BDBoop
Platinum Member
- Banned
- #1
Congratulations, Mr. Cain!
Long ties to Koch brothers key to Cain’s campaign - The Washington Post
Lord, I do love the internet. It's hard to pull the wool over people's eyes when they have instant access to full disclosure.
And in other news;
Herman Cain Newsweek Profile: Calls Obama 'Terrible,' Fires Back at Critics - The Daily Beast
Oh, yeah. This is going to be oodles of fun.
Long ties to Koch brothers key to Cain’s campaign - The Washington Post
Cains campaign manager and a number of aides have worked for Americans for Prosperity, or AFP, the advocacy group founded with support from billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, which lobbies for lower taxes and less government regulation and spending. Cain credits a businessman who served on an AFP advisory board with helping devise his 9-9-9 plan to rewrite the nations tax code. And his years of speaking at AFP events have given the businessman and radio host a network of loyal grassroots fans.
The once little-known businessmans political activities are getting fresh scrutiny these days since he soared to the top of some national polls.
His links to the Koch brothers could undercut his outsider, non-political image among tea party fans who detest politics as usual and candidates connected with the party machine.
Lord, I do love the internet. It's hard to pull the wool over people's eyes when they have instant access to full disclosure.
And in other news;
Herman Cain Newsweek Profile: Calls Obama 'Terrible,' Fires Back at Critics - The Daily Beast
Cain has spent most of his life individualizing the message of the civil-rights movement and insisting color should not play a role in modern politics. But such a view may begin to sound naive if his candidacy continues to alienate African-Americans. In the past week, Cain has had to fend off challenges from multiple black luminaries, including Cornell West, who accused Cain of coldness toward poor people, and Syracuse professor Boyce Watkins, who on CNN called him the perfect racist.
Georgetown professor Michael Eric Dyson told Newsweek he thinks of Cain as Jimmy Stewart in blackface. Hes Mr. Smith goes to Washington. The good ol boy you just love. Hes the black man white people would prefer over Obama, and hes the black man that is more like them and who thinks like them. He makes them feel they arent racist because they support him at this level and not Obama.
Singer and civil-rights activist Harry Belafonte, who made headlines when he called Cain a bad apple during a recent interview with Joy Behar, says its impossible to accept Cain as a black candidate with those politics. Im pretty sure African-Americans dont take Cain seriously, but Im not sure about white people, Belafonte tells Newsweek. They believe this black man is the real deal. He isnt. Anyone who says what he says isnt.
Cain has fired back at his criticsand in doing so, only inflamed the controversy. Hes been on that banana boat too long, he says in response to Belafonte, accusing the 84-year-old performer of trying to intimidate people of color who might even consider supporting his candidacy. Harry Belafonte called me a bad apple. Now he knows hes not going to shut me up. And speaking to other media outlets earlier this week, he said West had been in academia too long and was hung up on symbolic stuff.
Oh, yeah. This is going to be oodles of fun.