Posted on 10/04/2011 10:44:12 AM PDT by Kaslin
I think you’ve clarified this thread!
QUICK!
Paint your trees!!
Really? Do you really want to talk about race? Or are you suggesting in a Holder like manner to talk about race?
Let's talk about the Black Caucus, the NAACP, The Black Panthers, Rev Wright, Obama, Affirmative Action, set asides, SAT's, Flash Mobs, double standards, 70%+ unwed mothers, crime, black ethnocentrism and a list a mile long.
So let's talk!
What do you mean "become" known as the party of hate? We're already known as the party of hate. Didn't you get the memo?
Oh, and wasn't it blacks, themselves, who just called Herman Cain a racist a few days ago because he dared suggest that 90% of blacks have been brainwashed by Liberals?
We're just tired of the race card being played. Pure and simple. You probably remember how we reacted when Perry said we were heartless for not supporting his policy of giving illegals in-state tuition rates and also suggesting we were afraid of people with different sounding names. His commanding lead disappeared faster than Murphy Brown's baby.
We despise racism and the playing of the race card no matter who engages in it and we treat those who do the same regardless of their skin color.
In other words, we are consistent.
I just listened to that Cain interveiw, and, frankly, I do NOT see what the uproar is all about.
When, in the voting booth, if someone can truthfully say that THEY have not uttered things considered to be ‘insensitive’...
Hardly ANYONE considers their own dog to be ugly.
Incredible, illogical stretch.
Good luck with finding the candidate who never says anything you don't like. (I guess you'll be staying home and letting Obama win again, eh?)
I'll say the same thing to you as I have to others....
If you give up on Cain for this perceived error, then there are no candidates who will satisfy you.
Cain was raised in a segregated, racist south and never uses his race as any kind of 'card.'
Anyone who is dropping Cain for this NON-offense isn't thinking clearly.
I fully understand there is no perfect candidate and undoing the damage that the Obama Administration has done to our great country is the first priority.
However I would rather see candidates who are honest and principled and who will stand up to the lies and false accusations that are so common in the MSM. Politicians who try to please the MSM by repeating politically correct talking points and refuse to take principled stands against obvious lies don't deserve our support.
You really haven’t a clue, although you could easily get one if you tried using that great new invention called “posting history.” I had not thrown all of my support behind ANY candidate yet before this mess, but I did like Cain and Perry—and possibly Palin if she ever decides. I’ve said so in public posts. How dare you call me a liar! Ok, not in so many words, but bad enough. I’m starting to think you’re just here to stir up trouble, so maybe I’ll let you stir elsewhere.
Indeed, and I experienced a bit of that myself some years ago. A Mormon lady we knew used to always put on her little delicate white gloves if she knew she was going to have to shake hands with people of other races.
Did you even read what I said? I said the name was unfortunate, but I can’t control what a flower was called 100 years ago. As I said elsewhere, the flower was also called “Golden Jerusalem” in the Middle Ages (too Catholic or Jewish?) and is also known as “Black-eyed Susan” (too sexist?). The botanical name is Rudbeckia hirta.
What I find ridiculous is that the media and the DNC spokespeople act like Gov. Perry named the place himself.
Thans...I forgot what I wrote now...hehe
I’m not sure what you are responding to. My comment about Perry’s statement being foolish had to do with his “heartless” comment regarding the “Dream Act”. The WaPo story, however, is purely a smear.
Dislike him if you will, but your conclusions based on this interview, outside of the context of everything else he has ever said and done, are way off the mark.
Again......good luck with finding someone who never says anything you don't like. And good luck with defining 'principled' as someone who never says anything that bothers you.
ooops..thanks
As for calling you a liar......are you kidding me?? I never did anything even close to that. I haven't thought for even one moment that you weren't telling the truth. Yikes.
My final post to you will be the same as my others......if you dimiss Herman Cain based on the emotional reaction you're having to this interview and ignoring every other fact about the man, then go for it.
If you liked Cain before, and don't like him now, then your information was lacking both before and now, and I continue to urge you to do your homework.
I'm not here to 'cause trouble.' I'm here to help people think about what they're saying and stop reacting viscerally to incomplete information.
Herman Cain is a viable candidate, a strong conservative, a NON 'race-baiter,' intelligent, filled with ideas, and an all around great guy from everything I've seen and heard.
Conservatives are supposed to be thinkers, but unfortunately, as further evidenced by this thread, a lot just feel and react. That's exactly what's happening here, and the left loves it.
“1. Herman Cain is honest and principled
2. Herman Cain is most certainly NOT a ‘politician’ who is trying to please the MSM.”
He certainly didn’t act like it.
But I understand your larger point, the way he handled this situation was unprincipled but it was just one incident. We should not judge a person on just one event. We should look at their complete record.
I've listened to Cain a lot, and have been extremely impressed with the complete absence of any use of the race card in any situation.
This one interview at best (or worst), is completely antithetical to the entire breadth and scope of his life.
Cain played the race card, and I for one am sick to death of it. He showed what he’s about, a man who doesn’t think well on his feet, someone who will allow the media *misinterpret* what he says (he says), and jumps the gun and makes inflammatory charges when he doesn’t have the facts. Sounds like someone we already have in office and if you can overlook these flaws, more power to you, I can’t.
It says a lot more about you than it does about Herman Cain........and none of it is good.
Oh........and good luck finding that 'flawless' person you're demanding. At least we know that it's not going to be you....
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