US President’s Comments on Herman Cain

I am posting these Comments on Herman Cain, which I had posted on Yahoo News over the past week. I usually post a weekly compilation of my Yahoo News comments. But I had written so extensively on this GOP wannabe, I want to dedicate this particular blog to him. Within an hour, I will post my usual Yahoo News Weekly Updates.


I hope you enjoy all 13 of these mini-essays/comments.

ONE:

Prediction: Herman Cain will drop out of the race. But not for any honest, manly reason. He'll weasel out by (falsely claiming), "This is taking too much of a toll on my wife." [Gloria Cain had a pacemaker implanted. So it could be crudely put that, should Herman decide to quit, he’d have a built-in reason for doing so.]

Steven Searle for US President in 2012
"Translation? Cain just can't take the heat."

TWO:

[I tried twice in succession to post this but came up empty both times.]

“Presidential candidate Herman Cain has joked about creating electrified border fences to kill illegal immigrants…” Cain had also “joked” about how his father threatened a rich, white man with a gun. Only thing is, the gun was real. And Cain can’t deny this, because it’s in his most recent book, This is Herman Cain. It most certainly is, and I’m not joking.

Steven Searle for US President in 2012

“Google these words for the story that the media is ignoring: Searle Herman Cain audacity.”

THREE:

Suppose those evil, librul Dems are behind this. They might not be trying to swiftboat Cain – though I much prefer the term “high tech lynching.” Maybe they’re trying to rile up the riff-raff GOP into a state of self-righteous indignation (they’re so good at that!) to the point where they’ll rally around Cain. And maybe that’s what the Dems want, since they know they can beat Cain easily.

Oh, did I mention? There’s a 264-word passage in Cain’s book about how his father threatened a rich, white man with a gun – a story (as Cain wrote) that he found funny. Somehow, I don’t think pulling a gun on somebody (“jokingly,” in Cain’s words) is funny – especially since Cain’s dad threatened that man. Or will Cain fail to remember that he put that in the book? [“Must be the fault of my editor, who I just found out is a Democrat!”]

Steven Searle for US President in 2012

“Google these words for my analysis of those 264 words: Searle Cain audacity.”

FOUR:

[One of the Cain accusers suggested she would consider voting for Cain for president.]

Maybe the better question would have been: “Would you consider voting for Herman Cain if he admitted to the allegations AND apologized to you?” But, you know how it goes, in the context of a live interview, the journalist didn’t happen to think of the better question. That might explain Bialek’s response, which should have been: “I hope that he admits what he did and apologizes.” But, you know how it goes, in the context of a…

Steven Searle for US President in 2012

“Of course, Cainophiles will insist her willingness to consider voting for a repentant Cain is proof that she’s screwy.”

FIVE:

“[Cain] said he would be willing to take a lie detector test if he had a good reason.” And what would constitute a good reason? Did anyone think to press Cain on that or were they afraid he'd say, “This interview is over?”

Steven Searle for US President in 2012
“Google these words: Searle Cain audacity.”

SIX:

Richard posted: “While sexual harassment certainly exists, the public should not overlook the fact that many of the allegations made are by hysterical kooks.” And this post, on-line for all of 6 hours, managed to snag 738 thumbs-up vs. 22 thumbs-down.

First of all, congrats to Richard who is, I’m sure, a loyal Yahoo employee who is “programmed” to receive volumes of hits from phantoms. [Or maybe Richard himself is a phantom.] Must be phantoms involved because his sentence is meaningless. No real person could possibly thumbs-up such vagueness. To wit, what you mean by “many” paleface?

I can counter Richard with equal ambiguity: “There are many cases of sexual harassment out there that don’t get reported (in fact, I’ll venture to say it’s the majority of such cases) because victims are afraid for their jobs or think they’ll lose a he-said vs. she-said case.”

Steven Searle for US President in 2012

“When are We-the-Yahoo-Consumers going to give the middle finger to such stupid posts?”

SEVEN:

Press conference, eh? Will Cain actually do more than read from a prepared statement – Lord knows he shouldn’t try to ad lib this. Will a reporter ask, “Mr. Cain, Mr. Cain, are you willing to take a lie detector test if your accuser also agrees to do so?” If so, I hope his staff adequately prepped him for such a question. I wouldn't want to see Cain get all sweaty and nervous and start lashing out (bad form, you know). Herman seems to have a lot of “blame the victim” in him. If he becomes our next president, guess what? He’ll be blaming everybody but himself…including you!

