Did Herman Cain Really Vow Not to Sign Any Bill Longer Than 3 Pages?
- Posted on June 8, 2011 at 1:41pm by
Billy Hallowell
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In a recent speech, GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain said that Congress should be working diligently to engage the American people. The former chief executive of Godfather‘s Pizza goes on to say that lawmakers shouldn’t be passing 2,700-page bills and he quips, “That’s why I am only going to allow small bills — three pages.” Was he being serious?
ThinkProgress and The Los Angeles Times both ran blog posts covering Cain’s statement, but neither mentioned the fact that he was likely joking around with the audience when he made his small bill pledge. Here is a text version of his statements:
Engage the people. Don’t try to pass a 2,700 page bill — and even they didn’t read it! You and I didn’t have time to read it. We’re too busy trying to live — send our kids to school. That’s why I am only going to allow small bills — three pages. You’ll have time to read that one over the dinner table. What does Herman Cain, President Cain talking about in this particular bill?
ThinkProgress took his words very seriously, writing:
After claiming that the administration had not read the bill, Cain promised the audience that as President, he would never sign pieces of legislation that are longer than three pages…
Cain’s pledge received a raucous round of applause from the crowd, who didn’t seem to fully appreciate the implications of such a radical cut-off mark. The vast majority of substantive bills passed by Congress are longer than three pages…
As president, Cain wouldn’t be able to sign any of the always-lengthy appropriations bills that keep the government running and the military funded. In fact, pretty much the only legislation that could squeak by under Cain’s three-page cut-off would be the simplest bills naming post offices and the like. But perhaps that’s exactly what Cain wants — to completely shutdown government by refusing to take any action that requires a prolonged attention span.
Actually, if you watch the video (below), you’ll notice this “raucous round of applause” is preceded by Cain’s smiling face and audience laughter. It seems as though Cain is clearly making a joke in an effort to better connect with his audience. Apparently, ThinkProgress thinks otherwise. Watch for yourself:
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Comments (317)
NickDeringer
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:06pmHerman is pandering and it’s not going to work. I lost interest in him when he asserted that “you have to elect me to find out my foreign policy.”
Not good.
Report Post »gambit5555
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 3:11pmYou mean whenever he quite clearly stated that he stands with our allies in Israel and around the world, or when he stated that he would have an individual policy for every country? I can always tell a Ron Paul fan by the same lie they keep spreading. Cain was actually with most of America when he said that he would need all of the information on Afghanistan before making a decision about how to proceed. But I’m sure he could just google War in Afghanistan, and find the Wiki on it and base his opinion from that. Not how it works in business, and its not how it should work in government. You don’t make decision until you have all of the available information. Otherwise you make dumb campaign promises like “ I will pull all of the troops out of Irag with 180 days” or “I will immediately shut down Gitmo, and try all of the detainees in American courts”. If you are going to complain about his foreign policy at least be honest about it, otherwise you are just trolling
Report Post »hatenomor
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:03pmCain/Bachman?
Report Post »compatriotshonor
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:03pmHe may just be kidding around here, and then again maybe not. I agree that anything to be signed by a president, should not be read like a huge how to do manual and it shouldn’t have any other provisions in it that are hidden to decieve the american public!
Report Post »Mr. Cain, if you are going to run, be sure to be more forthright with unshakeable foundations. We don’t need another pundit in the white house, we the people need a strong leader.
KeepAndBearArms
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:03pmI sure hope the media doesn’t push cain to the back of thier buss.
Report Post »fishlore
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:02pmAll bills should be short and in plain English. These 2000+ page bills of lawyer speak are disgusting and filled with lawyer loopholes which have no place in a government for the people. If you can’t get bills down to a manageable size, then make more bills and vote on them individually. It‘s amusing that liberals make all of these mistakes about 57 states or not knowing what year it is and they aren’t taken literally while every uttered word from the right is strictly interpreted with no room for jokes.
Report Post »supernova1
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 1:59pmTotally agree with this premise- 2700 page bills are the reasons for every dollar being gouged, for every fubar program that gets passed and of course, the ubiquitous pork- it would effectively throw lobbying groups into the light of day and their vampire corpses would burn up, leaving the politicans no one to buy them off in secret- making them accountable to the voter- LOVE THE PREMISE- NOW MAKE IT HAPPEN!
Report Post »CaptainKook
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 10:24amPage numbers mean nothing.
Report Post »I‘d bet that Bush’s Medicare drug benefit legislation was at least as long.
His “No Child Left Behind” law was nearly as big.
Brontefan
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 1:59pmWell, this may be a bit of an exaggeration but after seeing those monsterous 2000+ page bills come out of Congress—it’s a step in the right direction! Congress needs to KEEP IT SIMPLE because otherwise you have tons and tons of government regulations being written by some non-elected official and end up with TOTAL GOV’T CONTROL like with the EPA or the out of control Dept. of Education. They can’t seem to educate kids in this country to read, write, & do math—but they are teaching sex education and political correctness [cultural Marxism]?
Report Post »Lion420
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 1:56pmAmong those who’ve actually announced, he’s my guy.
Report Post »Ookspay
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 7:20pmI agree, I think he is running for VP though… I like Bachmann/Cain 2012
Report Post »apollo11
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 1:54pmI like Cain.
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 3:25pmMr.Cain is a full blood African American and obama is a half breed. I‘m part white but can’t prove it – but can prove 1/8 Chickamauga Cherokee.If paper was reduce the 2017 lawyers at White house wouldn’t be needed.We also need a law stating if you are a lawyer you can’t run for president.
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 1:54pmHerman Cain is gettinig better as the day goes by…..
