dubya. Twice.
Oh, dear, oh dear... (in best C-3PO voice)
"Whatever your particular problem is, I promise you, the Republicans are not the least bit interested in solving it. They are interested in two things, and two things only: making you afraid of it, and telling you who's to blame for it."
"Of course, this country did elect Dubya. Twice."
Nope. Just once.
because after all he was the "commander guy"
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Not with hacked Diebold machines running the show. And let us not forget how the guy who blew the whistle on that ended up dead... just like the guy who spilled the beans about the Bush White House emails did.
I call it getting 'Wellstoned'.
Kerry wouldn't hold the line in Ohio and the Kentucky retabulated votes stood as legal. Planes fall from the sky.
Not even once. Ohio was stolen.
Then it explains why I keep getting visions of the Winthorpe brothers in my head.
"When are we going to stop trying to tell elected officials what to do. Our job is to spend the taxpayers' money the best way we can." -- Tommy Watkins, Justice of the Peace, Crawford County, Arkansas
The more this imbecile Cain speaks the more he exposes that he's simply a nasty dumb willful fool.
You're the nuts sprinkled 'round
You're the gooey stuff inside
-------------------------(Your line here. Win a Cain Inaugural ticket)
Ed-words
To the East Coast,
With an ego that's really sky high
He's movin on up
To the East Coast
And did it all based on pizza pie
Are you ready for the new version of Jeffersonian democracy?
Hasa Diga Eebowai
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"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
and cowbell...
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
"Oh, no, Mr. Cain....that policy is unConstitutional!"
"Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati" - Red Green
Freedom Ain't Free - Pay Your Share
I do agree with Herman Cain that "Stupid People are ruining America" (the title of the video, not of the post). Yes, Stupid Rightwingers like Herman Cain are indeed ruining America.
No really. We should show up in significant numbers at these campaign events, fund raisers, and debates, and laugh uproariously at the Dada performance art that the political environment has become. Point and laugh, and strip these trolls of any prayer of credibility that their shriveled egos are crying out for.
Or just take off and nuke the entire place from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Ask most prostitutes who lack pimps.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
I think the prostitute comparison is very apt. This guy has been bought and paid for by someone. Hope they enjoy their hour.
"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened." Dr. Seuss
That's why they call him koch-cain.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Cain is not running for President, he is auditioning for Fox News. Grifting for a job.
like someone who knows the fix is in.
How much interest does the Koch Bros. have in Diebold I wonder?
"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing." -- Robert E. Howard
Of course, the fix is in. The voter tabulation crimes have worked so far: there is no reason to believe it will stop. The key to the primary season may be making it "appear" as if there are more Republican voters than actually exist so that when the country-wide electronic voter fraud alters cast votes in Nov. 2012 fraudulently recording a slight but winning majority to whoever the republican presidential nominee is- few will question the outcome. (A win-win result since it sows doubt, distrust & despair among the citizenry, i.e. "How could so many fellow Americans vote that way? It's hopeless." or "Voting is a scam, I won't vote.")
I still contend that the only way President Obama won in 2008 was the overwhelming number of votes cast for him-in numbers so large the Rovian-Koch Republican party could not commit enough voter fraud crimes (without unrefutable detection) to defeat a reasonable 99%er or, at least, a 99% supporter.
I wish the elected President had run with the mandate and increased that majority. 2012 honest election results will be more easily circumvented.
To answer Michael Moore's question about why the 1% don't seem to care about the idiocy of the Republican candidates: there is also another answer than President Obama is their man. Perhaps the 1% know anyone in the office will be their "man" because the 1% is confidant they hold all the cards whoever in the oval office.
The fix will be in this next election. Voter turnout was too great last time. Now they (media) are saying that people are dissatisfied with Obama (though he's done the MOST GOOD) and will probably vote republican next election. People (I would like to think) are not that stupid. If they do vote the repukes back into the WH, they will certainly finish the job of screwing over the lower and middle classes while wall street drowns itself in champagne and lots of money. If we dont turn out in large numbers AGAIN for the President, we can simply hang it up. They will placing demonstrators and marchers into those "camps" that we used to hear about. Oh and shooting us too like they did that soldier recently. Cops no longer care about ordinary people...only where THEIR paychecks are coming from.
I am glad others are seeing this.
Here in the third world (Florida), NOBODY I know admits to voting for Rick Scott. Even the most devoted wingnuts' first words about him are "crook" or "thief". He wasn't "elected", he was appointed by the people controlling the paper ballot counting machines.
I have been saying all along (since before 2000) that thanks to this voting technology, we have to beat someone by more than 15% to have anyone other than a gooper "elected". (I just choose that arbitrary number as any more would be obvious cheating, but it seems to line up with the reported votes.)
Remember Jeb and Kathrine Harris set this bogus system up here with the help of Diebold just in time for 2000.
The funny thing is...
Though he may be a crazed, attention-seeking sideshow of a candidate.. he's not distinguishable from the real thing. In fact, that seems to be what makes them most popular by their base.
We are accidentally seeing that CEOs really aren't worth all that money to "run" a company; they are just picked from the list of waiting privileged class candidates.
