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Herman Cain gets Secret Service protection

World Nov. 19, 2011 - 01:25PM JST ( 22 )

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RomeoRNov. 19, 2011 - 05:47PM JST

Cain has been getting a lot of racist threats from democrats, so I don't blame him for wanting SS protection.

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unreconstructedNov. 19, 2011 - 05:55PM JST

You knew this was coming. A couple million African Americans heeding Cain's example and his advice and going off the Democrat plantation would quite possibly mean the end of the New Left / Identity Politics coalition that has so poisoned American politics and civil life.
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MadvertsNov. 19, 2011 - 09:19PM JST

After reading the severed-penis case recently I'm not surprised this geezer needs beefed up security in light of all the recent allegations of being a sex pest!

Surely it would be far more patriotic to hire some combat vets coming home from Iraq than waste the Secret Service's time?

Let's face it he's got as much chance of becoming the POTUS as I have.
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TorafusuTorasanNov. 19, 2011 - 09:53PM JST

@RRamen, "racist threats"

If there is a concrete example of that, feel free to share. Otherwise it's the same lame innuendo that you were complaining about regarding recent Cain sex scandal stories.

The actual unvarnished reason Cain opted for government security guards is that all the campaigns are gearing up for the state primaries, meaning private media companies big and small are swarming around the candidates everywhere they go. The job of handling the media is too much for poorly trained private security guards. Example:

Cain's private security clotheslined a woman from CBS/National Review against his campaign bus yesterday.

Switching from private to publicly funded security will add professionalism to avoid embarrassing Cain's campaign. Smart move that will only cost the taxpayers for the duration of his campaign--a few weeks or months at the most.
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sailwindNov. 19, 2011 - 09:57PM JST

Cain's private security clotheslined a woman from CBS/National Review against his campaign bus yesterday.

Just fir the record It wasn't his private security.

Afterwards, Lt. Joe McHugh of the Coral Springs Police Department identified the man as one of his officers and defended his actions. "The reporter was running up along the side of the bus with no identification on identifying herself as a reporter," McHugh said. "So the officer stuck his arm out to prevent her from getting to Mr. Cain and at which time he was successful."
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yabitsNov. 19, 2011 - 11:38PM JST

had asked for the protection after a series of incidents involving journalists covering his public meetings.

Ooooo....scary journalists getting out of control and hurling tough questions at the hapless candidate.

Meanwhile, Cain, looking to explain a gaffe earlier this week on Libya, on Friday suggested the Taliban was part of the new government in Tripoli in a new slip-up.

Yeah, the handlers of a person who goes around spouting off incredibly stupid things like that would feel the need for extra protection.

Cain stumbled badly and paused before finally saying he had “all this stuff twirling around in my head.”

There's a name for that stuff, Herman, and it appears you weren't successful flushing it all away, like you did with your memories of all those women. His most memorable line in that regard was the one where he started off with (paraphrasing), "For every one of these women accusers, there must be thousands of others who can vouch I never made a grab for them." Right, Herman, and there were thousands of women who Ted Bundy didn't kill.
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SerranoNov. 19, 2011 - 11:49PM JST

"There's a name for that stuff, Herman"

Psst, yabits - Cain isn't reading your put-downs of him here.
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TorafusuTorasanNov. 20, 2011 - 12:00AM JST

Psst Serrano, can I ask you a rhetorical question? Are you sitting on Cain's shoulder? Since you read minds, does Cain read anything besides what campaign manager Mark Block tosses in front of him?
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sailwindNov. 20, 2011 - 08:18AM JST

Psst Serrano, can I ask you a rhetorical question? Are you sitting on Cain's shoulder? Since you read minds, does Cain read anything besides what campaign manager Mark Block tosses in front of him?

To answer your question.

“What do I read on a daily basis?” Cain said. “Obviously I read newspaper publications. We read some of the stuff on the Web…”

Pressed further, Cain elaborated that he reads the Wall Street Journal, USA Today and his local newspaper.
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yabitsNov. 20, 2011 - 09:02AM JST

Pressed further, Cain elaborated that he reads the Wall Street Journal, USA Today and his local newspaper.

Cain, who told a journalist this week -- after making a series of totally ignorant statements -- "This nation needs leaders, not readers."

