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Herman Cain Gets Secret Service Protection After Receiving Threats

Herman Cain Gets Secret Service Protection After Receiving Threats

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain is escorted by security as he leaves through the back door after a fundraiser, Friday, Nov. 11, 2011. He became the first GOP candidate to receive Secret Service protection Thursday. (AP File Photo)

(The Blaze/AP) Herman Cain became the first Republican presidential candidate to receive Secret Service protection Thursday, requesting it from the Department of Homeland Security after receiving threats.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and congressional leaders approved his protection request Thursday, Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan confirmed.

There have been threats against Cain, who had been experiencing a bounce in the polls, according to an official with knowledge of the situation who asked not to be identified because of the sensitive nature of the situation. The nature of the threats was unclear.

Donovan would not say whether there had been any threats or discuss why protection was being provided.

The campaign confirmed in an email early Friday that the candidate was receiving federal protection.

“Due to the recent surge in the polls and the large crowds of enthusiastic supporters at recent campaign events, we are appreciative of the extra level of protection provided by these elite professionals,” the Cain campaign said in a statement.

While it’s unknown whether a specific incident triggered the request, police reports show that Cain’s campaign has been the target of threats on at least one occasion.

On June 1, Cain’s campaign office in Stockbridge, Ga., reported receiving a call from someone who did not identify himself but who claimed he was a member of the Ku Klux Klan. The man said that Cain, who is black, should not run for the White House.

“Tell him not to run” and “there’s no such thing as a black Republican,” the man said, according to a written statement that Cain’s administrative assistant, Lisa Reichert, gave to the police.

The Associated Press obtained a copy of the police reports using Georgia’s open records law.

Local police alerted the FBI and the U.S. Secret Service to the incident.

Secret Service protection is given to each major party‘s presidential nominee but can be provided earlier if the Homeland Security Department approves a campaign’s request.

When then-Sen. Barack Obama was placed under Secret Service protection in May 2007, it was the earliest ever for a presidential candidate. One of his rivals, Hillary Rodham Clinton, already had a protective detail because she was a former first lady.

In the 2004 campaign, Democratic candidates John Kerry and John Edwards received their protection in February of that year as they competed for the party’s nomination.

Federal law allows candidates to seek protection if they meet a series of standards, including public prominence as measured by polls and fundraising.

Napolitano consulted Thursday with a congressional advisory committee made up of the House speaker, the House and Senate majority and minority leaders and the House sergeant-at-arms, the chief law enforcement officer in the House.

Comments (99)

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  • Young Conservative 65
    Posted on November 18, 2011 at 3:21pm

    Why is there no report about this in the mainstream media? I wonder….

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    • Br@dley
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 4:20pm

      real mature rationalman.
      you’re really helping you cause with infantile insults.
      grow up.

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    • TEXASGRANNY73
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 4:41pm

      Obviously he is. If Ron Paul receives threats he can report them. May I add here that Herman Cain places paid ads on the Blaze while Ron Paul supporters think this is a freebie campaign site.

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    • LisaC49
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 8:55pm

      There IS report of this in the mainstream media — on the internet, radio AND on tv. The first I had heard of it was on FNC this morning.

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  • Snuskeeter
    Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:19pm

    I know it is hard to believe but there really is such a thing as a black conservative. I have no problem at all voting for Cain if he gets picked.

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    • Br@dley
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:27pm

      wants to raise your taxes,
      pro-bailout,

      where’s the conservatism?

      Report Post » Br@dley  
    • Br@dley
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:28pm

      btw, aren’t you supposed to be on the newt bandwagon by now?

      Report Post » Br@dley  
    • The Voice of Libertarian Reason
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:40pm

      @Bradley

      If you disagree with a man’s politics do it without lieing. Lieing make you no better than Barry and the rest of the “most transparent administration in history”

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    • SerikFox
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:52pm

      Raise my taxes? Dude, do you even know what you’re talking about? A lot of my family members earn very low salaries (~24k) – it would still lower their taxes. It would save my parents. My dad makes close to 100k a year and he gets taxed at around 40% – just on income. That much money may sound good – but he was unemployed for 7 months and it’s a 33% lower salary then his last job. He’s gone through bankruptcy and may lose his house. Of that 40% about 28% is federal tax, dropping that to 9 would save him. That’s all before payroll tax as well (the tax they don’t even like acknowledging exists).

