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News & ArtsThursday, September 29, 2011
2012 It's Herman Cain's Moment in the Sun
Posted by Paul Constant on Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 11:22 AM
Politico ran an excerpt from Herman Cain's upcoming book, and it sounds like a doozy:
“Well, I’m just about at the elevator up to the family quarters. But bear with me for just a minute more as I confirm who I am. It’s obvious; I’m the president of the United States of America!” Cain writes in “This is Herman Cain! My Journey to the White House,” to be released next week by Threshold Editions, a Simon & Schuster imprint.
A whole chapter is narrated in the present tense by President Cain, which sounds totally fucking entertaining to me. And the L.A. Times has a roundup of Herman Cain's big media moment, including news that Herman Cain thinks black people are "brainwashed," even though he believes he can win a third or half of the black vote if he's nominated. That seems totally plausible to me! Find much more, including Cain fan Dennis Miller saying that Cain knows nothing about foreign policy, but neither does Barack Obama*, here.
* It blows my mind that Republicans are still trying to say that Barack Obama is bad at foreign policy. Did none of them want to catch Osama bin Laden? What the fuck is wrong with them?
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I had to drive across a few states last month and listened to an entire Dennis Miller radio program. It was AWFUL...not funny and ridiculously boring. There were a few moments where he would approach entertainment, but those moments would be quickly dashed upon the rocks of tedium.
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I don't think Obama is bad at foreign policy but let's control the amount of credit he gets for Bin Laden. Had the intel happend to have worked out a few years back, W would have gotten credit. The Cain chapter you mention sounds childishly stupid.
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Come on Paul, you can do better. Obama's foreign policy is about the same as Bush's. Also, Obama did not CATCH Bin Laden, he had him assassinated. That's a pretty huge difference.
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@3
"The intel" was -- always has been -- a mixed bag of conflicting opinions and facts from an alphabet soup of agencies, often agencies at odds with themselves. There is no one truth in the intel.
Given the choice of whom to believe, some Presidents pick the wrong facts, and promote the wrong people and favor the wrong agencies. And then proceed to invade Iraq under false pretenses.
Other Presidents pick the winners, make the right choices, and proceed to send the fucking SEAL team to shoot Osama bin Laden in the fucking face.
Credit where credit is due. Blame where blame is due.
"The intel" was -- always has been -- a mixed bag of conflicting opinions and facts from an alphabet soup of agencies, often agencies at odds with themselves. There is no one truth in the intel.
Given the choice of whom to believe, some Presidents pick the wrong facts, and promote the wrong people and favor the wrong agencies. And then proceed to invade Iraq under false pretenses.
Other Presidents pick the winners, make the right choices, and proceed to send the fucking SEAL team to shoot Osama bin Laden in the fucking face.
Credit where credit is due. Blame where blame is due.
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@5 FTW. I'm hearing a lot of this "Bush had bad intel" excuse from my right-wing friends these days. I figure they're talking about that briefing before 9/11 where Bush was warned about the al-Quaeda threat and told the briefer "Okay, you've covered your ass now." Talk about the party of personal responsibility.
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Hahahaha. Dennis Miller likes Herman Cain? Well, that seals it then. I'm voting for him for sure!!!
(Didn't Dennis Miller used to be funny? About a decade or so back?)
(Didn't Dennis Miller used to be funny? About a decade or so back?)
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Barack Hussein Obama had NOTHING to do with the assassination of bin Laden. It was a team of heroic SEALS. All Obama did was stay out of the way (and rumor has it that Hillary ran the show in getting that done because she and the rest of the national security team knew that if the Kenyan marxist homosexual got within a mile of the operation he would botch it, and then go around the middle east apologizing for America yet again, as he is wont to do).
The least he could do is give credit to Vice President Cheney's enhanced interrogation program, and to President Bush for setting up the foundation to catch bin Laden. Don't hold your breath on that one.
Just remember the number of times he said "I" and "me" when he announced the killing.
The least he could do is give credit to Vice President Cheney's enhanced interrogation program, and to President Bush for setting up the foundation to catch bin Laden. Don't hold your breath on that one.
Just remember the number of times he said "I" and "me" when he announced the killing.
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Not only did he kill Bin Laden, which Bush failed to do, but he also deposed Gaddafi, which Reagan failed to do. Plus he's made good calls on Egypt and Tunisia, returned the U.S. to reasonable standing in the U.N. and repaired all kinds of relationships with our allies which the Bushies seemed intent on fucking up.
