'The One' may have met his match in emerging presidential candidate
Posted: July 21, 2010
8:34 pm Eastern
By Chelsea Schilling
© 2010 WorldNetDaily
He could be President Obama's worst nightmare – a business mastermind, a natural problem solver and a black man of "substance" who says he would "take the race card off the table" in a challenge against Obama as the GOP presidential candidate in 2012.
Has Obama met his match?
"We need a realistic candidate to run on the Republican ticket who can beat Barack Obama – not just beat the Democrats," Herman Cain, an Atlanta radio talk-show host, former CEO of Godfather's Pizza and 2004 Senate seeker, told WND. "We've also got to beat Barack Obama."
He added, "Obama is a master of rhetoric. He is a master of deceptive language. And any white candidate who runs against him will be up against the race card. I take the race card off the table."
Cain, a devout Christian, emphasized he is "prayerfully considering" a 2012 bid for the GOP nomination.
"I'm a man of faith, and I do believe in prayerful consideration of something this big," he explained.(read more)
Add another name to the growing list of possible Republican presidential candidates in 2012 -- former Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain, one of the leading African-American conservatives in the nation. Cain pops up on Fox News on occasion and ran in the Republican primary in the U.S. Senate election in Georgia back in 2004. Cain placed a distant second in the primary behind Johnny Isakson who went on to win the seat.
There is already a “Draft Cain” website up and running and they even have a page set up for individual states, including Florida. (read more)
Georgia Tea Party Leaders Blast NAACP Over Racism Claims
The Back of the Pack – Herman Cain, Hillary Clinton
Who is Herman Cain? The name sounded very familiar when Darcy Richardson forwarded me a recent story about him considering a presidential bid, but it took a couple of seconds for it to click.
Herman Cain, for those of you who weren't following Peach State politics in 2004, is an African-American Republican who unsuccessfully sought a U.S. Senate seat in Georgia. He lost the primary to then-Congressman Johnny Isakson. Cain is a talk radio host in Atlanta, the former chief executive of the Godfather's Pizza chain and a cancer survivor. As PoliticsDaily columnist Matt Lewis notes, "Herman Cain may be Michael Steele without the baggage."
The column is an excellent read.
Also, click here to check out the Draft Cain website that prompted it.
Herman Cain: Possible 'Dark Horse' 2012 GOP Presidential Candidate
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Herman Cain is many things, including an African American Republican, a former CEO of Godfather's Pizza, a cancer survivor -- and the host of
a popular radio show in Georgia. Recently, a "
Draft Cain" movement has emerged, with the goal of drafting Cain into a presidential run. According to Doug Deal, the creator of the "Draft Cane" Facebook page, this is a grassroots effort to "try to help convince him that there's support out there for him."
What makes Herman Cain an especially potent force is his charisma, and the fact that his supporters don't just admire him -- they love him. "He has the ability to really have the 'wow' factor," says Maurice Atkinson, another leader of the Draft Cain movement.
Almost everyone I talked to described Cain as a man of principle and someone with strong leadership skills – desirable traits in the Oval Office, regardless of ideology. "Herman Cain is an unconventional politician and a leader in every way," says Martha Zoller, host of a popular conservative radio talk show based out of Gainesville, Fla. "He makes things happen and understands the two things lacking in the current administration--American Exceptionalism and economic principles."
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All tax increases are bad, but there are some that are just plain unfair and punitive for no logical reason. The marriage penalty, the small business penalty, the retirement penalty, and the death penalty are in that category.
Everyone except the most clueless “mushrooms” of our society know that tax rates will return to 2000 levels if the Democrat-controlled Congress does nothing to stop them.
Hey, They'll Fix Everything! |
And they have shown a real skill for doing nothing but legislative carnage to this country in the last 18 months. That carnage has included the publicly unpopular Health Care Deform bill, the House-passed Cap and Trade and Tax and Kill (Jobs) bill, and the newly proposed Dodd-Frank Financial Deform bill. The full negative economic impact of those penalties on our economy continues to unfold.
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June 13, 2010
By Herman Cain
American’s number one expectation of its president is to keep us safe from our enemies. Our number two expectation is for the president to provide effective leadership in a crisis.
The Gulf of Mexico oil spill has gone from an ecological crisis to a human crisis for the families and businesses affected, and now a national crisis because of the consistent mishandling of the disaster, and the ripple effect of this disaster for decades to come.
I believe the mishandling of the oil spill is the combination of an ineffective management structure put in place by the president, as written about earlier, the standard bureaucracy when dealing with federal agencies, and now a blatantly obvious leadership void in the president’s abilities.
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Posted: June 07, 2010
1:00 am Eastern
Last week the political campaign propaganda season began, and President Obama fired the first shot at Republicans. In an effort to shift the subject from the Gulf oil disaster, the president went into campaign mode (again) when he said, "We can return to the failed economic policies of the past, or we can keep building a stronger future."
