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ROCK HILL, S.C. -- Speaking to reporters after a book signing here, Herman Cain said he would not “apologize” for going on a book tour during his presidential campaign, saying that book-signing events help him raise his national profile.
“I don’t apologize for these events at all and I’m going to do more of them as part of my campaign,” said Cain, who in recent days has surged in polls and won a straw poll in Minnesota today.
“Signing books helps to raise my name I.D.,” Cain said. “As a matter of fact it’s not inconsistent to be on a book tour signing books as well as campaigning. Because we have integrated campaign events along with events related to this.”
Cain noted that he also appeared on two TV shows this morning, which he said “complement” the word of mouth and media generated from today’s event, held at a Books-a-Million and attended by about 200 people.
“I consider that the whole package in terms of how I’m spending my time. So to pick out one instance or one event and say that’s not contributing, I don’t think so,” Cain said.
Cain also downplayed suggestions that he is a “flavor of the week” candidate with whom Republican voters are only temporarily enamored.
“I didn’t need to do this for visibility and exposure,” Cain said, citing the radio show he used to host, as well as his frequent Fox News appearances.
And, he added, “There’s a difference between the flavor of the week and the flavor of substance. “
“A lot of people can’t think about Herman Cain without thinking about 9-9-9, my economic growth and jobs plan. They think about my plan for dealing with the Social Security program, the Chilean model. They think about how I describe how we should approach the illegal immigration issue.
“I have put solutions on the table. It’s the substance that’s going to keep me from being a flavor of the week.”
The Cain campaign cancelled a second book signing scheduled for today at a Barnes and Noble in Spartanburg, South Carolina. A store clerk said the campaign cited a “family emergency” in cancelling the event, but Cain spokesman JD Gordon said there “was no family emergency” and that the event was cancelled because of a scheduling conflict.
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Here's a footnote of Herman's view on the unemployed;
I don't know about you - but I can't get enough of these compassionate Christians... lol
Listen to what Cain is saying. He claims to be a businessman. That is his strength. He is giving us the business now. He is selling a book and making money. Who does that in the middle of a presidential campaign. Understand that Cain never expected his sudden popularity, but he says things about blacks that a certain element of the republican party love to hear. You will note that no other racial or demographic group is singled out for denigration other than blacks. You will also note that they are allegedly brainwashed if they vote for democrats, and lost if they vote for republicans who have no interest in their interests. Once again, a lose-lose for blacks.
Frankly, I am amazed at the support Cain hsa received from right wing whites. I attribute this largely to a generally uninspiring cast of characters in the repulbican primary. But, it is what it is. The question is will it hold and can Cain raise the necessary money. I still find it hard to believe that the GOP really wants Cain in that top spot.
Romney is in a pickle. He cannot go at Cain too hard for risk of appearing to be racist and he already has that Mormon thing hanging over his head. They coulld use other candidates to attack Cain, but on what? He has no record and his personal life seems to be under close wraps.
The dynamics may be right for Cain, the principle one being the current occupant of the White House. There is so much anti-Obama sentiment on the right, most of it based on totally inaccurate assumptions, that they would be willing to give their kind of black a shot. I wonder about that, but I guess it is possible-see Clarence Thomas. But the GOP record on blacks in the leadership is dismal-see Watts, Powell, and Steele.
California Tom - Obama and lets not forget his trusty sidekick Joe Biden in 2012!
The problem with that argument is it only works with the feeble minded left. Conservatives don't care about skin hue.
Because they hate everyone with a skin color different than theirs equally?
Did he say 'Reat my book. My book is a goot one. It is not a bat one'?
I love the way Cain speaks. Straight forward and to the point. We need someone with some common sense in charge of this country for a change.
DBO:
Who TF are you to make fun of someones dialect? You are one of those undercover azz racist too that looms in the liberal party. Keep running your mouth, your true colors will come out. What is done in the dark always come to light.
We all know you voted for Obama to get a "feel good" high so that you can say "I'm not racist, I voted for the black man."
