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Condescending ABC Dismisses 'Pizza Baron' Cain: 'Nobody' Won the FL Straw Poll

By Scott Whitlock | September 26, 2011 | 12:15

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Good Morning America's John Hendren on Sunday dismissed the victory of Herman Cain in the Florida straw poll, condescendingly asserting that the "big winner is nobody." The ABC reporter made sure to repeatedly mention the business of the Republican presidential candidate: "That's right. The man who brought you Godfather's Pizza at 37 percent."

Hendren arrogantly explained, "What's notable about the Florida straw poll is less who won than who lost...The week's big winner in the Republican primary is nobody." It's odd for ABC to dismiss the straw poll's actual winner as a "nobody." But if the candidate hasn't broken through, perhaps the hosts at GMA should actually consider having him on as a guest. (This has yet to happen in 2011.)

[See video below. MP3 audio here.]

 

On Sunday's World News, Hendren insisted that Texas Governor Rick Perry "left humiliated and humbled, a distant second to Herman Cain, the man from Godfather's Pizza."

Correspondent John Berman reiterated on Monday's GMA: "He finished a shocking second to pizza baron Herman Cain in the Florida straw poll."

The Hendren piece also contained rather hyperbolic language about Perry and his poor debate performance: "Perry's implosion is just the latest sign of chaos in the Republican presidential field. A disarray so complete that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is now being heavily pressured to run."

A transcript of the September 25 GMA segment, which aired at 8:03am EDT, follows:

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8:03

BIANNA GOLODRYGA: But first, we want to talk about what could be the implosion of Rick Perry's presidential candidacy, this after a shocking loss on Saturday. ABC's John Hendren is following that story this morning from Washington. Good morning, John.

JOHN HENDREN: Good morning, Bianna. What's notable about the Florida straw poll is less who won than who lost: Everyone anyone considered a top contender in the GOP presidential race. The week's big winner in the Republican primary is nobody.

RICK PERRY: See you later.

GOLODRYGA: Not Texas Governor Rick Perry. He'd been heavily favored to win yesterday's Florida straw poll, but came in distance second, a humiliating defeat. Likely in part over his policy of giving college aid to illegal immigrants.

UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Rick Perry has lost a lot of conservatives in here by being pro-illegal immigration.

HENDREN: Not Mitt Romney. He didn't even campaign for it. Not Michele Bachmann, who won the straw poll in Iowa, she came in dead last. The GOP presidential candidate who came out on top in Florida was Herman Cain?

HERMAN CAIN: Herman Cain, moi, got twice as many votes as the next contender, Rick Perry.

HENDREN: That's right. The man who brought you Godfather's Pizza at 37 percent, compared to 15 percent for Perry. Perry may need a Texas-sized surge to recover.

RON BROWNSTEIN (ABC News political analyst): Now we have to see if he has a second act, if he can improve his performance, sharpen his message, steady his, kind of, rhetoric in a way that reassures some of those Republican voters who are now expressing concern.

HENDREN: Perry's implosion is just the latest sign of chaos in the Republican presidential field. A disarray so complete that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is now being heavily pressured to run. In an interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer, Christie all but swore an oath not to run.

CHRIS CHRISTIE: I'm not running.

DIANE SAWYER: Categorically not running?

CHRISTIE: Yeah. I mean, I don't know how else to put it, Diane. I mean, the answer is no, I'm not doing it.

HENDREN:  Christie's supporters are arguing the job may be big but the declared candidates are too small. Donors and republican king makers are looking to Christie as kind of a white knight, a fiscal conservative who can rally the Tea Party and a big state governor who can also appeal to the rest of the party.

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"Nobody won"

Submitted by almostacowboy on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 12:23pm.

Who will the LSM pillory after the presidential election? "Nobody".
Who will be labeled "racist" by the racists on the left? "Nobody".
Who will be called "hater" by those who hate? "Nobody."

Sounds like a good start, to me.

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To be more specific . . .

Submitted by Galvanic on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 5:33pm.

. . . Nobodies include Mr. Herman Cain, Rep. Alan West, Justice Clarence Thomas, Dr. Condoleeza Rice, Dr. Alan Keyes, Dr. Thomas Sowell, . . . well, you get the picture.

