You know someone’s having fun with you when, on the second page of a book, the author calls himself “a leader, not a reader.” This Is Herman Cain!—which, it should be noted, is not written by Herman Cain (the uncredited authors are Jerry and Deborah Strober)—can’t possibly be taken seriously. It must be some kind of joke.
Cain! begins with a narrative of growing up in the segregated South. It’s a preposterous tale, a racial pornography for white conservatives who say they’d love black people if they just acted more like white people. Cain and his brother drink from a water fountain earmarked for whites. “Then we looked at each other,” he—or his white ghostwriters—writes, “and said, ‘You know what? The “whites only” water tastes just the same as the “coloreds” does!'” One can imagine a wealthy elderly white man reading this book while reclining on the sundeck of a Carnival Cruise ship. At that line, the reader lays the book down on his chest for a moment and allows his eyes to squeeze shut and his mouth to loll open in a paroxysm of joy—at last, a black man who admits that “separate but equal” was the way to go!
The second Cain we encounter is the flimflam man, the self-help artist. He ideates himself as “a true CEO of Self” with a three-step “ROI” plan for self-incorporation: Remove barriers, Obtain the right results, and Inspiration. In this way, in a chapter titled “Mathematics to Pepperoni,” he becomes CEO of a flailing pizza franchise operation and then whittles it down to profitability. Then he develops colon and liver cancer, and the doctor explains that to treat Cain,
“I’m going to make an incision like a J.”
“Like in J-E-S-U-S?” I asked.
“Yes,” he said.
I replied, “A ‘J’ cut!”
I smiled and said, “Thank you Lord!” That’s because when you are in the “Word,” you can listen and hear when God is speaking to you.
This idiotic magical thinking continues in a chapter about frequent occurrences of 45, Cain’s lucky number. Then, the few lines in the book Cain could possibly have written on his own come in a verse he claims to have written to celebrate the birth of his granddaughter, a poem “which I signed as The Hermanator, aka Herman Cain.” (Rhymes include “life” with “right,” “faces” with “place,” and “arms” with “old.”) As if to parade his ignorance to his readers, Cain answers his own “rhetorical question: ‘When was the last time they fixed something in Washington DC?'” with “the Revolutionary War may have been the last time they did that!'” (That’s impossible because Washington, DC, didn’t even exist then; Congress approved the construction of Washington, DC—talk about big government!—in 1790. Also, apparently the Civil War and beating Hitler were not what Cain would consider fixes.)
I could go on. But. He can’t be serious. Can he? As a humorous fiction, I Am Herman Cain! would be one of the most hilarious books published in 2011. As a straight-up memoir, it belongs in the horror aisle. It’s a put-on, and I laughed out loud several times while reading it. I mean, near the end of the book, when Cain promises to do to America “what I did when I put Burger King’s Philadelphia region on the right track,” he’s got to be joking, isn’t he? Nobody can take this seriously, right?
Right? 
Where are your snide condescending comments when Obama has his two autobiographies ghost-written by self-styled communist revolutionary Bill Ayers, and states that there are 57 states?
Unlike your hero, Barack Hussein Obama, Herman Cain is an accomplished man (in the real world, not in the world of “community organizing” and pornographic communist posturing).
Further, Cain just came out in favor of the feds allowing medical cannabis, (while at the same time, Obama approved Bush Jr.’s DEA chief, who is now raiding medical dispensaries in western Washington):
Herman Cain would loosen federal marijuana restrictions
By Chris Moody | The Ticket – 3 hrs ago
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/herma…
Cain (Mike Roemer/AP)
At a campaign stop in Urbandale, Iowa, Tuesday, Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said he supports letting states establish their own laws regarding medical marijuana.
“If states want to legalize medical marijuana, I think that’s a state’s right,” Cain said, according to NBC News. “Because one of my overriding approaches to looking at all of these issue –most of them belong at the state, because when you do something federally . . . you try to force one-size-fits-all.”
The federal government restricts consumption of marijuana under current law, but 16 states and the District of Columbia have passed measures to allow use of the drug in some form, causing friction between federal and state authorities. Despite support in years past from President Obama for reforming federal marijuana laws, the Drug Enforcement Agency continues to raid dispensaries that operate where marijuana use is legal on the state level.