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:18pm

      Br@dley = Troll

      Report Post » Rational Man  
    • PoliticiansRCrooks
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:22pm

      black or not, hes no better than the rest of them. Ron Paul 2012

      Report Post » PoliticiansRCrooks  
    • PoliticiansRCrooks
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:23pm

      Cain is no better than the rest. Ron Paul 2012

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:35pm

      Ron Paul sucks and his supporters/trolls suck more!
      He is a loser and so are you if you join the cult!

      Report Post » Rational Man  
    • Rational Man
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:36pm

      Ron Paul sucks and his supporters/trolls suck more!
      He is a loser and so are you if you join the cult!!

      Report Post » Rational Man  
    • Br@dley
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 3:20pm

      @rationalman,

      you sound like a child.

      serikfox
      9+9= 18% of my income going to the federal government. factor in state and sales tax, i would be paying close to 32% of my income to taxes. i am not paying that much now. thus, TAX INCREASE.

      USE YOUR BRAIN.

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    • pamela kay
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 3:57pm

      I have doubts that it was the Klu Klux Klan. It is probably connected to the progressives. The Klan would be more apt to go after Obama than Cain. Not that I believe or want that to be the case. It is a way of making conservatives appear as racist, and we are not. Those statements about blonde women wer made to instigate such actions in hopes that some nutcase would threaten Cain. It is possible that it has provoked the Klan to go after Cain but remember those who made the statements will stop at nothing to cause chaos and get the snowball rolling toward the “crisis” that they have created. They can’t waste such a crisis, can they? Not if they are a progressive they can’t. As we all know, we have seen it many times and will continue to witness it until they successfully take over our country.

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 3:57pm

      Just trolling you back, stupid. How does it feel? Many of us are sick of you Paulistinians trolling every subject with your bull. Your not helping your cause. You just drive people away and make us dislike you more with every trolling post……“Use YOUR brain”!!

      Report Post » Rational Man  
    • Br@dley
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 4:33pm

      real mature rationalman.
      you’re really helping you cause with infantile insults.
      grow up.

      Report Post » Br@dley  
    • LisaC49
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 9:33pm

      Amen, Snuskeeter. I know Cain has humility and therefore, wouldn’t be out there bragging about having Secret Service detail, so he’s probably not too happy about THAT getting out into the open! Nor is he happy about the fact that he has to GET Secret Service to protect his life. He’s a good man, but I think this is changing him a lot.

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  • AKHDPETE
    Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:00pm

    Cain is a true conservative, that is why the media keeps bashing him. They want someone like a Romney, another Mc cain, A RINO. Now that Newt Gingrich is rising in the polls, the media is going after him now. It seems funny that they don’t go after Romney, that is who they want to run against in the next election. They [ the media ] will then use Romney care against him in the next election. And Obama will win another four years. That will be the end of a once great nation. Just look at who the president supports, OWS. I am stocking up on food and ammo to protect my family. I advise you all to do the same. Save yourself.

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  • hi
    Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:25pm

    The Cain,Perry,Paul, and Gingrich supporters need to consolidate since they are all fiscal conservatives.

    If not, Romney the socialist will win because the fiscal conservative vote will be divided by 4.

    Report Post » hi  
    • Br@dley
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:45pm

      perry, gingrich and cain are all pro bail-out. not very fiscally conservative sir.

      ron paul or bust.

      Report Post » Br@dley  
    • Rational Man
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:19pm

      I’ll take bust please!

      Report Post » Rational Man  
    • Br@dley
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 3:22pm

      I bet you will take bust. it will be around the same time you cast your vote for romney (he WILL be the candidate if not paul). god you republicans are so freaking blind.

      Report Post » Br@dley  
    • Rational Man
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 4:06pm

      Then why did your pathetic little cult leader run as a Republican? Troll!
      Start your own little party….. The Troll Party. And stop trying to co-op the Tea Party and the Republicans. It seems you have more progressives coming to your side. What does that tell you, you ‘all seeing’ smart guy you?
      I’m not so blind as to not see what an epic failure Paul is and has been in the past as a presidential candidate and would be as president.

