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[Bangkoktraveler]

Hermain Cain claims he is going to do the right thing tomoorow at his news conference.

 

Being he is a Conservative, does that mean he is going to marry Mss White from Georgia?

 

What would good old Newt do?

[Steve]

With all that hidden baggage, I have to question Cain's sanity. In this day and age you have to assume sexual harrasment lawsuits and affairs will make the light of day. I actually think it was probably known by the 'opposition research' (finding dirt department) people of the candidates a whie back but he was so far down in the pecking order at the time it wasn't worth it.

 

Obama took a page from the Malcolm X school of being in the public eye. Put it all out there first so its already discounted when you are in the public eye. His prior drug use could no longer be used against him. He is still a smoker though and he's rarely filmed smoking. I can't recall a recent President who did smoke? Was Johnson the last one, if he did. I assume he did but not sure. FDR may be the last one, he had those long tip cigarette thingies.

 

Hoover at the FBI as well as his enemies had nothing scandalous because it was already out there. The drugs, women, crime, etc. it was already out there and he was leading a scandal free life so he could say anything he wanted and not worry about blackmail or threats of exposure. MLK had scandals. Mainly infidelity. Also, one of the leadership in the civil rights movement was gay. I can't recall his name but it was known he was gay and he was told to take a reduced, less public role so as not to 'taint' the movement.

 

I would not want to run for public office. A friend said recently what I've long heard. That there really has to be something wrong with you mentally to run for President. Especially these days. There are a couple folks who run purely because they feel a true need to serve and help the country (Paul, Huntsman, Johnson), however the rest I think just want to have their ego stroked knowing they will be in the history books. Its more about the prestige than the need serve the country. I would put Obama, Romney, Perry, Gingrich, Cain and Bachman in that category.

[Flashermac]

There are claims by men who say they had homosexual relationships with Obama. That is very quickly hushed up when it comes out. If true, it seems the press simply is NOT interested in reporting it.

 

Cain may naively have thought his passed activities were not that important. He should have known better, with the Demcs and liberal press (same same?) out to get him when he threatened to topple their hero.

 

p.s. I remember JFK being asked why he wanted to be President. His reply: "Because that's where the power is." Seeking the presidency is definitely an ego trip. In the military, you have to work your way through the ranks. In politics you can jump in right at the top.

[Flashermac]

House Ethics Committee will continue investigation into Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.

 

Like father, like son

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Steve]

If Obama had gay liaisons there would be more substantial evidence I would assume than some hearsay allegations. Frankly, even if he or any of the Republican candidates did, I could care less. The country is in dire need of proper leadership both in the White House and Congress. We need to get back past legal personal actions of people. Moral is a subjective thing. I fail to see how ones religion (or lack of one) or legal sexual proclivities makes you a bad leader.

 

As for Jesse Jackson Jr., it could be a case of Chicago politics which has a long history of illegality and unethical behavior. I won't be surprised if he is guilty...or innocent. Its a wild card in that city.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/florida-teen-detained-tsa-design-her-purse-221835034.html

 

It's not unusual for 17-year-old to find themselves in hot water with the fashion police. But on a flight from Virginia to Florida, Vanessa Gibbs found herself detained by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) over the appearance of her purse.

 

And just to be clear, it wasn't the content inside the purse that the TSA objected to. No, agency officials took exception with the design of a gun on Gibbs' handbag.

 

"It's my style, it's camouflage, it has an old western gun on it," Gibbs told News4Jax.com. Gibbs didn't run into any trouble while traveling north from Jacksonville International Airport. But on her way back home, TSA officials at Norfolk International Airport pulled her aside.

 

"She was like, 'This is a federal offense because it's in the shape of a gun,'" Gibbs said. "I'm like, 'But it's a design on a purse. How is it a federal offense?'"

 

This girl was also pregnant. Common sense has left this country. I wonder how long all of us are going to just sit by and let the government keep doing these kind of things to us. Really disappointed Obama has done nothing to reign them in. He has a lot on his plate but if I were his advisor, I'd tell him to do something about it. Republicans may try and say he's being soft on terrorism and he's making the country less safe but the TSA are so unpopular and with his oratory skills he could easily make them out to be on the wrong side of the issue.

[Steve]

This is a story of a McDonald's employee who beat 2 female customers who jumped the counter to attack him for enforcing store policy of checking the authenticity of the $50 bill they presented. They took exception. He got arrested for assault for hitting them with a steel rod. He was found innocent of assault. I'd voted non guilty as well.

 

http://gothamist.com/2011/12/02/all_charges_dropped_against_custome.php

[Flashermac]

I sure as hell would NOT have voted him not guilty. He didn't not start it, but he continues beating them on the head with a steel rod when they are down. Is that acceptable for self-defence? Another guy has to step in to stop the SOB from beating them more, and one woman has a fractured skull and possible brain damage.

 

There is a limit between protecting yourself and being a vicious assailant. Mr Nice Guy Normal Human Being this asshole ain't!

 

<< McIntosh, who served ten years for the manslaughter death of a friend in 2000 >>

 

Let's put it another way. Suppose it had been a cop beating a troublemaker repeatedly over the had after the perp had ceased to resist. There would be mobs crying for the cop's blood.

 

This guy is dangerous and believe me we have not heard the last of him. He is swinging that steel rod like a cavalryman's sabre in a charge.

[Flashermac]

 

 

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqxmn1ZuMw4

 

 

 

 

 

[kamui]

 

 

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqxmn1ZuMw4

 

 

 

Hehe, as if the Birthers, Fox and friends, et al, would not have used this issue to destroy Obama's presidency from the beginning. The Internet can't be suppressed as the US fringe groups show daily...

 

I guess you also will find websites claiming that Obama is infact an alien from outer space, as well that he is KGB sleeper, as well that he is a Muslim terrorist. - In addition to all the stories that he is born in Kenya, a secret Muslim, a radical Christian, a socialist, a communist and a Nazi, a dictator, an enemy of the USA. Did I forget something?

 

 

[Flashermac]

Yeah ... the story that he is not really the same Obama who was born in Hawaii. Somebody switched in an imposter.

 

p.s. All of these stories are true!