A Gallup Poll conducted in October found that half of the population supports legalizing the drug. Cain’s fellow GOP presidential candidates Texas Rep. Ron Paul and Texas Gov. Rick Perry have also voiced support for allowing state and local discretion on the issue.
Michele Leonhart was acting DEA chief under Bush Jr., and was appointed by Obama. According to Wikipedia,
“Leonhart has consistently turned down research into the therapeutic and medicinal benefits of marijuana, and has a track record of undermining state law with regard to legal medical marijuana. She has also spoken in favor of the Eighteenth Amendment and suggested a federal ban on production, possession, transportation, sale, and consumption of alcohol.”
Where is your outrage? Are your rhetorical talents so limited, they have to be applied selectively to the politically incorrect? Granted, Cain would not be my first choice for president. But then, somebody picked randomly from the phone book would do a better job than our current president.
Ironically, one of the few good things Obama has done–e.g. ramp up drone killings by 1000%–would be excoriated if done by Bush Jr.
@1+2, you’re so full of shit, absolutely so full of bs crap no one here cares to smell because it’s not even remotely compelling or true, get lost.
oh man, reading this on the sun deck of a carnival cruise ship…the good life!
@1 Wait, Barack Hussein Obama? Like Saddam Hussein? Wow! That is a really freaky connection! Thanks for bringing that to my attention!
@1,2 You are right on one point–the Obama administration’s 420 policy (and larger drug policy) leaves a lot to be desired. No argument there.
Nothing anyone has said begins to convince me that a Cain administration would do any better. The man appears to me to be unfit to lead a parade. His theoretical drug policy would be written by the unelected high-level shot caller who actually wound up running the government. And we don’t know who that would be.
Your denigration of Obama’s accomplishments is factually in error. He has had a successful career as a practicing attorney and academician in addition to his 12 years of experience as a state legislator. He got rich writing books. His books were not ghost written. Bill Ayers is only a collegue. There is no evidence that their relationship is any deeper.
But thanks for sharing.
#3 your lowbrow choice words is noted, yet I fail to see the relevance of your carnival cruise unless you are trying to make an analogy with the Titanic.
#4 the relevance here is, Obama poses as a black, and although he is half African he is only 6.5% black. You may have noticed that Cain is black, and descended from slaves not slavers. (In case you missed that in your history classes.)
#5 thank you for your thoughtful comments.
Bill Ayers has confessed twice to ghost-writing Obama’s “auto”biography:
http://www.salon.com/2009/10/07/ayers_2/
There is plenty of circumstantial evidence, comparing phrases and choice of words in the Obama book with other Bill Ayers work. Ayers is an accomplished scholar or at least is well-spoken and well-educated. Why do you think Obama always needs a teleprompter? I’ve read some of the stuff that Obama wrote while he was Harvard Law Review editor; his English composition is a mess. We don’t really know how accomplished he is academically, because he won’t release his college records. But he appears to be a product of affirmative action. And by the way, being a politically-connected non-practicing attorney is not my idea of the real world.
Paul Constant is racist
And while we’re at it, why don’t we bring up religion? Oh wait, Paul Constant already did that. While I don’t embrace Cain’s bible-thumping, hand-clapping, foot-stomping, arm-waving brand of religion (if that indeed were the case), Cain is not making religion an issue so I don’t see the relevance. Except to indulge in stereotyping.
But since you brought it up, why don’t you discuss Obama’s pastor of 20 years, the conspiracy-minded ethnic-mongering anti-Jewish ranting pastor Jeremiah Wright?
Again, Cain is not my first choice, but he deserves more respect than he is given in this “book review”.
Paul Constant is a racist and a censor.
@6–If you believe that Ayers’ claim to have ghostwritten for Obama is a sincere confession and not a joke, your reading comprehension skills are inadequate to realistically assess Obama’s English composition skills. Ayers was joking. He did not ghost either of Obama’s books. The Salon story is evidence contradictory of your claim.
We know exactly what he accomplished academically: he graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and was editor of the Harvard Law Review. At his graduation, he was one of the top two or three law students in the entire nation and therefore one of the top five in the world.
