Cain: Wall St. protesters playing victim card

[shemp]

Cain: Wall St. protesters playing victim card

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain on Sunday accused anti-Wall Street protesters of playing the "victim card" - and suggested that those participating in protests nationwide against corporate greed and a lack of jobs are merely doing so out of "jealousy."


Cain, in an appearance on CBS' "Face the Nation," argued that the recent protests against the financial sector were "anti-American," and that they were meant to be "a distraction" from the Obama administration's "failed policies."

Anti-American? ANTI-AMERICAN??? Perhaps in some bizarro alternate universe that Cain lives in inside his head, greed, corruption and theft are core American values, but in our world protest is as American as apple pie.

Cain argued that the protests were "anti-American," claiming that "to protest Wall Street and the bankers is saying that you're anti-capitalism."


"The free market system and capitalism are two of the things that have allowed this nation and this economy to become the biggest in the world," he added. "Even though we have our challenges, I believe that the protests are more anti-capitalism and anti-free market than anything else."

Cain argued it was Mr. Obama's economic policies - rather than corruption on Wall Street - that had led to America's financial woes.

If Obama's economic policies have been a failure, it's because they haven't gone far enough. He's been little more than a houseboy for these bastards. His policies are about as effective as those of Herbert Hoover.

"The bankers and the people on Wall Street didn't write these failed policies of the Obama administration. They didn't spend a trillion dollars that didn't work. The administration and the Democrats spent a trillion dollars. They're now proposing another $450 billion," Cain said. "So it's a distraction. So many people won't focus on the failed policies of this administration."

No they didn't. Instead they created trillions in false wealth, drove millions of people out of work and out of their homes, sucked up hundreds of billions in bailouts, gave much of it away in bonuses, and expect the common people to bend over and say "Please sir, may I have another?"

I suppose it doesn't matter. Herman "Flavor of the Month" Cain will be back in the also-ran bin pretty soon, and will soon thereafter be a footnote in American political history.

 

[thaiboxerken]

Sad thing is, Cain's opinion on this is on par with the rest of the GOP candidates.

 

[MattusMaximus]

I suppose it doesn't matter. Herman "Flavor of the Month" Cain will be back in the also-ran bin pretty soon, and will soon thereafter be a footnote in American political history.

Yup, I cannot wait until people start digging into Cain's past and he begins to get those really pesky public questions asked.

 

[shemp]

Yup, I cannot wait until people start digging into Cain's past and he begins to get those really pesky public questions asked.

That's nothing. Wait'll they find out his pizza sucked.

 

[leftysergeant]

Cain is playing the victim card with a grand flourish.

"WAHHH! I want to make money but the nasty old gubmint won't cut any more of my taxes. WAH!"

Grow a pair, dough-flipper!

 

[Bikewer]

He also recommended that people who were in financial distress should just go out and get a job.....


All of the candidates have decided on "Obama's failed economic policies" as a catch-phrase, without bothering to mention that these policies have failed to correct the ungodly mess caused by Republican economic policies.

And their proposal? Let's go back and try the same thing again.

 

[MattusMaximus]

He also recommended that people who were in financial distress should just go out and get a job.....

All of the candidates have decided on "Obama's failed economic policies" as a catch-phrase, without bothering to mention that these policies have failed to correct the ungodly mess caused by Republican economic policies.

And their proposal? Let's go back and try the same thing again.

No, no... the GOP/Tea Party is a bit more specific than that: TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH! DE-REGULATION!!!

Oh... yeah, I guess it is more of the same