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Politics : The Lynching of Mr. Cain -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: FJB who wrote (72)12/1/2011 3:26:20 AM
From: joseffy2 Recommendations  Respond to of 130
 

America is Being Sucker-Punched!

Herman Cain and the Court of Public Opinion


Nov. 30, 2011 by Day Gardner:
christiannewswire.com

There is a plot to destroy Herman Cain--we see it in the money hungry women vying for 15 minutes of fame and fortune and we see it in the liberal media's assassination of Herman Cain.

The saddest thing is that America is being sucker-punched by the liberal media. Most of them are so deep in Obama's trench that there are no limits to how low they will go. They knew that all they had to do was plant a seed... even if it's a seed pod filled with lies -- they knew they'd be successful in placing doubt in the minds of Cain supporters.

Gone are the days when newsmen and women sought hard facts before airing a story.

Instead we are left with 'fake' reality TV news programs -- very similar to the Jersey Shore, Real Housewives and Survivor. Today's media helps to create uncomfortable situations and then they sensationalize their report on how people react.

It is obvious that those who seek to defame Herman Cain's character see him as a definite threat to President Obama -- and they are absolutely correct!

There are those who have him convicted even though there are no hard facts to prove anything. It's a whole lot of "he said she said" which would never hold up in Judge Judy's court. As for me, there is no doubt in my mind... I'm still on the train.

Case dismissed!




To: FJB who wrote (72)12/2/2011 1:59:44 AM
From: joseffy1 Recommendation  Respond to of 130
 
Herman Cain atty Lin Wood: Media is "participating in the deterioration of the political process"

piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com

Lin Wood quotes:

‘Five lies do not make one truth’

‘The media refuses to move to the issues and want to focus on the salacious’

‘You just made a question that does not have one fact’

‘Cannot judge character based on accusations’

‘There is not one fact to support that Herman Cain was continuously texting Ginger White’

texting over a four week period

total texts 70
White 57
Cain 17 responses

Ginger White has not presented any proof of her allegations.

Told Piers to have Ginger White answer his questions and prove them.



To: FJB who wrote (72)12/6/2011 5:13:32 AM
From: joseffy1 Recommendation  Respond to of 130
 
So you think that the lynchings of “uppity blacks” has stopped under the Obama regime?

Well it hasn’t, because the Obama Democrats just lynched Cain, a successful, conservative, uppity black.



To: FJB who wrote (72)12/16/2011 1:04:18 PM
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Soros Media Going Wild with Smears of Cain, Gingrich, Romney

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Romney Ku Klux Klan Report Backfires on Media



By BRIAN STELTER
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com


Don’t just repeat it. Report it.

That’s the lesson this week for MSNBC and for The Washington Post, both of which apologized for repeating a liberal blog’s claim that Mitt Romney had uttered a phrase on the campaign stump that was used in the past by the Ku Klux Klan.

It appears that Mr. Romney did not in fact say the words “keep America American,” as AMERICAblog reported on Tuesday. The blog said that he had done so on two occasions, one last year and one last week, and stated (accurately) that “Keep America American” was a phrase employed by the K.K.K. in the 1920s.

But Mr. Romney had actually said “keep America America” on both occasions, according to online video.

MSNBC apparently did not contact the Romney campaign for comment before it briefly reported on Wednesday morning that “you may not hear Mitt Romney say ‘Keep America American’ anymore, because it was a rallying cry for the K.K.K. group.” The anchor credited AMERICAblog; the graphic on the screen read, “Romney’s KKK Slogan?”

Conservative blogs called out MSNBC for the report, and when executives at MSNBC and NBC News saw that, they were disturbed that the blog’s observation was reported as fact, without any added reporting.

In a statement on Wednesday evening MSNBC said its report was “irresponsible and incendiary” and “showed an appalling lack of judgment.” A Romney campaign spokeswoman said it was pleased that MSNBC had “issued a correction and apology.”

The Washington Post also issued an apology on Thursday for factual mistakes in its blog post about the phrase. The correction stated that it “should have contacted the Romney campaign for comment before publication.