      Report Post » Rational Man  
    • Br@dley
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 4:22pm

      hmm, you do know the tea party movement was founded around ron paul right?
      and that they actually stood for something before being coopted by neocons right?
      and that the republican party today is a sad spectre of what it used to be RIGHT?

      hopeless.

      Report Post » Br@dley  
    • Br@dley
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 4:27pm

      oh, and cult leader?

      why does your precious mr beck love israel more than the usa? why does he want everyone to stockpile food and bartering items? why does he want everyone to follow him to texas?

      hahahaha! can’t see the forrest for the trees huh?

      Report Post » Br@dley  
    • COFemale
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 4:50pm

      Okay you two knock it off. Don’t make me be the adult here. yeah I’m talking to you Bradley and Rational. Both of you are sickening and sound like two teenage girls.

      Report Post » COFemale  
    • Rational Man
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 5:01pm

      Can’t talk sense to a Paulistinian anyway………………….

      Report Post » Rational Man  
  • BurntHills
    Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:08pm

    Mr Cain will always be in danger now, but one tragic question is would there be ANY outcry from the American Black population if he was assassinated? Mr Cain is the 100% American Black, NOT obama.

    in 2007-2008 there brief newspaper mentions that the KKK had commanded its followers they would be voting FOR democrat obama, because of his anti-Israel hatred and his choice of anti-semitic churches, and it certainly mirrored theirs, for obama is just an african mulatto out of a white democrat communist mother, a brother in arms, and the white democrats would handle him…. and obama is not a 100% American Black, a descendant of their slaves, for that is something which they would NEVER allow in the WH.

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  • 71FOREVER
    Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:51am

    For once, I would like to hear folks actually talk about the candidates policies and compare ways to fix things.
    All I hear is partisan, partisan, partisan.
    Blame, blame, blame.
    and slander!
    Those that vomit partisan, blame, and slander are immediately discredited in my eyes and I can’t take you seriously.
    If the shoe fits……

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    • Br@dley
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:02pm

      are you kidding? the only candidate that doesn’t dodge policy questions is ron paul.

      and newt is the worst. he blatantly refuses to answer any policy question and instead turns the focus toward obama’s ineptitude.

      weak field with the exception of dr. paul.

      Report Post » Br@dley  
    • Supercalafragalisticexpialidotious
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 10:30pm

      Hey 71Forever,

      I’ll give you some reasons why I like Cain, if you’re curious. :) He’s not a politician, he says what he means, he doesn’t do the whole “blather, blather, don‘t know the topic so let me get out one of my memorized slick lines of nonsense that won’t answer your question” thing- which is one reason he really floundered on the question about Libya and has taken so much heat. He didn’t want to just blow hot air, he wanted to really remember, get his facts straight, and answer seriously- I think he was tired, though, and it hurt him. That said, Cain has had a laser light on him and the media has been just waiting for the first opportunity to pounce- so considering the vast numbers of interviews he’s been doing, he’s a good speaker.

      For policy: One huge reason I support him is the 999 plan, and the fact it will lead to the Fair Tax. That is real change, which will drastically improve the economy, and fast. Also, his views are generally very conservative. The border, fixing social security by privatizing accounts, etc- he’s willing to deal with the huge economic issues facing this country.

      And he has a proven ability to take failing businesses and turn them completely around….I’d love for him to do that for our miserably corrupt government!

      I also think he can beat Obama, and I’d love to see them interact nationally. lol…I’m out of space, but those are a few of my reasons. :)

      Also, I believe he’s innocent of the harassment alleg

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  • Rational Man
    Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:30am

    I may be out of touch, but I don’t remember hearing of any serious threats from the kkk toward Obama. Could it be because they are all Democrats? Obama serving the party of the kkk and helping to keep blacks on the Democrat plantation?

    The kkk has historically hated and even assassinated white Republicans. A black Republican running for president must really send them over the edge!

    Report Post » Rational Man  
    • Bill Rowland
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:51am

      OWS anyone? They are associated with the KKK, The Nazi Party, the New Black Panthers , The Nation of Islam and various other splinter groups. Any/all of them would resent a black man who didn’t know his place. There are enough bigots and haters in any of these groups to be the ones responsible.