The only sources I have seen claiming he relies on teleprompters to any greater degree than is typical for a public speaker are the same sources that lent credibility to the Birther Movement. Those sources are unreliable.
Great review… you had me at “racial pornography”.
@6 serious, you are making a fool of yourself here. you obviously do not know how crazy you are. mr highbrow.
@1
President Obama killed Osama Bin Laden. Of course, you petty freepers will never congratulate him for that and you do backflips to make the argument that Bush deserves all the credit. Lame.
#12–I see; your use of words like “crap” and “shit” is proof of your sanity and wisdom?
If you want to have a dialogue, an exchange of ideas, fine. Yet you offer no ideas or arguments. Just schoolyard taunts. You are wasting bandwidth, and your brain is not in gear.
#13 I congratulate Obama for taking out OBL, but not for instantly disclosing the operation, making the time-sensitive intelligence gathered at the site worth less. The Paks were embarrassed at the incursion and would not instantly have disclosed the operation. If Obama had kept his mouth shut, we would have had more time to act on the intelligence before the operation leaked out.
#10 I read the Salon article I posted. You assume that those who disagree with you are stupid, and somehow we just can’t read right. In fact, my reading comprehension/speed has been measured at the 99.9th percentile.
I do not believe the sly attempt by Ayers to throw us off the scent by amending his admissions, invoking tongue in cheek.
Yet I find the “faux” admissions revealing, psychologically. They give him a convenient way of avoiding questions about his authorship. Ayers has yet to explain the uncanny resemblance in phrases and words with his other works. He protests too loudly, by twice answering a question that wasn’t asked.
I think Ayers is being too clever by half. He is showing his contempt for the intelligence of Americans, and assumes (apparently correctly) they will not do the research I have done (but you have not).
What if Cain had repeatedly offered faux admissions of sexual harassment? Ghost writing is not a problem, so long as authorship is disclosed. (Contrast that with Cain, who freely acknowledged receiving writing help.) So we are talking about lying about authorship of an autobiography, and Obama is complicit in the lie. The charge, if true, is far more serious than a few failed passes at young women almost two decades ago.
That’s not surprising. Obama lied about his alleged tolerance for medical cannabis. What’s amazing, is that more of his victims are not blaming this false messiah for his duplicity.
A type of “Stockholm Syndrome”?
Here are some hilarious videos of Obama, Harvard (may peace be upon the institution) graduate, without his teleprompter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of61E1Fes…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udParB8uo…
This Bjornson guy is a fg whackjob! He’s crazier than Cain!
@16
He’s not Crazier than Cain – he’s Crazy for Cain!
I’m with @13 & @16.
Actually, I don’t even support Cain for president. He’s not interested in foreign policy and knows virtually nothing about it. Also I object to his proposal for a national sales tax. I scan about 200 articles/day, and study dozens/day. Fortunately I am a speed reader.
Rather, I propose a user fee for wealth protection (not a tax on income or a fee to protect income, but a fee to protect assets).
This could be a set % of the market value.
The way things are now, the super-wealthy have enough money to buy the lobbyists, accountants, and attorneys, to basically avoid paying an income tax. The middle classes pay virtually all the taxes.
A tax on income, punishes the process of wealth creation, resulting in less wealth creation. Contrast that with a wealth protection user fee, which provides a service (court and police protection for personal property). This would result in more net wealth. Remember, wealth is good, so government should increase wealth of people generally, by doing what government does best. That is, enforce contracts and prohibit initiations of force.
@19: Thanks for clearing that up.
I think.
@14–You make a fatal attribution error. I do not assume you are stupid because you disagree with me. Because you posted a stupid opinion and pointed to an article whose entire and only point was clearly to make fun of that stupid opinion as evidence in support of that stupid opinion, I conclude that you were unable to successfully comprehend the article’s meaning.
Believing that Ayers ghost-wrote Obama’s books is a categorically stupid opinion, put forth by malicious, cynical people and only truly believed by the stupid.
Your brobdingagian attempts to twist the Salon article around to your way of thinking betray you as a particularly sad category of stupid: insane.
If you’re no safer on a paved road than you are on the metaphysical roadway called reason, I sincerely hope you don’t drive.