To: FJB who wrote (72)2/5/2012 2:27:41 PM
From: joseffy1 Recommendation  Respond to of 130
 
JFK's teen mistress, a WH intern, breaks silence


nypost.com

Four days into her internship, she was invited by an aide to go for a midday swim in the White House pool, where the handsome, 45-year-old president swam daily to ease chronic back pain. JFK slid into the pool and floated up to her.

“It’s Mimi, isn’t it?” he asked.

“Yes, sir,” she said.

“And you’re in the press office this summer, right?”

“Yes, sir, I am,” she replied.

Lightning had struck. Later that day, Mimi was invited by Dave Powers, the president’s “first friend” and later the longtime curator of the Kennedy Library in Boston, to an after-work party. When she arrived at the White House residence, Powers and two other young female staffers were waiting. Powers poured, and frequently refilled, her glass with daiquiris until the commander-in-chief arrived.

The president invited her for a personal tour. She got up, expecting the rest of the group to follow. They didn’t. He took her to “Mrs. Kennedy’s room.”

“I noticed he was moving closer and closer. I could feel his breath on my neck. He put his hand on my shoulder,” she recounts.

The next thing she knew, he was standing above her, looking directly into her eyes and guiding her to the edge of the bed.

“Slowly, he unbuttoned the top of my shirtdress and touched my breasts.

“Then he reached up between my legs and started to pull off my underwear.

“I finished unbuttoning my shirtdress and let it fall off my shoulders.”

Kennedy pulled down his pants but, with his shirt still on, hovered above her on the bed.

He smelled of his cologne, 4711. He paused when he noticed her resisting.

“Haven’t you done this before?” he asked.

“No,” she said.

“Are you OK?” he asked.


Read more: nypost.com




To: FJB who wrote (72)2/6/2012 6:18:34 PM
From: Farmboy3 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 130
 
Having worked with law enforcement for over 18 years, and observing first hand the use of the voice stress analysis technology as well as conventional polygraph technology, I observed the voice stress analysis testing to be at least as accurate as a polygraph, if not moreso.

Working as a probation/parole officer, it was a normal part of supervision to administer polygraphs to all sex offenders at least once yearly, to help determine their compliance with the conditions of probation. Voice stress analysis tests were also used, on several occasions, especially if an issue surfaced which merited immediate action and a polygraph could not be immediately scheduled.

It was my observation the voice testing equipment produced results which more clearly distinguished a true answer from a false answer, whereas a polygraph required the operator to make the determination as to whether the answers were true or false based in large part on his or her personal judgment. The polygraph equipment often did not clearly distinguish between a lie and the truth, and many answers could not be identified as either the truth or a lie. In other words, the examiner was unable to form an opinion as to the truthfulness of that answer.

Polygraphers will argue the polygraph is more accurate, while personnel using voice stress testing will argue their's is the most accurate. I personally believe the voice stress testing to be the most accurate method of the two, based on the follow-up interviews I conducted with examinees and my own investigation of the matters in dispute.

If Cain 'passed' a voice stress analysis, then I would have to accept his answers as being true, especially since his accusers did not 'pass' the analysis.

I have long held the opinion the main stream media, the democrats, and even republicans wanted Cain 'out of the way', and used every tool at their disposal to accomplish that goal. When the term "high tech lynching' is used, I sincerely believe that is exactly what we witnessed concerning Herman Cain.

It is my opinion he instilled fear in the hearts of the 'insider' crowd that he had a very strong chance of being elected and that he would upset their apple cart once he got in the White House. Therefore they could not afford to let him establish any sort of foothold in the 2012 presidential race.



To: FJB who wrote (72)7/28/2012 4:05:58 PM
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Why won’t the agenda-driven media report on Barack Obama being gay, sexually harassing male actor Kal Penn, and frequenting Chicago bathhouse Man’s Country…you know, the way they leaped to trash Herman Cain with unsubstantiated sexual innuendo?


November 7, 2011 by Kevin DuJan // Political Figures, Political Figures - The Left, The Left



UPDATE: Listen to an updated report on this story via podcast HERE

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Last week, the agenda-driven, drive-by media trashed Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain with unsubstantiated and poorly sourced sexual innuendo.