Report Post »Mr. Nice Guy
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 1:54pmI guess they didn’t get it. Hard to believe. Perhaps Mr. Cain needs to stick his finger down his throat and announce, “It’s a gag!”
Report Post »CaptainKook
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 4:07pmGiven how many people can’t tell the difference between a made-up phony controversy and actual facts, perhaps he should be more clear.
Pushing the “2700 pages” nonsense – again – in standard font it’s nowhere near that many pages – says little about his grasp of the job he wants to be elected to do.
He’s running for the Presidency, not a job as a stand-up comedian.
Report Post »Party Crasher
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 8:43pm@ Captain Kook
How did Obama’s jeep wrangler joke work out for him?
Report Post »jeff.cooper
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 1:53pmClearly a tongue-in-cheek statement from Cain to prove his point for the need of a smaller government.
Report Post »spirited
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:19pmclarity
specifics
facts
A lot of motivational speeches, with bits of humor got us the current president.
>transparency
Report Post »USAMEDIC3008
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 6:21pmI’m looking for a president AND comander in chief.
Report Post »Comander comes first if you cant protect the country. You dont need a
president Right now we have neither
Right now I have four bumper stickers soon I will have to pick One
1-Run Paul
2-I can see Palin from my house
3-Bachman turner Overdrive
4- Yes we Cain
kaydeebeau
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 1:52pmJest or not – the idea has merit – hard to hide all the crap in a small number of pages. There are all kinds of little demons in those massive bills. Also makes the Congress keep to one topic at a time and not turbo-load up on pork and multitudes of potential regs and other nasty stuff that they are so wont to do!
Report Post »Obama_Sham
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 1:52pmThinkProgress is obviously racist because they are speaking out against a potential black president (sarcasm)…
Report Post »justme72
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:23pmyup must be it……If you don’t vote for Cain you ARE racist……wait….where have I heard that before?????
Oh yeah………..
Obama
Report Post »historypaper
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 1:52pmAfter painstaking investigation I have found that Cain is a good guy but not very Able.
Report Post »CaptainKook
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:42pmL O L etc
Report Post »Belteshazzar
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 4:24pmDid you mean Abel?
Report Post »anewme
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 1:51pmGod forbid we have someone with a sense of humor running for office. Let’s just all cow down and give it to Romney, because that’s what THEY want. I don’t know this guy makes too much sense, we can’t have that.
Report Post »Bigliardi
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 1:56pmI don’t see how on earth Romney could win…He proves himself more liberal every time he opens his mouth….
Report Post »Untameable-kate
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:00pmHe will definitely work with the dems to dig us a bigger hole.
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 4:12pmEarth to Blazers:
It‘s the REPUBLICAN nomination we’re talking about. The Republican Party has been the party of big business since Booth jumped down from Lincoln’s theatre box, if not before. It always follows big business in one important matter: its nominees must seem safe, predictable, pliable. Mavericks need not apply: Teddy Roosevelt found that out, to his cost, in 1912. Between the tractor pull and the country club, it always goes with the country club.
Romney, Pawlenty, and (long odds, though) Cain, more or less in that order. If the Tea Party cannot be satisfied with one of these three, then it had better put its money where its big mouth has been and become an actual party.
Report Post »The Toad
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 1:51pmPalin leads in new poll! Breaking: Reuters/Ipsos Poll: Palin Leads the 2012 GOP Field http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTRE7574BK20110608
Report Post »CaptainKook
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 3:34pmObama holds big 2012 lead over Republicans – poll
the actual headline at that link.
Obama leads all potential Republican challengers by double-digit margins, the poll showed. He is ahead of his closest Republican rival, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, by 13 percentage points — 51 percent to 38 percent.
Sarah Palin and Romney lead the Republicans battling for the right to challenge Obama in the November 2012 election.
Palin, the party’s vice presidential nominee in 2008, had the support of 22 percent of the Republicans surveyed.
22%
a real winner
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 1:51pmThinkProgress is obviously an oxymoron, progressives don’t think at all.
Report Post »Susan Harkins
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:19pmAs stated in a previous article — its all about keeping the ‘Big Lie’ alive.
Nuff Said.
Liberals are ant-like; you cannot expect them to understand “individualism” and “exceptionalism” because it runs contrary to their “ant farm” mentality. They are the TRUE sheep in our society.
Report Post »USAMEDIC3008
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 3:58pmI know what he is talking about .Just read this far now have bad head ack Fin ding had tooo spl
Report Post »Wsh I had som oxymorns Id take 1 now
SimpleTruths
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 5:08pm@SUSAN HARKINS
Report Post »Progressives are sheep? Explain the Palin bus tour then please.
starchy
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 1:50pmI love this guy!
Report Post »Boomernoodle
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:14pmI love you!
Report Post »discardofevil
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:21pmThis guy is great. He is actually a genious. No one reads 30 page bills any way!! Look what the commie Obama has done with our Country!! No one is doing anything about high taxes, high energy costs, rising food costs, declining dollar, the unbelievable debt Obama has caused, and he is still giving billions more away!!!! These Politicians need to get to work!! Get rid of the Marxist Commie in the White House!! In return give us someone that is going to be proud of our Country and Stand with the Constitution!!! Like Cain!!!!
Report Post »Untameable-kate
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:53pmBoomernoodle
Now I’m jealous. If I post a pic with my shotgun will you love me too?
Stettle down, darlin.
Report Post »escape_from_socialism
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 1:50pmThe former chief executive of Godfather‘s Pizza and former …………..
Report Post »CaptainKook
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:11pmYep. He knows ALL ABOUT selling crappy pizza.
But NOTHING about what it takes to be President.
Report Post »Marker12
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:24pmLike the guy we have in there now does? That’s pretty funny.
