I think Rep Clyburn is knit-picking here.... I would give Cain a pass on this one...

...but seriously, with a history of sexual harassment accusations against him, shouldn't he know any better? I cringed when I heard him say that yesterday; I don't think it was meant in a derogatory way as rep Clyburn is suggesting, I just think it's the way Cain talks (good ol boy)... and you would think, if you were the CEO of a corporation, you better damn well know better than to use certain phrases - especially ones that can be construed as sexist.

I worked in an engineering firm for a number of years, and we had to seat a through 30min course once a year so as to remind us of this fact, I just wonder why the CEO of a corporation hasn't kicked these old habits.. it can lead to being sued... or accusations. I just hope he does not slab Hillary Clinton's butt, as in a got-get-em moment. LOL. Now that would be funny.

This idiot puts the 'M' in misogynist when he's not busy putting the 'V' in victim!

Bat @!$%# crazy Bachmann would make the ideal VP for him, she's had plenty of practice being submissive!

Cain/Bachmann 2012!

You are right, Feisty. The sad thing about the GOP is that they all seem to have the mindset that women should be seen, not heard. Their policies and views would turn the clock back for women to the middle ages. (Sorry, I get a little wound up on the women's right subject.)

(Sorry, I get a little wound up on the women's right subject.)

phinephancy - you will get no argument out of me - I feel the same way! ;o)

PS: Are you having red or white this evening?

A nice pinot grigio. I fixed mahi mahi for dinner.

I fixed mahi mahi for dinner.

Sounds yummy!

We're having some of my legendary chili! ;o)

It snowed here today - there was no way I was going to head to the grill... lol

Doing chili tomorrow. It is going to cold here (sorry, I think 60 is cold). Hubby has some homemade Irish Stout beer that will perfect with it.

Lasagne w/a fruity sangria.

Republicans! Cain needs your money. Please keep donating to this Koch brother from another mother. Help him reach $10 million and then on to $20 million. Cain/Perry 2012. "I am America! One voice. United . . . "

Yes I've been singing since Tuesday night!

Tunde Akins:

I think Rep Clyburn is knit-picking here.... I would give Cain a pass on this one...

Not on your life. That was NO accident, and was not worthy of a "pass." Tell me what Herman Cain has ever done to earn one.

Cain's disrespect for women comes through in every word he says, the tone of his voice, and his body language.

Tunde Akins:

I just think it's the way Cain talks (good ol boy)

And "good old boy" is exactly why he doesn't get a pass. You either, if that's how you think.

Seriously.

Oh no! You mean all these years I have been calling my daughter-in-law and granddaughters "princesses" I have been sexually harassing them??? And I am a heterosexual female. Oh, the guilt I am feeling. Actually, Princess Pelosi is quite a nice thing to call her considering what most of the citizenry think about her :)

Only in the Progressive world would "Bless her heart" be considered demeaning. You Progressives are flipping nuts! I have seen the worst vitriol coming out of Progressive/Democrats/liberal mouths (or hands typing) than I have seen anywhere, ever.

And I am a heterosexual female. Oh, the guilt I am feeling. Actually, Princess Pelosi is quite a nice thing to call her considering what most of the citizenry think about her :)

If only he had meant it nicely.

By the way, I don't like her much myself.

But have you ever heard anyone call John Boehner "prince"? Got any idea why not?

Are you really as clueless as you sound?

Oh, la de dahhh. You liberals are way too much. I'll be the bad guy here... she's Princess Pelosi. The liberal darling. The beloved fairy dust democrat that has a plastic face.

This PC crap has gone too far. You do realize that pushing this PC crap limits your speech and that's exactly what liberals want... limited speech. You can't say anything about anyone because they might be offended. Scratch that... Anyone not a liberal can't say anything about anyone else or they are an assortment of names... and the liberals can freely call anyone a name just because a liberal says so.

Excuse me while I go outside and YAK.

Getting wound up over the subject of women's rights? When President Obama walks through the chamber for the State of the Union, or through the crowd at a speech, he shakes hands with the men and kisses the women. Any one else find that demeaning and inappropriate?

Well the good news is that Cain is not losing the support of republican primary voters, he is giving Romney a run for his money, but Romney is the republican candidate that polls the most competitively in a head to head match-up with Obama, Cain is now polling double digits behind Obama in a head to head match-up. Stay in it to win it Hermann, because if you win it from Romney, you lose it big time to Obama.

Well you miss the point Brian it is called PC because that is exactly what it is politics, you are trying to win people over, politicians are better off kissing babies, that just works better than telling some mother her baby is too ugly to kiss. No matter what his position is on issues, people just have a hell of a hard time voting for someone they just don't like as a person. Nobody understood that any better than the amiable dunce, Ronald Reagen.