This week, let’s all talk about Democrat President Barack Obama being gay, him sexually harassing male actor Kal Penn, and his frequenting of Chicago gay bathhouse “Man’s Country” — using the Left’s established precedent for journalistic integrity when it comes to rumor and gossip.

Fair’s fair, right — in love, politics, and what’s apparently allowable in the 2012 election now that all-out war was declared on the black Republican presidential contender. Why shouldn’t conservatives treat Barack Obama the way the Left treated Herman Cain? If the operating assumption is that anything whispered about by anonymous sources is true about Herman Cain, then I guess everything people in Chicago have talked about for years related to Barack Obama being a closeted gay man into younger Pakistani guys must be true too, right?

During the 2008 election, I campaigned for Hillary Clinton in the Democrat primaries. Repeatedly, I heard over and over here in Chicago that Barack Obama is gay and that his marriage to Michelle is one of mutual convenience.

In the black community, this is called “being on the down-low”, where a closeted gay male weds an often-times gruff and demanding woman (typically without other male suitors of her own) to take public scrutiny off them both and afford the pair a successful life they’d never achieve separately.


There are, apparently, a lot of such relationships forged at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago — where Barack Obama’s pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, oversaw the coupling of down-low gay black men with sour and caustic black women.

This apparently happens not just in Chicago at Trinity United, but in black communities all over the country. Author Terry McMillen and talking-head Star Jones married down-low gay men to benefit their careers and help their public image too.

Black women who marry gay black men are lavished with all the social perks these marriages of convenience afford them, while the men get to go off together on “camping trips”, to “basketball games out of town”, or to other “social events” where they can engage in gay activity with one another secure in the knowledge that no one in the Reverend Wright’s “down-low club” would rat the other fellas out. You need to understand how much homosexuality is despised in the black community to appreciate both the need for gay black men to stay “down-low” and the willingness of some black women to become “beards” for these men when they think they can benefit from the arrangement in some way themselves (usually because these are difficult-to-deal-with women who were unable to find anyone willing to marry them otherwise).

Oprah Winfrey and her longtime “boyfriend” Stedman Graham were for many years also members of Trinity United Church of Christ, and you can read whatever you may like into that.

In Chicago’s Boystown gay community, older guys who frequented the little dive bars that have been around forever told tales back in the 2008 primaries about Barack Obama slipping out whenever he was in Chicago for romps at the local bathhouse “Man’s Country”. The details given in these accounts of his activities were substantial. Apparently, he went most often to this Andersonville neighborhood bathhouse on Wednesdays, and while there he was rumored to seek oral sex from older white men. According to the gossip, Barack Obama would never reciprocate in these encounters, but enjoyed being pleasured by older white guys. Evidently, he is not a giver and is something of a selfish bathhouse regular when not being the current President of the United States.

This jives with everything Larry Sinclair said about his own sexual encounter with Barack Obama in the back of a limo many years ago. You remember Larry Sinclair, right? He’s the man the agenda-driven media worked overtime to destroy and did its level best to silence because he posed a direct threat to the narrative the Left needed to push for Barack Obama to elect him president — and needless to say, that narrative didn’t include Barack Obama receiving oral sex from another man in the back of a limo in Chicago.

You need to appreciate that when a Democrat is accused of anything, the Democrat’s accusers are crucified with remarkable zeal in the press; but when someone whispers anything obscene about a Republican, that person is lauded by the “journalists” of the Left as the bravest and most credible person who ever lived…even if that person refuses to give her name, actually state on record what she claimed happened, or provide any sort of corroborating evidence that what she’s alleging is in any way remotely true.

To the media, it’s true just because it was said about a Republican. Meanwhile, Democrats can always get away with murder. Just ask the Kennedy family about that.

Clearly, we saw this Leftist double-standard (or, non-standard, as the case may be) applied to the mystery woman Politico sourced as Herman Cain’s sexual harassment accuser last week.

