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#39579 - 11/29/11 10:55 AM Cain to bow out?
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Herman Cain's stupidity is amazing to me. How could this guy not know that in running for president all of his past would come out. Definitely too stupid for the world stage. Under comments on this story the comment that "he failed the 1-1-1 plan. One man, one woman, one marriage" is good for a laugh.

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Herman Cain told members of his campaign staff on Tuesday that he was reassessing whether to proceed with his presidential campaign, an aide confirmed, a day after an Atlanta woman disclosed details of what she said was a 13-year affair with him.

In a morning conference call with his advisers, Mr. Cain said that he would make a decision in the coming days about whether to stay in the race after his campaign was rocked by another round of allegations about his sexual conduct.

The call, which was first reported by National Review, came as Mr. Cain was heading to Michigan for a campaign stop on Tuesday evening. He said that he was discussing the future of his campaign with his family and was considering his options.

“This is cause for reassessment,” Mr. Cain said, according to one participant on the call who spoke on condition of anonymity. “During the summer we had to make some reassessments based on our financial situation. We were able to hang in there.”

Mr. Cain denied the accusations from the Atlanta woman, Ginger White. But he acknowledged that the latest report of sexual misconduct might be more difficult to overcome, considering that the first voting is set to take place in five weeks at the Iowa caucuses. He said that he had not lost his enthusiasm to run, but suggested it was a distraction that could be difficult to recover from.


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Herman Cain is toast. The only question left: Is his marriage going to be toast as well?
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#39583 - 11/29/11 11:55 AM Re: Cain to bow out? [Re: Bogus_bill]
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Herman Cain is toast. The only question left: Is his marriage going to be toast as well?


Does that really matter to you?

And what if the accusations are not true?
This has David Axelrod written all over it.
Apparently you're unaware how B.O. became Senator B.O..

Since when did rumors and accusations of sexual infidelities prevent anyone from becoming president? Have you not read some of the released FBI files on JFK? Then there's Jefferson, Wilson...and didn't Grover Cleveland father a child out of wedlock?

I don't believe Herman Cain has the qualifications for US President (not because of possible infidelity). But then, neither did B.O..
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#39587 - 11/29/11 03:21 PM Re: Cain to bow out? [Re: Bogus_bill]
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I'm always torn on this type of issue. On the one hand, being unable to honor this most important of vows makes me skeptical that one can honor any other vow. On that proverbial other hand, there have been great leaders in the past with the same problem who have led with excellence. I guess I can only figure that if the wife can live with it, so can I. Unless, of course, it was Mr. Funky and then he'd be dead and I'd be in prison. wink
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#39588 - 11/29/11 03:27 PM Re: Cain to bow out? [Re: ikayak]
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If Cain were qualified, he could possibly have weathered this storm... at least until phone records and/or pictures came out. But, when you throw these repeated accusations and the way they were consistently handled worse than poorly on top of the horrendous gaffes that provided evidence he was not and probably never would be ready for prime-time, he's toast.
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#39589 - 11/29/11 03:28 PM Re: Cain to bow out? [Re: funkycamper]
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I said of Obama that he didn't have the credentials to be president. He was a minor league public organizer, beginning senator but he was leaps and bounds ahead of Cain. All Cain had was bluster. I delight in him being hounded out of contention because we need something better. I cannot say I like Gingrich but he is skilled at getting two parties to work together. Cain would only make a good dictator and our country is not run that way.

Another sign that he is on the way out:

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Two New Hampshire state representatives who were backing Herman Cain for president have decided to pull their support from Cain in the wake of claims that he was involved in an extended extramarital affair.
As WMUR first reported, state Reps. William Panek and Sam Cataldo will now back Newt Gingrich for president.

Panek told CBS News he had been on the fence concerning his support for Cain for the last couple weeks because of Cain's political rhetoric, and that the allegations of the longtime affair was the last straw.


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#39591 - 11/29/11 03:54 PM Re: Cain to bow out? [Re: funkycamper]
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On the one hand, being unable to honor this most important of vows makes me skeptical that one can honor any other vow.


According to Politifact, B.O. has broken 54 campaign promises.
Apparently marital fidelity has little, if nothing, to do with it.
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#39592 - 11/29/11 05:27 PM Re: Cain to bow out? [Re: ikayak]
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Originally Posted By: ikayak


According to Politifact, B.O. has broken 54 campaign promises.
Apparently marital fidelity has little, if nothing, to do with it.


Apparently reality doesn't either.

Let's look at the latest of those "promises broken," according to Politifact.

The promise: "Will "place the weight of (his) administration behind...a fully inclusive Employment Non-Discrimination Act to outlaw workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity."

The reality: He can support it all he likes, but with Republicans in lock-step against it, it's not going anywhere.

Politifact says: "We rate this a promise broken."

Really? He said he'd support it. He does. Congress locks up, and so the President has "broken his promise"?

In fact, of the top 10 "broken promises" listed by Politifact, only two--ending income tax for seniors earning less than $50,000 a year, and ending no-bid contracts above $25,000--are actual broken promises. The rest are all instances in which the President attempted to act only to be thwarted by a group of intransigent Republican legislators whose priority--as expressed by Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell--is making Obama a one-term President. As opposed to working on the actual problems we have as a nation.

I know you hate him because he's black, but give it a rest.

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#39593 - 11/29/11 07:06 PM Re: Cain to bow out? [Re: Beavis H. Christ]
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Sing your stupid song to Politifact.
Obviously they "hate him" because "he's black".
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#39594 - 11/29/11 07:53 PM Re: Cain to bow out? [Re: Bogus_bill]
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Originally Posted By: Bogus_bill
All Cain had was bluster. I delight in him being hounded out of contention because we need something better.


Agree.

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I cannot say I like Gingrich but he is skilled at getting two parties to work together.


Really? That's not the way I remember the 90's.


Edited by funkycamper (11/29/11 07:54 PM)
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#39596 - 11/30/11 12:21 PM Re: Cain to bow out? [Re: ikayak]
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Originally Posted By: ikayak

Sing your stupid song to Politifact.
Obviously they "hate him" because "he's black".


I don't know that. But you obviously do, because you don't employ any sort of critical or analytical thinking to anything having to do with the President or his positions. No matter how wrong you are proven to be, over and over and over again, it's always Obama in the wrong, according to you. What Politifact's problem is is less clear--maybe they think they're being "balanced" by blaming Obama for Congress's failures.

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