Not among the nobodies are President Barack Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, Rep. Maxine Waters, Rep. Charles Rangel, Rep. John Conyers, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, etc.

Whom would you rather trust with your personal bank account?

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Damn, how can the media pick

Submitted by ant on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 12:30pm.

Damn, how can the media pick our candidates for us if we don't get in line like good little proles?

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What a bunch of racists!

Submitted by Newsbubba on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 12:37pm.

How can ABC refer to Herman Cain as a "nobody," and not be racist, according to their own criterion?

Maybe they think he's a "Jewish janitor" like Obama does.

Comrade Bubba
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The answer is obvious...

Submitted by taznar on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 1:04pm.

"Their own criterion" don't apply to them.

What could be more racist than instilling fear & hatred of (white) conservatives in the African-American population than telling them those "Tea Party" guys want to "literally drag us all the way back to Jim Crow laws" or see them all "hanging on a tree".

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You know how they are

Submitted by Marcus Porcius on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 1:20pm.

Liberals have always been the big racists. They just use projection to keep conservatives on defense so nobody accuses them.


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liberalsarefunny

Submitted by liberalsarefunny on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 12:44pm.

Just more racism from the MSM--what else is new...

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Stunning Condescension

Submitted by Blonde on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 12:57pm.

Just unreal.

Herman Cain AND THE REST OF THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES ought to slam the media for this, every chance they get.

Because if they do it to Bachmann one week, and Cain the next, who will be poo-poo'ed by the media next? This is one thing they can all agree on (maybe they could raise their hands, too).

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I posted this elsewhere, but

Submitted by Beukeboom on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 12:58pm.

I posted this elsewhere, but it applies here as well so I am repeating:

It's interesting and very revealing to witness the spin from the liberal MSM whenever things do not go the way they want or when it doesn't fit their liberal agenda. Herman Cain winning the Florida straw poll fits both scenarios. And the liberal MSM can't stand it.

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Beukeboom - Logged on to Cain and ponied up $50

Submitted by MaximusBraveheart on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 3:32pm.

I was SO happy to see the Cain straw poll. Hoorah! The media is not getting their pick to p*ick us with later. I hope both media picked front runners continue to move down & true conservatives like Cain keep moving up! Therefore this AM I found Cain's website & hit DONATE. Gave $50 despite trying to save right now. This is important. Perry may be OK but I would feel 100x better with Cain in the WH. Then the media can't keep pulling the Tea Party is racist lie trick over and over and over. Just SICK of it! Go CAIN!

-- Maximusbraveheart -- Is TRUTH knowable? Moral Relativism is the abandonment of Truth. Truth is knowable. Truth conforms to Reality. Reality is observable by evidence & witness in this day & from history. Relativism is Sesame Street play land.

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Yeah Brother, lets beat Obama

Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 6:39pm.

Yeah Brother, lets beat Obama with a Cain.

Nuke em til they glow; then shoot em in the dark
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Yes let Cain BEAT Obama because he is not ABLE.

Submitted by MaximusBraveheart on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 12:16pm.

LOL Dan! Yes this time Cain will BEAT down Obama because he is not ABLE.

-- Maximusbraveheart -- Is TRUTH knowable? Moral Relativism is the abandonment of Truth. Truth is knowable. Truth conforms to Reality. Reality is observable by evidence & witness in this day & from history. Relativism is Sesame Street play land.

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Funny Stuff

Submitted by Kingfish17 on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 12:56pm.

There has to be an additional tie in related to Obama being a jack-ass.

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thanks MSM

Submitted by kata on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 1:06pm.

more excellent material for his next campaign commercial.

Give Peas a Chance. ☑ ABØ in 2012
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Little dweeb needs a beatin....... (drop the G like Sotero)

Submitted by Tomorama on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 1:07pm.

The same a**********s that propped up a nobody who had NO record and never RAN nothing but his mouth except when it came time to vote and the "present sufficed" need to demean a CEO of a major company?

He ran BK and Pillsbury as well in UPPER management roles with other companies and organizations.

They NEED to dismiss him, he is smary, Conservative, has NEW ideas and shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, he's black.

Not like he's a rich Jew errrrrrr Janitor errrrrr, poor janitor, errrrrrr union janitir that doesn't even empty barrels anymore..................