So, why can’t we all talk about Barack Obama dating Hollywood actor Kal Penn during the 2008 presidential campaign, and Obama then inventing a strange, nebulous position for the actor in the early days of the Obama administration (just so Penn could abruptly leave his hit TV show and move to Washington to be close to Obama?). Apparently, since Penn then left the White House abruptly after just a few months of work (in a position that was created solely for him) the current President and his down-low boyfriend must have broken up.

Did Barack Obama sexually harass his subordinate, Kal Penn, in the brief time he worked in the Obama White House?

You can speculate about what went wrong between these lovebirds while you’re watching the new Harold & Kumar movie or eating at White Castle. Because, let’s face it, if there was an (R) after Barack Obama’s name this whole affair with Penn would have been nonstop “news” since 2009…instead of the pervasive sound of chirping crickets we got because Barack Obama’s a (D) — which stands for “down-low”, don’t you know.

Why shouldn’t this week be all about talking about Barack Obama being gay and having sexual misadventures with men, since if it was a Republican president there’s no doubt the agenda-driven media would have been all over this story, regardless of who, if anyone, would go on record to confirm any of it.

You know full well the “journalists” on sites like Politico would have spent the last three years digging relentlessly into a Republican president’s past, repeatedly asking why not a single former girlfriend has ever stepped forward to identify herself or speak on the record about her past with the man currently in the Oval Office.

Isn’t it strange that the public’s never been introduced to A SINGLE GIRLFRIEND that Barack Obama ever had in high school, college, law school,
or the days before he met his beard wife Michelle?

Don’t you wonder why the “journalists” of the Left have never done any in-depth profiles of Barack Obama’s male friends f
rom his years at Occidental College in California, talked about his “roommate” while at Columbia, or wondered about any of his social activities through the years?


I know there are endless mysteries centered around a man whose college transcripts, vital records, and other important paperwork were apparently sealed away from the public in an impregnable vault somewhere cloaked in riddles and enigma — never to be seen by human eyes again — but if Barack Obama was a Republican he would have been outed as gay many years ago.

If Barack Obama was a Republican, the agenda-driven media would have hounded him about the nature of his relationship with his “bodyman” Reggie Love.

If Barack Obama was a Republican, the Left would have somehow gotten ahold of his lifetime membership at Chicago gay bathhouse Man’s Country and would have plastered those records across Politico to destroy his political career.


If Barack Obama was a Republican, the press would have quickly interpreted the dearth of girlfriends in his past as evidence of a surfeit of boyfriends and no one at the New York Times would have slept a wink until every Tom, Dick, or Larry in Barack Obama’s little black book was awarded his own reality show to gush about their down-low adventures.

But, Barack Obama is not a Republican, so the agenda-driven media provides him enormous and constant spin to conceal his gay past. It’s really very reminiscent of the old days in the studio system, where PR agents worked aggressively to hide the fact that men like Rock Hudson, Montgomery Clift, Tab Hunter, and even Liberace himself were gay…because the media had a vested interest in these men’s success and it wasn’t on the agenda to expose the truth about them. Instead, the media was complicit in selling the public a mutually beneficial fantasy.

Barack Obama is gayer than Liberace, but you’ll never read about that on Politico — just as you’ll never read about him chain-smoking in the White House, his rampant drug abuse during his twenties and thirties, or the fact he got all Ds and Fs in college (produce his transcripts and prove me wrong on that one).

Because Barack Obama is a Democrat, the agenda-driven media is as committed to promoting a heterosexual, scandal-free image for him, because this is what “journalists” are apparently trained to do for Democrats in school…and it’s expected for them to do if they wish to keep being employed as “journalists” in the Democrat public relations machine we call the media in this country.

Someday, when the Left no longer needs Barack Obama to push the Left’s agenda, this protection will be gone and you’ll spend the last few decades of your life hearing all about Larry Sinclair, Kal Penn, Reggie Love, Man’s Country, Jeremiah Wright’s Down-Low Club, and the many men Barack Obama has been with through the years.
I’m sure a great many books will be written on all of this and a great deal of money will be made by the media companies selling the scandal of it all to the public.

