My Dad alerted me about Herman Cain being on Fox News – he likes Herman Cain best.
Here’s a summary from Fox News.
Excerpt:
Presidential candidate Herman Cain, who’s now polling third in the latest Fox News poll, joined “Fox News Sunday” to discuss his recent success and his strategy for winning the Republican nomination.
Anchor Chris Wallace asked Cain what’s the reason behind his rise in the polls. The candidate answered, “The voice of the people is much more powerful than the voice in the media. As you know, some of the media outlets have been trying to make the Republican contest, a contest between two people, two governors. The people said something differently.”
The other big political story this week was whether or not New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will enter the presidential race. Christie, who has garnered enthusiasm over the way he has governed his state, has a few positions that some conservatives might have a problem with, which include his positions on global warming and immigration.
The candidate had this to say about the New Jersey governor’s chances, “I think that is absolutely a liability for him if he gets in the race.” He continued, “Most of the conservatives believe that we should enforce our borders. They do not believe people should be here with documentation. They do not believe global warming is a crisis or a threat.”
Cain caused a bit of controversy this week when he said that many in the African American community are “brainwashed” when it comes to the political process. He defended his comments and pointed to something that President Obama said just last week.
“That’s not as insensitive as the president of the United States standing in front of a major black audience, the Congressional Black Caucus, and scolding them because his policies have failed the country, his policies have failed black people. That’s more insensitive — that’s more insulting to me than me using a term brainwashed.”
I can tell that Chris Wallace likes him – because he gives these direct answers to all his questions. It’s so nice to see a businessman answer questions. You can really see the problem solving approach coming through from his Masters degree in computer science at Purdue University.
My Facebook friend Walter posted this Wall Street Journal article from last week about Cain.
I read it, and here is the best bit:
Though he’s got the governorship credential, Mr. Romney’s emphasis in this campaign is on his private-sector experience. It’s good, despite the knock on Bain Capital’s business model. But measured by résumés, Herman Cain’s looks deeper in terms of working on the private sector’s front lines.
[…]In the late 1970s, Mr. Cain was recruited from Coca-Cola in Atlanta, his first job in business, to work for Pillsbury in Minneapolis. His rise was rapid and well-regarded. He joined the company’s restaurant and foods group in 1978 as director of business analysis. In the early 1980s, Pillsbury sent him to learn the hamburger business at a Burger King in Hopkins, Minn. Then they assigned him, at age 36, to revive Pillsbury’s stumbling, franchise Burger King business in the Philadelphia region. He succeeded. According to a 1987 account in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Pillsbury’s then-president Win Wallin said: “He was an excellent bet. Herman always seemed to have his act together.”
[…]Put it this way: The GOP nominee is running against the incumbent president. Unlike the incumbent, Herman Cain has at least twice identified the causes of a large failing enterprise, designed goals, achieved them, and by all accounts inspired the people he was supposed to lead. Not least, Mr. Cain’s life experience suggests that, unlike the incumbent, he will adjust his ideas to reality.
Herman Cain is a credible candidate. Whether he deserves to be president is something voters will decide. But he deserves a serious look.
By the way, I love the 9% sales tax. I want everyone to pay something so everyone has skin in the game – even criminals who don’t declare incomes should have to pay sales tax, at least. By the way, Cain also backs a phased-in privatization of Social Security for younger workers, and he uses Chile as a model – because they’ve done it. You can read about how well Chile was able to do it in this previous post of mine.
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