Report Post »theprofessor1031
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:28pmBut Obama did know what it takes? You’re insane.
Report Post »hatenomor
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:33pmCapt.kookie:I have eaten GodFathers Pizza. I found it to be very tasty. I bet you have never tried it, but still you pass judgement. Typical progressive big brother lover. Judgemental and dishonest.
Report Post »CaptainKook
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:40pmThere’s a saying about pizza – it’s also about sex.
“Sex is like pizza – even when it‘s bad it’s pretty much OK’
You can say it the opposite way too.
Report Post »hatenomor
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:48pmcaptkook: So now you are saying his pizza isn’t crappy? Are you now admitting that you lied about Cain and his so called “crappy pizza”?
Report Post »Cptnjarhead
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 3:15pmdont feed the trolls!
Report Post »2smart
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 5:42pm@Captain, the emptysuit also doesn’t know anything about being President. Look at the shape the country is in. At least Cain has held a REAL job. Those are facts, which beat propaganda.
Report Post »bjc535
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 6:49pmActually you are wrong….or that saying is wrong….i had never heard that before kook….but I have had some really bad pizza, so bad in fact i stopped half way through….no pretty good about it…..
Report Post »CaptainKook
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 10:12am@bjc535
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 6:49pm
Actually you are wrong….or that saying is wrong….i had never heard that before kook….but I have had some really bad pizza, so bad in fact i stopped half way through….no pretty good about it…..”
You just reminded me of the time I found a four-year-old frozen pizza buried in the frost in my feeezer and I cooked it up and nearly choked on it – yecccch.
I stand corrected.
Report Post »Untameable-kate
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 1:49pmWhen Obama makes jokes like this and we don‘t ’get it’, progressives call us racists. Now another black man comes under the gun for the same thing, but the criticism comes from their side. Does that mean we should take it to the streets and proclaim the left racists, with the same type of proof they use against us daily?
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 1:59pmYou should always be sure to call your opponents racists. It so enriches the national discourse.
Report Post »Untameable-kate
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:29pmAfter being accused of racisim so many times by the left for having the audacity to disagree with BO, I’m not sure that the term racist means anything any more.
Report Post »orkydorky
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:30pmThe truth of it, the left wears the racist label much better than the right! Actually they own it!
Report Post »hatenomor
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 1:49pmAs a Proud Black Man, Mr. Cain has my attention, and maybe my vote.
Report Post »GeorgeRodgersClark
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:44pmAs a proud white man, he is my leading candidate also! He not only has the right message, I think he has the guts and intelligence to stand up to the unavoidable liberal media onslaught.
Report Post »hatenomor
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 3:39pmIf nothing else, he will keep the other republican contenders honest.
Report Post »Buttercup
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 6:45pmAs a proud white woman, I like what I see in Mr. Cain. Now all we have to do is get the word out to others, because the MSM sure as heck won’t do it. Do you think they‘re afraid we’d ruin their claim that conservatives are racist, or that there’s actually people of color who are also conservatives?
Go, Herman!!!! Yes, we Cain!!!
Report Post »Party Crasher
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 8:38pmAs a proud American woman, he has my vote. Bought a No Cain- No Gain bumper sticker today. Since the lamestream media is ignoring him, it’s up to us to do their job.
Report Post »lylejk
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 1:49pmlol; actually I agree with this. No bill or law should be so complicated that it is able to hide crap that will come back and bite us imo. You go Cain. You are pretty much the only one in this bunch that I like so far. Cain/West ticket. Man, that would be cool. :)
Report Post »hwyphd1
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:02pmCain- West Got my vote!!!!!!!
Report Post »4smallgovt
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:04pmI agree LYLEJK. It seems that common sense is a rare thing.
Report Post »justme72
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:21pmCain/West…….now thats a dream team:)
Report Post »Nobamazone
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 3:32pmI agree also, of course he was (maybe half) joking. Yes, we can actually have a bill that is direct and to the point, deal with it one issue at a time. We do not need bills that only lawyers can understand, stop electing lawyers! Stop adding ANYTHING not directly related to the bill, no more pork, no more special deals, no more. Just think of the money we will save in printing alone. All politicians could then get rid of some staff since they won’t need 5 people and 2 weeks to read and figure out what is in it. About time we started cutting some of our budget where we should be, start at the top.
Report Post »And I am praying that Cain is on the ticket, preferably listed first! We do not need any career politicians. We gave them way too much power and now we are paying dearly for it.
flsnipe
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 1:48pmGood!
Report Post »djohn78
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 3:24pmAmerica needs Herman Cain! VeteransforCain.com
Report Post »KenInIL
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 4:34pmI‘m betting Obama’s summary of ObamaCare was 1 page !!
Report Post »CaptainKook
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 1:48pmMore evidence that this ignoramus should not be let anywhere near the Presidency.
Report Post »Obama_Sham
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 1:51pmMore proof that you’re in need of a mental institution…
Report Post »Revere1
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 1:53pmThe left-wing media just doesn’t get Herman Cain. Only question is whether Cain will be taken as seriously as the other candidates. http://www.elephantwatcher.com/2011/06/can-herman-cain-become-serious.html
Report Post »D0ntTread0nMe
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 1:54pmnow see captain there you go… Switch the topic, ignore the facts, and name call… you refuse to see that lawyers are ruining our country and you don’t need 2700 pages to make law… wake up man they are stealing your FREEDOM!!!!!!!!!!
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randy
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 1:55pmYou’re a racist CaptainCrunch
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 1:58pmIf HC is really serious about this, about all he will be able to sign will be resolutions honoring National Flapjack Day and the like.
Most bill way exceed three pages because they have to include references to prior legislation and extensive definitions of terms, at the very least.
