Doug was on vacation during the second week of September, so that’s why you got no Doug last week. But he was back this week, so here ya go.
By the way, there seems to be a few Herman Cain fans around here, so I’ll start you off with a couple on that topic.
From the audio files:
1) “…Cain takes aim at the Environmental Protection Agency, and he explains the reality. The left will say you’re crazy for saying something like this, [but] this is one of the signs of sanity when you describe the EPA the way Herman Cain has described it…”
2) “…[Herman Cain] was the only one who really outlined what he would do with the tax code. And I don’t know why the tax code conversation isn’t central to the whole debate…”
3) “…So if someone is really a narcissist… what does that mean? It means someone must control everything, including all interactions with others. The reason they have to do this is to feed their own sense of domination. Now Obama uses… 3 tactics [of control] that we see a lot: misinformation, emotional manipulation, and accusations…”
4) “…What she’s saying is what the left always says, which is that there is not enough redistributed wealth…”
More audio clips here.
And for those who would rather read than listen, gems-a-plenty:
1) “Herman Cain is my guy. I’ve finally said it in plain English. He’s my favorite. But the mainstream media will turn him into the second coming of Clarence Thomas.”
2) “Mitt Romney refused to call Obama a socialist. Something that is factually and demonstrably true. Does he, himself, fear being called a socialist because of certain policies that he likes?”
3) “The sooner Barack Obama is out on the lecture circuit, and the sooner he’s out there ghost-writing with a ghost-writer his new memoir, the better for all of us.”
4) “At some point, you start to say, ‘well, maybe Obama is completely incapable of self-reflection; incapable of considering the idea that he might be wrong about anything – whether it’s what to have for lunch or nuclear war.'”
5) “Obama spends time kow-towing to the Islamic extremists in the world, under the delusional idea that his words would somehow make them swoon into submission.”
6) “In his speech, Ahmadinejad was mad about the US history of slavery, America causing 2 world wars, using the nuclear bomb, imposing military dictatorships in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Sounds exactly like Obama’s point of view.”
7) “Michelle is out there wearing $42,000 diamond cuffs. The Obamas should take my advice and think about firing their ‘personal shopper.’ There is a severe lack of taste going on here, along with a severe lack of in-touchness with ordinary people.”
8) “There is one consistent pattern we have seen with Obama’s policies in the Middle East: he always, 100% of the time, does the wrong thing, at the wrong time, for the wrong reasons.”
9) “These liberals won’t recede of their own accord. They only recede because we’re pushing them back.”
10) “None of Obama’s proposals are serious. He doesn’t mean any of it. All he means to do by any of these proposals is to use them as a device aimed at making Republicans look bad.”
See, it’s that last one that really gets me. The liberal media spends all this time talking about what Obama says in his speeches, and they quote the reasonable, inoffensive parts about “working together” and “putting party before country” and maybe some table-scrap tax cut, but he doesn’t mean those words any more than my cat means “imjsetfrkoewr” when she walks across my keyboard.
CAIN!
Instead of jumping uselelessly into the race could Palin and Christie put their support behind Cain? Would some unity against Romney be too much?
CAIN!
(But you already knew that, Harvey.)
Jimmy – of course I knew that. He’s got everything I want in a black man: he’s descended from slaves, he’s darker than a paper bag, and he loves capitalism.
So, really, for me, it’s either Cain, Thomas Sowell, or Walter E. Williams.
Yeah, and I could go on and on about all the reasons I’d support him in ways I haven’t done for anyone since Reagan.
I think he’s the closest thing to a “Black Reagan” we’ll see in our lifetimes. Perhaps better is to say he’s a “Reagan Black.” Either way, he’s Herman CAIN! and we need him badly – if not as President then in government in any capacity.
Herman Cain is MY GUY…until someone else wins a different straw poll then I will dump him like a cheap suit and jump on that band wagon…unless it’s Romney, then I will just jump off the cliff because that’s where he will take us anyway. The Dems want to go there at 100 miles an hour and he just wants to get there at 50…
“…the mainstream media will turn him into the second coming of Clarence Thomas.”
Like another Clarence Thomas would be a bad thing.
Is it that liberals hate blacks? Or just blacks from Georgia? The media sure hate that Savannah judge and that Atlanta businessman.
Herman Cain will have a hard time getting support at a time like this when the right-wing is rallying around liberal candidates.
The way CAIN! talks about the Constitution makes my hair stand up and salute.
And the articulate, honest, common sense of this man as a non-politician? Pegs my Common-Sense-Meter.
I want the guy as my neighbor and my President.
He’s a black, conservative American who’s as American as apple pie. And he’s beautiful – inside and out.
CAIN!
Basil: Liberals do not hate all blacks. They just hate the ones who have escaped the progressive plantation.
And a conservative SOUTHERN black? Why they ought to KNOW better about the evil racism of conservatives. How dare he, how DARE he, rely on himself instead of the Democrat party and government handouts.
And another thing. There’s a lot of BS talk from Liberals about white Conservatives compensating for their supposed guilty conscience for having some kind of internal, hidden racism, and thus their support for a black man like Herman Cain.
I got news for you Liberals. Let me give you a real, personal example.
I grew up in an integrated neighborhood (high school 40% black, 10% Asian and 50% white) and we all played together and grew up together as kids. We didn’t see each other’s race as a factor that actually meant anything to us. Whether in class, or on the football field or basketball court, or after school walking home together, etc., it didn’t matter. It wasn’t important. What WAS important was the character/personality of the other person. What mattered was what we saw in each other and did together. We weren’t afraid to acknowledge that we were unique individuals and that our ancestry was irrelevant when we were together.
So, now, when I see and hear Herman Cain, I see all the kinds of kids I liked as a kid, from every race. And he’s a kid like me. I don’t see the kids I didn’t like. Those were the snots, the whiners, the kids with chips on their shoulders, the ones that made excuses or misbehaved, the loud-mouthed bullies, etc. There were kids of all races in those categories I didn’t like.
So, personally, I’ve never given a rat’s a$$ about race because what mattered was choosing to deal with someone based on their merits. And I’ve always seen lots of merit in people of different skin colors and ethnic ancestry.
So. No, I’m not racist. I’m NOT compensating for anything.
Now, add to this example the fact the I love the Constitution and our Republic and from what I’ve learned so far, my own personal philosophy closely matches Hermain Cain’s, who happens to be of black ancestry.
I look and listen to him. I look/listen some more. I keep looking and listening. And now, I realize I’m studying the guy.
You know, I would have played basketball with him and gone to physics class and sat next to him. My best friend in high school physics happened to be black and today he’s very successful Boeing engineer getting close to retirement (like me).
Not bad. Not bad at all. Thanks for being there and giving me a choice, Mr. Cain.
CAIN!
Well said, Jimmy.
CAIN!
“…but he doesn’t mean those words any more than my cat means “imjsetfrkoewr” when she walks across my keyboard.”
Now *that* is a killer line. Thanks, it made my day.
Anyway, if the cat had written “feedmeyoucommie” you would not really take offense either since you know it doesn’t really mean it…
Thanks, Burmashave! I have jumped-in to Team Cain!
Anyone so like-minded can do the same at:
http://teamcain.hermancain.com/an/landing
I haven’t joined any campaign and seriously contributed time and money since Reagan in 1980.
I’m looking forward to it.
Cain wins Florida’s straw-poll by a landslide. Rally the troops…it’s time to push this man to the front!
When I see Herman Cain I don’t see a black or white or yellow or polka dotted guy, I see a competant capitalist conservative man with common sense. Maybe the next Reagan. I guess that prevents me from being a liberal. I see someone for who they are, not a demographic.