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yabits
Here is what I would like to know: What have right-wingers done to have earned the privilege of being given the benefit of the doubt? They sure as heck have done a tremendous amount to not be given it.
I mentioned the smear job they did to Anita Hill, to John Kerry, to Bill Clinton, to Max Cleland, to John McCain in 2000, etc., etc., etc. Why shouldn't they be hoisted by their own petard?
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yabits
That's right, give the groper the benefit of the doubt and smear the victim and her attorney.
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yabits
Ah, so here's the right-wingers' view of this insidious plot:
A woman gets "fired" by the association that Cain heads. Naturally, she's going to go straight back to the leader for help finding a job. (This would be the first part of her "getting some payback.") Then, she and Cain meet. (The plan is going very well.) Next step: Say nothing for 14 years and wait until Cain becomes a candidate for president, and wait further for other women to relate their stories of how Cain came on to them. Ah, NOW it's payback time!
The damning part is that a CEO would actually meet with someone who had been fired from an organization. The only way that would make sense if she was not fired for cause, but actually let go because she was no longer needed. Is she lying when she claims that Cain met with her? Other women have indicated (via their attorneys) that their experiences were similar to the one that Bialek tells.) Are all these women lying?
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yabits
That's right. Cain the creepy groper is the innocent one; everyone else who has experienced or witnessed his inappropriate behavior is guilty if they aren't absolute saints. (Anita Hill came closest to being a person of absolutely spotless character and still the right-wingers did a hatchet job on her. A military vet is awarded a Bronze Star, a Silver Star and three Purple Hearts, and the right-wingers find a way to do a hatchet job on his service to his country.)
Their pattern of character assassination closely resembles Cain's and Clarence Thomas's pattern of sexual misbehavior towards women they had authority over or were in a position of trust and influence.
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yabits
If this is losing, I'll take a whole lot more of it.
Yes, the motivation of mature, professional women coming forward to publicly relive the account of a horny executive who was WAAAY out of line when he made a grope for their genital area has to be suspect. Not one, not two, not three, but now four?
One wonders what Cain's completed pass rate was.
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yabits
This is not about bringing up legal proceedings; this is about a character profile of a man seeking the highest office in the United States. Cain would be an utter embarrassment.
I am usually careful to make a distinction between utterly ridiculous points and utterly ridiculous people.
This is another example of a ridiculous statement. The mind reels at the state of denial a Herman Cain supporter appears to be going through. This Republican professional woman is likely to undergo an onslaught of attacks for having the temerity to come forward to recall an event she would have rather forgotten -- if not for a sense of duty as a citizen to keep a creepy predator from potentially attaining the White House.
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yabits
And an utterly ridiculous point it is too. For 14 years, Cain was essentially a nobody in the realm of American politics. He was not in a position of policy-making or policy-ruling authority that would make him extremely dangerous to the interests of decent Americans like the ones he tried to grope. It was only rather recently that this know-nothing predator was elevated by ideologically blinded conservatives as a potential standard-bearer for their party.
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yabits
You mean after three other women made the same allegations? For President Obama, that would be a very hypothetical situation.
That is only because Cain is a conservative. It's what makes so many conservatives such arch-hypocrites.
It was Ann Coulter who said conservative blacks are superior to all other blacks. Sounds to me like an example of a conservative who thinks they are better than everyone else.
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yabits
It is understandable that those so emotionally invested in the moronic Cain's candidacy have now rendered themselves completely stupid with grief.
I'll bet more than a few who threw donations at Cain this past week are calling credit card companies to get the charges reversed, or banks to get those checks cancelled.
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yabits
Yes, it's Cain's word against hers.
...and hers.
...and hers.
...and hers.
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yabits
(I have to pretend that I'm dealing with a sixth-grader.) The first thing any woman who Cain came onto would need to to is to find and hire legal counsel. Finding the right one would take some time.
Next, the counsel would check and make sure that his/her client's claims can be validated. That means conducting detailed interviews with the client and everyone she told the events to. That would take some time.
Then, the client would need to make adequate preparations to handle the onslaught of media people sure to call on her, as well as arrange for personal security. That takes some time too.
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yabits
She appears to be more of a supporter of Huntsman. Urbane and intelligent.
Posted in: Cain accuser stands by allegation; he ducks issue
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yabits
Word has it she's a longtime registered Republican.
Posted in: Cain accuser stands by allegation; he ducks issue
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yabits
Hot off the press: A fourth woman is going public with her allegations this afternoon (NYC time).
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yabits
There will never be any proof that Cain didn't make overtures of a sexual nature to women who worked for the organization he headed. He's already said that he was aware of at least one allegation made against him at the time.
Two women were paid off to buy their silence. I don't see how Cain can come off as presidential material after all that.
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yabits
What conservative backers of Cain want to do is to put the women who filed complaints against Cain on trial. Guess what? They aren't running for president.
I don't need to know exactly what he said to them. We have at least three different women who personally experienced what they saw as Cain's come-ons to them. Two of them felt it was egregious enough to file a complaint against their own CEO at the time the improper behavior took place. The thing that differentiates the women from Cain at this point is that the women have never changed their stories as Cain has.
Paying off multiple women is akin to admitting that the women had a valid grievance -- which, they have asserted through their attorneys, was of a sexual nature.
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yabits
Perhaps RCP is ignorant of the women's allegations that Cain hit on them in a sexually-suggestive way.
What was settled amicably? Why should the public take Gordon's word that the allegations never stood up to the facts? The women, through their legal counsel, claim Cain is lying. That doesn't sound very amicable to me.
Nevertheless, Cain had 10 days to come up with all the details he should have needed to make this go away. Recall that initially, Cain denied there was ANY allegations. Then he changed it to one woman. Then the story changed to two women. At first he said there wasn't any payout, then he changed and said there was a small one.
The man was all over the place after being given 10 days lead time. Gordon's "response" is totally unfit for a candidate running for president.
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yabits
I understand how Cain has referred to other countries -- like Chile -- for possible "solutions" to economic problems. If, however, we look to the world's fastest-growing and most vibrant economies: Brazil, China, India and, to a lesser extent Chile and Argentina, we would find much higher Keynesian involvement by those nations' governments in their economies. So I don't see how you can call it an utter disaster.
To the extent that they can be said to be failing, the primary reason is that they have been driven towards failure by the major force in the United States that has opposed them from the beginning: Republicans who represent the very wealthiest Americans. Social Security, by the way, has been a tremendous success in providing a level of basic income that has kept untold millions of American elderly, widows, and orphans out of utter poverty. And that is the truth.
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yabits
In the court of public opinion, Cain is accused of -- after being given 10 days lead time by his own admission -- acting like an unprepared, deceptive, arrogant, ignorant buffoon. His fellow black Republican, Condi Rice, has decried his playing of the race card. His assertions of race not being a factor and then saying things like "the media is scared that a real black man might run against President Obama**" make him either an idiot or a hypocrite. (I don't believe it's the former.)
Cain's standing in the Republican, conservative ranks is more an accusation on them: How could anyone in their right minds believe that this simpering, hypocritical ignoramus -- qualities now confirmed after weeks of public exposure -- has the qualities to lead all Americans as their president is beyond me.
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yabits
Outside of U.S. conservatives, tea party supporters, and the media executives who print her columns and publish her books, only those who view her remarks as representative of the ilk she supports and who support her.
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