Report Post »SavingtheRepublic.com
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:00pm^____^____^
I wont hold him to the 3 page thing but I get where he is going no more 2000pg bills that we all know NO ONE read… Cain has my vote at this point, esp after clarifying his position with the Fed, he is not a career politician/ member of the good ol boys club. Aside from this and his comment I have a question that hasnt been answered with regards to these massive bills.
If no one reads them, who wrote them?
Report Post »escape_from_socialism
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:02pmBanksters love this guy
Report Post »Susan Harkins
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:02pm@CaptainKook
You spend an awful lot of time on The Blaze, representing the perfect antithesis of the regular posters.
Perhaps you should change your name to: Captain-Im-Scared-As-Hell-That-The-Liberals-Are-Going-Down-In-Political-Flames
Only trying to help improve your image, my dear.
Report Post »CaptainKook
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:04pmThis guy is just repeating the old lie about “2700” pages.
The Congressional printing office uses a font and template that often takes three pages just to list the table of contents.
If pushing ignorance makes him Presidential to you guys……enjoy.
Report Post »CaptainKook
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:06pm“2000pg bills that we all know NO ONE read…”
Another favored talk-radio lie.
You can bet the Republicans read every word of the over 200 amendments they got added to the AHCA ["Obamacare"] when they weren’t lying about being “shut out of the process.”
Report Post »hatenomor
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:07pmKookie:your post is another examble as to why you, and those who think like you should never be allowed anywhere near a voting booth.
Report Post »GiveUsJustice
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:11pmrandy
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 1:55pm
You’re a racist CaptainCrunch
——–
You read my mind. We need more liberals and the NCAAP to show up and set him straight on his racism. Pathetic.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:11pmCAPTAINKOOK<<<< if this pole smoking loon doesn't like him you know Herman is okay.
Report Post »spirited
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:13pm“What does Herman Cain, President Cain talking about in this particular bill?”
>Is that ‘English’?
Report Post »CaptainKook
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:14pmSusan, have a cuppa tea.
Improves the mind you know.
Report Post »WithOutGodWePerishAsARepublic
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:15pmHey Captn Kook !!!! The Constitution along with transmittal letter and bill of rights is 6 pages !!!! That is the Constitution …so, why should a bill be longer than that ..oh yeah all the b.s. and pork …!!!! Why don’t all liberals just go to Venezuela, Cuba ..China if they do not like the US or the Constitution ???
Report Post »Susan Harkins
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:15pmIs it “CaptainKook” or “CanadianKook”?
Come truthful, my dear.
Report Post »CaptainKook
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:16pmI love it – I get called a racist for callng a fool a fool.
Foolishness is an equal-opportunity condition.
Report Post »Marker12
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:17pmkook.. you are a racist !
Report Post »They must be getting scared of him too LOL
Remember ” We have to pass it before we know what’s in it” pelosi ?
How about all those waivers to their buddies?
notjoshing
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:27pmHere we have the standard liberal attack for any conservative: “S/he is an .” More often than not, the subject of such scorn is a threat the liberal in question wants silenced.
Report Post »hatenomor
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:30pmCaptainkook: Do you know the differance between a lie and hyperbole? Just wondering why you are in such a rush to be so judgemental about a statement that was clearly hyperbole?
Report Post »CaptainKook
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:31pmAny more personal attacks?
Try to be clever or at least funny.
I’ll be here all week.
Report Post »SavingtheRepublic.com
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:35pmMan you guys arent too smart. You have allowed kook to takeover and control the page. IGNORE HIM. HE IS A TROLL THIS IS WHAT THEY DO
STOP acknowledging him and others like him, you are feeding them exactly what they want!!!
Report Post »Thought many of you wised up by now :shaking my head:
LibertariansUnite
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:36pmYou know, I will give him this one, because I truly believe he was kidding.
Ironically though, I should give him some Ron Paul treatment:
“Oh he shot himself in the foot for this one!”
“Unelectable!”
“What a CRAZY LOOOONAAATEEEKKK (Notice the on purpose misspellings.)”
Anyways, in all seriousness, I believe Cain is a good hearted individual, who (I hope) is trying to represent the people BUT:
Former FED worker, who insists auditing the FED is ridiculous and none of our business.
The thing that killed it for me with Cain is though, the FOX news interview, where he spent a good 7 minutes explaining his “economic plan”, and then proceeded to say it wouldn’t work because the government did not implement his plan.
Ron Paul 2012
Report Post »CaptainKook
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:36pmCaptainkook: Do you know the differance between a lie and hyperbole? Just wondering why you are in such a rush to be so judgemental about a statement that was clearly hyperbole?
I certtsainly do.
I also know that repeating lies is not an impressive use of Mr. Cain’s talents.
Report Post »If he has any actual clue he should reveal it.
John 1776
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:37pmCain has got my vote. Joking or not, if its over three pages, then it is addressing more than one point. Lets stop compiling junk. Go over each issue on its own.
Cain also won my vote when I caught an old tape of him challenging Bill Clinton. Basically, he was saying the same things back then that he is now. This is no “jump on the bandwagon” guy, he really believes what he is saying, and sticks to his guns when he knows what needs to be done.
Report Post »dblaess
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:37pmat least this would force members of congress to read the bill, before paasing the bill so they could know what is in it.