@19–No, no, no, no NO! Progressive income tax is not a punishment for doing well. It’s a payment based on income. If you have to make $1.23 on paper in order to enrich yourself by $1.00, that’s not a penalty, it’s an incentive to make even more.
At least that’s how you should think of it.
@19. Okay–I knew I didn’t agree with you entirely, Kevin.
I’m really more in agreement with @22, The Max, for the progressive income tax, too. It’s like paying a head tax. Everybody pays his or her fair share based on the individual income bracket, and the tax burden isn’t left on the backs of the middle class and working poor.
Come on, Kevin. Isn’t your theory of the rest of us paying more taxes so that the richest 1% don’t have to more of a disincentive? It is for me!
@19. Okay–I knew I didn’t agree with you entirely, Kevin.
I’m really more in agreement with @22, The Max, for the progressive income tax, too. It’s like paying a head tax. Everybody pays his or her fair share based on the individual income bracket, and the tax burden isn’t left on the backs of the middle class and working poor.
Come on, Kevin. Isn’t your theory of the rest of us paying more taxes so that the richest 1% don’t have to more of a disincentive? It is for me!
#21: I’m aware that Ayers is, at times, cleverly ridiculing the theory of his authorship; and that the Salon article reports this. The author appears to discount the theory, but respectfully posts links to articles that disagree.
I posted that particular article, because of the links, and what I thought were clues that Ayers was lying. I offered reasons to question the official script, and links to articles which examine the Ayers writing style in great detail. You offer no refutation.
If this matter is to be decided by reason, as you claim to advocate, then consider this literary and statistical comparison of the writing style:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.vie…
#22: A tax uses force to take money. Using
force to take money, is a punishment. Therefore
taxes are a form of punishment.
Whatever behavior is punished, we will tend to
see less of that behavior. Whatever behavior is
rewarded, we will tend to see more of that
behavior.
Suppose that a tax collects 100% of income.
Why would anybody work, if there were no
reward? Suppose a tax collects 50% of income.
That means, only half the reward is allowed,
thus decreasing incentive for work; and the
taking of half the reward is a punishment, thus
increasing disincentive for work.
You appear to believe that if a carrot were
dangled in front of the American taxpayer, and
pulled away just enough to allow an occasional
nibble, the donkey will work harder. But the
faster he works, the faster the carrot is
pulled away.
I believe the donkey will more likely bight the
hand that teases. The higher the taxes,
the more business goes grey market. This has
occurred in high tax countries like Italy.
Much income is not reported.
Those who work, and whose reward is withheld by
taxation, will likely object if they see others
receiving carrots, with no work at all. Which
explains why Americans tend to shun lower
middle class work, because the combined
benefits of welfare are often greater.
Taxes initiate force to take money. I don’t favor the initiation of force. Therefore I don’t believe in taxation. (There are other methods to finance government, ways that are in accord with jus naturale).
A “head tax” is not as you suppose, an income tax. Instead it is a per capita tax, or a tax of a set amount per person. I don’t favor a per head tax, because I don’t think the simple act of being alive, merits punishment.
We already have a “progressive tax” and it is not very progressive. That’s because when government centralizes power, the super wealthy are better positioned to seize the reins of that power.
That’s certainly what has happened in history. No matter how high the tax rates, US tax code has always had loopholes which allow the super wealthy to pay less than the middle classes. Because in order to create and exploit the loopholes, great amounts of money are needed for the lobbyists, accountants, and attorneys.
Those who already have great wealth (have climbed the ladder of financial success to the upper stratas) have an incentive to pull the ladder up behind them, to prevent the upper middle class from entering the upper class (competing with them and eroding their stored wealth).
The most productive way of getting wealthy to pay for the necessary duties of government, is to charge a user fee to protect their wealth. If they were to decline the service, their wealth would receive no government protection, and would fall prey to non-government thieves.
Thus, non-productive stored wealth would gradually dwindle, while those creating wealth productively would be allowed upward mobility.
@26 & @27 Kevin—-what’s up, man? You writing a novel?
You’re putting me to sleep, dude!
@6 ‘My black politician is blacker than your black politician’?
Are we really going down that road?!
