The more I learn about and watch Herman Cain, the more I like him. Apparently I'm not alone as he is now tied with Romney in the polls, up from virtual obscurity a few months ago. Politics though is full of shooting stars that burn up in the national spotlight. Think Rudy Giuliani and Rick Perry. Perry shot past Romney as soon as he entered the race. He looked like Romney, only better looking, with better hair, (if you can believe that.) And since most conservatives don't trust Romney, he got all that support right up until he started talking to a national TV audience.
You would think that a political neophyte going from zero to 39% in a poll of Republican candidates would be the biggest story in decades. Obama had a pretty incredible rise, but he was a sitting US Senator with a significant national profile due to his appearance at the Democrat's national convention in 2004. But it seems a lot like the Wizard of Oz scene. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. Look, Romney's leading in the polls! Look, over here, Chris Christie is NOT going to run. Wait! Look over here, Chris Christie is going to hold a press conference to say whether or not he's really going to run. Ok, he's really not running, but look, he's endorsed Mitt Romney!
They don't relish attacking Cain like they do Romney, Perry, Bachmann and Gingrich. And they certainly aren't going to promote him like they do John Huntsman. So they have decided to ignore him like they do Rick Santorum. Their problem is that Santorum is at about 2% and Cain is at 39%. Cain has been labeled the Pizza Man because that helps to belittle his impressive business career. (Com'on, a pizza salesman as president?) After getting his Masters in computer science from Purdue, Cain worked as a mathematician for the US Navy in their ballistic missile program. Get it? This man IS an actual rocket scientist! But apparently, that's an uninteresting detail, since I've yet to see it referenced by any national media outlet. A Bachelor's in Mathematics, a Masters in Computer Science, career as rocket scientist, two corporate turnarounds, a stint on the board of the Federal Reserve bank at Kansas City, and he's know as a pizza salesman. And that doesn't seem to bother him. And not only is he not afraid to skewer liberals and their ideology, he loves it. like I said, he looks better all the time.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Day-O
Had not heard from Harry Belafonte in a while, but I never doubted that he would once again make a complete fool of himself in a vain attempt to explain liberal ideology. It is difficult. Check that, impossible, particularly if you plan to follow the rules of logic and express a coherent thought. Liberalism demands no trail of logic. To them all tenets exist independently and any conflict or paradox is simply ignored.
But it was his bashing of Herman Cain that got my attention. First, he says that Cain was "denied intelligence." Now calling somebody stupid is not a new political tactic. But usually it's done by one with some degree of academic accomplishment to call their own. I mean, it looses some punch when a high school drop out is saying it about a rocket scientist. And with a straight face no less.
OK, I don't really know if Belafonte was a dropout. His Wiki article says that he "attended" George Washington High School before joining the Navy. The tip off being that it doesn't say "graduated." But I do know that Hermain Cain has an academic record that, in my opinion, puts him amongst the smartest people to have ever run for president. (And that small group would not include the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.) Herman Cain got his bachelors degreee in mathmatics and then his masters degree in computer science from Purdue (A pretty respectable school for engineers.) He then went to work for the Navy as a mathematician in their
balistics program. That's right, he actually was a rocket scientist!! But, hey how can that compare to singing The Banana Boat Song? (Which was actually written by actor Alan Arkin!) Cain had a famously successful business career with Pilsbury, turning around Burger King and later Godfather's Pizza, before serving as a member of the board of the federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.
So, as you can see, he was a natural target for Mr. Belafonte. And Herman Cain's greatest sin is, of course, not being black. That is, not black enough or not a real black. Belafonte puts Cain in some pretty good company on this point. He mentions other people who are not authentically black, like Condoleeza Rice and house slave, Colin Powell. Let's see, Colin Powell got his bachelors in geology and then his MBA before attaning the rank of four star General and becoming the youngest Chairman of the Joint Cheifs of Staff. Rice: Phi Beta Kappa, cum laude, Masters from Notre Dame and PhD from University of Denver. Do I detect a pattern here? Here is how he characterized them:
“The Republican party, the tea party, all those forces to the extreme right have consistently tried to come up with representations for what they call black, what they call the real Negroes. They’re heroes for some people. But for a lot of us, they’re not."
Yes, nothing admirable about those records. Why would you want role models like that?
But it was his bashing of Herman Cain that got my attention. First, he says that Cain was "denied intelligence." Now calling somebody stupid is not a new political tactic. But usually it's done by one with some degree of academic accomplishment to call their own. I mean, it looses some punch when a high school drop out is saying it about a rocket scientist. And with a straight face no less.
OK, I don't really know if Belafonte was a dropout. His Wiki article says that he "attended" George Washington High School before joining the Navy. The tip off being that it doesn't say "graduated." But I do know that Hermain Cain has an academic record that, in my opinion, puts him amongst the smartest people to have ever run for president. (And that small group would not include the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.) Herman Cain got his bachelors degreee in mathmatics and then his masters degree in computer science from Purdue (A pretty respectable school for engineers.) He then went to work for the Navy as a mathematician in their
balistics program. That's right, he actually was a rocket scientist!! But, hey how can that compare to singing The Banana Boat Song? (Which was actually written by actor Alan Arkin!) Cain had a famously successful business career with Pilsbury, turning around Burger King and later Godfather's Pizza, before serving as a member of the board of the federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.
So, as you can see, he was a natural target for Mr. Belafonte. And Herman Cain's greatest sin is, of course, not being black. That is, not black enough or not a real black. Belafonte puts Cain in some pretty good company on this point. He mentions other people who are not authentically black, like Condoleeza Rice and house slave, Colin Powell. Let's see, Colin Powell got his bachelors in geology and then his MBA before attaning the rank of four star General and becoming the youngest Chairman of the Joint Cheifs of Staff. Rice: Phi Beta Kappa, cum laude, Masters from Notre Dame and PhD from University of Denver. Do I detect a pattern here? Here is how he characterized them:
“The Republican party, the tea party, all those forces to the extreme right have consistently tried to come up with representations for what they call black, what they call the real Negroes. They’re heroes for some people. But for a lot of us, they’re not."
Yes, nothing admirable about those records. Why would you want role models like that?
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