Herman Cain has no respect for women, and neither do other right-wing hacks like Rush Limbaugh, likewise Shock Jocks like Howard Stern, and even conservative women from Ann Coulter to Michele Bachmann. Here we are in the 21st century and we still have to listen to this degradation and attacks on women's rights. Enough.

@ Brian b,

Mr. Cain, in the midst of a debate, threw out the adjective"princess" to describe his take on the Speaker Pelosi and the Democratic majority in Congress at that time.

It has nothing to do with political correctness. It was a adjective to demean the woman who had the most powerful position ever in the history of the House of Representatives.

Mr. Cain worked his way up to senior management at Pillsbury Co. It makes me wonder how he described the women who were collegues or bosses that he disagreed with.

He did retract using that adjective after the debate... but too late, Mr. Cain.

Brian, adding the phase"plastic face" is beneath you. but if you want to continue:how would you describe the face of the former Speaker of the House who was on the stage last night, Mr. Gingrich?

Anna Molly,

And "good old boy" is exactly why he doesn't get a pass. You either, if that's how you think.

Seriously.

I've always been 99.9999% in agreement with most of what you've said.... but here I find myself disagreeing with you on this particular topic... I completely decry Cain calling Pelosi "Princess"...and giving him a pass for being a "good ol boy" does not mean I gave a him a pass for being an idiot who lacks manners and proper etiquette. Being a "good ol boy" is enough of a problem by itself that I'm not too concerned about Cain's vernacular - I've come to expect that he will sometimes be crude along with most southern GOP politicians... My thoughts were that this is not that much important of a story for Rep Clyburn to be digging himself into... I used the term knit-picking because I think Clyburn is being overly sensitive to Cain's language - I think it was a poor choice of word and we needed to just move on.

For instance, he came out an apologized today, did it make anyone feel better? probably not.. is he still a good ol boy? damn straight? will he still have the wrong language ingrained is his verbiage, probably for the rest of his life. Rep Clyburn is just too big a person in the congress to be getting involved in little things like this... he should have just let the media do what the media does.

Coming from Clyburn who has to be one of the stupidist blacks in Congress and who's wife declared poverty so she could get a public defender in her legal case, this guy is typical of the dumb hypocritical mass of Left Wing idiots that present here, be careful what you wish for, the Soviet model is closer than ou think and not by your choice, due to Obummers profligacy and the out of control spending, the currency is going to crash, stocks will be worthless and houses will be worthless, yjen we can all live in poverty, not just the wretched 99%! Mr? I'm taking up farming!

At least Herman did not use the four letter word that I usually use! Most women really hate that word, unless you are messing with it of course, good for Cain, it's about time someone called that hypocritical old Bi^*c what she really is, having to have her own Air Force plane, that's what I dont get about you liberals, you decry the rich and envy them but you deperately want al the trappings associated with wealth but on the taxpayers dime, just like the Obummers acting like Jed Clempett but on our dime, Michelle has spent more than 200 million dollars on vacations alone abnd it's our money!!! Any clown can spend or waste someone else's money!

At least Herman did not use the four letter word that I usually use! Most women really hate that word, unless you are messing with it of course, good for Cain, it's about time someone called that hypocritical old Bi^*c

That is one sick comment. Crawl back under whatever rock you emerged from.

[He did retract using that adjective after the debate... but too late, Mr. Cain.]

Cain's "apology" was a half-assed attempt to placate the media "so you all could stop asking [me] about it, okay?"

Here's the exchange between Hermie and a reporter:

CAIN: I apologize for calling her Princess Pelosi. If that’s the biggest story you all want, okay, I apologize. I apologize for calling her Princess Pelosi. I didn’t see anybody, you know, I remember when Speaker Pelosi called me and the tea party people AstroTurf. I don’t remember anybody asking about that story.

REPORTER: Why do you apologize? Is it insensitive to call her that?

CAIN: So you all could stop asking me about it, okay?

Keith Wishful:

At least Herman did not use the four letter word that I usually use!

No wonder you're wishful. Desperate, more like it.

Clueless, without a doubt.

Tunde Akins:

For instance, he came out an apologized today, did it make anyone feel better? probably not.

No. You know he didn't mean it. Good old boy AND hypocrite.

Your defending him makes me sad.

@Candice,

Would you prefer he kissed the men and shaked hands with the women? I'd prefer a peck on the cheek if he was my CIC. A handshake is too formal for me. But that's just me. To each his own, I guess.