Oh I forgot; your best friend is black.
Al-2739446: "But the GOP record on blacks in the leadership is dismal-see Watts, Powell, and Steele."
hey Al, How is the Democrats " record on blacks" ?..........M.Waters, C.Rangel, Jackson-Lee, E. Holder........
Can anyone say perjury, govt. fraud and tax evasion???????
ITM- Oh, listen to YOU!
You don't know one goddamned thing about me, my color, or my 'best friend', and you want to talk about 'running one's mouth'?
Really?? What a joke YOU are, pal.
DBO;
I've been on here long enough to know exactly who you are and what you are.
What a .... joke you are. You talk a lot of shiznit but you are still trash in my book. Like I said, you can't hide, your shyt is out there and it is played out. I'm going to call all of you so-called "I love the blacks" liberals out.
Cain another of the I've got mine oh you don't have any? F__— You!
I'm going to call all of you so-called "I love the blacks" liberals out.
Well, I have to admit- there IS a common theme to just about every thing you post.
This is the typical line ofblog dribble that follows any Fiesty post.. Just click on the right block at the right lower corner of her post and select IGNORE THIS AUTHOR... and you will not have to read her commetns and all the following inherent dribble comments any more. It is a wonderful tool that MSNBC put into the blog to isolate people like Fiesty. Quit responding to her ridiculous and often irrelevant blog posts and she will go away from non-interest in her opinions.
Herman Cain's 9-9-9 plan sounds simple. It is a 9% business tax, 9% income tax on all and 9% National sales tax. However People making as little as $20,000 a year will not only pay an income tax they are not paying now but they will pay a 9% sales tax on everything including food.
The only tax deduction will be for charitable contributions. No more deduction on home loans – so much for rebuilding the new home business.
Dlenis, Ohilo!
What a disastrous policy Cain is hawking...'Only 9-9-9 and all the pizza boxes you can eat'.
Mr. 999 is only looking out for the XXSuper-rich!
Translation: I do not apologize for taking advantage of my 5 minutes of fame, just like Sarah Palin did, and make a few hundred of thousands of bucks along the way.....
You people will forget soon enough that I exist anyway....
These "Republican Hopefuls" can only throw their dumb rhetoric in South Carolina, where people are illiterate and jobless, and would listen to Bozo the clown with the same attention span as they listen to all of these tea baggers, just to have something to pass the time.....
Cain knows he doesn't really have a chance at being the president. He is using the time he is riding high on the wave to push his book sales. He is determined he will come out ahead one way or the other.
Obama has set the black people's progress back at least fifty years. Obama's incompetence and arrogant attitude along with wasteful spending of the taxpayers money has burnt a lot of his original supporters. His lies and scheming has resulted in the public's mistrust of politicians, especially this black president. It also has reflected mistrust with all black politicians.
We need a real leader to get us out of the situation Obama has gotten us into. Not a little community organizer or a pizza man.
The situation that Obama has gotten us into?
I remember now, it was President Obama who gave tax cuts in war time for the first time in our history and drove up our massive debt. Oh wait that was Bush and the republicans.
Then there was that crash in 2008 that President Obama caused. Oh wait that was before Obama was elected.
Then there was the recession that President Obama caused. Oh wait that was a result of the crash also before President Obama was elected.
At least we can blame President Obama for TARP and the bail-out of Wall Street. Oh wait that was before President Obama took office.
At least we can blame President Obama for no jobs bills. Oh, wait it is the republicans that have blocked or filibustered any bill to help America or jobs.
The real leaders that got us into this situation was the republicans and why on earth would we want to elect another one.
Firstall that'snot quite true. What is true is the 9-9-9- has no official estimates of how muchit would raise. Second,the plan is short onspeciifics about deductions. It may very well be that food, clothingandmedicine is taxed. That serices would be taxed. But the Hermanatior hasn't realsed spcifics at all. In fact, go to his web site andlook for the "nationally known economists" who supposeldy crated the plan-no body is there!