Report Post »Obama Snake Oil Co
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:43pmWell Captain Obama, we struck an ice berg….Reid was at the helm and Pelosi was at the engine….we have a gapping hole nad water is flooding all of the ship, what should we do? Mate, get the elitest liberals out of my cabinet first and load them in lifeboats, take em away form here. Get all of the rats off the ship first….leave Anthony Weiner, he can twit his way out. Don’t tell Barney Franks or Christopher Dodd….they cannot tell if a ship is sinking or not. Serve all the folks that new drink, the Bin Ladin too. Why sir? Well, we want them not paying attention like their usual liberal selves while we screw them. Besides, the new Drink, the Bin Ladin….its two shot and a splash of water…….Mate, it that water washing over the decks already? Yes sir, she is going down fast like your ratings on Rasmussen…..she is like you soon, a goner….Abandon ship, abandon ship……
Report Post »JohnGalt
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:43pmOnly ignoramus here is you, CaptainKook, name says it all.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:43pmWe need Cain or West for the next POTUS.
Report Post »frongjumping
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:43pmGah! The guy makes a joke and you take it seriously. The audience could tell he was kidding around just fine. Why can’t you?
Report Post »thegrassroots
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:45pm“They” should be able to say all that needs to be said in three pages, instead of using all that wordage to try and hide the forest behind all the trees.
Good For Mr Cain! I Like Direct And To The Point! I‘m getting to like what I’m seeing in Herman Cain more and more!
Report Post »hatenomor
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:45pmcaptkook: and exactly what lie did Mr. Cain utter? Do you know exactly how many pages the bill actully is?
Report Post »JohnGalt
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:47pm@LibertariansUnite
Herman said he wouldn’t make it a priority to audit the Fed as there are more important things that needs to be worked on. Which I agree with.
Report Post »Clive
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:50pmwho is so lazy, that they can’t read more than three pages. seriously, is reading a problem for these people?
Report Post »OneofMany
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:52pm@CaptainKook what an appropriate screen name… It was obviously a joke. Did you even watch the video, or did you just come to back Cain?
Report Post »wildbluyonder11
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:52pmMore evidence that you didn’t read the article or watch the video before commenting.
Report Post »CaptainKook
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:54pmcaptkook: and exactly what lie did Mr. Cain utter?
In that video?
the baloney about “2700 pages” which is widely believed by talk-radio cultists.
One the AHCA was printed in a standrard font it added up to under 300 printed pages.
Do you remember any Republican counting the pages in Congressional Printing Office’s long print-out of the Medicare Part D legislation [which was written for the GOP by pharmaceutical industry lobbyists?]
You can bet they did not.
Report Post »CaptainKook
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:56pmHerman Cain: riling up the rubes with second-hand slogans and myths.
Report Post »Cptnjarhead
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:56pm@savingtherepublic
Report Post »You are spot on my friend. I am appointing you as the official BLAZE troll czar!
DO NOT FEED THE TROLLS! sometimes i forget this. trolls are like spoiled little children, if you ignore them, they get angry and say all kinds of silly things to get attention. No one likes to be ignored, but a troll will die without food. save the blaze and kill a troll!
AKMIIKEUS
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:57pmSarah Palin meet Herman Cain.
One idiot meeting another idiot.
Report Post »streetrodder
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:58pmYou should be busted down in rank to P.F.C.KOOK
Report Post »AKMIIKEUS
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:59pmThe company he used to work for makes the worst pizza and we’re suppose to be in awe of this idiot?
Report Post »adouglass1
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 3:02pmNancy Pelosi regarding Obamacare
Youll have to pass it to see whats in it.
She is a ret@rd I was always taught you read everything you sign duh!! Does anyone ever remember being told that as well? They purposefully made it longer than it needs to be to get the point accross. Well I can sum it up in one sentence. “give every American health care”. woo did not have to 2700 pages long or whatever. I dont agree at all because right now I cant expand my business invest or hire until this crap is figured out. I own a small business and might have to stop offering health care let alone close up shop. Btw the Constitution and Bill of Rights fit in my back pocket in a small 60 page book with The Articles of Confederation. How the hell can we seriously organize and get prepared? We need to get together other than just talk on a blog. They are seriously coming for us and I am worried about my seven year old innocent son and my 2 year old innocent daughter.
Report Post »Cptnjarhead
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 3:03pmtake the TROLL free challenge!
Report Post »Just try ignoring them for one day, then two, then three, then a week and soon your TROLL FREE!!!!
start today :)
turkey13
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 3:03pmMr.Cain remembers president Ragens paper reduction act and used this as a ceo. Also most people are forgeting Mr. Cain is a full blood African american – not a half breed like obama.
Report Post »Balthazor
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 3:06pmWhy do you hate black people?
Report Post »Mannax
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 3:07pmCAPTAINKOOK
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:04pm
This guy is just repeating the old lie about “2700” pages.
The Congressional printing office uses a font and template that often takes three pages just to list the table of contents.
If pushing ignorance makes him Presidential to you guys……enjoy.
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You are the one who is ignorant. It is the same font that they use for every bill, so guess what, it is 2700 or so pages long. By your own argument you shoot yourself down. If it were a 3 page bill or a 1 page bill it would still be the same. Frankly I think no bill should be longer than the constitution and should refer to the constitution to show that the government actually has the authority to do it.
Report Post »Cptnjarhead
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 3:09pmdon’t feed the trolls!
Report Post »booger71
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 3:10pmGo Herminator
Report Post »VegasGuy
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 3:11pmThe left wing media will take anything out of context if it suits their socialist bent. But Democrats can get by with the most egregious off the cuff remarks and the same media will bend over backward to characterize the comment as a joke. This is straight out of the Rules for Radicals play book.
Report Post »Jimbo Wales
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 3:13pmobviously a racist
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 3:20pm@Susan-hilarious
Report Post »I take what Mr. Cain with a grain of salt. He is just saying that bills don’t have to be humongous in order to pass them.
He still sounds like a contender.
Talmid of Yeshua
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 3:28pmCaptain Kook, what corporations have you, or even Obama, ran successfully? OH.. I’m sure none. Cain is a proven leader.