Oh! Corporate salvage sharks are just so popular with Media sluts as some one will buy the pizza TV and fire every one and hire new slobs to run it deeper in the ground as every one has a godfathers pizza on their block next to the star bucks?
Running on a pizza ticket is the Republican “genius” of not putting and obvious Oil freak of head like a hole black as your soul creep?
better than rick perry and bohner we would hope but republicans are real wizards when it comes to being dangerously stupid.
I am the Illegal Mexican who is in the engine room of your carnival cruise? drugs is not a problem as your can get them if your white ass has the money and you can leave them if your white ass don’t want none. im sorry to inform you though that we are being borded by ICE and we will be deported so its time for some ones white ass to get off the sun deck and do the jobs that Americans dont want to do?
@25 your argument fails utterly. WorldNetDaily is a nest of liars and propagandists and nothing published on their website can be relied upon. It’s that simple. No journalist, who is by definition an honest seeker into truth, gives any credence to these specious claims. You’re either a fool to believe these fucks, or you’re one of them. Check your sources.
@26, 27 your argument is circular and thus fatally flawed. Your definition of force is not the definition of force. Your definition of punishment is not the definition of punishment is not the definition of punishment. Your definition of take is not the definition of take. You are again displaying a lack of simple English comprehension skills..
@33: I agree. I think that’s because Kevin’s dangling from the same puppet strings of the Koch Brothers Flying Circus as Herman Cain is.
Kevin Bjornson is actually a pre-programmed robot owned by the GOP.
#29: Obama has postured as a black, claiming
solidarity with other descendents of slaves.
He even imitates stereotypical “black english”.
I’m calling him phony, because he is not who he
says he is (in more ways than one).
On the other hand, the book reviewer ridicules
Cain, a real black, claiming he is not an
authentic black (because Cain was wandered off
the Democrat party reservation).
I thought the US was supposed to be
post-racial? And how come the waters are not
receding, as Obama promised?
#33: are you saying that taxes are voluntary,
and people are not forced to pay? That federal
marshals do not take the property of people who
owe income taxes and refuse to pay? Please tell
me what alternate reality you live in, I’d like
to move there.
Are you saying that the initiation of force to
get money is not a punishment? Would you dare
say that in person, to robbers?
If you don’t like WND, just Google “Bill Ayers
wrote dreams from my father” and you will get
over 3 millions hits.
#34: you got me, I confess. The “undisclosed location” wherein Dick Cheney resides, is my basement. The Koch brothers pay his rent. Though I’m thinking about evicting him, he uses my medical basil for target practice and plays Sinatra’s “My Way” too loud and at all hours.
@-29, So you are saying that you do not believe that a significant amount of Obama’s ancestry is of sub-Saharan African origins? Or that he somehow didn’t experience the same prejudices that any African American male faced growing up in this country in the 70s and 80s? Or that his occasional use of a round Ebonics vowel is somehow less authentic than any other Africqn American male of middle class origins like say, Will Smith? Exactly how is he not who he says he is? Are you saying he didn’t graduate from Harvard Law School? Wasn’t elected a US Senator? You’ve presented no credible argument to support these claims. Why should anybody give a shit what you believe or not?
@36. I could not find a single credible source supporting the Bill Ayers claim. The credible sources that have reported on this story are reporting on how transparently false the claim is. It’s simply not true.
I’m sure you get a lot of hits Googling the claim that Obama is ineligible to be president. That claim is probably, demonstrably false too.
And yes, I am saying that taxes are in fact voluntary. By living in society, you tacitly accept being bound by that society’s laws. Any taxes you owe are owed for services whose benefits you’ve already received. If you don’t want to pay your taxes and enjoy the benefits of society that those taxes pay for, you are welcome to go elsewhere. Try the Libertarian Paradise of Somalia.
@15, are these video links really the best you’ve got?
Hey “the stranger”!!! Why u b hating on a BLACK MAN???
@41 rawsewage2011: Be careful. Your ignorance, let alone your inability to spell, is showing.
#41 Yes, exactly my sentiments; why is Paul
Constant hating Cain, a real black man; and
holding up Obama as an exemplar of black
authenticity, when Obama is 50% European
American, 43.75% Arab-African-American, and
only 6.25% Black-African-American?