If you make poverty easy, you will have more of it. Benjamin Franklin
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As bad as that was, Curry was even worse this AM

Submitted by SickofLibs on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 1:24pm.

her  introduction was: "Herman, Cain, former pizza company executive."

She couldn't even bring herself to call him former CEO.

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ABC - American Bigots' Cadre?

Submitted by Avitar on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 1:24pm.

They have been dictating what "real" blacks are supposed to be llike and think since the nineteen-sixties.

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Before you go after John Hendren ...

Submitted by Fredy on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 1:25pm.

... look for Bill O'Reilly to attack Cain tonight!

I can already hear Bill explaining it all away as anything other than a Cain win. Bill feels a need to personally attack candidates he has decided as not having a chance. Just last week Bill was calling for only the candidates he prefers to be allowed in the Republican debates!

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Oh, if only....

Submitted by almostacowboy on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 3:19pm.

...we all were as smart as The Bloviator. Maybe we could just allow him to cast our votes for us, since he is, after all, "looking out for us". [sarc key off now]

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O'Reilly officially jumped

Submitted by Martin2717 on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 5:42pm.

O'Reilly officially jumped the shark for me this past February at the SB when he interviewed Obama. What a joke of an interview. He continues to get worse and worse. I'm hoping his ratings start to reflect that. Like I said here yesterday, they can't ignore Herman Cain anymore. He's the real deal and they're going to have to deal with it.

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... and another thing ...

Submitted by Fredy on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 1:30pm.

How many of these expert pundits even know that Herman Cain also worked at the Federal Reserve?

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What primary?

Submitted by CobraMan on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 1:53pm.

"The week's big winner in the Republican primary is nobody."

What "primary" is this idiot talking about? There hasn't been any yet. There hasn't even been a date set for Florida's GOP Primary. Do these people just make this up as they go? Or do thy think that we're so stupid that we don't know the difference between a Straw Poll and a Primary Election?

Hay, liberals, let me give you a piece of advice: If you wish to set the narrative, as you always try to do, you should, at the very least, know what the narrative actually IS! Otherwise you're just making a fool of yourself.

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Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court

Or Anwar al-Awlaki.

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Liberals

Submitted by Keep us free on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 6:20pm.

Mr CobraMan, now you know why they were stupid enough to elect Obama.

Vern
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Mr. Cain and the left-liberal press/media

Submitted by lrgon on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 2:04pm.

The MSM it seems has no room in presidential politics for any other challeger to Obama that is non white. To these keepers of the "people's gate" to managed news content, Obama represents the supreme model of what a black US president should represent. Mr. Cain will only add to the confusion of the people and therein is the reason for the abusive treatment Mr.Cain is getting from the media even after he won a "straw poll" in the Northerners' playground.

The media would have gone even more haywire had Herman Cain addressed that 10th Amendment question posed at the Florida venue debates.

Nothing would have stirred up the Liberals in the press and at the same time given the lower tiered contender a huge boost to his campaign had he explained the purpose of the true intent of the 10th Amendment.

A) The states formed the federal government and enumerated the powers the states simply loaned the federal government those itemized powers.
B) The federal government did not exist prior to 1789.The states created it!
C) Only those powers enumerated were to be in the federal referee's jurisdiction
D) The states kept the unlimited and unenumerated powers unto themselves.The clear language of the 10th shows the bogus argument that the "commerce clause" gives the federal system the power to make an end run the "enumerated powers" doctrine.
E) The federal government was not granted a monopoly on human emotion.
D) Supreme court Judges like John Marshall reinterpreted the original intent of the Constitution by saying the opposite of the Founders' clear reasoning behind the Bill of Rights and the list of federal powers found under "Article I, section 8.
E) The founders said these and only these are the powers the federal government can have - period! Supreme Court Justice Marshall was wrong when he opined that if the congress is not specifically prohibited from doing something it it can assume the power! So we see right off the bat with that bad decision that the challenge for Americans to keep a watchful eye aimed at Washington!

F) the 10th has nothing to do with Jim Crow laws but with states' rights.

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"Cain Versus Not Able."

Submitted by upcountrywater on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 2:27pm.

h/t Dennis Miller...

Herman Cain, CEO of a pizza restaurant chain.... Who works in restaurants? It's infested with liberals...I bet Mr. Cain has heard (99.9% +) every single dreamy unicorn unworkable. gobs of comments, of how to run that very business...

