[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Why’d you bring up the color of Cain’s skin?

Because that's why the majority of FReepers support him even though he has ZERO public service experience. Nobody supported John Cox in 2008. He was a conservative businessman from IL. I wonder why?

[Revolting cat!]

So you are saying that candidates for gummint bureaucracies must have experience as gummint bureaucrats? Is that what the Founding Fathers intended?

[SuzyQue]

Really? And, you know this how?

[C. Edmund Wright]

You are still an idiot for this John Cox analogy.

It is flawed. it is meaningless. It is childish. It is irrelevant.

Since you have called all freepers racists, or race guilty, I demand that you give us one single reason why it matters a whit about John Cox. I don’t even know who the hell he is.

Or get over yourself. Are YOU John Cox? SHEEEEEESH

[Vendome]

I couldn’t care less about the persons skin color.

I care more about their politics.

Red, White and Blue; I’ll consider you.

Red; You’re a Kommie and count me out.

[ArmyTeach]

Because that's why the majority of FReepers support him. Not me. I was impressed with his demeanor. I think he had gravitas. He spoke clearly and in a measured way, his voice had definition. I thought he spoke with conviction, if not always with specificity on issues, then on values. As opposed to our shallow, teenybopper president, whose every other sentence begins with 'I.' Decision still pending.

[Springfield Reformer]

No, not fair. Race is not what lies behind Cain’s appeal. I back Palin, and will do so all the way to the ballot box in November 2012, but I will credit Cain where credit is due. He is a professional talk show host and has had years to perfect both his listening and his delivery skills. If he is an expert communicator then that’s what he is and you can’t diminish that by trying to divert attention to race. And if you combine his considerable communication skills with his generally conservative outlook, you have someone who will, regardless of race, be able to generate plenty of support if they can get the exposure.

As for public service experience, the main difference between that and Cain’s private executive experience is this: In public service you’re spending money you didn’t earn and don’t have to worry about not getting more of if you handle it badly. Whereas someone like Cain (and Palin, BTW), will treat your money like spending it wisely matters, because in private business you learn you can’t waste what you earn. All other aspects of public service versus private service are interchangeable, more or less. Leadership is leadership. The rest you can do with borrowed expertise, whether financial, military, foreign policy, or otherwise. Palin/Cain is not unthinkable.

[newzjunkey]

Take your racist broad-brush elsewhere.