But then again, I know you kooky demoncrats love 2,700 page bills. I’m sure you agree with Nazi Pelosi, “We must pass the bill to see what’s in the bill.”
Now that is just plain kookery.
Report Post »GODSAMERICA
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 3:28pm“the baloney about “2700 pages” which is widely believed by talk-radio cultists.”
Report Post »And which is overwhelmingly not believed by everyone that is scared to death of the truth in any form, someone that would be so love struck by pelosi that they would believe ANYTHING that she said, someone with an IQ no higher than 1/10th of 1 OR someone that fits all of these descriptions such as kooktroll.
hatenomor
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 3:31pmCaptkookie: The bill that congress voted on was how many pages? Please site your source. Thank you
Report Post »LibertariansUnite
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 3:40pm@JOHNGALT
Well if he said that, then he is definitely not getting my vote.
There is two MAJOR issues that is destroying our country today:
-The Federal Reserve, that pushes our dollar towards hyperinflation
-The idea that the Collective is responsible for the individual
Once those two ideas are either solved or reversed, then our country can turn itself around.
Report Post »Jedrin
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 3:46pmNot only should the bills be no longer than 3 pages should 1. cover only one subject – no unrelated additions 2. be in plain eight grade English 3. concise and no room for judgment 4. never giving of regulatory DOE type police powers to any “Department of______”.
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 3:47pmCaptainKook
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 2:16pm
I love it – I get called a racist for callng a fool a fool.
Now you know how every conservative feels when Obama’s name is mentioned and we are called racists. If Obama had a smidgen of the real world experience Herman Cain does the Conservatives wouldn’t think he (Obama) is such a joke when he talks about the economy.
Report Post »catndahat
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 3:48pmRascist!!!! Guess you can’t handle a man of color in the WH!!! Sick, go back to your KKK meeting…
Report Post »hifi74
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 3:51pmKookboy, you‘re just jealous that your candidate is an insufferable and incompetent dolt that couldn’t lead his way out of a wet paper bag. Herman Cain is 5 times the leader them Obama could ever hope to be.
Report Post »LibertariansUnite
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 3:55pmIt is really sad on a Herman Cain post, when the neo-cons spend their time pulling the racist card, simply for some self righteous crusade to avenge themselves against people who demonized them as racists.
You can say your kidding when you do things, but as we all know, there is always a little truth to every joke uttered.
Report Post »alienguns
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 4:12pmCain is right….no bill should be that long or complicated……I think the 10 Commandments sums up everything in a few paragraphs….it isn’t that complicated…there is right and there is wrong–man is the one that created the grey areas…and I am not that religious but if all people lived the Commandments, it would be a pretty nice planet
Report Post »CaptainKook
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 4:29pm@hatenomor
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 3:31pm
Captkookie: The bill that congress voted on was how many pages? Please site your source. Thank you”
Here you go:
SPIN METER: ‘War and Peace’ in 209 pages?
Nov 24, 2009
By CALVIN WOODWARD and DOUGLASS K. DANIEL
WASHINGTON (AP) – Republicans are using everything short of forklifts to show Americans that Democratic health care legislation is an unwieldy mountain of paper. They pile it high on desks, hoist it on a shoulder trussed in sturdy rope and tell people it’s longer than “War and Peace,” which it isn’t.
Although they complain they don’t have time to read all of it, they found the time to tape it together, page by page, so they could roll it up the steps of the Capitol like super-sized toilet paper and show how very long it is… legislation of comparable size was used to redefine an area of much more limited federal responsibility, education. That was the “No Child Left Behind Act” from the agenda of Republican President George W. Bush.
The actual Senate bill, which Majority Leader Harry Reid introduced last week, came in at 2,074 double-spaced pages, 84 more pages than the House version, which was already being ridiculed for its size.
By now, the full draft of Reid’s bill that had circulated in the corridors and landed so prominently on Republican desks has been published in the Congressional Record in the official and conventional manner.
It’s 209 pages.
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20
Report Post »avenger
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 4:35pmdude..why are you here ? go to msnbs
Report Post »hatenomor
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 4:42pmcaptkookie: your link didn’t work.(Sorry! We couldn’t find the page you requested.
Report Post »While you are here, why not check out these other great areas of Excite!).
According to your post, the bill was over 2000 pages. So…………..explain the lie told by Cain and how it was not just hyperbole.
By the way, I do believe you are not a bad person,etc., as some here depict you to be. It does take courage to stand up for what you believe. At least you express yourself to those who disagree with you, unlike most of your big brother loving co-horts, who only seem to post on sites that re-gurgitate soros propaganda.
hempstead1944
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 4:49pmDon’t flatter him….he is in the paper business…….
Report Post »Lover of America
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 4:49pmAnd what is you’re problem with Mr. Cain. At least he is speaking like an educated man.
Report Post »CaptainKook
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 4:54pm@ hatenomor
I appreciate that – thanks.
Report Post »colonial10
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 4:56pmIt doesn’t matter if the bills are 3 pages or thousands. In actuality how many bills really represent the American public. We have come to see that we have been asleep while these crooks are writing bills to fund their cronies and push their personnel agenda’s through. Look at Michelle Obama. Do you think we really need a new food chart with an internet website to be maintained when we have 14 trillion dollars we can’t pay for? I think the gist of Herman Cains agenda is that he will control what these idiots pass through. Most of the bills cost us billions of unnecessary spending. He‘s just saying he’s going to stay on top of these scoundrels. Though scoundrels are slippery.
