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Subscribe to RSSMURFREESBORO, Tenn. - Herman Cain became the latest candidate to get the "Occupy Wall Street" treatment while addressing students at Middle Tennessee State University tonight.
A hand full of members from the mostly student crowd stood up and chanted "We are the 99 percent" in the middle of Cain's speech, which was to be about leadership and not politics. Another member of the crowd yelled "sexual abuse is not acceptable."
But the chants were mostly drawn out by booing from other students who told the protestors to "shut up" and leave. The exchange did not last much longer than a minute, and Cain stood smirking at the podium as the protestors exited the lecture hall.
"I committed to dean that I'm not going to address any political issues today. But do you know how tempting that is?" said Cain.
The presidential candidate was first approached about visiting campus almost a year ago, organizers said. They commended Cain for keeping the commitment in the wake of the new found attention his bid for the presidency has brought him.
"The way attribute it was, they wanted to disrupt my party because they couldn't attract anyone to come listen to them talk," said Cain. "Don't be embarrassed that those young people wanted to stand up and talk about that they're part of the 99, the 99%. We have freedom of speech, some people simply abuse it."
Occupy Wall Street protestors similarly interrupted a Michele Bachmann campaign event in South Carolina last month as well as a President Obama speech in New Hampshire.
But the focus of Cain's remarks was centered on his own leadership style and ascent to CEO of Godfather's Pizza. Though he said he would remain apolitical, the former Georgia businessman generically addressed some of the jabs taken his taken throughout the campaign. At one point Cain said leaders do not have all the answers, but they surround themselves with people who do -- a remark made on the trail when addressing critiques about his lack of foreign policy experience.
The embattled presidential candidate gave no new hints as to the future of his campaign, which he told staff this week he would be reassessing his campaign after a Georgia woman claimed to have carried on a 13-year affair with him.
Earlier today Cain met with the New Hampshire Union Leader, where he said in an interview that he repeatedly gave money to the alleged mistress without his wife's knowledge. Cain has said he'll need to have a face-to-face conversation with his wife before he decides if and how his presidential bid will continue.
That conversation will likely happen Friday evening when Cain returns home to Atlanta.
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Nothing really to comment on here. Think I'll go watch some T.V.
Cain said "We have freedom of speech, some people simply abuse it". How the hell does one abuse their Constitutional rights? The protesters, no matter how misguided, have every right to speak their minds and to protest.
When you $hit on the American flag, police cars, assult officers, trash out public and private property,take over parks without permits, disrupt other peoples lives, traffic, rape, murder steal, just to start with!
@thunder - your spin on the occupiers is pretty stupid. Yes the front page news is about occupiers pillaging our country daily - GET A LIFE.
I will tell you who sh..its on the American flag DAILY - the TPGOP who continue to ignore what the American people want everyday they obstruct job creation.
@H8theHYPE: You do realize that the government can't actually create jobs, right???
LMAO this is a movement, I just took a much larger one!
I thought these idiot's went home even Omsnbc hasn't been reporting on these, dare I say idiot's, oops I already did.
Give it a rest. So if the government doesn't create jobs then why are the republicans trying to kill 200,000 government jobs?
Shouldn't we be trying to create and keep jobs and not killing 200,000 jobs? Everybody and I mean everybody is supposed to sacrifice except the 1%.
Norquist that random person somehow got in and was addressing the republicans. I didn't know that just any random person could do that. I seem to remember that the President of our country had a hard time getting in to speak to congress. But any old random person like Norquist just walks in and demands allegiance to Norquist in his goal to destroy America.
Bonner in his own words doesn't even know the fiscal implications of raising taxes on the working poor and middle class and didn't seem to care. Apparently the republicans didn't have a clue what it would do to the economy to give even more tax cuts to wealthy during war time. Even now they want to give more tax cut to the rich still without a clue as to what it will to do our country.
Then the clueless republicans want to claim everybody but them are brainwashed.
"They commended Cain for keeping the commitment in the wake of the new found attention his bid for the presidency has brought him."
Excuse me???
Political or apolitical, what could this person possibly add to the quality of education at this University???Free speech is one thing, but the choice of Herman Cain as a speaker at a university doesn't say much about an effort to encourage positive role models.
Untill you have proof instead of hearsay, unnamed sources, etc, your socialist lib murder of Herman Cains Character really sucks! You have jumped on the bandwagon to hang this man like the real racists you are since the begining! It all started on innuendoes and unnamed sources and charges and now all of a sudden you have a pig that has many sexual lawsuits against various people, money problems and she happens to live in the same building as hussain obama's former pathological lieing chief of staff! You should look beyond msnbc for your fake news!
@thunder
Set all of the sexual dalliances aside - Cain is a misogynistic, arrogant narcissist. He has made a continued fool out of himself trying to answer questions that are directly related to running our country. He is a wanna be nobody who will, I GUARANTEE, write a book about how he was mistreated.
The right that continue to support these fools are fools themselves. The old family value creed that is NOT upheld has handed Obama the election on a silver platter.
WOW!
Talk about reflection...
Why didn't you heed your own words in 1.2 above? Jist askin'
Nobody but Cain destroyed his reputation. Cain has admitting knowing her and has admitting giving her money for 13 years all without his wife's knowledge. If that is not facts then I don't know what is.
For someone who thinks everyone else should be responsible for their failures if they don't have a job, Cain seems to want to blame everyone but himself if he doesn't get the nomination for the job he wants.
If Cains wife has more class and common sense than he does
She will tell him "Game over, quit making a bigger a$$ of yourself"
It is very interesting to me that the Libbies embrace the Occupy Wall Street thugs yet are afraid of the Tea Party! Further proof of the damage Obama has done to the country thru his strategy of class warfare.