But, for now Barack Obama is the Left’s guy, so he’s getting the full-on Rock Hudson/Liberace protection treatment.

While, of course, opponents of the Left such as Herman Cain are relentlessly attacked with unsubstantiated sexual innuendo in the agenda-driven media’s nonstop effort to discredit and destroy anyone who poses a real threat to Obama’s grasp on power.

If you don’t see what’s really happening here and are someone who’s quick to believe the anonymous and sketchy sources the likes of Politico put forward when it comes to a Republican in the hot seat…then maybe you should spend today coming up with a valid reason for why YOU can’t name a single girlfriend Barack Obama had in his entire life before Michelle and why so much of Barack Obama’s past is so aggressively cloaked in perpetual and deliberate mystery.

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PS — If you ever wonder why Republicans don’t just out Barack Obama themselves, you need to really think about how the Cocktail Party GOP establishment actually works.

There are currently at least two closeted gay sitting Republican United States Senators. There are several closeted gay sitting Republican Congressmen.

All of these men are forever praised in the media for being “bipartisan”, which means they conveniently sell out conservative voters whenever the Left needs them to.


I am 100% convinced there’s blackmail afoot in this, with the quid pro quo being these men get to remain sitting Senators and Congressmen so long as they keep folding whenever Democrats need “bipartisan” votes across the aisle.

It’s no coincidence the closeted gay Republicans are all Cocktail Party GOP establishment types who are more interested in maintaining their own hold on power than ever bucking the system and doing what’s best for this country and their own constituents.

It’s an open secret in the political world that Barack Obama is gay, and that there are plenty of closeted gay Republicans too. But you won’t hear about any of this because members of the permanent political class on both sides of the aisle don’t want you to hear about it.

AND they all think you are too stupid to ever figure this stuff out on your own.

Even though all the clues are really obvious and sitting RIGHT THERE if you really wanted to piece it together without the media’s help.

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UPDATE: We have more on this at The HillBuzz & Mrs. Fox Show, where we ask “Is Barack Obama Gay?”

© 2011, Kevin DuJan. All rights reserved.






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To: FJB who wrote (72)8/28/2012 10:55:42 PM
From: joseffy1 Recommendation  Respond to of 130
 
Herman Cain: Romney Speech Will Win Undecided Voters



Former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain tells Newsmax he has two pieces of advice for Mitt Romney when he addresses the GOP convention on Thursday night: “Sharpen your message” — and “be yourself, governor.”

The businessman and talk show host also says President Barack Obama’s views on the economy are “fundamentally flawed,” asserts that Paul Ryan is the perfect running mate for Romney, and predicts that African-American voters won’t turn out for Obama this year as they did in 2008.

Watch the exclusive interview here.


Cain, former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza, entered the presidential race in May 2011 and was the front-runner for a time during the fall. He suspended his campaign on Dec. 3 and has endorsed Romney.

In an exclusive interview with Newsmax.TV in Tampa on Tuesday, Cain was asked to assess the strengths and weakness of his former rival Romney and offer his advice to the White House hopeful.

“First of all, Gov. Romney gets a bad rap about not being likeable. He was one of the most likeable opponents when I was still in the race of all of the contenders for the Republican nomination,” Cain says.

“What has happened is that it’s difficult to get your true personality across in a sound bite and the mainstream media outlets like ABC, CBS and NBC have tried to paint him with sound bites as not being as likeable as President Obama.

“And so my recommendation to him when he gives his speech on Thursday night: Be yourself, governor. That’s going to come through when he has a chance to do so. The second thing that I have suggested to him that he needs to do — and he has listened, we have talked several times — sharpen your message more in terms of specifically what you’re going to do to boost the economy and create jobs as well as what you’re going to do to lead us to energy independence.

“So I expect a sharper, more focused message on Thursday to define his leadership and to define who he is.”

Cain says Romney is capable of delivering an impassioned speech at the convention that will win over many of the undecided voters: “Absolutely he is capable of doing that. Here again, that doesn’t come through in news sound bites. I’ve seen him speak in front of audiences and I’ve seen times when it has come through perfectly. So by him having this dedicated opportunity to tell his whole story rather than it being put out there on sound bites, I am absolutely confident that a lot of people are going to see a side of him that they have not seen before.”

