Posted on 10/10/2011 10:42:09 AM PDT by Maneesh
Herman Cain isn’t as laughable as I originally affronted. He has been making the media rounds and impressing a few people along the way, even earning himself a flock of supporters. After a recent Fox News presidential debate, a focus group overwhelmingly declared the black Republican and former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza victorious. So now that Cain has proven his candidacy as one to be take notice of (but can you blame us for brushing him off at first? Most of president Obama’s would-be contenders were just laughable.), it is only natural that the serious smears of campaign season would arise against him. First up: A business scandal that so closely mirrors the travesty at Enron, it warranted this headline from Mother Jones Magazine: “Herman Cain’s Enron-esque Disaster: The Story the GOP presidential candidate won’t tell you about his years in corporate America.” If our skepticism of him before was baseless, it certainly isn’t now. “Cain clearly believes that his pro-business message is what GOP voters want to hear. So much so, in fact, that on Saturday he officially unveiled his candidacy for the 2012 GOP nomination. But scrubbed from Cain’s official story is his long tenure as a director at a Midwest energy corporation named Aquila that, like the infamous Enron Corporation, recklessly drove into the wild west of energy trading and speculation – and ultimately screwed its employees out of tens of millions of dollars,” Mother Jones reports. According to a massive class action lawsuit against Aquila’s board of directors – including Cain – he allegedly steered employees into heavily investing their retirement savings in company stock, while at the same time shifting their business model from straightforward energy generation to risky energy trading – the kind of corporate greed that infamously brought down Enron, Mother Jones reports. In the suit, it claims that Cain and other top officials violated a 37-year-old federal law that requires employers to responsibly manage the retirement programs for their employees. Their pensions and life savings were lost. Thus far, Cain has been running as the pro-business candidate who successfully turned around the failing Godfather’s Pizza franchise after working in the corporate offices of the Pillsbury Company. His lack of political experience is always countered by touting his decades’ worth of success in business. Positions at Godfather’s, Pillsbury and his post as chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City are listed as part of his official campaign biography. His part in the major downfall of Aquila – where he was on the board of directors for much of the 1990s and early 2000s – is nowhere to be found. Yes, it is expected for a candidate to try and hide his skeletons, but he should also expect to eventually be exposed. Herman Cain, you are exposed.
Cain was cleared of this a long time ago. A few leftists and Mother Jones are trying to bring it back.
Far-left, loony mags have run this story, but no one else. Why do you suppose that is, Maneesh?
Of Course the Leftist smear machine will try, it does not mean it will work. Notice no serious news organization has made the same opinion based leap as "the Atlanta post" try to make
Apparently you have no idea what a board of directors does.
His positives outweigh the negatives. This is a non issue.
That wouldn’t surprise me, but at the same time I know this smear has been pushed by both Paul and Perry supporters on Free Republic.
Well well, CaIn has quite a history of screwing employees and hiding relevant information about his past. Not to mention his fast and loose campaign shenanigans.
Bump #10
Read the responses on this thread, troll. This is a hit piece pure and simple.
And no I am no Romney supporter. I live in MA and detest him and do not want him as the nominee.
And I'm hoping you just forgot your /sarc tag. Otherwise, this implies you're believing this crap.
If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen. Double standards; It's not just for Democrats anymore as it seems.
So since you think this article disqualifies Cain? If you think that, then the dozens of articles at this same website about "Perry the Racist" must also disqualify him then.
So did you read the other articles at this website?
So since you think this article disqualifies Cain? If you think that, then the dozens of articles at this same website about “Perry the Racist” must also disqualify him then.
Why did you completely ignore my post in #10?
Do you have a problem with facts or something?
Wouldn't this passage here tell you it's an old "story?" He's been a candidate for months.
That was the point. People disqualifying candidates left and right, Perry included, because these guys are imperfect. All of them.
Stone's favorite writer turns out to have been a woman who was David Axelrod's mother, and David's acolyte in the "true path of Marx" is President Obama.
As far as the MSM is concerned black guys, like Obama, are just not smart enough to successfully grasp Communist theory, and certainly not Communist intrigue ~ so Axelrod, his mother, Stone and Stalin are guilty, but Obama can't be guilty.
In this case even though Cain had nothing whatsoever to do with the "problem" the MSM will automatically dismiss it as meaningful simply because Cain is black.
Trust me, the force of racial prejudice among the MSM is strong
And so it begins......
Why in the world should Cain dignify this smear with any comment at all?
Notice no serious news agency will publish this crap.
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