Gallup: Herman Cain has Highest Net Favorability Rating

I don’t like the way he plays cards. Cain invoked the race card, the best he could do, against Perry.

Anyone’s background and skeletons in their closet is fair game One of the ways that we are able to judge whether someone is a good candidate is by their past actions or in Perry’s case, inactions. I am perfectly fine with Cain bringing this out, calling it racially insensitive, because if it turns out to be true (that Perry didn’t paint over the sign for many many years), Perry showed that he was, in fact, racially insensitive.

I’m sure that Mr. Perry had a very busy life and was not constantly thinking about an insignificant sign that someone might find offensive.

Really????!!! To excuse Mr. Perry as a politician for being too busy to get rid of a highly offensive racist sign on his property is an interesting view. To call it insignificant, is also interesting. I wonder if the house that I just bought in my inner-city neighborhood previously had a large sign on the porch called “Niggerhead” and I chose to leave it there, how my black neighbors would perceive our ministry? And how about if I decided, you know, as an urban missionary, I’m just too busy to remove it. Its not very significant anyway….. In fact, I am going to leave it up there because I do not want to bow down to the political correct factions that are at play………. :)

I would hope that someone, whether it be a neighbor, a pastor of a supporting church, or whomever, would call me out for being racially insensitive……..

If this is the worst thing about Cain’s character, he’s probably too good for the Whitehouse.
Cain was asked to react to a story that appeared in the Washington Post.
(http://www.rolandsmartin.com/blog/index.php/2011/10/03/herman-cain-perr…)
If you don’t know if something’s true and you say you don’t know it’s true, that’s called telling the truth. At worst, Cain was a bit careless in saying as much as he did. A simple “I’m not going to comment until I know more about it” would have been wiser and more charitable.
But given the history of political race baiting in the US in recent years… his comment doesn’t even register on the scale.

Well, perhaps you oughta wear earplugs so that you don’t hear your African-American neighbors using the word. What are you gonna do if they say it in church? Horrors!

With all of my students at all of my programs (90% are black), they are not allowed to use “nigga” no matter what the context.

At the same time, those who are among the civil rights generation of African-Americans remember being called nigger by many prejudice white people so there still is quite a negative connotation to it. I’ve also had several students that have privately told me of experiences such as being followed in a grocery store by a store clerk, saying aloud “gotta follow these niggers so they don’t rob the place” or being constantly called a nigger by the opposing white football team, or having a foreman at work calling a young father at factory temp job “nigger” knowing full well that he will be protected by the union. Words still matter despite the pop culture’s negative connotations………

This appears to be your hobby horse, so “Yippee … ride’em cowboy!”

touche’ :bigsmile:

I am especially incensed when I hear the blatant blaspheme using the name of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. It tears at my heart and evokes my deepest emotions.

Me Too!

Later in the same day, when he found out more about it, didn’t Herman Cain say something like (this is not an exact quote) - “Look, Perry had the rock painted over; end of story”?

And didn’t that pretty well end the story, at least as far as Herman Cain is concerned?
David R. Brumbelow

Nice change of topic. I think the OP was about Herman Cain’s surge, not the ticky-tack story of some offensive rock at a hunting camp. Funny how we get distracted from substance by little soap opera stuff.

I believe Herman Cain is surging because he knows how to preach (the rock star factor), he has a proven success record, he comes from outside Washington, and he inspires confidence. He is like Presidents Obama and Regan in that he can motivate crowds. He also has a few big ideas that resonate with today’s (short attention span) voters. His 9-9-9 idea is good for sound bytes, and is much better than the current hated IRS code. He needs to educate better on his idea to eliminate capital gains taxes. The average Joe needs to understand how this seeming rich-man’s tax break actually helps him also. The average Joe also needs to understand that he is paying 13% in payroll taxes IN ADDITION TO his federal income tax. Cain’s 9-9-9 plan eliminates the 13% payroll tax and current progressive federal income tax. It replaces it with a flat 9% income tax and 9% sales tax.

My difficulties with Herman Cain are: 1) He supported the general concept of TARP. I see federal preservation of failing institutions as theft. It forces the private wealth of America to pay for another’s error either through taxation or inflation. 2) He has a whole lot of words in writing and on tape that will surface during the general election if not before. I assume there are some pretty big gaffes that President Obama will use to good effect.

Other than that, I think he is an excellent candidate, and would love to see him go up against President Obama in the general. I don’t think he will win the primary. My prediction is Romney/Rubio.

Agreed that the surge is probably temporary. Just wait til the media gets finished looking through all his talk radio tapes. There are sure to be some fun ones there.

Who is your preference then? Ron Paul perhaps?