Cain tells Newsmax it is so important for Romney to defeat Obama in November because “philosophically President Obama’s ideas of how we boost this economy and turn it around are fundamentally flawed. President Obama believes that we could spend our way to prosperity and that we can gut programs and it’s not working, but he will not consider an alternative philosophy.

“The philosophy of Gov. Romney is a free market-driven philosophy: less taxes equals more revenue. President Obama has demonstrated he does not believe lower taxes generate more revenue. Also, Gov. Romney believes that businesses will expand and grow when you remove all of the uncertainty, and under the Obama administration it has been three and a half years of uncertainty about everything.”

Cain charges that Obama has set a negative tone for the campaign because he “cannot run on any positive results. Unemployment went up and stayed up. The number of people on welfare has gotten significantly bigger. The number of people on food stamps has gotten significantly bigger. The price of a gallon of gasoline on average has doubled since he has been in office, and instead of the national debt being stopped or decreased as he promised, it has increased 50 percent.

“So when you look at what metrics President Obama could run on, he has no positive metrics at all to run on.”

As for the selection of Rep. Paul Ryan as Romney’s running mate, Cain says: “I don’t think we could have found a more ideal combination, and here’s why: Rep. Ryan’s experience in Washington and his background of understanding economics and being a budget hawk perfectly complements Gov. Romney’s leadership experiences.

“When I first saw the two of them standing there in Virginia in front of that naval vessel together, my corporate DNA kicked in. I didn’t just see presidential candidate and vice-presidential candidate, I saw a corporate CEO and a CFO, and that’s what we need in order to lead this country.”
Polls show that President Obama’s job approval rating among African-American voters remains strong. Cain was asked if this bloc of voters will turn out for Obama in 2012 as they did in 2008.

“No, they will not,” he responds. “The enthusiasm for Barack Obama from black voters will be nowhere near what it was in 2008.

“Number one, everybody was excited about the first African-American running for president. President Obama presented a good narrative but they now see, many of them, not all, that he has not been able to deliver on the promises. So they will not turn out in the same numbers that they did in 2008.”

Cain says the 9-9-9 tax plan he championed during his presidential campaign has had an influence on the GOP platform and Romney’s tax plan.

“The first thing that Gov. Romney did was he went from a 59-point plan to a plan with fewer parts, so it has caused him to cut down his plan into some understandable terms.

“I have been encouraging Gov. Romney and I understand he’s got to do what he’s comfortable with to change the narrative from reform the tax code to replace the tax code. If we achieve that, then my running would not have been in vain.”

Cain adds that he is at the GOP convention “because there’s a lot of enthusiasm in this forum and, quite frankly, it exceeds what a lot of people expected. What I wanted to do is to be a conduit, to share this enthusiasm by way of media with your readers and others, with the rest of the people who couldn’t make it to Tampa, because it’s going to be a level of enthusiasm that’s going to impact how the vote turnout is — and if we win the war in turning out the vote, we win in November.”

And despite the other issues candidates are wrangling over in the campaign, the deciding factor in the election, Cain confidently predicts, will be “the economy, the economy, the economy, jobs, jobs, jobs. That will be the deciding issue.”

Read more on Newsmax.com: NMX: Herman Cain: Romney Speech Will Win Undecided Voters



To: FJB who wrote (72)10/19/2012 6:28:11 PM
From: joseffy1 Recommendation  Respond to of 130
 
• Herman Cain: ‘Stupid people are ruining America'


Philadelphia Daily News ^ | October 19, 2012 | CHRIS BRENNAN
Herman Cain: ‘Stupid people are ruining America’

Former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said employers must educate their workers about the presidential candidates' public policy proposals.
"Because one of the reasons we had to do this truth tour is that stupid people are ruining America," Cain declared. "Some of them don't know they're stupid. But they are ruining America."