Wher eare the estaimates of what the plan wouild raise?
Some on else has a national sales tax plan already introuduced. that's Michelle Bachmann. We invite you to look at her plan too and compare. Michelle has kept a low profile because her plan relplaces the income tax- unlike Cain's that keeps it. And that's abig huge difference when it comes to budgeting.
Even the Ryanplan has nore details that Cain's plan. and here's a guy who was a Fereal Reserve Board Chair-and when Chirs Wallace of Fox News asked Cainto name one economist who baked his plan-he couldn't answer. Evenwith friendly media Cain clams up.
That says lots-and none of it good about Cain.
Arlin,
What I said above is what Cain said this morning on CNN’s “State of the Union”.
Just wait if Cain makes any more gains the evangelicals will tell us to turn 999 upside down.
LOL, i've been thinking that all along.
I'm also waiting on the "Carnival Barkers" formerly known as the MSM to ask Mr. Cain wheres his Birth Certificate. I have No idea where they'd get such an Idea tho!
Rick:".........ask Mr. Cain wheres his Birth Certificate."
Most of the time there is NO reason to ask someone where their birth cert. is because it's already on display for all to access (unlike in other cases!!). I am sure if there was an issue with Mr. Cain's birth cert., Eric Holder's attack machine would be all over it !
This guy has an advanced degree in mathematics and sat on the Federal Reserve Board. So why doesn't he "run the numbers" on a typical family of 4 with a gross family income of 55k a year and is carrying a 100K mortgage? Just asking! Comon you connie ginks run the numbers for us and explain em!
If the arithmetic don't add up, advanced mathematics can't make it add up.
torpedo -- you would not believe a conservative's answer, why not do the math yourself and tell us what you think the answer is, after all, if some of the nearly 50% not paying taxes would have to with this approach that might just fall into the category of everyone paying their fair share.
james:
[...some of the nearly 50% not paying taxes...]
This is simply not true. You are aware of the reason why (the number is more like 46%, but why quibble) aren't you?
It's because these Americans are living at or below the poverty line in this country. And to say that your fellow Americans "don't pay any taxes" is ignorant, to say the least. While these Americans don't contribute to our income tax rolls, they pay taxes in other forms such as sales tax, state, and local tax, and if they are lucky enough to have a job, payroll taxes and if they are lucky enought to still own their own home, property taxes. And they are still entitled to the SAME tax deductions enjoyed by you and me.
While you are most certainly entitled to your own opinion, you are most certainly NOT entitled to your own facts.
So, please don't perpetuate outright falsehoods...it does neither side any good.
Mickey,
Come on, you cant be serious. James was referring to Federal income taxes, period. And I beg to differ on the case that many are getting tax credits that give them refunds well in excess of anything they paid over the year. So not only do they not pay anything, they get a 4 or $5,000 check on top of that. I am sure this helps offsets the minor amount of taxes they pay in other areas.
Everyone enjoys the benefits of the government programs that taxes pay for. In most cases the poor receive a disproportionate amount of benefits now. But if all benefit from it, then all should pay for it. If the government wants to hand out more welfare, call it welfare, not a tax refund.
This is a calculated Democrat plan to get 50% of the population paying no taxes. What better voting base than those that are dependant on the governement for an existence and handouts. If you can get this percentage high enough, then you are always in power as they can outvote the suckers that have to pay for it. And then they can take whatever they want from the paying percentage as they have no representation. Sort of taxation without representation revisited. At this point the rich already pay disproportionately high percentage of the t axes in this country, and get a disproportionately low percentage of the benefits. The whole idea that they are not paying their fair share is absolute non-sense. They already pay more than they should.