His alleged father was from Kenya, but of
mostly Arabic descent. The Arab slaver trade,
taking blacks from Africa to Dar al-Islam, goes
back hundreds of years before black slaves were
shipped to America, and continues to this day.
Perhaps this explains the hostility Obama
displayed at his recent address before the
Congressional Black Caucus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xoy9vhQ0e…
In this stem-winder preach, Obama reverts to
imitation “black English”, telling his audience
to “put on your marchin’ shoes, shake it on;
stop complainin’, stop grumblin’, stop
cryin’…”
Even Maxine Waters criticized his language,
pointing out he would not speak that way before
a Hispanic group or Jewish group.
Granted, Cain has some positions and traits
that would not be my first choices, but he is
not so bad as to be so disrespected.
Whether or not Obama is really black, does not in itself matter. What does matter, is that Obama has a false persona. He gives false impressions of his ethnicity, even though his ancestry and life experiences are other than what he presents. He was sent to the finest prep school in Hawaii, and went on to some of the most prestigious colleges in America. He has not suffered from discrimination, but benefited from affirmative action.
This supports the narrative of Obama as deceiver, and indirectly supports the theory that he might be lying or exaggerating about authorship of Dreams of My Father.
Obama’s not really black? I take it you believe he had surgery to produce his characteristic African nose, lips, and jaw. I take it you think he uses chemicals to simulate peppercorn hair. Maybe he sleeps on a tanning bed to make his skin darker? Sort of like a reverse Michael Jackson?
#40: You want more examples of Obama without
his teleprompter, or proof that he is dependent
on a teleprompter?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCDCWhA0O…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThEAO0lt4…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2onONfX-U…
In the next tape, he says that his polls in the
US are down, but he’s still popular in the
“country of his birth”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se5zvGF6u…
feature=related
He can’t deliver a coherent speech, without his
teleprompter.
Obama couldn’t have written Dreams of My
Father, without ghost-writing from Bill
Ayers. Obama didn’t write a single article for
Harvest Law Review, even though he was editor
for a time.
Here is an analysis of a letter he wrote in the
law review:
http://tinyurl.com/3tbvsbz
Clearly, Obama doesn’t know how to write, and
couldn’t possibly have written Dreams of My
Father, a very well-crafted piece of
wordmanship.
#44: You make a good point, Max. Notice I said,
his “alleged” father was mostly of Arabic
descent. We don’t really know who his
biological father was. No DNA tests have been
done to answer this question. That question
aside, clearly Obama identifies (to a large
extent) with Arab and Muslim culture; but
that’s a separate issue. I’m just going on who
Obama says is his father, and what the record
implies for his passing as a black American
even though he is ostensibly only 6.25% black.
#42: Aunt Grezelda, you criticize the grammar
of those with whom you disagree, but do not
criticize Obama’s grammar when he doesn’t have
a ghost writer or teleprompter. You make
factually inaccurate statements (about “head
tax) but don’t want to be corrected; you ask
complicated questions, but want sound bites for
answers.
@47 It’s not at all clear that Obama identifies particlarly closely with Arab or Muslim culture. He respects it and knows a little more about it than most Americans, but that’s not the same thing at all.
The simple truth is that Obama’s story has every bit as much credibility, in the face of considerablly greater scrutiny, as does Herman Cain’s.
The real question I have for you is, what if you’re wrong? (and you are). What if Obama’s story is true? Assume that he got into and through Harvard Law on his own merits, wrote his own books, and is actually typically pretty good off the cuff (assume the gaffs you pointed to are the cherry picked isolated incidents that they in fact are). What does this do to your beef?
Now, think about the dudes from whom you’ve gotten these doubts about Obama’s character, competency,and accomplishments:
WND? Glenn Beck? Jack Cashill? A real journalist, very much like a scientist, starts with a question and works toward an answer. These guys are the Creation Scientists of journalism. They start with an end and work back.
They are working to cloud your perceptions of a realistic assessment of the president’s policies. Why would they be trying to do that?
Is anyone else getting a headache. If not, try reading this drunk.
@48 The Max: Well said! Would you believe Obama’s obstructive naysayers want The End of the World to come? They actually think that would be COOL!