...is a former federal reserve banker.
Former head of the Kansas City Federal Reserve bank.
Cain represents the global banking cartel that OWS is protesting.
audit-prosecute-incarcerate
I see his service on the Fed board as more of an indication of how the system is so corrupt that a know nothing like Cain can get appointed to such a position of influence. Talk about a tool!
There is certainly no Art in Cain's campaign.
But there are clear indications that the campaign is some sort of nefarious ruse to affect the 2012 election.
He is a Koch project and although they have enough money to waste, I am sure they don't waste it without clear "intended" consequences in mind.
We need to discover what those really are.
Cain's campaign isn't as much performance art as it is marketing gimmick. I think it's the Koch's way of getting their lunatic message out in front of the morans in a new way. Instead of the old white guys or the pseudo-MILFs, they're just going with an edgier, urban spokesmodel to spew their insane BS.
They're creating awareness, as the ad geeks are fond of saying. They don't have to "win," Daddy John Bircher taught them to think about the long haul. Cain is simply the latest flapping jaw, once he's passed his pull date, we'll see no more of him.
I also think the Koch boys have no more intention of allowing a black man to be president than the Duke boys did with Eddie Murphy.
“Relative to foreign policy, I don’t need to know the details of every one of the issues we face.
"We’ve got plenty of experts who can fill in the details,” Cain said at dinner held by the Nueces County Republican Women.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/10/...
Dear Herman: Please see Presidential Daily Brief of 08/06/2001 entitled Bin Laden determined to attack US -- 36 days before 911. It apparently interrupted George Bush's mint julep and brush clearing at the Crawford ranch, so he ignored it.
Keep it up Herman. You'll be back making pizzas in no time.
Democratic Party progressive, Vietnam veteran and proud Union member for 41 years
He's their puppet. nothing more. He will be koch-cain, puppet of the corporate elites - puppet of the MIC.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
definitely represents the people who support him
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
:)
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Keep your eyes down at all times and never attempt to make eye contact. Do not attempt to take any pictures of Mr. Cain and thus steal his soul. And most importantly, cover all mirrors in his presence.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
Why does Herman Cain ignore dwarfs?
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
those are the "little people "the Kochs warned him about......
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man, those guys get screwed over EVERY election year.
Cain as a puppet/front for a Koch brothers shadow-presidency actually makes a hell of a lot of sense. It's the next logical step in our headlong rush to make Jennifer Government read like a "how to".
First they had the southern strategy to get the white vote, now they have the cain strategy to get the black vote. Both were frauds because REpugnants only represent the 1%.
The Andy Kaufman candidacy?
Just 'Cos You Got the Power...THAT DON'T MEAN YOU GOT THE RIGHT!
is a Kochwhore.
FB
FB
99%
my latest point that I was making to Jesus...
"You know, there's just enough of a conspiratorial nugget in my brain to wonder if Herman Cain isn't some really wacky performance art experiment being inflicted upon us."
I personally find it much easier to believe that he's just a flaming asshole.
some of them want Cain is because they want to split the black vote. Aint gonna happen. They really do not love him......at all. They think that black people are stupid enough to fall for this bullsh*t. He brings NOTHING to the table and cannot even get his talking points straight. We as African-Americans can see through that and are not fooled at all. We do not need another repuke puppet in the WH.
Heh, perhaps the only reason I'd like to see Cain get the Republican nod is to watch Teabaggin' heads explode at having a choice between two African American men for president.
Frankly, it's not only not going to happen, it's a counterproductive strategy. Barring some unforeseeable disaster on Obama's part for which he is unambiguously to blame, most of even the disillusioned progressives will vote against the Republican in 2012, even if they have to hold their noses while doing so. Moreover, there will be many among the Republican base who will likely sit out an election between two black guys, neither of whom is an outright religious zealot. (Sure, Cain makes religious nods and likes to pick on Muslims, but he's no Alan Keyes.)
Everyone is equally entitled to the pursuit of happiness. Wasn't that once self evident?
would have no problem voting for Cain, they already know he'd be nothing but corporate America's Uncle Tom, just like the one we already have in the Supreme Court. This also lets them say "See? I'm not racist" For all their talk about freedom, the Tea baggers love being controlled by the "Shadow Government".
Hermain Cain worries me.He does seem trustworthy to me. I have not seen anybody I want to vote for next year.
Casey Mahoney Brad P
Thanks Casey Mahoney Brad P
"Stupid people are
ruiningrunning America."And the Democrats are going along for the ride.
Apparently, they're also running for POTUS...
Okay, sure, he can string words together to make sentences, and he actually does run a pizza chain. So he's not quite as stupid as Sarah Palin.
But his campaign seems to be based on similar histrionics, showmanship and a complete lack of understanding of real world issues.
Seriously, he makes ridiculous and outrageous statements, and when called out, says he was just messin' around (only to turn around and say them again without any hint of irony).
He's running a bizarre and scarcely sane series of commercials that look like amateur movies kids make on their computers to have an audience of parents and neighbors condescendingly applaud.
He has talking points fed to him which he mangles because he knows the words, but not what they mean.
