Herman Cain in Hot Water

[tachosomoza]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45099767/ns/politics-decision_2012/#.TrHdfLIsHKA


The former pizza company executive was responding to a Politico report (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/67194.html) that said the trade group gave financial settlements to at least two female employees who had accused him of inappropriate sexual behavior.
"I have never sexually harassed anyone, and yes, I was falsely accused while I was at the National Restaurant Association," Cain said Monday morning in an interview on Fox News. "I say falsely because it turned out, after the investigation, to be baseless."
But throughout the day Monday, Cain offered conflicting responses as to whether he remembered the specifics of the allegations or the existence of settlements with the women. That raised new questions about the candidate who now is at or near the top in many polls on the GOP race.
At an appearance at the National Press Club Monday afternoon, Cain said he did not know if the trade association provided any settlements, and he declined to address specifics of the accusations or any resolution.
Video: Cain: 'I have never sexually harassed anyone' "I am unaware of any sort of settlement. I hope it wasn't for much, because I didn't do anything," he said.
But in an interview later Monday with Fox News' Greta Van Susteren, Cain said he did know about it. "Yes, there was some sort of settlement or termination," he said.


What is it with these guys? Clarence Thomas, Eddie Long, now the darling of the GOP.

[rundontwalk]

What's more he's had his rather pathetic campaign staff trolling Rick Perry on national television demanding the town drunk (that is - Rick Perry) apologize for leaking the information. I hope this goes on forever. It's like Christmas.

[Lenina Rosenweg]

NPR and CBS News spent more time on the Herman Cain sexual harassment story than on the Oakland general strike.Virtually all bourgeois politicians are egocentric scumbags.The right wing ones are more hypocritical about it.

[tachosomoza]

The GOP is notoriously dirty. Notice how they didn't trot these allegations out until he got ahead in the polls. Several of the people that have been speaking out regarding these things are former Cain supporters who now are affiliated with Romney and Perry.

[tanklv]

The GOP is notoriously dirty. Notice how they didn't trot these allegations out until he got ahead in the polls. Several of the people that have been speaking out regarding these things are former Cain supporters who now are affiliated with Romney and Perry.

I know - I had hoped they't wait till at least he was "nominated" (like the racist repukes would ever let a black man be their "leader"...)

Oh, well, there's so much idiocy to choose from from the repuke clown car of candidates this go around...

It would be funny if it weren't so very sad...

[tachosomoza]

I know - I had hoped they't wait till at least he was "nominated" (like the racist repukes would ever let a black man be their "leader"...)

Oh, well, there's so much idiocy to choose from from the repuke clown car of candidates this go around...

It would be funny if it weren't so very sad...

Well, they did let Michael Steele be their chairman.

[The CPSU Chairman]

Cain is one of those "family values" types, right? I love how practically every single one of these people has something like this in their closet. :laugh:

[Revolution starts with U]

People who seek power and obtain it tend to think themselves above the rest of society; able to get away with nearly anything. This should be no surprise.

[Agathor]

To be a Republican, you need complete disregard for the suffering of other people, and complete devotion to your own satisfaction. It's not surprising that this attitude has a sexual dimension.

Look at Newt Gingrich. He cheated on his first wife regularly, and gave her divorce papers while she was in hospital with cancer.

[socialistjustin]

Apparently voters don't care as only 4% said they would not vote for him because of it. The media needs to be reporting on his lack of knowledge on Chinese nukes, not this crap.

[A Marxist Historian]

Apparently voters don't care as only 4% said they would not vote for him because of it. The media needs to be reporting on his lack of knowledge on Chinese nukes, not this crap.

Why should they be reporting on him being an ignorant fool? That's common knowledge.

What's interesting about this whole scandal is the media's *refusing* to report on the heart of the affair, race.

Were the women he was harassing white or black? They don't want to say, because that would be just a little too explosive. At this point I, like most Americans, don't even know.

This affair was contrived by the Republican establishment, especially Perry of course, to deep-six Cain by subtly getting across the idea that he was hassling white women, get that ol' Ku Klux Klan reflex working among the Tea Party folk voting for him. For the Republicans to actually nominate Cain would be a disaster, as they'd lose the only really solid and reliable bulwark among the voters they have, namely the stone racists who would vote for *anybody* to end the spectacle of a black man in the White House.

But if they were to talk about the race of the women *in public,* that would either sabotage the whole maneuver if they are black, or blow up in their face bigtime if they are white, that would just be too crass.

And the media are playing along with the Republicans' ugly little game, as they don't want to do anything that might interfere with it, as they basically all feel the same way.

American politics in operation, ain't it wonderful?

-M.H.-

[Lucretia]

I know - I had hoped they't wait till at least he was "nominated" (like the racist repukes would ever let a black man be their "leader"...)

Oh, well, there's so much idiocy to choose from from the repuke clown car of candidates this go around...

It would be funny if it weren't so very sad...

Since you are an avowed liberal, I am surprised you have not been restricted to the OI subforum already.

[Ocean Seal]

NPR and CBS News spent more time on the Herman Cain sexual harassment story than on the Oakland general strike.Virtually all bourgeois politicians are egocentric scumbags.The right wing ones are more hypocritical about it.
Yep, I genuinely don't care which bourgeois politician wins this election. The class battlefield is in Oakland not Washington D.C.

[Smyg]

This guy is obviously, to me at least, never making president.

[Philosopher Jay]

I've been spending the last several weeks reading and studying up on Cain. It is amazing that this pathological piece of shit could be seriously running for any political office, let alone President of the United States.

At every turn in his career without exception, Cain seems to have broken rules and laws in the most egregious manner possible.

He is an idiot and egomaniac who would be in a lunatic asylum in any civilized state in the world.

It occurs to me that a large section of the ruling capitalist class want to install this human plague at the top of the United States government in order to destroy it totally and allow capitalism free reign to wreck havoc on the planet.

It seems to me that it is the greatest irony that communists must defend the U.S. government from this nuclear destruction and radioactive waste called Herman Cain.

[Lucretia]

Let me guess. We'll stop him by voting for obama. This is the typical liberal line that every gop candidate supposedly posing an emergency threat. Preisdents by and large do what they are told by their paymasters. Peraonality quirks and intelligence matter little, except as a way to get people to vote against thei class interests.