Not exactly the kind of endorsement the WSJ and USA Today are looking for.
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NovenachamaNov. 20, 2011 - 09:07AM JST

If Mr. Cain would throw the towel in he wouldn't need any Secret Service protection. After all he's perhaps a joke not the front runner, but being treated as a top tier candidate and being challenged to explain his positions. He probably knows that he cannot meet this challenge, so he is letting the world know that his campaign is frivolous. This way people will stop asking him those tough questions about the economy, domestic and foreign policy to which he has no ability to provide answers with substance. It makes you wonder whether he's running for vanity or to promote his career and marketability. He has no political experience, never served as a member of Congress or Governor, poor name recognition and also lacks an established political organization. Cain is a long shot to win the Grand Old Party nomination. There ought to be a way to limit presidential campaigns to people who are serious about being president. Which I admit is not a serous proposal.
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landsharkNov. 20, 2011 - 09:16AM JST

Cain has been getting a lot of racist threats from democrats, so I don't blame him for wanting SS protection.

Excuse me, but what is a racist threat? Have they been threatening him with surgery that will make him appear Caucasian?

That sort of total bunk comment should land users on the short list to getting banned. Or has this site no shame?
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unreconstructedNov. 20, 2011 - 10:19AM JST

Ooooo....scary journalists getting out of control and hurling tough questions at the hapless candidate.

Like the Larry Sinclair questions the vigilant, heroic MSM hurled at candidate Obama, eh.
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sailwindNov. 20, 2011 - 10:19AM JST

Excuse me, but what is a racist threat? Have they been threatening him with surgery that will make him appear Caucasian?

Not really surgery, just content that "he knows his place" as an Black man.

Democratic strategist and MSNBC analyst Karen Finney said that Cain is “a black man who knows his place.”
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RomeoRNov. 20, 2011 - 11:15AM JST

There is still a lot of racism from democrats against black Republicans - calling them "house n*****s", "Uncle Toms", "Aunt Jemimas", etc.

Like slave owners from the old days, democrats are OK with black people as long as they know their place.

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RomeoRNov. 20, 2011 - 11:46AM JST

If there is a concrete example of that, feel free to share.

On June 1, Cain's campaign office in Stockbridge, Ga., reported receiving a call from someone who did not identify himself but who claimed to be a member of the Ku Klux Klan. The man said that Cain, who is black, should not run for the White House.

"Tell him not to run" and "there's no such thing as a black Republican," the man said, according to a written statement Cain's administrative assistant, Lisa Reichert, gave to the police.

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yabitsNov. 20, 2011 - 05:33PM JST

Democratic strategist and MSNBC analyst Karen Finney said that Cain is “a black man who knows his place.”

That's not what she said. She actually said that the white "base" of the Republican Party likes Cain because they think he is a black man who knows his place.

Like slave owners from the old days, democrats are OK with black people as long as they know their place.

And that place is called "the White House." (A fact that many in the white base of the Republican Party despise.) Slave owners in the old days? You mean like Washington and Jefferson? It's very clear that any black person who rejects conservatism is declared by many whites to be "living on a plantation."

"Tell him not to run" and "there's no such thing as a black Republican," the man said

Obviously another social conservative who didn't get the memo on Cain.
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RomeoRNov. 20, 2011 - 08:49PM JST

Democrats belong to the party that has big problems with people of color who do not know their places in life.

Today, democrats sit around and shriek they really aren't that way. Heh, does not seem like much has really changed after all but it does make 'em feel better about themselves.

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SerranoNov. 20, 2011 - 10:13PM JST

Will he get crocodile insurance too?
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yabitsNov. 20, 2011 - 10:33PM JST

Democrats belong to the party that has big problems with people of color who do not know their places in life.

And which party is it that is most supportive of the giant wall being built to keep brown-skinned Hispanics in their places below our southern border? The one Cain wants to "electrify."

but it does make 'em feel better about themselves.

Every time I read a comment from the "rabid far-right," I say a prayer of thanks for not having sunk to their depths of mental depravity.
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sailwindNov. 20, 2011 - 10:37PM JST

And which party is it that is most supportive of the giant wall being built to keep brown-skinned Hispanics in their places below our southern border? The one Cain wants to "electrify."

Hispanics can't come into the United States legally? News to me.
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unreconstructedNov. 28, 2011 - 08:59PM JST

After a hundred hit pieces on Cain, by the same media that can't find even one of Obama's former girlfriends or a classmate from Columbia, we still don't know what Cain actually did.No formal accusations confirmed.