Consider this statement from Thomas Sowell:
Bill T from USA-
Thomas Sowell is so faaaarrrrr right.......anytime I see his article in the newspaper I just skip over it!
TRR (4.1), your statement is reflective of many Libbies who refuse to take off their blinders to get a reality check! And it also validates what Mr. Sowell is saying!
@Bill T from USA,
"Occupy Wall Street thugs"
Do you even have a clue to what is the definition of a thug?
It is someone who takes what they want and don't give a shi$t about you or anyone around you. Hhhhhmmmm can you think of a few people? Yes "YOU",
It's written in the Bible " God will take care of the poor" and will do nothing for the rich, he also tells the rich to help the poor.
Maybe you don't believe in God or anything else. By if you don't help others out in need, then you need to re-examine your moral values. Everyone should help out others - that is what made us great -- founding fathers
How about the Big Banks who took down our economy and we gave them Trillions yet you want to give the richest people in America - the richest of anytime in history more money. Then tell the working you will not be helped if you lose your job. If you don't have a job to F-in bad blame yourself. No you can't have Social Security, No there is no medical care for your - so what that you are 70 years old and to sick to work or walk - you must die as to no be a burden on America. No do not help 160 million people keep more of there money, because the very rich needs more not the 160 million working families in America.
You should be a shamed to be associated with such a GOP. But it seems to me you wear it with a badge of honor. As if you like hurting people who can not defend for themselves, shame on you and your GOP buddies.
So many biblical quotes, hmm let's see, "judge not lest........"
"No do not help 160 million people keep more of there money," ? seem'scontrary to your premise/
You mean to tell me if you were the richest man in the world you would not help others? WOW.
But no American has people like you telling the rich don't do anything because we will take from the poor and give it to you. WOW
The Bush tax cuts are unpaid for. Do you have an explanation for their think then and now?
If the rich continues to get richer and the poor get poorer. If the forecast continue in the next 32 years 200 million will be living in poverty and 500,000 will control all the wealth. And you say so what to this scale. That picture happen in Egypt
59 inhale slowly, calm down, ready? What the hell are you talking about, LMAO!!!!
Bill T may I add?
This next election is not about the differences between Republican and Democrat's basic philosophies.
It is the differences between communist and Democratic ideology's!
All of his life obama has been mentored and supported by these people:
George Soros: Jew that hates jews and the U.S.A.
Anthony Van Jones: socialist/communist Hates the U.S.A.
Valarie Jarrett: Communist
Vernon Jarrett: Communist, Valarie Jarrett's father-in-law
Frank Marshall Davis: Communist obama mentor
Cass Sunstein: Socialist/Communist obamma tsar
Rev Wright "God Damn America"
Bill Ayres: Socialist/Communist, Weather Underground
Bernadine Van Dohrn Socialist/Communist, Weather Underground
Tony Rezco: Chicago crook
Andy Stern: SEIU
Dick Trumpka: UAW
Lil Jimmy Hoffa: That son of a bitch!
Acorn: Criminal enterprise big obama supporters
Black Panthers: Guardians of the Poll
Then there is:
Solyndra
Tonopha
Light Squared
Fast and Furious: BTW, obama Officer Terry's parents deserve answers.
obama your book has an ugly cover.
U.S.A./Capitalism, obamazuela, or Cuba --- You choose in 2012!!!!
Thomsa Sowell is an idiot, and a liar. Thanks for letting us know you are too.
bobbie, bobbie, lies? Could you be more specific, oop's sorry you can't?????
Gary do you feel better now that you have told a pack of lies about President Obama?
The commies are going to get us, the commies are going to get us and here me without a desk to hide under.
If the republicans get anymore brainwashed a blank slate will look cluttered to them. Ayers really, so anybody I served on a board of directions with has done anything in their past now makes me guilty of the same crime even if I was a child when they committed the crime?
Please lord enlighten the republicans so they want to love our country again and not just the 1%.
Show me the semen stained dress...
Thunder come in out of the rain that steady drip drip drip of denial has affected your thought process. Firstly the accusers are far from nameless so you can cease that crap right now. Next how many times do you need bang your head against a wall as hard as you can before you realize it hurts and stop? Next even the idiots over at Faux have given up on Herman not because liberals are against him but because the GOP/TP will not elect him. SO if you must blame anyone blame yourself and your kind. Dems have no say so in the Republican primaries. Finally methinks thou doest protest too much. I suggest you sit down with your significant other and discuss your indisgressions immediately.
So, the Repubs don't like their get-togethers interrupted by the Occupy Wall Streeters. They like to give it out (Tea-Party style), but they can't take it. Hypocrites. It's time this tarnished Grand Old Party got a new symbol: a hippo-phant (big fat, wallows in the mud all day, very aggressive, highly territorial, don't really form bonds with each other or anyone else, tend to destroy environments--sounds like the Republican Party these days).
Look I am for the Occupy Movement.
I am not you.
I would be president but I know America needs a female president. I know from my past that there is a 20 year bet that started at the turn of the millenium covering America and Women's Rights. A local Nuclear War or a Female President.
I look at the President as a role model (with vast intellect and values).
I see men that are truly faithful to their wives. They have a clear glow, a particular respectability that isn't violent, that is inviting.
Obama may be a viper with no solid link to reality for an America that would work for the rich and poor, but he is clearly that absolute faithful man.
Unfortunately Cain is not. You can see it in his face. I can't imagine anyone pulling off such an accusation against Obama, That would be absurd. Obama may be a geek and low on intelligence (insert insult) but it is impossible to not imagine him always kissing Michelle his wife. That is the look of commitment.
Now I would be happy with a President that slept with friends. It is just the type of person that does this and tries to pretend the rest of the time that they fit the monogamous relationship that makes me sick.