You Didn't Build That.

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Since it’s all about “Propping-up Obama” anyway…

Submitted by Grumpy in Arizona on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 2:08pm.

…IMO the lib media is running scared at the possibility that Herman Cain could be the Republican nominee – or even the possibility he might be the VP nominee.

Again it just an opinion, but as I see it the “media take” on the candidates is as follows (alphabetically presented):

- Bachmann: Media doesn’t like her ideas or abilities, but will begrudgingly support her because they possibly think Obama can beat her and they’ve had a lot of practice belittling conservative women (Sarah Palin) to insure “Dear Leaders” win..
- Cain: Media is scared to death of him. He’s a proven leader and a conservative with good ideas - knows how team-build and solve problems… they also will not be able to effectively play the “race card” against him. IMO the media is soiling their collective pants at the thought of a possible Cain nomination.
- Gingrich: The MSM hates his guts and will keep reminding us how “unelectable” he is… You think Cheney got a bad deal from the media??? – Wait till you see what happens if Newt gains some traction.
- Huntsman: The media darling (as of now) – They really want this guy to be a contender because they have a tried and true formula for supporting those RINO’s they can rip apart when it comes to the general election.
Johnson: (see Huntsman above) – he’s not even worth seriously discussing.
- Paul: (see Johnson above) - I’d love to put a joke in here… but Paul is the living breathing example of a joke candidate, so there is no point.
- Perry: The media is very happy he is currently self-destructing – if he ever recovers, the media will go back to hating him with a renewed vengeance- and his status as a RINO won’t save him.
- Romney: The MSM wants this RINO to be the nominee – I guess they figure a lot of republican’s will stay home on election day if he’s picked – look for him to get “McCained” if he [hopefully not] gets the nod.
- Santorum: Another candidate the media loathes for actually having a moral stance on issues. Right now he’s not a threat to the media, if he moves up in the polls, he’ll get the “doesn’t understand the needs of real people” routine.

- Grump :o)

"I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question." - Yogi Berra, (Baseball Great and Philosopher)
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I thought the left LOVES a

Submitted by rbosque on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 2:16pm.

I thought the left LOVES a Blackman in the WH?
So I guess it isn't about race but Marxism! If it was only about skin color then the idiots on the left would be cheering Cain. But i don't see any on that.

Now Cain's emergence is flying in the face of their "Republicans are racists" talking points. And now these propagandists are trying to figure out what to do. Tough, now they painted themselves into a corner.

"It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country"......Will Durant
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rbosque,

Submitted by Trix Rabbit on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 2:28pm.

It won't be long before the left uses its own racist sophistry by calling Cain: "an Oreo", "a traitor", "a house negro", or "a puppet for the white man."

They will have to do this because Cain's resumé is light years ahead of Odumbo's so-called record.

For the MSM: In your pomp and all your glory, you're a poorer man than me.  As you lick the boots of death born out of fear.

Ian Anderson "Wind up"

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Trix,

Submitted by Agnostic on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 2:30pm.

I'm guessing it will be 'token'. As in, the Republicans are running a black man against President Obama for political reasons only. Cain will be cast a token for Republicans to gain power.

. . Socialist = Modern Liberal = Parasitoid
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Well hay we have ⓿ for O'bama

Submitted by upcountrywater on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 2:53pm.

Looks like they will push the Nobody theme..like
Heard it before, Nobody.
Nothing new, nobody

Crafty artholes, them libs.

You Didn't Build That.

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The lefties have it figured out

Submitted by miss911ninja on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 2:36pm.

But there's an EXPLANATION for why the Republican racists have allowed Herman Cain to emerge! The lefties have it figured out.

Janeane Garofalo speaking to Keith Olbermann: " I feel like he's being paid by somebody to be involved and to run for president."

To theoretically fool people into thinking that Republicans aren't racist. Watching the first 1:30 of this is plenty, because you'll hear Olbermann say that Cain has "delusions of grandeur," and Garofalo saying that he has "a touch of Stockholm Syndrome."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyfaxOl4yOY

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miss911ninja, Youtube, dumped it

Submitted by upcountrywater on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 3:04pm.

However Barfalo is right, Cain will be getting paid, as in campaign contributions.

You Didn't Build That.