Steven Searle for US President in 2012

“I have no evidence to support this [which is how Cain has opened more than once], but I believe he’s a serial groper. More than 4 will step forward.”

EIGHT:

Cain’s response was laughable [during the most recent GOP debate] – the part where he said, “The American people deserve better than someone being tried in the court of public opinion based on unfounded accusations…”

Herman Cain thinks he’s “someone being tried in the court of public opinion based on unfounded accusations.” Therefore, Herman Cain (in effect) had said, “The American people deserve better than me.”

As for “unfounded accusations,” that remains to be seen. I imagine the GOP brass must be biting their fingernails waiting for that other shoe to drop. You know…that fifth woman, that sixth woman, some waiter who remembers having seen Cain having dinner with someone he doesn’t (choose to) remember. And that “other shoe” could come at the most inopportune time – say, right after Cain gets nominated.

Steven Searle for US President in 2012

“What the American people really deserve is someone who can manage to properly construct a sentence, thereby saying what he means.”

NINE:

To the author of this article, Saul Relative: You might be “relative” in everybody else’s eyes. But in my eyes, you’re relatively lame. From what I can see, Donna Donella is trying to paint a picture, by reporting what she saw. As BryanT already noted, “if you’re married and are asking women who you don’t know to dinner, you’re doing something wrong.” Your headline included this: “…She Isn’t Accusing Herman Cain of Anything – but Isn’t She?” Here, let me spell it out for you: She isn’t accusing Cain of harassment, but she is accusing him (by means of the picture she’s painting) of behavior unbecoming a married man.

Steven Searle for US President in 2012

“Come on, Yahoo. Why do you permit such bad writing to fly under your banner?”

TEN:

[Two posts to the same article about God telling Cain to run for the presidency.]

ONE:

Mark my words: These words are the mark of Cain. Does nobody else see this?

Steven Searle for US President in 2012

"Cain is so full of himself, there isn't any room left for the Holy Spirit. So, no, God did not talk to Cain."

TWO:

"And when I finally realized that it was God saying that this is what I needed to do, I was like Moses. 'You've got the wrong man, Lord. Are you sure?'

"How did Cain finally realize it was God saying this? The Lord [of Darkness] didn’t get the wrong man; Cain got the wrong Lord. Problem is: Too few people question such revelations. Even in the Bible, God is cited as telling Abraham to sacrifice Isaac. Listen up, good people, that wasn’t the Lord Creator of the Universe that did that. Abraham got it wrong and should have said, “’Lord,’ if you want him, You take him; You shall not have him by my own hands.”

Then there was that bit about Noah’s flood. Also not caused by God. I know an animal advocate who said, “No God would have killed all of those innocent animals just to punish wicked mankind.” All He had to do was will the wicked out of existence (poof, and they're gone) - kind of like a Holy Neutron Bomb that kills only the wicked but spares everything else. He is God, after all, so He must be able to do this.

More than one “God” managed to find His way into the Bible, but that doesn’t make all of them holy. I’m thinking of the jealous God, the angry God, and the God who gave the okay for the Chosen People to kill the unchosen and their animals.

Steven Searle for US President in 2012

“I’m proud to be the only Buddhist running for the presidency; I’m happy not to have all that God baggage.”

ELEVEN:

If the allegations weren’t true, then why were these women paid off? Back when this was supposed to have happened, it was hard to prove a sexual harassment accusation. In any event, Cain is handling this rather badly. Wonder how he’d react as POTUS to that famous 3 AM phone call his aides bring him in the middle of a sound sleep.

Steven Searle for US President in 2012
“Cain seems testy, petty, whiny, belittling, and guilty as [hell].”

TWELVE:

“[Cain] told Fox he thought his race influenced the decision to take the allegations public.‘I believe the answer is yes, but we do not have any evidence to support it,’ he said.”

You’re going to be hearing a lot of that from Cain – “I believe…[without] any evidence.” That’s a dangerous trait in a president. Know what I believe? Cain isn’t an “American black conservative” – he’s just a plain old con man.

Steven Searle for US President in 2012

“No, Mr. Cain, the decision to make the allegations public had nothing to do with your race. It had to do with considerations of character. And character counts, wouldn’t you say?”