Everyone should bear some burden to pay taxes for these programs. I, for one, am a big propenent of taxing welfare checks and having co-pays for welfare medical. I know it sounds idiotic to tax a handout, but unless there is a visible cost in the form of taxes, there is no conception of what the tax structure is and what these programs cost. Those on assistance see all this as "free", and do no use common sense and responsibility. I have seen many people on the medical card in the Hospital ER room because they have a cold. You would not see an insured individual doing that as the co-pay and deductible cost would prevent such a stupid choice, and the insurance would probably deny such an abuse. But the government pays it in full and allows such insanity. EBT food stamps people have their carts loaded with T-Bones, shrimp, chips, soda and every other name brand goodie known to man. Common people are buying Hamburger and generics.
Maybe it is time everyone bears the costs, these abuses of handouts are ended, and the tax system stops being a secondary welfare program.
And we need to stop the practice of buying a voting majority by making less than 50% of the population pay for all of it. Every year the amount of people not paying FEDERAL taxes grows, as part of the Democrat grand scheme to buy a voting majority. They are close enough now that another term may push it to the point where any equality and common sense is impossible to achieve. It is already dangerously close to 50%, and getting closer every year. Once it bridges this level, there will be no way to turn it back or stop the soaking of the paying population to support buying the votes of the non-paying percentage.
ABO 2012
Mickey,
Come on, you cant be serious. James was referring to Federal income taxes, period. And I beg to differ on the case that many are getting tax credits that give them refunds well in excess of anything they paid over the year. So not only do they not pay anything, they get a 4 or $5,000 check on top of that. I am sure this helps offsets the minor amount of taxes they pay in other areas.
Everyone enjoys the benefits of the government programs that taxes pay for. In most cases the poor receive a disproportionate amount of benefits now. But if all benefit from it, then all should pay for it. If the government wants to hand out more welfare, call it welfare, not a tax refund.
This is a calculated Democrat plan to get 50% of the population paying no taxes. What better voting base than those that are dependant on the governement for an existence and handouts. If you can get this percentage high enough, then you are always in power as they can outvote the suckers that have to pay for it. And then they can take whatever they want from the paying percentage as they have no representation. Sort of taxation without representation revisited. At this point the rich already pay disproportionately high percentage of the t axes in this country, and get a disproportionately low percentage of the benefits. The whole idea that they are not paying their fair share is absolute non-sense. They already pay more than they should.
Everyone should bear some burden to pay taxes for these programs. I, for one, am a big propenent of taxing welfare checks and having co-pays for welfare medical. I know it sounds idiotic to tax a handout, but unless there is a visible cost in the form of taxes, there is no conception of what the tax structure is and what these programs cost. Those on assistance see all this as "free", and do no use common sense and responsibility. I have seen many people on the medical card in the Hospital ER room because they have a cold. You would not see an insured individual doing that as the co-pay and deductible cost would prevent such a stupid choice, and the insurance would probably deny such an abuse. But the government pays it in full and allows such insanity. EBT food stamps people have their carts loaded with T-Bones, shrimp, chips, soda and every other name brand goodie known to man. Common people are buying Hamburger and generics.
Maybe it is time everyone bears the costs, these abuses of handouts are ended, and the tax system stops being a secondary welfare program.
And we need to stop the practice of buying a voting majority by making less than 50% of the population pay for all of it. Every year the amount of people not paying FEDERAL taxes grows, as part of the Democrat grand scheme to buy a voting majority. They are close enough now that another term may push it to the point where any equality and common sense is impossible to achieve. It is already dangerously close to 50%, and getting closer every year. Once it bridges this level, there will be no way to turn it back or stop the soaking of the paying population to support buying the votes of the non-paying percentage.
ABO 2012
And I beg to differ with that statement.
A non-partisan academic study group has found that the credits, write-offs, deductions and shelters the wealthy use to calculate tax liability results in an excess of one trillion dollars per year that they avoid paying on their tax bill! ONE TRILLION DOLLARS PER YEAR, primarily for the upper income (wealthy) citizens that is not remitted to our government... and they want additional rate reductions and deductions and write-offs?
I don't think so. PASS THE PRESIDENT'S BILL so this nation can get back on track economically!
Time for your smarten up America lesson in the ABC's. It is fun, it is simple, it is something every school child knows. Everytime you see ABC you will think of this lesson.