Cain's new group, "Job Creators Action Fund," offers voter guides, videos and hour-long workshop instruction for employers. He said employers should explain to employees that the Affordable Care Act, a/k/a Obamacare, business regulations and taxes could cost them their jobs.

"That's not scare tactics," Cain said. "That's reality."

Cain said the focus should be on independents, conservatives who didn't vote in the 2008 presidential election because they didn't like their choices, young voters and disgruntled Democrats.

"There are a lot of disgruntled Democrats that we can impact," Cain said. "And most of them work for you."

Cain said it was "not a partisan statement" to say his mission "is to defeat Barack Obama." Cain's message fits in with a movement among conservative business owners urging employees to consider the impact of their votes on their jobs.

Cain briefly made mention Friday of what he called the "vicious attacks" that ended his run for president.



To: FJB who wrote (72)6/16/2014 10:36:48 AM
From: joseffy  Respond to of 130
 

HERMAN CAIN The truth someone needs to tell about the state of black America


By Herman Cain June 16, 2014
canadafreepress.com

Obama has not made things better. At all.

You’re not going to hear anywhere else about the state of black unemployment and black poverty in American since president Obama took office.

Now the president does acknowledge there is a problem when it comes to how young men of color are doing, although he blames in on the fact that many of them don’t have fathers and so forth. That is clearly a factor, but when you look at economic statistics now compared to before Obama took office, you need to recognize that one primary thing has changed, and that is that we now have Obama’s economic policies in place.

And that is a huge contributing factor to the biggest problem of all for black Americans: Too many of them don’t have a job.

When you have a stalled economy – as we have ever since Obama took office, and still have today with the most recent quarter showing a full 1.0 percent retraction of GDP – the people hurt the most are those already at the lowest portion of the income scale.

That is the very black Americans who have grown up struggling with poverty, and who in many cases lacked fathers. The very people it was thought would be helped by having Barack Obama in the White House. They have not been helped. They are struggling more than they did throughout most of the previous decade.

You’re not going to hear this from liberal black activists or from the media, but you’ll hear it here. Let’s look at the numbers:


When President Obama took office, the U.S. unemployment rate stood at 7.8 percent. By May 2014, the Bureau of Labor Statistics figure had fallen to a somewhat improved 6.3 percent (although that is fudged for political purposes, but never mind that right now). Among blacks, it had fallen from 12.7 percent to 11.5 percent, which again is somewhat better but is still horrendous. But for blacks aged 16-19, unemployment remains above 30 percent.

It gets worse. Overall poverty under Obama has increased from 14.3 percent to 15 percent. For black Americans, the poverty rate went from 26 percent to a little over 27 percent. Meanwhile, median household income for black people dropped from $34,900 to $33,300.

Democrats consider it a policy success when more people are dependent on government, so they might like this next figure, although I don’t think anyone else will: The number of black people on food stamps under Obama has grown from 7.4 million to nearly 11 million as of 2012.

Now you can argue that it’s not Obama’s fault when people don’t have jobs or end up on food stamps because people need to take responsibility for their own lives, and I agree it is much better if people view it that way. But here’s the problem: Obama ran for president, and ran for re-election, by telling people that they would have a better chance of getting out of poverty and unemployment if he was in office implementing his left-wing big-government policies.

How’s that working out for you?

Obama’s policies don’t lift the poor at the expense of the rich, as he would have you believe. What his policies do is kill economic growth and wealth creation, and that eliminates the opportunities that might have existed for people to access opportunity and improve their own situations.

Obama the candidate told you that if you’re struggling, it’s because someone else is doing too well, and it’s not fair, and he was going to make things equal. He encouraged you to put your faith in him to make things better for you.

None of what he said was true – neither about the nature of the problem nor about his plans to solve it – and if you’ve been waiting for Obama to make things better for you, you’ve just wasted more than five years of your life.

We publish a lot of information here about how you can improve your situation, and I encourage you to check back often and read it. But I’ll give you one tip right now that you should put into action immediately: Don’t expect anything in your life to improve because of Barack Obama. It hasn’t and it won’t.




Herman Cain’s column is distributed by CainTV, which can be found at caintv.com