Since both comments Mr. Clyburn made are factual, what's your point? That we can trust Mr. Clyburn? Yes we know we can. The liberal media suspends people for disrespectful comments. Only Fox News loves making disrespectful comments. And if those people working at Fox News are willing to break the law to get a great story? They'll be promoted and given a wonderful future with Murdoch's Mafia empire. That's not my opinion. That is factual also.

I take it Bob, that it is perfectly alright with you to be disrespectful to women. Sad one had to give birth to you.

Sad one had to give birth to you.

I'm under the impression booby was hatched rather than being 'birthed'! ;o)

So, "Bob"...maybe you can explain why Clyburn's statements you highlighted above are disrespectful?

[Mr Clyburn called the Tea Party "racists".]

You've seen the pictures of the Obama as Hitler images, as well as the other racially charged signs at some of those Tea Party rallys, have you not?

I'm sure there are many First Read forum users here that can show you a few if you conveniently "can't find any". And remember...NOBODY from the Tea Party bothered to refudiate* these comments or actions, while some seemed to even condone the behavior.

[Mr. Clyburn blamed conservatives for the shooting of Gabby Giffords.]

"Bob", you are simply a liar on this one...Clyburn blamed "conservative rhetoric" for Giffords shooting. And if you refuse to acknowledge the connection between Sharron Angle's Second Amendment remedies, and Sarah Palin's infamous "bulls eye" page from her very own website, your problems are much bigger than playing the role of "ointment fly".

So, "Bob"...in your defense, explain why Mr. Clyburn's comments are "disrespectful".

(* "Refudiate" compliments of the dim bulb, Sarah "Qwitter" Palin)

with everything we have seen this week from Election Day to the congressman screaming at his own constituants to the debate, it looks like the 't' party is over

Rep Jim Clyburn is one of our national treasures. He was quite upset with Mr Cain for the disrespect he showed towards former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who as he said, has earned and worked hard to eventually be Speaker of the House. One may disagree with her policies, and not particularly like her because she is a Democrat, it still does not excuse rudeness and disrespect. As Mr Clyburn said to day, a Southern gentleman does not do some thing like that.

And while he didn't say so, I suspect Mr Clyburn was rather embarrassed by Mr Cain's behavior.

LOL! Since AnnaBanana doesn't "get the point" already.........time would be wasted on trying to explain it.

Cain and other republican candidates have the political problem of having to come up with cute remarks directed at democrats to throw a little red meat to the people they need to vote for them in the republicans primaries, however at the same time they run the risk of insulting many of the people that they will need to vote for them later to win in the general election. You can complain all you want about PC, but Cain comes off as an ass to a great deal of people who he should want to convince that he is presidential material, to me and many others he clearly is not, and whether anybody else likes him or not does not matter, he has to personally convince voters of that now, because if they make up their minds now, he probably won't be able to change them a year from now. One more thing, if I was going to give Hermann Cain some political advice I would tell him to lose the pimp hat, in light of all his current political woes regarding his attitudes and dealings with women it's not helping.

LYN,KCMO. i believe you got it exactly right, this extreme right is a bunch of loose nuts, they scare a lot people

No, Lyn, KCMO, what is really scary is the fact that you believe whatever you hear and read that the liberal media wishes. I can tell you two right off the bat...........the audience DID NOT boo a gay soldier - that was a twisted lie by the liberal media. Listen to the complete clip yourself - don't be lazy. The audience also did not cheer the "letting the 30 year old man with no insurance die". Again, listen to the clip. Try thinking for yourself and get your head out of the lying mainstream media.

And that goes for glory castle.......and the rest of you lazy progressives that can't do your own research. I wish you guys would start your own country - in a land far, far away - where you can just live in your la la world.

OMG, michigan patsy,...you are completely full of crap

I have listened to the Let Him Die clip at least a dozen times and SEVERAL members in the audience whooped and yelled YEAH,...

By any chance are you part of the team rewriting the history books in Texas? Because, that's exactly the stunt you appear to be pulling. Just DOWNRIGHT trolltastic of you.

Lyn,

The repubs couldn't find an audience to fill their halls so they brought over the audience from the Jerry Springer show.

And we won't let anyone know that michigan patriot has the IQ of a turnip.

Man up Keith, you're a woman in drag trying to pretend you're a man.

No woman, even dressed as a man could be this stupid,...well, maybe JAS, nojo and leona,...nah,...not even them.

Keith Wishful,...your fear of emasculation wouldn't by chance lead you to defend Sandusky, would it? Yeah, those old patriarchal stereotypes are ALIVE and well.