As a side note, it's been really fun tracking Lord Basil's comments recently, because it sounds like his head really is about to explode. As our loyal Tea Party representative, he is all the local proof we need that those folks have pretty much nothing going for them - no smarts, no hearts, no sense of history, and no idea when it will serve their purposes to just stay quiet and hide their ignorance. Carry on, Lord Basil!
As a side note, it's been really fun tracking Lord Basil's comments recently, because it sounds like his head really is about to explode. As our loyal Tea Party representative, he is all the local proof we need that those folks have pretty much nothing going for them - no smarts, no hearts, no sense of history, and no idea when it will serve their purposes to just stay quiet and hide their ignorance. Carry on, Lord Basil!
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@10 You and your leftist buddies are crying in your microbrews and expresso, aren't you? How many diapers do you red diaper doper babies go through a day now that the tea party has taken over Congress and fought to implement the most progressive agenda in history by dismantling liberalism?
What I post here is simple, logical, fact based common sense. I don't claim to speak for the tea party, but I know many people feel the same way I do, and are empowered and energized by Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin, and Herman Cain. The glorious light of truth shines forth from the efforts of these open minded patriots who aren't intimidated by what the marxist mainstream media says about anything.
I bet you were quaking in your boots as you wrote that, didn't you? I'd love to see what your boots do when Rick Perry wins in a record landslide next year!
ROTFLMAO!!!
What I post here is simple, logical, fact based common sense. I don't claim to speak for the tea party, but I know many people feel the same way I do, and are empowered and energized by Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin, and Herman Cain. The glorious light of truth shines forth from the efforts of these open minded patriots who aren't intimidated by what the marxist mainstream media says about anything.
I bet you were quaking in your boots as you wrote that, didn't you? I'd love to see what your boots do when Rick Perry wins in a record landslide next year!
ROTFLMAO!!!
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Obama didn't start wars in Iraq and afghanistan... my friends that live abroad are not embarrassed about their pres anymore... there is no comparison. Obama is far from a perfect presidents, but Teabaggers and Obama-hating ultra lefties sound pretty much the same to me.
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A black ops mission into a sovereign nation to assassinate a dude (regardless of how much he had it coming) is not a “Foreign Policy” win. (Unless your saying that our Foreign Policy is now to assassinate dubious world leaders).
However, the ongoing rapid decay of our alliance with Pakistan (a county with nuclear arms) is clearly a Foreign Policy fail.
However, the ongoing rapid decay of our alliance with Pakistan (a county with nuclear arms) is clearly a Foreign Policy fail.
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@14 Moving the needle closer to the point of finally being able to declare Pakistan an enemy of the United States is a major foreign policy achievement. Those fuckers have been killing us with our own money for more than a decade now. The closer we get to wiping out the ISI in a one-way bloodbath, the better.
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@15
I agree with the premise of your statement, and wholeheartedly believe we should start sending every dollar earmarked for them to India instead.
But, you do realize that Pakistan has "the bomb", and that we have never before engaged in open hostilities (much less war) with a nation that has nuclear arms... Right?
I’d say there is a near 100% chance of things going nuclear if we get into a direct conflict with the Paki’s.
Are you comfortable with that? More importantly, is Obama comfortable with that?
I agree with the premise of your statement, and wholeheartedly believe we should start sending every dollar earmarked for them to India instead.
But, you do realize that Pakistan has "the bomb", and that we have never before engaged in open hostilities (much less war) with a nation that has nuclear arms... Right?
I’d say there is a near 100% chance of things going nuclear if we get into a direct conflict with the Paki’s.
Are you comfortable with that? More importantly, is Obama comfortable with that?
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The only way you can think Obama is good at foreign policy is if you believe that closing the terrorist recruiting poster that is Guantanamo Bay isn't worth any political capital, Palestinians deserve apartheid, the Saudis needed $60 billion worth of our weapons, it would've been nice if Mubarak had stayed in power but ohwell, hundreds of innocent people deserve to be murdered by our drones, we should ok the Keystone XL pipline from Canada to enable Canda to tap the 2nd biggest carbon reserve on the planet, we should stay in Iraq longer, and under no circumstances ever leave Afghanistan.
Indeed Paul, the man is truly a master.
Indeed Paul, the man is truly a master.
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