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12
National Review: ‘How many of you think Herman Cain won the debate?” Twenty hands shot up. “Well, we can stop right there,” said Frank Luntz, a fast-talking political consultant, as he paced before a Fox News focus group on May 5. “This is unprecedented.” Luntz pointed to the top row, looking for answers. One by …
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Oct
11
Omaha World Herald: Godfather’s Pizza of Omaha started with rapid growth, head-spinning profits and a $300 million buyout. But then profits crashed. Franchise holders were in revolt, complaining that they had been abandoned, weathering three different presidents in four months. Bigger competitors, especially Pizza Hut, woke up to diners’ preference for thicker pizza. Bankers got …
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Oct
20
National Review: In the 1990s, Herman Cain went to Washington and fought against minimum-wage hikes, worked to make welfare reform succeed, and advocated free trade. He did so, not from a perch at a conservative think tank, but as chairman and CEO of the National Restaurant Association. Cain didn’t just use the National Restaurant Association …
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Oct
17
Slate.com: What did Herman Cain actually do at the Federal Reserve? Herman Cain’s tenure at the Federal Reserve makes many conservatives queasy—even if they can’t agree on what he did there. According to Alex Jones, from 1992 to 1996 Cain was “Kansas City Board President of the Federal Reserve Bank.” According to a Cain fan at Ricochet, Cain …
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Oct
19
Nerds4Cain: Herman Cain was raised in the segregated south—Atlanta, Georgia. Barack Obama was raised in Hawaii and Indonesia. Herman Cain grew up poor. His father worked three jobs to make ends meet (chauffeur, barber, and janitor) and his mother was a maid. His family was so poor growing up that he didn’t even have his …
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Oct
17
The Washington Post: Regardless of whether Herman Cain wins the GOP nomination to run for president, he has already beaten the odds: He has survived a bout of advanced colon cancer. In 2006, Cain, now 66, received a diagnosis of stage IV colon cancer, which means that the malignancy had spread beyond his colon. In …
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Nov
22
National Review: In 1983, Eva Vachal, then 24 years old, was hired by Godfather’s Pizza. She began in the information-technology department. By 1986, when Herman Cain became president of the company, she was the corporate receptionist. For the next decade — Cain’s entire tenure at the Omaha-based firm — she continued in that position, answering …
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Nov
20
The Blaze: Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain got teary-eyed on stage in Iowa Saturday when asked about a great challenge he had overcome. Seated beside some of his fellow GOP contenders for the Family Leader Thanksgiving Forum, Cain recalled the night he found out he had stage 4 colon cancer. The Des Moines Register transcribed the exchange: …
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Nov
07
Intellectual Conservative: Obama had very little experience when he ran for president. But is that the criteria we should be using? Some of the most experienced leaders have been some of the worst leaders; Mussolini, Gadhafi and Castro to name to a few. People use many words today without fully knowing what they mean – …
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Nov
07
National Review: Herman Cain has every right to feel uncomfortable. According to news reports based on anonymous sources, the GOP presidential frontrunner is suspected of unspecified acts of sexual harassment while running the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s. Cain’s first accuser considered coming forward, but now says she will stay in the shadows. Like …
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Nov
05
Intellectual Conservative: On such flimsy evidence as a Coke can or a hand gesture and comment about one’s height, the entire character of a man is held in question… yet water was carried for a John Edwards until the NATIONAL ENQUIRER did the journalistic job the mainstream press WOULDN’T do and presented incontrovertible evidence that …
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Nov
05
NewsMax: A new chapter unfolds in the growing sexual harassment controversy surrounding Herman Cain with Politico now reporting Cain himself led the charge against such behavior when he headed the National Restaurant Association, after first having issues with a new law changing the landscape regarding workplace behavior. In the aftermath of the 1991 Supreme Court confirmation hearings …
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Oct
27
Miami Herald: Herman Cain has discovered that being at the top of a presidential primary campaign is not a comfortable place. Any frontrunner is under pressure to answer the most obtuse questions, and the candidate’s speeches and gestures and even clothing choices come under the microscope. This is typical. Yet in Herman Cain’s case, being the …
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Oct
24
National Review: Herman Cain likes to brand himself as a political newbie. “Hello, I’m Herman Cain. I am not a politician. I am a problem-solver with over 40 years of business and executive experience” were his first words at the June GOP debate. In an interview with CNN last week, Cain said, “I am not …
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Oct
21
Renew America: Have you heard the name, Herman Cain? Almost a household name, he’s the fast-rising star of the Republican campaign trail to the White House. The Republican Establishment and the media are pushing former Gov. Romney or Gov. Perry, depending on what day it is. But Cain is gaining momentum among the Tea Party …
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Nov
18
Herman Cain, the Unpolitician (A Must-Read Article!)
November 18, 2011
WND: I remember not quite four years ago when a junior senator from Chicago, a black man, was introduced to the voting public with the description of “clean and articulate,” Harvard-educated and, therefore, brilliant – a man of the world who understood all things foreign policy and all things economic. He had that elusive “gravitas” …
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