Most of all it is what is best for America.
If you love America vote for Anybody But Conservatives.
ABC 2012
You mistook my statement, I did not pretend there were not credits taken by the rich. But these credits only reduce their tax burdens, not pay them money they never paid in. And it ialready fair to say these folks are taxed enough, because the current system, even with all these "credits" they take, has the top 10% of earners paying 70% of the federal tax receipts for the country. So you want to eliminate credits so they can pay 80 or 90% of the burden? I find it hypocritical that BHO can talk about "skin in the game" when the tax code is already structured like Robbin Hood.
The credits I refer to are for the population who currently already pay no tax, and these credits pay them cash in excess of this $0 liability.
If you can point out where the rich have a credit that does anything other than reduce their tax burden, you will have a rebuttal point.
And, as I am not familar with the credits the rich receive, I would assume each of them are credits to encourage activities which produce ecomonic growth. While I hear about tax loopholes and credits the rich are receiving, I have yet to hear what these credits are actually for. Can you enlighten me on this?
And AF, if you have an intelligent reason to believe your ABC crap, give it. You sound like a bumper sticker and never bring any intelligent conversation to the front, only your bumber stick sayings. At least when I spout my ABO, I have bring some points where I believe his class warfare, tax structure, and perpetuating handouts are destroying our country. Do you have anything intelligent to say why you believe conservatism is a bad thing? You can list things to blame GWB and previous administrations all day long, What has BHO done other than pass a stimulus monster that nearly bankrupted us, and accomplished nothing other than downgrading our nations credit rating? And dont say the downgrade was the GOP fault, as the GOP passed the only legislation (by the S&Ps own admission) that would have avoided the downgrade. It was cut cap and balance. Dems killed it. So BHO owns the credit downgrade, the huge debt runup, and the business climate due to his regulations and pending Obamacare burden. He made promises of ending the wars in Iraq and Afganistan. He ended neither, increased the cost in Afganistan a huge amount, then entered another war we did not need to be in (Libya). And in Libya, we spent money to topple a government and install another one will be no more friendly to us than the previous one. Seems like money well spent there. All these Arab uprisings have left us in a worse postition in that area of the world. What was our reason to get involved in Libya?
So why to you pretend it is "Best for America"? So far it has us on life support. and any more of this medicine will kill us.
I am conservative because I am tired of the government spending money on programs which it cannot possibly afford and never addressing this issue. We cannot continue to borrow 40 cents on every dollar we spend. And all the tax increases on the rich you want will not put this in balance. I believe we punish the most successfull of our population, and are looking to do it even more so. I believe the federal governement is regulating things they have no business regulating, and are killing our potential for growth and continued excellence. I believe the interference in the free markets have contributed to the disaster we are in and the attempts to make it better have made it worse. Letting the markets cure themselves may be painfull, but not as painfull as what we are doing as it is prolonging the process. I believe BHO has been the most divisive president we have ever had, and is also the worst (sorry Jimmy Carter, you are now #2). And I will agree GWB did us no favors. But he is not exactly a shining example of conservatism either. So using his mistakes and recession figures have little impact on me, as I disapproved of his final 4 years in office (altough still think he was better than Gore or Kerry would have been). But BHO knew what he was inheriting. He sold a grand plan to "fix" it and keep unemployment from getting out of hand. He had a supermajority and could (and did) pass anything he wanted without any GOP support needed. And all we got for the deal is bailouts, massive debt, and record unemployement as well as a nervous business envirnment where business is paralysed waiting to find out what he will do next to demonize them and rob or regulate them further. And he expects they will expand and hire in the face of his adminsitration? Hiring will not come online until he is replaced. Re-elect him and suffer another 4 years of the same at a minimum. And now he wants more money and second chance to get it right? Wants us to trust him with even more money for his "plan"? No thanks. We remember full well the first plan and what it did for us (NOTHING). The only shovel ready projects he had were cleaning up the BS after his speaches.