How else do you explain fanatically religious goofballs like Harold Camping? And yet, the Earth, although just barely, is still here, still revolving around the Sun. Former Vice President, Al Gore won a Nobel Prize submitting proof off global warming. Yet the GOP not only denies climate change, they want it to happen. They can’t wait!
Like neo-Nazis, the Republicans, their Tea Party dupes, and the rest of the corporate-coddling GOP are hell-bent on spreading as much propogandic manure as insanely possible in their Evil Empire quest to destroy the world, creating an apocalyptically police-state run oligarchy (has anyone witnessed the number of unprovoked police attacks on Occupy Wall Street protesters, lately? Anyone see the 86 year old lady who got pepper-sprayed right in the face?). If they can tell enough lies often enough, the blinded and silenced sheeple will believe anything. Thus, we, once The People, will be shamefully reduced to robot-slaves.
Personally, I think all those doomsday goons have watched too many bad sci-fi horror films.
@49: You’re right. THe GOP has been giving me a headache for over 30 years now.
@50: Sorry about the misspelling. It should read “of” instead of “off” in the sentence about Al Gore’s Nobel Peace Prize.
@50: And the h in “The” (re: The GOP) should be lower case.
Okay. I’m done proofreading my novel.
@50: I believe that relatively few of the shot callers in right-wing cabal who marshals all the Obama hate are real bona fide true believers in the Trumps, the Horsemen, and the Firery Chariot. I don’t think that there’s a substantial crew of power players who work like Travis Marshall and Professor Geller writ large. They want the votes of and openly pander to those who do want that, but I think their real agenda is a return to The Guilded Age (1865-1918) with a good healthy dose of Feudalism (400-1400) thrown in for stability’s sake. Westeros with guns. Or maybe Days of the Lord Protector with a Ministry of Love. Panem. Lyria’s Oxford. Something like that. That’s their dream.
Kevy-Kev (Bjornson), thou doth take thyself too seriously. Thoughtful discourse is important; but, using this to compare and contrast Cain v. Obama is nonsensical. “I’m a speed reader” indeed.
#48: Obama supported NATO intervention in Libya,
despite the fact that the rebels, and now the new
government, draws heavily from the ranks of Al
Qaeda and other Islamists. Similarly he threw
Mubarak under a bus; now that Egypt is moving
closer to the Moslem Brotherhood, uncloaked women
and Coptic Christians are increasingly targeted.
Obama’s religion czar, Dalia Mogahed,
has spoken favorably of Sharia law; while his
church of 20 years, is vehemently anti-Jewish.
#48: “The simple truth is that Obama’s story has every bit as much credibility, in the face of considerablly greater scrutiny, as does Herman Cain’s.”
I would settle for “as much credibility” from MSM, but alas, they are in the tank for Obama.
Though even Chris Matthews, who during the campaign said that Obama sent shivers up his leg, is now dissing Obama. But generally MSM is not critical of Obama.
Contrast the critical scrutiny of allegations of Cain’s sexual harassment, with the kid glove treatment Bill Clinton got. Actually I think MSM handled the Clinton affairs appropriately, but they are applying higher standards to Cain.
#48: A “realistic assessment” of Obama’s policies would be, utter failure in economics. Congress is now talking about $1.2 Trillion of budget cuts over a 10 year period, starting the year after the next election. In this era of trillion-dollar budgets, $120 billion is a rounding error.
The “super-committee” of 6 Dems and 6 Reps reminds me of two drunks arguing over the bar tab at the Titanic.
Obama has run up more debt than all previous
presidents, combined. The increase is geometric.
Republicans and Democrats alike participated in
what amounts to a sacking of America.
#53: What is the fiery chariot?
Who are the “Trumps” (plural)?
Who are “Travis Marshall” and “Professor Geller”?
(Pamela Geller is not now, nor has she even been, a “professor.)
What is “westeros”?
What are “Days of the Lord Protector”, “Ministry of Love”, “Panem”, and “Lyria’s Oxford”?
I have my own criticisms of the Gilded Age (1865 – 1918); what are yours? Do you think WWI was a good influence? Because that’s what ended the era of great economic progress, including a dramatic decline in infant mortality and a great increase in middle class prosperity.
