Is Cain able? (III)
Making the rounds this morning is a video of CEO-of-Self Herman Cain singing a pizzafied version of “Imagine.” It answers the question everyone’s been asking: Can he croon? Oh can he. Of course, if you’d read This Is Herman Cain! by Herman Cain, you’d already be well aware of Cain’s surpassing vocal gifts.
Then, during my senior year, I was given quite an honor: I was asked to join the Morehouse Quartet, due in part to the fact that I had previously been picked for the Glee Club, a very prestigious group, on my first attempt to join it. After that, I was elected, by secret ballot, its president. Again, it was evident that other people perceived my leadership potential even before I did. [This Is Herman Cain! by Herman Cain, p. 34]
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Good voice.. not enough to get him nominated but a sure winner if the GOP convention morphs into American Idol….. but that’s only if Sarah Palin pageant walking is disallowed..
This isn’t funny!
Numerous media organizations today are reporting that the principle underwriters or financial backers of the Cain campaign are the billionaire Koch brothers.
Just like the Koch brothers’ funding of the so-called “spontaneous grass roots movement, the Tea Party,” these reports should represent to anyone who is paying attention that the Cain campaign is yet another subjugation of our democracy by reactionary plutocrats.
In other words, the Cain campaign is essentially a thinly veiled attempt by some of the most racist elements of the American plutocracy to provide political cover for racist Republican primary voters to openly attack President Obama with the most vile politics.
Why haven’t the media ask Herman Cain about his ideas to wipe-out Social Security and Medicare? Instead we are served-up a media orgasm about Cain’s goofy “9-9-9″ marketing scheme.
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Grant,
What is the point of these posts? How is the Kingdom of God advanced through them? Are you happy with Jim Jenkins’ response?
Frank Gibbons:
This guy, Cain, is scary. He says that he would put a elecrified barbed wire fence across our border with Mexico. When asked about it on last Sunday’s “Meet the Press” he said it was a joke!
Doesn’t that bother you, too?
Yeah, Grant. How does this advance the Kingdom of God? How about one of Cain’s Gospel tunes from Youtube?
What media orgasm about 9-9-9?
Even the network TV newscasts, which usually runs about the same quality of info about the pre-primary season as PaddyPower.com (but without the cash payouts), actually ran a 45-second “analysis” of 9-9-9 and blasted it to smithereens.
Add Cain’s 9 percent to Michigan’s 6 percent, and everything I pay for will be 15 percent more expensive. The idea that this is going to get poor people to save more is idiotic.
Hey, I feel a song comin’ on: I won’t get no incentivation; I’ll just get more deprivation.
No worse than “Imagine eating pizza, each and every day,” which sounds like a job for Metamucil, the kind of terrible joke from which I would normally refrain because it does not advance the kingdom of God in any way whatever. But it sorta seems to go with the looney tone of the thread.
Are you happy with Jim Jenkins’ response?
Thanks for noticing Frank.
Sadly, they tend to be totally oblivious around here to the hate speech that is routinely spewed by their compatriots, including blatant racism and profanities.
“What is the point of these posts? How is the Kingdom of God advanced through them?”
If my fellow Republicans are chagrined by these posts (and more properly Cain’s antics), I respectfully suggest they could best be avoided by convincing those inclined to support Cain that he is, in the most charitable word I can muster, unelectable. Pres. Obama, it is widely reported, intends to run the most negative campaign in recent history: his goal will be to smear, defame and de-legitimize any opposition to his policies (all while claiming to be a $70 million dollar populist underdog). I think it’s best to avoid a candidate who would do all his work for him in the process.
Sorry: I should have said Pres. Obama intends to run as a billion (with a B) dollar populist underdog; $70 million was just his haul in the last quarter.
Jefff Landry:
“Pres. Obama, it is widely reported, intends to run the most negative campaign in recent history: his goal will be to smear, defame and de-legitimize any opposition to his policies (all while claiming to be a $70 million dollar populist underdog).”
Sources of this wide reporting? I try to be up on things political but haven’t heard or read anything about that.
“Sources of this wide reporting?”
Google: “Obama Plan:Destroy Romney”
Jeff, you wouldn’t be biased perhaps?
i wish Jim J.’s post was unedited.
But knowing Cain is wrapped up with the Koch brothers is enough for me to consider him ……
“Jeff, you wouldn’t be biased perhaps?”
Uh, it’s a Politico story. Nothing to do with me.
@ Frank and Bender…”How is the Kingdom of God advanced through them?’ [comments]
Since I’m a CW subscriber and therefore I get all the memos, it’s obvious Frank and Bender have been left out…..so here…. .. ” Posted comments have nothing to do with advancing the Kingdom of God.’. )-:
I know I’m just showing my advanced age, but every time I hear the name “Herman Cain” I can only think of Herman Wouk’s The Caine Mutiny (and of course, Captain Queeg, played by Bogie in the movie).