So what has he accomplished that has made you want to keep him?
ABO 2012
Americans First: "If you love America vote for Anybody But Conservatives."
Let's compare: Conservatives only want us to live within our means and not go further in debt to the Chinese ! On the other hand, YOUR "love of America" looks like Greece !
Get out your gas masks, libbies, because the Greeks are rioting in the streets. That's what happens when there is NO money left.
ABO 2012
The riots in Greece are kind of lame, we have better riots after the Superbowl.
Can we read between the lines when a moron like Cain is gaining on his Repugnicant competitors?
The whole field should be flushed after wiping.
The real question is if his candidacy is really to sell books. How many people do you suppose would even want his book if he were not a presidential candidate? It would end up on the discount rack at the book stores so fast that even the unemployed that Mr. Cain disdains could buy it by the end of the month.
He is a legitimate candidate. Other candidates also have books, and doesnt BHO have a couple of books? I am sure at the end of 2012, we can those from BHO on the discount shelves.....
He speaks well (without a teleprompter) and has some good common sense approaches. He embodies the spirit of the TP and for all intents and purposes is a conservative. He is not a career politician and represents more of type candidate the reasonable population desires.
And if everyone was so concerned about numbers, how is it that BHO gets a pass on a Stimulus program that, by his own projections, would keep unemployment below 8% while we spent record amounts of money we did not have? There have been no policies that BHO has put forth that live up to the numbers they project.
He is a likeable candidate, and while he was not my first choice, the more I hear from him, the more I like him. Hopefully he can keep it going and not implode as other candidates have done. But if it is him versus BHO, I cannot see how he does not win when people actually hear him speak, listen to his common sense approach, and know that he could not be any worse than BHO was...
ABO 2012
ABC 2012, easy to remember and it is whats best for our country.
Vote for Anybody But Conservatives
The smartest people not only know their ABC's but vote ABC.
ABC 2012
dsdsherm: ".......listen to his common sense approach, and know that he could not be any worse than BHO was..."
The key word here is "LISTEN". That's why Mr. Cain said that most black voters are " brain washed. " People don't want to even LISTEN. So, what should we call it??
The more I see of these GOP jokers, the better President Obama looks for a second term.
JoAnn, ".......the better President Obama looks for a second term."
That would absolutely put the nail in the coffin of this economy. Do you want to look like Greece and riot in the streets? What's so hard to understand about this............. THE MONEY RAN OUT !
Why would anyone expect Cain to apologize for promoting his book? He's in it for the money anyway. He's said some pretty vile and nasty things, and has yet to apologize for any of them. And now he's shot up in the polls. He, and the whole Republican Party, is one big joke.
DEE-752177, I guess you forgot that Obama wrote some books. Was he " in it for the money" too?! Mr.Cain has never said anything "vile" unless you call the TRUTH vile. Mr. Cain is a NO B.S. talker ( unlike Obama, who's a natural at it ). Put the kool aid down, sober up and LISTEN to what is being said.
Just saw "The Daily Rundown." I think the show should have a new name - "The Daily Rundown on Rick Perry."
I am a President Obama supporter but am also an avid political junkie who likes everything and every show about this GOP campaign. This morning there were numerous stories on Rick Perry - even one resurrecting Perry's "good" debate footage from 20 years ago!!
But I didn't hear anything about Perry getting only 8% of the Values vote over the weekend. Or that Herman Cain got three times that much with 23%. Or that Cain won another straw poll over the weekend.
The only real talk about Cain was during the panel segment where Cain's viability as a real candidate was debated. How elitist can these reporters be? THEY will determine if a candidate is viable?? Look, I imagine no one is more surprised about his rise in the polls and his winning multiple straw polls than is Herman Cain! If he isn't as organized as a Romney or Perry isn't that understandable? But is that a reason to call him a "gadfly?"