Report Post »SimpleTruths
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 5:03pmThis is really a moot point. Cain isn’t going to be signing anything anyway because not going to be winning anything anyway. He sure didn‘t have a problem signing away his employee’s retirement fund money though, while at the same time doling out $30 million dollars in bonuses to his top henchmen. Is that really the leadership you want? Really?
Report Post »pakaeboiboi
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 5:23pmOk Now ….. finally I can agree with Janeane Garofalo quote: (CAPTAINKOOK) “this is about (the Leftwing) hating a (Rightwing) black man (HC wanting to be President) in the White House. This is racism straight up.” AMEN Janeane / CAPTAINKOOK …. you go girlz!!!!
Report Post »CaptainKook
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 5:26pmCain was also a board member of a major energy company [Aquila Inc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquila,_Inc. ] when it was successfully sued by employees for nearly obliterating the pension fund on risky investments. [the lawsuit was settled in 2007]
“..scrubbed from Cain’s official story is his long tenure as a director at a Midwest energy corporation named Aquila that, like the infamous Enron Corporation, recklessly drove into the wild west of energy trading and speculation – and ultimately screwed its employees out of tens of millions of dollars,” Mother Jones reports.
According to a massive class action lawsuit against Aquila’s board of directors – including Cain – he allegedly steered employees into heavily investing their retirement savings in company stock, while at the same time shifting their business model from straightforward energy generation to risky energy trading – the kind of corporate greed that infamously brought down Enron, Mother Jones reports.
In the suit, it claims that Cain and other top officials violated a 37-year-old federal law that requires employers to responsibly manage the retirement programs for their employees. Their pensions and life savings were lost.
Report Post »http://atlantapost.com/2011/05/25/a-real-reason-to-be-mad-at-herman-cain/
CaptainKook
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 5:30pmpakaeboiboi
How do you know I’m not black myself?
Fool.
Report Post »2smart
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 5:36pmCaptainKook, your source is the AP. HaHaHaHa They have as much credability as the empty suit in the WH. How about going to LOC Thomas and look at the original? Factual sources make for factual answers, instead we get propagandafrom a troll. And as for @Akmiikeus who said his pizza is no good, then how did Cain bring it back from the depths with a bad product? That doesn‘t make sense but then you don’t make sense either. Why are you afraid of Palin. Oh thats right, she has more sense and intelligence than the empty suit.
Report Post »BothPartiesAreCorrupt
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 5:41pmWhy would CaptianKook be attacking Herman Cain? Maybe he‘s a closet racist that just doesn’t want to see a black man get ahead? Is that possible?
Report Post »SLAPTHELEFT
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 5:43pmJohn conyers definitely read the bill
Report Post »JohnGalt
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 5:52pmLibertariansUnite
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 3:40pm
@JOHNGALT
Well if he said that, then he is definitely not getting my vote.
There is two MAJOR issues that is destroying our country today:
-The Federal Reserve, that pushes our dollar towards hyperinflation
-The idea that the Collective is responsible for the individual
Once those two ideas are either solved or reversed, then our country can turn itself around.
I totally agree with you on both accounts. Here’s my point trying to audit the Fed right now would not stop them from the damage they are doing right now, it would tell us yes they are doing it and maybe why. An Audit technically doesn’t change anything, it just shows us the practices going on. Making policies to reinvigorate the economy, clean up the deficit/debt ie. spending and stop the downward spiral is what the president needs to do right away. Unfortunately the Federal Reserve is only feeding the Government demand for spending. Once this is done we can then go and audit the Fed and as i would love, get rid of them, but once we have the economy back to where it should be.
Report Post »LibertariansUnite
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 6:10pm@JOHNGALT
Read essays from F.A. Hayek, and Mises book called “Human Action”, it all explains how “Austrian Economics” the only real economics works.
The federal cannot, and will not recover the economy. The Quantity Theory of Money, which is not to be taken one hundred percent literally, and the books will tell you why, states that the more money in an economy, the more inflation (which is not strictly defined as price levels as Keynesians would tell you, it is also the value of the dollar) rises. The only thing the Fed can do is print more money, so therefore the Fed will NEVER (mark my words) recover the economy.
We must return to a sound monetary policy either backed by gold or silver, (humans usually have chosen gold) in order to prevent this print and spend ordeal the government has done for years.
So your suggestion of preserving the Federal Reserve long enough to fix the economy, is the same premise as suggesting “Well let’s keep the cancer cells long enough until the patient is healed, then we will remove it.”
I could go into malinvestment, and how the Fed directly connects to that, as well as the terrible consequences of manipulating interest rates, but I do not have enough characters remaining on this post.
Report Post »LibertariansUnite
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 6:12pmI am sorry I didn’t address this in my last post.
I am not saying an audit will fix the fed, I am saying abolish the Fed.
The reason why Ron Paul wants to audit the Fed is to bring to the attention of the people the corruption it has been conducting. Then those people call their representatives, then he may be able to swing a vote (which will be needed in congress to abolish the fed) to destroy the Fed once and for all.
Report Post »swampbuck
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 6:26pmyou don’t know a joke even when it hits you between the eyes…
Report Post »joe3
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 7:01pmlove ron paul, i also love hermain cain. cain put out a short video before the conservative debate a month ago stating that he clearly supports ron pauls audit of the fed and that he supports the fed being put on a short leash, abolishing the mandate it says it as to control job creation. cain stated he wants the fed to be restricted to preserving the value of the dollar. obviously the fed has failed at the sole reason for its creation. cain is a great business man, and if you cant do your job you hit the road. i suspect cain will call for an end of the fed alongside ron paul.
Report Post »Bum thrower
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 7:04pmI think the guy is correct; like the ‘num-nuts’ Dingel; and the rest of the libs; Legislation shoujldn’t be anly longer than the constitution…
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 7:07pmBetter check out what he meant .. HE WILL be the next president..at least we will have JOBS .. and he won’t be selling carbon credits like ROMNEY..