He just asserts that he knows better than experts, and if they disagree, they just haven't studied what he studied.
He is purposely using his minority status to prove that minorities like him can be just as conservative and empathy-deficient as the privileged.
He doesn't seem to care that his publicity is so often bad as long as its publicity. He LOVES the attention.
It's tempting to find Palin's counterpart in the Maladjusted Minnesota Moron, but Bachmann's delusions don't seem quite as "personality based" as Palin's. Cain, on the other hand, just seems to be in love with himself and his accomplishments, and is reminding me more of Palin every day.
Everyone is equally entitled to the pursuit of happiness. Wasn't that once self evident?
and they didn't even want to buy the pizza chain. They wanted the Burger King Franchises that the conglomerate they purchased owned, the pizza chain came with the Burger Kings.
Check out PolitiFact:
Considering that Cain and 'his management team' took over Godfather's in leveraged buyout in 88 or so, you would think that he would have been more successful with increasing their market presence. Cain hasn't even owned any Godfather's stock since 2000.
Did you know that Herman personally challenged Bill Clinton on health care reform? I didn't until today, and now I am wondering if that stunt was the reason he came to the attention of the Koch brothers.
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America, and to the republic which it established, one nation from many peoples, promising liberty and justice for all
Thanks for the info. Maybe he is as stupid as Sarah Palin. :)
I did know that. Sort of. I remember the exchange when Clinton was doing his town hall thing back in the 1990s. I just didn't know who Herman Cain was at the time. Now I know. In retrospect, the whole thing seems a bit staged.
Everyone is equally entitled to the pursuit of happiness. Wasn't that once self evident?
+1
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America, and to the republic which it established, one nation from many peoples, promising liberty and justice for all
Corporatists are Sociopathic Liberals as Capitalism is a Progressive Liberal Concept.
http://www.mcafee.cc/Bin/sb.html
Manipulative and Conning
They never recognize the rights of others and see their self-serving behaviors as permissible. They appear to be charming, yet are covertly hostile and domineering, seeing their victim as merely an instrument to be used. They may dominate and humiliate their victims.
Grandiose Sense of Self
Feels entitled to certain things as "their right."
Pathological Lying
Has no problem lying coolly and easily and it is almost impossible for them to be truthful on a consistent basis. Can create, and get caught up in, a complex belief about their own powers and abilities. Extremely convincing and even able to pass lie detector tests.
Lack of Remorse, Shame or Guilt
A deep seated rage, which is split off and repressed, is at their core. Does not see others around them as people, but only as targets and opportunities. Instead of friends, they have victims and accomplices who end up as victims. The end always justifies the means and they let nothing stand in their way."
The Idea that the Few will Destroy anything that gets in the way of their GREED for MORE money or power.
They Attack Religious Beliefs and structure and laws that support them; things like "Blue Laws" that limit sales of certain goods on Sunday or interferes with making people work when they should or wish to attend Church. They can Work or lose their jobs! GREED Forbid the business close for a day and lose all that Potential profit!
WALL STREET MONACRHS are not Democrat or Republican they Fund Either party that is most in power or Control. They attack any group or Government that interferes with their Goals of MORE!
Donaldd
Herman Cain is the Koch brothers' AfroTurf candidate.
...is not just a movie any more! The Koch brothers (the real life "Duke brothers") prop up Herman Cain (Eddy Murphy's "Billy Ray Valentine" character) in a bid for the presidency, just to see how easily the right-wing electorate can be bamboozled!
Another example of art imitating life is Mike Judge's "Idiocracy". Think of it as a prophesy.
A perfect example of how these CEOs and the privileged get their money and power!
I forgot about that movie.
New Cain Ad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSlC7BxmSqY
“Why not go out on a limb? That’s where the fruit is.”
-Will Rogers
Wacky, and obscene at the same time.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
"...Republican voters are suffering from some sort of collective brain damage..."
Doesn't that explain nearly all Republican voting behavior?
...is turning over in his grave. Actually, I do not believe in such metaphysical nonsense, but I think you get the idea. I am also hardly ignorant of revisionist history seeing MLK warts and all. Still, Dr. King never turned his back on people at the bottom. In fact, it was a garbagemen's strike that kicked off the movement he led. Also, Cain represents the ultimate hypocrisy: a black man whose popularity in his own party is partly based on his skin color: they're hyping him because he's "the responsible Obama." Recall that the most common buzz words on Fox and in GOP circles had Obama as the "elitist" "organizer." How elitist is Cain? Like many New Arrivals, including that pretty Cuban boy who claimed exile parentage to win minority support in Florida, Cain has made it to the lifeboat and pulled up the rope ladder.
"Respect for the rights of others is peace." --Benito Juarez
Come the Convention, the clown car will drive in but it will be Jeb Bush or some some other standard issue Nazi con who will drive out with the nomination.
That bum Hoimen, gave a description of himself/the repukes! They are the GREEDY LIARS! They are the ones with the conniving tactics, and propaganda!
The repukes will throw him away after he serves his purpose - They are all Racist and it drives them up a wall
that a black is their President!!
the GOP ... Americans Public Enemy #l
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