THIRTEEN:

How is Herman Cain similar to a can of Coca-Cola? They’re both brown, empty of content, effervescent, and will explode all over the place if shaken. I picked Coca-Cola in honor of Herman Cain’s father, who provided years of loyal service to that company as the CEO’s chauffeur.

Steven Searle for US President in 2012

“I posted on the Cain Mystique. Google these words: Steven Searle US President 2012.”

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Steven Searle for US President in 2012
Founder of The Independent Contractors’ Party

“Herman Cain’s supporters cling so fiercely to him for much the same reason Joe Paterno’s supporters are so loyal – not a whole lot of thinking going on there” – Steve.

Contact me at bpa_cinc@yahoo.com

The Herman Cain mystique

I’ll open by admitting some embarrassment over a thought that entered my mind – about Herman Cain’s wife Gloria. [Herman Cain: One of the eight GOP Lilliputians vying to oust Barack Obama.]

I remember having read, years ago, about a noteworthy phenomenon: Successful black men (especially of Herman Cain’s generation) tend to marry black women who are lighter-in-color than they. The photo accompanying that essay, indeed, showed a social gathering of high-end black couples and, sure enough, the husbands were darker than the wives.

So I googled to see if this was true of the Cain family. And, yes, she is lighter and quite a bit shorter than Herman (more on that in a moment).

Feeling a bit guilty for wondering about such a thing, I asked myself why it mattered enough to enter my mind in the first place. My answer? I tend to search for answers in unlikely places, especially in the case of public figures. They tend to be very guarded about their secret selves. Since Herman Cain wants to be our next president, we need to know as much about his secret self as possible. Believe me, if elected, his enemies (foreign and domestic) will leave no stone unturned to learn those very secrets.

Time Out: There are three very good reasons why Cain should not become our next president: He’s politically inexperienced, and he’s politically inexperienced, and he’s POLITICALLY INEXPERIENCED. The only reason I stray from those reasons, at least in this essay, is simply because too many people will fail to fully appreciate that inexperience. But they might consider other factors.

Does this make Herman Cain a racist?

Certainly not. And it’s entirely possible that Gloria’s lighter skin tone didn’t even enter his mind when he first met her. At least not consciously. But there are other factors which might mean he is a racist. Or what might be called a self-hating black man, the kind of black who looks down on his brothers the way a racist white man would. The kind of man who would claim, “Racism doesn’t hold back anybody in a big way.” [Yeah, Cain said that.]

If for no other reason, I’m glad Gloria’s lightness of tone occurred to me because it made me look more than skin deep at other facets of the Cain phenomenon.

Perhaps Herman Cain is nothing more than a man with a lot of unspoken-yet-character-defining resentments. He claims in his book – This is Herman Cain – that his father realized his own American dream by finally buying his own house. However, Cain also knew that his father didn’t realize that dream by himself. That his employer, the CEO of Coca-Cola, had generously gifted him with cash and shares of Coke stock. Otherwise, it’s entirely possible his father (who was that CEO’s chauffeur) wouldn’t have realized that dream at all.

I’m sure, somewhere in the back of his mind, Herman Cain had logged that in. Which makes interesting the fact that Cain would be the last to approve of the federal government in a similar “supporting role” for other poor blacks.

Herman Cain admits he didn’t participate in any of the Civil Rights protests when he was a young man. Perhaps he had even once felt a bit guilty that his own personal success was due in part to those brave (decidedly un-GOP) activists. However, maybe he rationalized, a long time ago, that he would have succeeded any way, especially by identifying with the interests of Whitey and, as a result, virtually becoming Whitey.

Herman Cain, ever since his young adulthood, must surely have noticed:

·       If a black man says he’s a conservative, he’ll be more acceptable to White society (or at least its powerbrokers) simply because he (in effect) declares himself to be a “responsible black” – and not one of those troublemakers.

·       If a black man joins the Republican Party, he won’t have as much competition from other blacks trying to find a niche for themselves. Even though that party might only wish to showcase token blacks for propaganda purposes – also something Cain must have been aware of. That, however, could easily be suppressed in his mind or called something else.

·       If a black man becomes a lifelong member of a predominantly black church, that removes one possible source of controversy: A black man trying to fit into a predominantly white church – especially in his hometown of Atlanta, Georgia.

·       The realm of business is more likely to lead to success since, in that world, the color of your skin isn’t as important as your ability to make a profit for your employer.

·       If you sing your oppressor’s praises and spout his party line, he’ll at least pretend to accept you.