Again, I support President Obama. But I like to see basic fairness in coverage. Perry has lost 50% of his support in the polls since his September 22 Fox debate and his "rock" incident. He has won no straw polls. Cain, on the other hand, has jumped into a tie with Romney in some polls and has won the Florida straw poll as well as several others, and come in second in the Values one this past Saturday.
So why the obsessive coverage of Perry??
Monetfan,
Because just like always the MSM is attempting to hand pick the GOP candidate. And they have chosen Romney. By continually bashing Perry and negleting to acknowlege or include Cain, they are giving Romney a boost. They bring our poll after poll which shows Romney in a dead heat with BHO, to give the impression he is the GOPs best shot at a viable candidate.
Reality says once a candidate is named on the GOP side, they will poll just fine against BHO as a good percentage of the population has already made up their mind they will vote for anyone against him. The media is pulling for Romney as he is the most center of the road candidate. The more right the candidate the more they will get torn apart in the media (see Bachman).
I personally think Romney will fix nothing. He would be better than BHO, and I would vote for him if he were the candidate. I just hope he is not, as others would be a better choice to make the kind of decisions that are needed to fix this mess.
But the obsessive coverage of Perry is to prop up Romney, plain and simple.
ABO 2012
dsdsherm, I agree and will add this. The MSM crowd will never cover Herman Cain to a large degree because they want black people to vote against the GOP period (does that sound like a "brainwash" to anyone ? ) . If people start to really listen to Mr.Cain, they will have to agree..........HE MAKES COMMON SENSE !
LISTEN UP and then decide for yourself.
Just reading through this thread, it appears that the liberals in this conversation are allowed to profile and stereotype to their hearts content. Conservatives are racist. Conservatives are uncaring. Conservatives are greedy and shallow. Conservatives are out to oppress everyone else.........Grow up. You would shout the roof down if the same type of profiling and generalization were used to label the liberal crowd. If conservatives were to say that all liberals are murderers of babies and to claim that they were less than Christian and caring because they feel that abortion should, not only be allowed, but be paid for by everyone else. Conservatives are not only the wealthiest and most successful, but are conservative because they want a world that has reasonable ethics about how we treat one another. They want real equality, where everyone has a chance to succeed from their own effort and merit, not the dole.
@Leona: When, please tell me when, you have ever heard any other candidate besides President Obama asked to verify his birth certificate. It is just the "SOS" of the Repubs, make a black man show his papers. Now they want to limit everyone's voting rights if you don't bring along your baptismal records (god help you if you're not baptised), your marriage certificate (god help you if you've never been married, or your spouse has been dead for 50 years), your passport (god help you if you've never been out of the country). What is wrong with you people? You say you believe in freedom and the constitution? But you want to step on everyone else's rights. And you belittle the rest of the American people who aren't the exact same cloned replica of you! That 96 year old black woman who tried to vote, brought with her her birth certificate, bills in her name and address, her social security card, and several other things, but was turned away because she didn't have her marriage certificate with her. It is hard to believe how far Republicans will stoop!
Cathy,
Why must you libbie's make everything about race? I could care that BHO is black. Actually hadn't noticed until you pointed it out. The only reason the Birth Cirtificate was an issue was BHO refused to release it as a candidate and went through some fairly elaborate means to prevent its release.
So he made it into an issue as this prevention of its release led to the illusion of something being an issue with it. Had he just released it as a candidate, as all other candidates would and did, it would not have been an issue. His father was not a US citizen, he lived oversaeas, so it would be more of an issue than for someone with US citizen parents who lived in the US all their life. And anyone else would have just produced the document when asked. Why didnt he?
And the only reason we want to have documentation for someone to vote is to prevent all the dead people and illegals the Acorn folks recruit to the polls.
And maybe that 96 year old black lady was voting GOP? How do you know her voting affliliation and that the policy was not hurting the GOP? Or is it just a racist assumption on your part that she was going to vote Dem?
You people who support BHO, what is wrong with you people?
ABO 2012
9% of $100,000 a year may not make a big difference, but 9% of $10,000 a year? That could be the difference between having a roof over ones head and living on the street.