“I know I’m just showing my advanced age, but every time I hear the name “Herman Cain” I can only think of Herman Wouk’s The Caine Mutiny (and of course, Captain Queeg, played by Bogie in the movie).”
Yah, but this thread is about advancing the kingdom of God through novelty songs about pizza, not strawberries. Yeesh. Stay on track, will ya?
[...] EXCERPTED FROM Kingdom Of God Worship source http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/?p=15546 [...]
Where do the Repblicans get these inconsequentials without a viable idea go split between them? Romney, Palin, Trump, Gingrich, Bachmann, Paul, Pawlenty, Huntsman, Cain, PErry, Chrisman. The list goes on and on — ten at best mediocre possibilities. I can’t believe the GOP is really so talentless.
Why are the Republicans fibrillatng? I expect a death rattle at any moment.
I imagine the worst thing for the Republican Party would be for a Tea Partier to win the primary; it would hurt their chances of winning the general election. (Like what happened with the NYS gubernatorial race last election). But maybe if these fringe candidates stay the course, they’ll dilute the Tea Party vote, allowing a mainstream candidate to come out on top.
NPR’s Morning Edition had a short bit on 9-9-9. Mostly interviews with people who seem interested in the plan largely b/c it’s simple. The report was tempered with reminders that it is still unknown whether the tax will bring in the necessary revenues and that it will hit working and middle-class taxpayers hardest, especially with that 9 percent sales tax.
I remember reading hagiographical criticism years ago, and one author observed that what one man might be skeptical about, a group will sometimes embrace because it does not absorb nuance. His exact words, which I’ve remembered these 30+ years were: “The collective mind is an idiot.”
Possibly this applies to 9-9-9.
Ann, I don’t think the GOP is fibrillating. I think it would prefer not to have Tea Partiers or a Mormon. It wants Rick Perry, only smarter.
Well I am not sure about Cain’s singing, but I do think he is a serious candidate. In any case, no matter who the Republicans nominate, he (or she) will have my vote.
In politics, one should strive for the common good. In our time then, in 2012, it seems to me the common good means putting a Republican in the presidency. I started voting “for the party” (Republican if you have not already guessed) just after Gore tried to grab the election from Bush. What a show that was – thank goodness for those Cubans in Florida; how they shouted down the hanging chad “counters”. There was a time where voting “for the man, not the party” was appropriate and it may still be justified on the local offices like sheriff or mayor, etc., but many (I would guess the majority) of today’s Democrats certainly “vote the party” rather than for the man. In any case, there is much to consider, I am a busy man, and bearing in mind how much is at stake, for now anyway, I simply vote Republican – period. By doing this I am relying on my understanding of the differences between today’s Democrats and Republicans. While I have minor disagreements with a few Republicans (mainly regarding how to handle indocumentados, and union issues), I have serious disagreements (e.g. regarding abortion, euthanasia, gay marriage, religious freedom) with most of today’s Democrats.
While some jump on Romney for his Mormonism, if he wins the R-primary, even though I personally find Mormonism to be a bit silly, a man’s religion is not an issue for me and Romney will have my vote.
And if Cain wins the primary, while the pizza song is definitely silly, he will be my man for 2012.
“Romney, Palin, Trump, Gingrich, Bachmann, Paul, Pawlenty, Huntsman, Cain, PErry, Chrisman. The list goes on and on — ten at best mediocre possibilities.”
I don’t know about those other clowns, but that “Chrisman” character sure seems like a promising candidate, as he has apparently manages to qualify as “inconsequential”, “mediocre” and “talentless” without bothering to even exist. That takes real talent!
But, as Bob would say, I’m just “biased.”
Jeff –
I didn’t say they were all committed to running. I said they have all been Republican “possibilities”. Neither did I say they w4re “talentless”. In my opinion Huntsman has some (as I’ve mentioned before) as does Romney, and Cain (as I said on another thread) has some valuable personal characteristics. So let’s not over-simplify. But, yes, the best of them are mediocre.
P. S. I left out Santorum.
I do not think Santorum would win, but last night he did deliver a good message and while the others bickered about immigration and various technicalities, Santorum gave several good nods to Catholic social teaching.
Ann,
Nice try. But you said:
“Where do the Repblicans get these INCONSEQUENTIALS without a viable idea go split between them? Romney, Palin, Trump, Gingrich, Bachmann, Paul, Pawlenty, Huntsman, Cain, PErry, Chrisman. The list goes on and on — ten at best MEDIOCRE possibilities. I can’t believe the GOP is really so TALENTLESS.” (emphasis added.)
Squeezed in between these sentences is the list of GOP candidates, including someone named “Chrisman” whom I have never heard of. So tell me how I’m misreading your statement? Who’s over-simplifying?
jeff –
What is your point? I said they’re 10 inconsequential possibilities. I still think so. Yes, a couple of them have a couple of nice qualifications, but that doesn’t make them potentially able presidents of the United States. As to Christie, I’m sorry I misspelled his name, if that offends you.
And I didn’t say that you were “over-simplifying”. The word doesn’t appear in the post.