·       The oppressor isn’t monolithic; he is divided into major camps. So it must have been immensely satisfying (if not downright cathartic) to have been in a position to put down the most powerful white man in the land (President Clinton, during his attempt to pass health care reform), while other white men (from the other party) were cheering him on. Cain must surely have felt, at least for a moment they don’t see me as black. And since they don’t, why should I?

Back to bigger than Gloria

In my third paragraph, I said Gloria Cain was “quite a bit shorter than Herman.” What of that? Herman has said, on at least two occasions, that he believed certain things were true without any supporting evidence. I will now similarly indulge. Some men choose women who are smaller and much weaker than they out of a need to have total control over their home situations. That might explain why Gloria, for most of their 43 years of marriage, was exclusively a homemaker.

It might also explain why Herman does all of the talking when it comes to what his wife thinks and what role (a very minimal role, by the way) she’s to play in his campaign. It seems Herman is so worried about what his wife might have said during a scheduled TV interview, that that interview was cancelled. Though reports call that “her decision,” I have no doubt as to who did the deciding. I’m also sure this interview wouldn’t have even been considered in the first place had it not been for Herman looking for ways to damage-control the sexual harassment allegations swirling about him.

A need to come across as powerful

Herman Cain’s most dangerous characteristic is a need to come across as powerful, which is dangerous in a US President. That’s a lesson he had learned at a young age from his father, who (“jokingly”) had threatened a rich, white man with a gun. The father needed to feel powerful, and he passed on that need to young Herman. More on that here:

 http://ind4prez2012.blogspot.com/2011/10/herman-cains-audacity-small-example.html

Cain doesn’t like to be challenged – as shown by his flashes of temper at being questioned about the sexual harassment issue. He shows a need to lash out and punish – as shown by Cain (through his chief of staff) saying “the campaign is considering suing Politico, the news organization that broke the story about sexual harassment claims…” – [source:  http://www.nationaljournal.com/2012-presidential-campaign/cain-campaign-considering-politico-lawsuit-20111104 ]

I highlighted the campaign in the quote above to suggest that Herman Cain doesn’t want to say, “[Only] I am considering suing Politico.” Because of a need to feel bigger than he is, he assumes the guise of something bigger (yet something he controls) – his campaign.

People who don’t like to be challenged don’t like to subject themselves to any kind of inquisition concerning their personal behavior. That would explain why Cain doesn’t want to field questions or hold a press conference concerning Politico’s allegations.

For the record? I think Herman Cain had been tempted to – and had tried to – seek “companionship” outside his marriage. However, he could lie like hell and deny everything with a straight face at a gathering of reporters dedicated to this one topic. He could even apologize for having agreed to an out-of-court settlement with these women. He could say, “I should not have listened to the lawyers who encouraged this as the easy way out.” [Everybody will nod at that line, knowing how evil lawyers are. That’s right, Herman, deflect the blame but it’s best to do so at a target considered universally loathsome.]

People who seek to appear powerful also tend to be put-downish. A good example of that is Herman Cain (in a pooh-poohing voice) saying (in effect): If anyone wants to know how the Federal Reserve System works, there’s no need for an external audit – simply pick up the phone and call your local Fed. Say, what? Did he think he was speaking to stupid children?

A final irony

I hereby dedicate the Coca-Cola Company as a fitting backdrop to our cultural decline in the context of the Cain candidacy.

Background: “Businessman Robert W. Woodruff (1889-1985) was the head of the Coca-Cola Company from 1923 until 1984, during which time sales increased from $31 million a year to $7.36 billion.” Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/robert-w-woodruff#ixzz1cysnksMS

That’s worth repeating: “[Coke’s] sales increased from $31 million a year to $7.36 billion.” And that’s because, in a nutshell, Coke executives had managed to ingratiate their product into the fabric of our national life.

And that’s the source of some great comparisons between Herman Cain and that famous soft drink:

·       Both seek/sought to ingratiate themselves as a product.

·       Both are basically worthless in terms of contributing any value to our lives or well-being.

·       While Coke is brown and fizzy, Herman Cain is (well) brown and effervescent. If you shake either too much, they’ll explode all over the place.

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Steven Searle for US President in 2012

Founder of the Independent Contractors’ Party

“Yeah, you can probably tell I don’t think too much of Herman Cain.”

Contact me at bpa_cinc@yahoo.com