Unfortunately, the facts do not substantiate the president's claim when we compare December 2008 economic statistics before Obama took office to where we are today.
| | December 2008 | June 2010 |
| National debt | $9.5 trillion | $13 trillion |
| Gross Domestic Product , or GDP | $14.1 trillion | $14 trillion |
| Unemployment rate | 7.2 percent | 9.7 percent |
| Unemployed workers | 11.1 million | 15 million |
As you can see, none of these statistics improved. They all got worse. But maybe it depends on one's definition of "improved."
The president and the liberals would also like for us to not remember that the $826 billion in stimulus spending was supposed to keep the unemployment rate below 8 percent. The unemployment rate has not been below 8 percent since the stimulus bill passed in early 2009. In fact, it has been consistently closer to 10 percent.
After the president declared in his State of the Union address last February that job creation would be a top priority, the number of government jobs has increased while private sector jobs have continued to decrease. Even when the administration was tempted to boast about the 431,000 new jobs created in May (oops!), we soon learned that 411,000 of those jobs were government Census jobs.
In that same speech, the president said, "We can't go back. We have got to move forward." You do the math! We are clearly not moving forward. Again, maybe it depends on one's definition of forward. On the other hand, maybe this is the direction the president and the liberals want to take this country – backward.
One question that was asked repeatedly was whether Mr. Cain plans to run for president in 2012. He was noncommittal, but said that he is praying for guidance on the subject. His sound crew did indicate that recent appearances on the Sean Hannity show have stoked nationwide interest in Mr. Cain’s possible candidacy.
The most memorable part of the tea party occurred near the end. A white-haired gentleman let a young woman go ahead of him in the rapid fire line so he could be last. When he reached the microphone, he introduced himself as Louis, a former Marine, and announced that he had recently heard the second, seldom played, verse of the Star Spangled Banner and then began to sing
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is plagued by finger pointing and government bureaucracy. Nearly 40 days after the tragedy in the Gulf president Obama made a “photo op” visit to Louisiana, while his administration Cabinet heads were still jockeying for “who’s in charge” when it is clear that nobody is in charge, not even the president.
Despite the unprecedented technical challenges of stopping the massive oil leak at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, the lack of leadership in coordinating the various federal, state and local agencies and their respective functions in this ecological disaster is even worse.
This dangerous lack of leadership starts with the president and his unmanageable executive structure. This is bad for our nation, because it impedes the ability to get the right things done at the right time. Just look at the handling of the tragedy in the Gulf.
Or consider the months of delay by the president to send additional troops to Afghanistan in 2009. We will never know how many lives might have been saved with a more timely decision.
When president Obama took office he inherited a 9.5 trillion dollar national debt. It has increased by 3.5 trillion dollars in his first 16 months in office. It should not have taken 16 months to appoint a “debt reduction commission”. In the real world of business that decision is called a no-brainer. Just do it!
Most people are able to avoid committing all of the seven deadly sins (vanity, envy, gluttony, lust, anger, greed and sloth), but our government has managed to solve none of the seven deadly problems that could destroy the future of our nation – health-care costs, financial reform, Social Security, Medicare, national debt, immigration law and lack of real job growth.
These seven deadly domestic problems have three things in common. First, inept politicians and bureaucrats have consistently worked on the wrong problem. They have put political agendas and political pandering ahead of what's best for the people.
They gave conservative radio commentator Herman Cain a sustained standing ovation as he took the stage, and later cheered as he called tea party members patriots.
Cain said people with preconceived notions of tea party activists as “a bunch of right-wing wacko racists” should “stop drinking the Kool-Aid.”
"Cain is popular among conservatives in Georgia, with several hundred people joining "Draft Herman" groups on Facebook and elsewhere."
Conservative talk-radio host Herman Cain is considering a presidential bid, and he's getting encouragement from Samuel "Joe the Plumber" Wurzelbacher.
Cain, who broadcasts from Atlanta and placed second to then-Rep. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) in a 2004 Georgia GOP primary, said he's looking at running in 2012 as a Republican or an independent.
Cain told The Hill he would run because he "totally disagrees with the Obama-Reid-Pelosi agenda."
"They basically have redefined what it means to tax and spend," Cain said. "Just look up the run-up in the national debt."
"We are constantly being reminded that it is going to take time to fix these problems, and that there are no quick fix solutions. We know that, but the Obama Administration and Congress continue to believe that they can spend us out of these problems. They can’t. The math does not work."
"The president’s campaign promises about transparency, bipartisanship and no earmarks in legislation have been broken. And as the mainstream media looks the other way and tries to rationalize the broken promises, the informed voters get more and more frustrated, while the uninformed voters stay stuck on stupid."