Can you smell what the Hermanator is cooking?

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If you don’t attend Tea Party rallies or listen to political talk radio, the name Herman Cain may not register. Cain intends to rectify that. He’s planning to seek the GOP nomination, so he’s spreading his blustery, relentlessly upbeat right-wing social and economic message, which can be heard weeknights from 7 to 10 on WSB in Atlanta. Cain is so exuberantly confident of his message that he has upgraded its status: he bestows upon audiences not speeches or talking points but “The Hermanator Experience.” He’s even trademarked the phrase.

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Cain is a 65-year-old retired African American pizza-company CEO who sits on several corporate boards, including Whirlpool’s, and entered politics only as a late-life hobby. But he’s serious about running for president.

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Cain was born to working-class parents in Georgia and earned a degree in mathematics from Morehouse College, then a master’s in computer science from Purdue. He got a job doing work for the Navy on fire-control systems for ships and fighter planes, but gravitated to business—Coca-Cola, Pillsbury, and Burger King—and eventually became CEO of Godfather’s Pizza, which he ran for 10 years.

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In 1994, Cain, then still CEO of Godfather’s Pizza, participated in a town-hall meeting that Bill Clinton held to drum up support for his flagging health-care plan. He challenged the president’s claim that restaurateurs would bear only a marginal new cost. Clinton objected, but Cain wouldn’t relent. “I’d had my financial people run the numbers,” he told me. The Wall Street Journal published them, and after Clinton’s plan collapsed, Newsweek identified Cain as one of its “saboteurs”—a badge of honor, especially among conservatives today.

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Cain is a born talker, with a rich baritone that sounds uncannily like the actor Samuel L. Jackson. He’s also a showman, and utterly uninhibited. Recently, he survived Stage 4 cancer, and claims he wouldn’t have under Obamacare.

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At a GOP confab in New Orleans last year, Cain railed against liberals, who, he said, slander conservatives as “racist, redneck tea-baggers.” He paused for effect, then brought the house down: “I had to go look in the mirror to see if I missed something!”

Last year, Cain addressed more than 40 Tea Party rallies, hit all the early presidential states, and became a YouTube sensation. He pops up regularly on Fox News. He has devoted followers—on Twitter, on the radio, and in the real world too. He calls himself the “dark horse.” People love it.

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Is he for real? Maybe. “The people posting about Cain on Facebook and Twitter are the activists I look to for the pulse of the Tea Party,” Tim Albrecht, a top aide to Iowa’s Republican governor, Terry Branstad, told me. “They’ve taken an increased interest in him.” Get ready, America, for The Hermanator Experience®.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1969/12/herman-cain-the-gop-wild-card/8367/

[sandinista! 1,816]

i just don't like godfather's pizza. it's not good pizza. it's the kind of place you get stuck going to for like end of the season soccer, basketball parties, etc.

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i just don't like godfather's pizza.

Until yesterday, I had never even heard of it

I just checked their website, there are three within 10 miles of me and yet no one I know goes there or ever talks about it. I guess it must suck pretty bad.

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[Ban Hammer 13,475]

:dance: i'll vote for him.

[chri'stina 190]

He was born in Georgia, and people in the south just have no idea what good pizza is. (hahhh j/k, I am sure some in the south must know what good pizza is - those who moved there from up north. )

How could he have addressed tea party rallies when tea partiers are all racists? Hmmm. Someone is lying.

[Jenn! 918]

Racists love to have token members to prove that they're not racist.

But any math major who talks like Samuel L. Jackson is ok in my book. Hermanator for prez!

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It appears not all conservatives are enthused about the Hermanator.

(I grabbed the text from the google cache, so if it no longer matches what's at the actual URL, please forgive me.)

I’ve mentioned before that I’m skeptical of Herman Cain, who expected to make his second presidential bid official any day now, in part because of his deference to government over the free market. For example, he backed TARP at the height of the financial crisis in 2008 - calling it a “recovery plan.” He slammed opponents of the program on the right, calling us “free market purists.”

Now, Cain, a former board member of the Federal Reserve, is telling us that the central bank already has internal audits, that there isn’t anything new that we’d learn from a significant audit and they haven’t been hiding anything from Americans. He chalks it up to people not knowing enough about the Fed.

Hm. Ok. If the Fed wasn’t trying to hide anything, why did they want until legislation was passed with a statutory requirement forcing to release the names of foreign banks they loaned money to?

I’m not saying there is a government conspiracy here, but there has been an incredible lack of transparency on the part of the Federal Reserve. For example, why does Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke claim that they aren’t printing money when that’s exactly what quantitative easing is?

Despite Cain’s claims to the contrary, he is defending the Federal Reserve. And it doesn’t reflect the behavior of someone claiming to be a conservative.

[Ban Hammer 13,475]

He was born in Georgia, and people in the south just have no idea what good pizza is. (hahhh j/k, I am sure some in the south must know what good pizza is - those who moved there from up north. )

How could he have addressed tea party rallies when tea partiers are all racists? Hmmm. Someone is lying.

in the 70's godfather's pizza was the pizza. it's gone downhill since, obviously, as have most of them.

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in the 70's godfather's pizza was the pizza.

i doubt it. the old timers around here tell me mom n pop pizza was even better back then. today most of them are run by albanians, back then it was all real actual eyetalians.

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[chri'stina 190]

in the 70's godfather's pizza was the pizza. it's gone downhill since, obviously, as have most of them.

I shall have to ask my northern parents about this one. I have a feeling it's the mom and pop local places that have always ruled their pizza world.

[alienlovechild 75]

He’s planning to seek the GOP nomination, so he’s spreading his blustery, relentlessly upbeat right-wing social and economic message, which can be heard weeknights from 7 to 10 on WSB in Atlanta.

Not one of my favorites on the radio probably because I'm not on the road at that hour but I didn't know his background was that impressive.

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

Best pizza, bar none: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Haven-style_pizza

Best washed down with: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxon_Park (especially birch beer)

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

I think it is time this country had a black man as President.

[Ban Hammer 13,475]

I think it is time this country had a black man as President.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Racists love to have token members to prove that they're not racist.

Obama.

Imagine the DEMs conflict in 2008. Whether to prove they weren't racists...or not sexists? They chose Obama and trash Sarah Palin. We know where they came down on this one.