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Damn!

Submitted by miss911ninja on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 4:19pm.

I can't understand why the link won't work, because the vid is still up on YouTube. (countdown with keith olbermann janeane garofalo on the tea party)

It's a real treat to watch these two engaged in their intellectual discussion about how Cain has been paid to fool people and "throw them of the scent" of racism. She believes the source of that money might be (among other people) the Koch brothers, Grover Norquist, or "it could even be Karl Rove."

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Garofalo & Olbermann

Submitted by Keep us free on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 6:30pm.

miss911ninja when the queer Ms Garofalo and stupid Mr. Olbermann get together you can figure anything that comes out of their mouths will be so far out of whack that most people don't believe anything they say. Too bad they didn't
check out where Obama's crooked bucks came from. But we know they do not
have brains enough to find out those facts. Too bad, it might have saved us from
electing the worst President America has ever had.

Vern
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Hi miss ninja

Submitted by Denny Crane on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 12:31am.

Here you go!

Be on the lookout for random acts of journalism from the MSM~h/t Rush

We Are The 53%

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Thanks Denny!

Submitted by miss911ninja on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 12:43pm.

Could be my Mac caused the snafu?

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The vid is gone.

Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 6:43pm.

The vid is gone.

Nuke em til they glow; then shoot em in the dark
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You can't make this stuff up

Submitted by miss911ninja on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 8:39pm.

Can't understand why the link won't work because the video is still up on YouTube.

And it's CLASSIC! You can't make this stuff up.

Just search "countdown with keith olbermann janeane garofalo on the tea party" and it will come to the top.

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John Hendren

Submitted by Keep us free on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 5:54pm.

What Mr. Hendren meant to say was that ABC was a Nobody. I think John is a
tongue tied reporter that would say anything to his very small group of stupid
listeners. He must be very racist to make such a comment. But he is like most
of the Liberals out there, all they know how to do is bad mouth anyone that does
not like Socialism.

Vern
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Another example of how liberals don't get irony

Submitted by Bill Brasky on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 2:34pm.

They will try to belittle Herman Cain as just a "pizza executive", while continuing to ignore the fact that Obama has NO experience or qualifications to be president. And isn't that working out just great for the country? (Note to liberals, that is sarcasm. In case you don't get that either.)

"If you want to make a Conservative angry, tell him a lie. If you want to make a Liberal angry, tell him the truth." - Rush Limbaugh
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true, true, TRUE !

Submitted by rowdygirl on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 8:59am.

You said exactly what I was thinking. At least Mr. Cain had\has a REAL job.. as opposed to the POTUS. He has a real job now and hasn't started performing yet. He's been campaigning, traveling and vacationing since 2008. When does the real work begin?

Tam

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When does the real work begin?

Submitted by Agnostic on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 9:06am.

Probably in 2014 when after a 'reasonable' amount of time has passed since the elections he can go on partially tax payer funded (via college $$$) speaking tours for a couple hundred grand a pop. Then he will talk down the US, our allies, typical white people and Conservatism to properly brainwashed students, staff and faculty - all the while the media will show this as a continuation of President Obama bringing America together.

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The liberals may be more afraid of Cain than Paul

Submitted by c5then on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 2:45pm.

With Herman Cain as the GOP nominee, they will find it almost impossible to bring out the race card without looking totaly ludicris and like imbeciles. I did say "almost" and I'm sure MSNBC will try anyway).

 

Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it! 

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The rule of thumb holds

Submitted by celator on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 2:55pm.

The rule of thumb holds firmly: whomever the MSM dismisses as a Republican candidate has a shot at beating Obama. We can use the rule right up to Nov 2012.

"This is not your mother's Democratic Party"--Andrew Breitbart, CPAC, February 2012
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Mr. Cain and the liberal press

Submitted by east tennessee john on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 3:42pm.

Just who in the f**k is John Hendren anyway? Also watch out for the lamestream media trying to pull a McCain on us.

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Hermain Cain has created over

Submitted by deerjerkydave on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 4:45pm.

Hermain Cain has created over 10,000 jobs with his pizza chain. I'm sure he knows the principles needed to create jobs. How many jobs has Obama created?

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EXCELLENT Point, however...

Submitted by USMC8411 on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 4:59pm.

