Don’t hand me that. This kind of crap in this article about Perry is implied all the time toward our candidates and to be honest, we are sick and tired of these cheap shots. Don’t tell me Cain didn’t know this was a race card he was playing. He knows how it is played.
Cain had no choice in saying what he said as a man of color. If he had not told the TRUTH, MANY would have denounced him and labeled him an “uncle tom!” Him making an honest assessment and calling a rival “insensitive” is much less damaging to him and his campaign than appearing as a race traitor or something similar!
I believe ANY person can reasonably say that a name like that would be insensitive and unimpressive. Just because conservatives aren’t fans of censorship or race baiting doesn’t mean we have to automatically excuse genuinely racist commentary!
Please stop freaking out about this...please relax a bit. Cain is human just like the rest of us and he has a right to speak what is on his mind. Isn’t that what attracted most of you to him in the first place?!
Chances are we all disagree with one or two things your wives, or children or friends have said or done! This doesn’t mean, however, you flat out throw them under the bus as a result. We need to just move past it!
I’m afraid you’re absolutely right. If anyone knows anything about Rick Perry, they know he’s not a racist. That’s not enough to get a person elected but it’s the truth. I’m disillusioned with Mr Cain and I’m sorry about that. I’ll tune Rush in tomorrow to see what I should think. :)
I posted this on another thread; fits here too:
I believe the reason that Cain lit into this rock issue and implied that Perry was therefore potentially racist (guilt by association) because he hunted on a leased property that had the offending rock for some years (even though Perry’s father had painted it over), was to try to get back in the good graces of his fellow black brethren whom he had dished just a couple of days before by saying they were “brainwashed”. What better way to deflect criticism of himself for using that term against his black brothers than to attack a whitey (Perry) for racism.
Not a good look here for Cain. Big mistake, and I don’t even like Perry as a candidate, but this was a below the belt attack on Perry, and Cain shouldn’t have taken the media bait and then used it as a vehicle to deflect the criticism that has been aimed at himself over his “brainwashed” remark against his fellow blacks. Bad form.