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Herman Cain: pizza boss, radio host, ballistics expert, minister. President?
guardian.co.uk ^ | 8 October 2011 | Staff

Posted on 10/09/2011 5:21:04 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion

He is the latest Tea Party favourite to burst through in the increasingly heated race for the Republican presidential nomination and see their poll numbers rocket them to frontrunner status.

However, unlike previous rightwing darlings such as Texas governor Rick Perry and Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann, wealthy businessman Herman Cain, 65, can claim to be cut from a very different sort of cloth from the average Republican candidate.

First, he is not actually a politician. Cain, whose CV includes being a radio show host, a navy ballistics expert, a Baptist minister and a Federal Reserve official, has never held elected office in his life. His most famous job was as chief executive of the fast-food firm Godfather's Pizza.

Yet none of that seemed to matter to the cheering crowds at the Values Voter Summit in a Washington DC hotel late last week. There was much to celebrate. A Zogby opinion poll had just boosted Cain into first place in the race, with 38% of the vote, compared with 18% for former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. Perry trailed in third place with 12%. The study even showed Cain beating President Barack Obama in a match-up by 46% to 44%.

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To: McGavin999
He's an unknown.

What??? His life is an open book, he's a proven leader from a very young age. He isn't part of the established governmental entity which has thrown us into this horrid mess we're in. And thank God for that!

If you want to know anything about him or his life and successes, all you have to do is look things up on the net. You will find out everything you want to know, however, I feel you probably don't want to know. :)

From what I've seen, anyone who says he's unknown, doesn't want to know how successful he's been from such a humble beginning.

81 posted on 10/09/2011 7:04:00 AM PDT by ozarkgirl
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To: battletank

If Cain was successful in his business then that means he hired people in key positions that had a record of experience not just some people with no qualifications for the job they were applying for.

If you don’t have experience in the job you are applying for, you don’t get hired, period.

Cain is asking you to hire him with no job experience to prove that he has actually been successful as a proven leader.

Cain wouldn’t hire Cain.


82 posted on 10/09/2011 7:06:24 AM PDT by tirednvirginia
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To: ozarkgirl
No, he is an unknown. He has NEVER had to make a political decision. He's made business decisions which are not the same thing at all. He's run for office before and not been elected so you have NO idea what he would do in a political situation. Untested, just like Obama who only voted "present" so he wouldn't have a track record.

You have already seen him backtrack on things he has said, and he's been under very little pressure.

83 posted on 10/09/2011 7:07:08 AM PDT by McGavin999 (Please don't be a Freeploader, help to keep the lights on.)
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To: TomGuy

What events occurred to cause the drastic increase in the top tier tax rates shown on your chart from 1916 to 1918?


84 posted on 10/09/2011 7:08:32 AM PDT by 4Runner
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To: ozarkgirl
He's an unknown.

This is just another way of saying, "I don't know anything about him and since I'm the sine qua non of all intelligence political Cain must have no merit whatsoever."
85 posted on 10/09/2011 7:08:50 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: Grunthor; TomGuy
“Will you vote for him over Obama?”

Obumbles wont be running in the Republican primaries, and I doubt anybody will be voting for Cain other that some in the first primary or two.

Like Santorum, Backmann, Cain is unlikely to have the money to go far.

I have a question for everyone....Has Cain even filed paperwork to get on the ballot in the early state primaries? Iowa, NH, SC, NV, Mi, etc ?

Last I heard he doesn't even have a campaign team in most states.

86 posted on 10/09/2011 7:09:01 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: Beagle8U

“Last I heard he doesn’t even have a campaign team in most states.”

Last you heard form whom? Or did you mean “my best guess?” Or did you just pull that out of your nethers?


87 posted on 10/09/2011 7:10:33 AM PDT by Grunthor (Heartless Bigot for Cain.)
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To: mkjessup

You mean he is going to hire a bunch of unproven people with no experience in the job he’s giving them should he get to be president?

If you don’t have experience in the job you are applying for you dont’ get the job, period.

You might get to be pizza delivery boy, but thats it.


