Herman Cain is a fiery orator who brings crowds to their feet. Now the former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza is trying to rouse Americans out of their slumber and propel him to the White House.
Stranger things have happened, as recently as 2008.
There is a temptation by many to compare and contrast Cain with Barack Obama since both men are black. This completely misses the entire point on what Herman Cain is about.
While Mr. Obama did hold an Illinois Senate seat for a few weeks before being propelled into the 2008 presidential race, his actual resume was non-existent. He had never run a state, a city, or a business. He was a community organizer, and has now tried to run America as a social worker would handle their case load.
Herman Cain has run a successful business. He is a self made man. He was the head of the National Restaurant Association, also known as the “nice NRA.” He was the man who challenged then President Bill Clinton over tax increases that Cain insisted were bad for small businesses. Cain was right and Clinton was wrong.
If Cain were right, he would still be a great orator. Yet to deny his race is a plus for him would be naive. If he were Caucasian, there would be no difference between his rationale for running and that of nominal frontrunner Mitt Romney.
Yet Mr. Cain does not want people to support him because he is black. Barack Obama was an affirmative action hire. People wanted to feel good about themselves, so they overlooked qualifications and gave a man a chance based on his race. For those doubting this, look at how people voting for anybody else were treated. They were called racists.
Herman Cain does not want to be an affirmative action hire. He wants to be hired because he is qualified for the job. He wants the job on merit. The color of his skin matters much less than the content of his character.
Some would argue that being a successful businessman is not enough. Ross Perot and Steve Forbes were not given the job, and Donald Trump still has failed to convince enough people that his flirtation with running is anything other than another brilliant publicity stunt.
Yet one thing Ross Perot said that was totally correct was when he said regarding his experience that “I don’t have experience running up a four trillion dollar debt.”
Now the number is fourteen trillion, and the politicians with “experience” have not reined in spending.
We need to know more about Herman Cain. Barack Obama got elected without people knowing much about him. He spoke well. Yet Americans are paying the price for completely ignoring large gaps in his very existence.
(This is not about his birth certificate. There are simply years in his adult life where he fell off of the grid of life. The media was too lazy to even bother finding out what he did with his young adult life. If he did nothing but lay on a beach and get stoned, we have a right to know this. It is called “vetting.”)
Herman Cain needs to be vetted. We need to know about his foreign policy views. The consequences are now obvious what happens when somebody with no foreign policy experience is allowed to send soldiers into kinetic conflicts.
What we do know about Herman Cain is that he does not appear to have anything to hide. He is comfortable being vetted and being in the public eye.
What we also know about Mr. Cain is that he is smart, successful and accomplished. He is willing to slog through a two year process to take a job that will bring him more hassles and pay him less money than he would make staying in the restaurant industry. He has given up his privacy.
He spent his adult life serving Americans. He sees the families who came into his pizza shops. They were every day Americans.
Now he wants to serve Americans again at the highest possible level.
Unlike some of his political opponents on the left, he is actually willing to do the real work that the job requires. We know this because he has not coasted through life. He has made a life for himself honestly and with spectacular results. Some people blather insincerely about the American dream. Herman Cain is the very embodiment of that dream.
His entry into the 2012 presidential race is good for all Americans. He should be welcomed into the discussion and judged not by his look, but by his words and deeds. If we get to this level of colorblindness, we might just find a fantastic candidate to be our the next leader of the free world.
eric
Good ol’ Herman Cain, who fought so hard against Clinton and the Dems when they tried to end the heavy federal subsidy of the restaurant industry that is the entertainment expense write-off.
What a joke. That business would be cut by a quarter the next day if the government ended that little back-door sub. The restaurant business depends on a crooked tax code. And that makes Herman Cain… well, er… if it quacks…
JMJ
Government screws restaraunts Jersey.
Starting with farmer subsidies, regulations, assumptive taxation,fear mongering recalls,dictating nanny state dietary regulations.
But, I digress…
Its is Michelles largess rump keeping Baskin Robbins in business.
She should be glad, maybe all America will get free pizza on inauguration day