The MSM will remind you that Mr. Cain HAS NOT saved 7 brazillion jobs! It is obvious that obama had to SAVE jobs before he could CREATE jobs, and that is why he is on the 7 brazillionth "job creation tour/campaign fundraising" speech onslaught!

How do we measure the amount of "saved" jobs? Oh yeah, we ask Carney... And BTW, if you have saved brazillions of jobs, why does the unemployment compensation applications continuously rise?

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I still want someone to

Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 6:45pm.

I still want someone to explain to me how you measure saving jobs? I ask them if its like I saved their life by killing a sh#t eating dog?

Nuke em til they glow; then shoot em in the dark
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Cain will become a force to be reckoned with very soon.

Submitted by Kingfish17 on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 6:09pm.

But not before we hear Bill Clinton say something like:

"A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee,"

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Let me act like a liberal...

Submitted by GregE on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 7:50pm.

Let me act like a liberal for moment......

So, the sole black candidate squarely beat all white opponents and John Hendren of Good Morning America proclaims nobody won? You know what this is? This is racism, straight up.

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Herman Cain deserves a serious look.

Submitted by BoilerFan on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 7:57pm.

While it's not very likely that Herman Cain will be the Republican nominee in 2012, his Florida straw poll win may very well move him from the "third tier" of GOP candidates into the "second tier." And if both Romney and Perry fail to unite and fire up GOP primary voters going into the Iowa Caucuses, Cain may very well be a sleeper candidate.

Like all politicians (including the schmuck in the Oval Office), Cain occasionally makes some glaring mistakes. (For example, I still can't believe he was totally clueless when, on Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace asked Cain about his views on the Palestinian "right of return" and how that issue impacts relations between Israel and the Palestinians and any future peace negotiations.) But I don't expect my president to be an expert in EVERY field. I expect him (or her) to be reasonably intelligent, likeable, personable and competent. And I want them to have plenty of experience in the private sector. You can bring in experts to advise you in the areas where you're clearly NOT an expert.

I'm keeping an open mind in this year's primary. So far at least, I haven't picked a "horse" in this race. But Cain certainly deserves serious consideration, and the so-called "mainstream media" simply show their flagrant bias when they diss Mr. Cain. (Can't allow a conservative black man to get too much media exposure, eh?)

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It never ceases to amaze me...

Submitted by Tucsonican on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 9:17pm.

...how the media elites fail to recognize the true significance of an event when it doesn't match their own perceptions.

The results of the straw poll are a clear indication that American voter....at least some of them...are beginning to pay more and more attention to the ideas that the candidates represent rather than the ideas that the "talking heads" say the candidates represent.

It is just one more example of the growing irrelevance of the mass media.

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I don't watch CBS. I try not

Submitted by jessieH on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 9:57am.

I don't watch ABC. I try not to buy from anyone advertizing on ABC. Same with the rest of the treasonous media stations.

                                                                                                                                                                    

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Given the choice...

Submitted by Defuze1 on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 10:20am.

I would rather buy a pizza from Herman Cain than hire Obama to be my lawyer. I guess that the MSM is claiming that Cain is Ellison's "Invisible Man"?

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If ABC News spoke of Barack Hussein Obama ...

Submitted by EricTheRed on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 3:56pm.

... they way they did about Herman Cain, the Democrat-media complex -- ABC included! -- would've crushed them.

As usual for a DBF* media outlet, only Cain's pizza experience was mentioned. Nothing about him being an executive at Pillsbury or Burger King or president of the National Restaurant Association.

What a condescending piece of ***. And racist.

Let me tell you who is a real nobody, Hendren: Barack Hussein Obama is a nobody. Jesse Jackson is a nobody. Al Sharpton is a nobody. The incompetent race-baiting Marxist-socialist Castro-loving members of the Congressional Black Caucus are nobodies.

Or they would have been were it not for lib media wh0res like ABC News giving them years of undeserved legitimacy.

Herman Cain is not a nobody. And when (hopefully) he wins the GOP nomination and ultimately the presidential election against the current nobody president, you will eat crow and I will enjoy watching it.

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: )

Submitted by MaximusBraveheart on Wed, 09/28/2011 - 1:30pm.

-LIKE!++ : )

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Ditto

Submitted by Radical1979 on Wed, 09/28/2011 - 1:47pm.

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