88 posted on 10/09/2011 7:11:43 AM PDT by tirednvirginia
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To: McGavin999

I agree. He has no experience for the job of President. He only has experience as a businessman,

A shrewd businessman would never hire anyone with no experience for key positions.

Cain wouldn’t hire Cain.


89 posted on 10/09/2011 7:15:45 AM PDT by tirednvirginia
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To: McGavin999
Have you noticed that most of Cain's new supporters were Palin supporters? And they spout all the same rhetoric against the other candidates and forum members they saw as a threat to their candidate ? In addition to that, they greatly exxagerate Cain's ability and qualifications and insult or harass anyone who does not support Cain, exactly the same way they did when they supported Palin.

It's even somewhat more comical the way they make the claim that Cain is running his campaign in a dynamic fashion and anyone of higher intellect would certainly choose Cain like they have. When 6 months ago, when Cain first joined the race and Palin was seemingly “unstoppable” “Inelectale” “President Palin”, etc,,, the same people told us all the reasons that Cain could not win. He was unqualified, inexperienced, just a Pizza Man, etc,,,.

It's ironic how even they don't see that we know them better than they realize and they continue on like they were Cain supporters from the very beginning. Only the nasty attacks and rhetoric has not decreased in any fashion. If anything, they are getting worse. (If you don't believe me, just go to any Pro Perry thread)

90 posted on 10/09/2011 7:21:39 AM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
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To: BarnacleCenturion
Cain needs to explain the empowerment zones and why some will get preferential treatment over others in his 999 plans.
Also, this may explain why on the back of his book, This is Herman Cain, he writes, "What is it that motivates me to insist on defining my identity in terms of "ABC" - as being American first, black second, and Conservative third?".
91 posted on 10/09/2011 7:25:31 AM PDT by lahargis
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To: tirednvirginia

The office of POTUS is like no other. That is why there have only been 44.

The American people are charged with interviewing the primary candidates and electing the person who best meets their requirements.

A President is not hired - there is no ‘career’ path or educational degree required. It is not a profession!!!


92 posted on 10/09/2011 7:26:03 AM PDT by sodpoodle (God is ignoring me - because He is watching you.)
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To: tirednvirginia

That’s your opinion, and I respect it. I just don’t agree.

My quarrel is with people coming on here ignorantly minimizing his huge achievements in his life by saying his expertise is in delivering pizzas.


93 posted on 10/09/2011 7:28:17 AM PDT by battletank
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

“Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss.”


94 posted on 10/09/2011 7:28:38 AM PDT by magritte
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To: Grunthor
I watch the news and read all the articles on everything political. It is mentioned daily that he doesn't really have a campaign or do much beyond selling his book.

There is a reason that most political reporters discount him in the nomination race, he doesn't have a campaign set up.

Even his bus says...National book tour, in huge letters.

95 posted on 10/09/2011 7:28:56 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: Beagle8U

Yes, campaigning for the POTUS is a great way to sell books.


96 posted on 10/09/2011 7:31:08 AM PDT by lahargis
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

Oh I DO know, and I have noticed the very same thing. But then we’ve been through this in 2000, 2004, and 2008 we’ve learned to recognize it.


97 posted on 10/09/2011 7:31:51 AM PDT by McGavin999 (Please don't be a Freeploader, help to keep the lights on.)
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To: TomGuy

“It takes political ‘savvy’ to get anything done in Washington.”

Political ‘savvy’ got us where we are. If you are looking for professional spenders of other people’s money, Cain is not your man.

Career politicians are the problem, not the solution.


98 posted on 10/09/2011 7:32:22 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion (Heartless)
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To: tirednvirginia
You might get to be pizza delivery boy, but thats it.

LOL! You might try educating yourself a bit. That's too funny!

99 posted on 10/09/2011 7:33:11 AM PDT by ozarkgirl
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To: lahargis

“Yes, campaigning for the POTUS is a great way to sell books.”

Except the “campaigning for the POTUS” is missing in his national book tour.


100 posted on 10/09/2011 7:35:57 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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