What are you talking about?
@55, 56, 57: You really need to learn how to learn out how to discern among your sources the difference between actual fact-based journalists and propagandists. It’s not hard to do. Your claims are as wholly without merit as are the claims of the liars you parrot.
@58: Oops. Spelling error. It’s Gellar. Professor James Gellar, late of the University of Talahassee’s religious studies department.
@58: “And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.” 2 Kings 2:11
“So the seven angels who had the seven Trumps prepared themselves to sound.” Revelation 8:6
Days of the Lord Protector: 1653-1658.
References to the distopian visions found in A Song of Ice and Fire, 1984, His Dark Materials, and The Hunger Games.
You should read outside the right-wing blogosphere. You might find the experience broadening your fossilized and atrophied critical faculties.
HEY! Give the man a break.It’s not like he’s the only black man that loves white boobs in this USA. I’d never vote for him but not because he likes white women and is unafraid to act on it but because he’s just a tanned puppet for the corporate machine. Yay Boobs!
@62: Is that because you’re a boob?
#59: You present a circular argument. You ask
for evidence, but when I present it, you say,
the source is right-wing and therefore cannot
possibly be true. You present no counter
arguments, except “ad hominem”.
Just suppose, for the sake of argument, that
Obama is teleprompter and ghost-writer
dependent. What would proof of that look like?
If everybody who disagrees with you is
automatically excluded from the debate, with
whom do you propose to have the debate?
Would you consider Dan Rather a “fact-based”
journalist? Is that why he was fired from CBS,
and now rambles at an obscure cable channel?
People are starting to realize that MSM are
like the Wizard of Oz, just a bunch of Ivy
League idiots with a big megaphone.
#61: I should read outside the right-wing
blogosphere? How do you know what I read?
What are your sources–the Book of Revelation,
or some trivial song, which you cite (as if
religion or pop culture were helpful in solving
world crises). Even Auntie Grizelda is dissing
you.
I don’t believe everything I read, because I
read different viewpoints. I knew Eric Garris
from the mid-seventies in Berkeley. I met
Justin Raimondo a few years later. I knew them
both well before they created http://www.anti-war.com.
So it’s not like I’m sheltered in a cloister,
and am not a true believer in the Messiah
because I have not been shown the Truth.
If you can document your faith in Obama, or
have some serious dirt on Cain, please share;
I’ll add your articles to the dozens I read
each day.
@64 I actually read a few of Jack Cashill’s articles leading up to Deconsrtucting Obama, and he makes no case. It’s not his political orientation, it’s his bullshit that makes his bullshit claim bullshit. He claims that Obama makes nautical references in his book, but he’s never been to sea. Ayers was a Merchant Marine, therefore Ayers must have ghost-written for him. It’s a bullshit argument. C S Forester never went to sea either.
But I don’t need to attack the rest of his arguments to discredit Mr. Cashill. A picture’s worth a thousand words:
http://mediamatters.org/blog/20110407001…
This only further strengthens my point:
Republicans—–JUST SAY NO!!!!
Wow.
@66: BWHAHAHAHAHA!
This is what this Bjornson guy spends all day in his basement reading”
http://mediamatters.org/blog/20110407001…
“Jack Cashill, author of the charmingly insane book Deconstructing Obama, claims to have unearthed yet another shocking bombshell about Barack Obama’s past. According to Cashill’s WorldNetDaily column this morning, this photo of young Barack Obama and his grandparents in New York is a forgery into which Obama has been photoshopped:
“Cashill writes: “The bench is real. The grandparents are real. The wall behind them is real. Barack Obama is not. He has been conspicuously photoshopped in. Who did this and why remains as much a mystery as Obama’s extended stay in New York.” He embeds a YouTube video that claims to have uncovered the “real” photo, seen below, in which Obama is nowhere to be seen:
“Actually, to say Obama is “nowhere to be seen” isn’t quite accurate, given that the young future president’s right knee is still somehow visible in the “real” photo:
“So yeah: Jack Cashill is a clownish buffoon. Be sure to tell that to the hosts of Fox & Friends the next time they have him on national television. Also, drop a line to Andrew Breitbart, who is quite enamored of Cashill’s “convincing work.”