Report Post »Dannowood
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 7:08pmKookie: YOU ARE A RACSIST PIG. Now go home to Mommy Soros and get some more talking points.
Report Post »JohnGalt
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 7:09pm@LibertariansUnite,
I too am a member of the Ludwig von Mises Institute all though I haven’t read that book as yet, there is plenty to keep me busy just on the daily Mises, I’ll put it on my to read list. I, of course agree with you, but do you not agree that the president needs to prioritize? We need a flat tax/fair tax, we need to cut government spending, drastically, I take this from the 1920-21 Depression. We need to put our dollar on some kind of physical asset base (ie. silver/gold). I would see getting rid of the Fed to be a somewhat drawn out process, taking along time, time in which I don’t think we have, personally.
Report Post »LibertariansUnite
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 7:59pm@JOHNGALT
I am glad to hear that, then you have many resources at hand!
I wasn’t trying to belittle you by any means, I just simply did not know if you were referring to a Keynesian style policy.
Of course balancing the budget is key as well, but Ron Paul’s plan is pretty rock solid on doing so.
Bringing home the troops, saving hundreds of billions of dollars, and then turning the welfare programs into one program that is opt out able.
As well as cutting out ridiculous bureaucracy, but of course, you probably have read of his plan and I am preaching to the choir.
I guess I simply support auditing the Fed as a means to bringing attention to the public more or less. Of course you are correct, an audit by itself will not fix our economy, but we have to start where we can.
Report Post »Fourty5Kimber
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 8:13pmI think he is brilliant! Both sides have been sticking it to us for years by burying all kinds of crap into thousand page (or more) bills that literaly take months or years to figure out. Bravo! He’s got my vote! Herman Cain and Sara Palin 2012. All the way.
Report Post »michael48
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 8:14pmget back under the bridge, kook….some lib-tard eco-terriorist is stealing your cardboard house…the Sony one…
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 8:19pmDoes that include the un Patriot act ?
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 8:20pmI am sorry but I do not find this man very Intelligent .
Report Post »Alan Keys is way better.
HumbleMan
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 8:33pm@Kook (I too will not call you captain)
You know … in this day an age, Herman Cain is right on target. If we are a government of the “PEOPLE” … those capitol hill (absence of upper-case is intentional) idiots need to skinny-it-down. If you can’t put a law into 3 pages, then you don’t have a point … or you’re hiding an agenda.
What don’t you like, Kook? You can’t keep it simple?
Actually … you do keep it simple … Lib-talking points … no more, no less … empty suit.
Report Post »Pontiac
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 8:45pmResounding endorsement by Captainkook. Cain has my vote.
Report Post »The Big Pickle
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 10:53pmThank You!
The United States can only handle one affirmative action moron per millenium.
Report Post »its_time_to_arrest_our_government
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 11:38pmgood we dont need 2000 page bills if it cant be said in 3 pages of simple english that even a leftwing nut can understand we dont need it. what we need is a prez that will get rid of the worthless bills the loony left spend years enacting piece by piece because they knew they couldnt get the whole thing passed. its time for some real changes thatll drive the loony left right out of this country. we need another look at the subversive activities of the progressive left in this nation.
Report Post »CaptainKook
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 12:29amOnce again – here is a working link to the AP story:
http://www.memphisdailynews.com/editorial/Article.aspx?id=46330
209 pages: not 2,700
Report Post »Currahee
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 1:04amCaptain,
What he was saying…and he clarified it with Glenn on TV tonight, was that he will not sign a bill with any ear marks, are too large for anyone to have had a chance to read it, and are in a language that ordinary people can understand what it says. That is the problem with 100% of the bills written and passed, they are long as hell to make room for all of the legalneeze that means loopholes for the friends of the people who wrote them. What is so hard in writing a bill that says….Any person who enters into the United State of America or its territories without entering through a controlled border crossing, port, or air terminal where said persons are subject to being questioned and searched for contraband or prohibited items being brought with them as well as their identities being checked and verified will be considered to be here illegally and subject to arrest, fine, imprisonment, deportation, and restricted from re-entering for not less than 20 years. That is what Herman Cain was saying, of course he was being sarcastic about the 3 page bill…but I think mine would take up less than 1 page.
Report Post »Cleveland
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 2:56amPretty suspicious how everyone, including The Blaze, always refers to him in his role for Godfather’s Pizza, but they don’t mention anything about his Federal Reserve days. I guess they don’t want to say anything that would be damaging. God forbid the people find out the truth about “the chosen ones” huh Glenn Beck? Like how Herman Cain said there’s no reason to audit the Federal Reserve Corporation(you are all just ignorant he said), or how he can’t form more than 3 coherent sentences in a row.
Proof that Herman Cain is a Federal Reserve shill:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiAkeFJXwUk
Report Post »BrianBDB
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:22am3-page bills will be possible & will end the practice of ridering. If your rider is good enough, let it stand alone.
That’s the GOOOH.com philosophy
Report Post »jonmessenger
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:35amI know that you are paid plant and all, but I still wish to ask. Are you familiar with the phrase “illustrating absurdity by being absurd” ?
Report Post »TeaBeliever
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:56amMore proof that we already made a mistake with one afro-american president who is not up to the challenge. We canot elcect another person like obama!!!
Report Post »shannon1776
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 12:12pmYeah, your president is doing such a wonderful job. I would vote for a soda can if it ran against Der Obama.
Report Post »skinnydipinacid
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 1:22pm“I love it – I get called a racist for callng a fool a fool”
Now you know how we who attack Obama feel… enjoy your newfound “racism”.
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