Interesting article on Herman Cain. I am sure this will ignite conversation.
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I have a different take on this but I know it won't be popular. It goes kind of like this- let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
I guess that I missed something.
Has it been proven that Cain is guilty of anything?
To my knowledge it is still just all accusations.
But the issue is that the lawyer is saying "What matters in the bedroom is not the public's business." It is absolutely the public's right to know if this affair truly happened (and any other sexual misconduct) in the life of a politician - especially one who stands for conservative values. Now, Cain can deny it and prove it's wrong and that's fine but for his camp to say "it doesn't matter" is a huge misstep because it DOES matter. In a big way because it speaks to the character of a person.
I guess that I missed something.
Has it been proven that Cain is guilty of anything?
To my knowledge it is still just all accusations.
Well---Bill Clinton did it and got away with it(a "weenie" Congress too cowardly to press forward with impeachment proceedings---a Congress that is too weak and with no backbone and no guts to stand up for what is morally right)
A woman claimed to have an affair with Cain for over 13 years. She produced her cell phone records showing 63 connections with a phone number that belongs to Herman Cain. Cain has directly denied it was a s*xual relationship but Cain's attorney has not.
Technically, it's only accusations but Cain announced he is "reassessing his candidacy".
Cain said that she was a friend. Cell phone calls between friends is not unusual.
I am not surprised that he is reassessing his candidacy since he has been torpedoed by the media.
If he feels that he no longer has a chance of winning the nomination why spin his wheels?
I have a different take on this but I know it won't be popular. It goes kind of like this- let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
Cell phone calls from a married man to a woman who is not his wife at 4:26 in the morning are unusual.
I have a different take on this but I know it won't be popular. It goes kind of like this- let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
....Morality: Indispensable to Liberty
We must understand how crucial morality is to the survival of American liberty. We must not suppose that liberty can be sustained merely by tinkering with the formula for government, until we achieve some idealistic libertarian minimum. There are those who object to what used to be called “sumptuary laws,” that is, laws restricting vice. We are sometimes told that private acts between consenting adults have no bearing on the common weal, and should not be the objects of legislation. While the Constitution does not authorize the federal government to “legislate morality,” so to speak, there is certainly broad legal latitude, and a compelling interest, for state and local governments to do so.
The point that those who object to sumptuary laws never seem to comprehend is that people consumed by vice — whether drugs, pornography, or what have you — are the enemies of freedom whether they realize it or not. In the first place, vice seldom confines itself to the purely personal and private, as anyone who has been victimized by a drunken driver or an abusive relative can attest. And because private vice generally encourages public criminality, it also creates a demand for more and more government controls. Paradoxical though it may seem, legally discouraging vice actually enhances freedom in the long run, rather than suppresses it. As Edmund Burke famously observed, “Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains on their own appetites. Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there is without.
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.” What’s more, as the Romans discovered, a morally depraved populace is a spawning ground for subversives, revolutionaries, and conspirators, who will eventually wrest from the citizens the destiny of their state.
The primary responsibility for maintaining our moral standards rests not in the public but in the private domain — in our homes, in our churches, in our civic organizations, and, perhaps most critically, in our own hearts.
I think Herman Cain scares a lot of people because he is out of the beltway, he isn't afraid to say what he thinks, and many average Joe and Jane Americans are supporting his candidacy so the powers that be are willing to do anything to destroy his candidacy. I believe that they are afraid to have his accomplishments in life compared to Obama's, or to have him debate Obama.
Gloria Cain does not strike me as the kind of woman who would be ignorant of nor put up with an affair just to be politically expedient ala another former president's wife.
I'm standing by the man. If the lady can produce records, pictures, etc. let her do so- certainly she has evidence if anything occurred. Until then it is her claims against his and I prefer to believe him until he gives me cause not to do so.
What the media wants is the "damning evidence"---is that what they're hunting for???? I mean, why would the media even WASTE their time(into the millions of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$'s) and ours just to produce one of the "his word verses her word" thing?????
I'm standing by the man. If the lady can produce records, pictures, etc. let her do so- certainly she has evidence if anything occurred. Until then it is her claims against his and I prefer to believe him until he gives me cause not to do so.