      OMG

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  • CarolinaGirl
    Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:27am

    Just maybe this is a plea for attention since Cain’s poll numbers are dropping. He may think the sympathy factor will kick in and put him back on top. By the way, I think Cain should pay for Secret Service with HIS money. He knew he would be a target at some point when he threw his hat into the ring.

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    • rdietz7
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:33am

      Your a very uniformed individual. Obviously nobody in your family has ever ran for public office. People if you have no idea about the topic your commenting on you cane either not comment or ask questions of others the are aware of the topic related to the story.

      Makes you wonder if Carolina girl was assisting fellow cult members in north Carolina this weekend attacking churches and religious sites.

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:36am

      Tell me why Cain should be the exception and pay for SS protection. Because you don’t like him?

      Report Post » Rational Man  
    • CarolinaGirl
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:02pm

      To Rdietz7: You can’t spell. Go back to school.

      To Rational Man: Because the prevailing rule is to afford Secret Service protection to the elected presidential nominee.

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:32pm

      StupidGirl, the SS has always protected presidential candidates. Your bias against Cain is showing.

      “The most candidates ever receiving protection during a presidential campaign was 15 — in 1976. By contrast, there were just three in 2004.”
      http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/15/secret-service-seeks-funding-for-2012-candidate-protection-as-budget-process/

      Besides, anyone who has attended a candidates rally has seen the SS surounding them and had to pass through the metal detector and/or get frisked.

      Stop making an ass out of yourself……It’s not becoming……………….

      Report Post » Rational Man  
    • CarolinaGirl
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 11:21am

      Attention RATIONAL MAN: You, sir, have absolutely no class. You feign intelligence and erroneously try to boost your importance by degrading others and using slurs.

      Report Post » CarolinaGirl  
  • pwatkins
    Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:27am

    I knew the Cain train was going to derail..just didn‘t think it would happen so soon and don’t think the demoncraps did either.

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    • Br@dley
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:54am

      REALLY?

      i knew his bandwagon moment would last for about 5-6 weeks and that newt was next in line. been ssying it for about 2 months now. it was painfully obvious. republicans are going to be left with 2 choices: ron paul and romney.

      question is, will they vote for the conservative or the “electable” lib. something tells me they will make the wrong decision…

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    • Br@dley
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:54am

      *saying

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  • georgeisn6
    Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:25am

    KKK ddDEM:

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  • lvjohn
    Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:18am

    I must have been Chris Matthews not a KKKer.

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    • JRook
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:21am

      So did someone explain to Cain who the group was…..

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  • Diomasach
    Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:13am

    “there’s no such thing as a black Republican?” Sounds more like MSNBC than KKK…

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  • Bakko Bomma
    Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:00am

    Go away and do what you do best, cop feels, Cain you old fraud from the Fed.

    Bakko Bomma  
  • BrandyWilson
    Posted on November 18, 2011 at 10:58am

    Cain is the threat…,He will get better…,just watch!

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  • thegreatcarnac
    Posted on November 18, 2011 at 10:46am

    Sounds too fishy to me. Cain has dropped in the polls and suddenly, now, he is threatened by someone who says he is with the KKK??? Come on. Every other KKK member is an FBI agent. They would know in a few days who had made the call. This all sounds like a made up lie. I think Cain is a fake and a crazier chraracter than people think. He speaks well…but so do parrots.

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  • poverty.sucks
    Posted on November 18, 2011 at 10:37am

    Secret Service protection isn’t much of a secret.

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    • SgtB
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:32pm

      The secret service’s main job is not to protect the Pres. It is to protect the money supply, IE, the Federal Reserve. Their job has been to protect the interest of a private bank ever since the Congress relenquished their Constitutional responsibility to regulate and coin money.

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  • NILAP
    Posted on November 18, 2011 at 10:36am

    Cain represents the very spirit of Lincoln and the Republican Party. So many on the Left are saying look all those whites have left the Cain Train because the woman making the allegations is blond and blue eyed. Is the Tea Party gonna honor the memory of Lincoln or not ?

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    • mils
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:29am

      WRONG…NOT BECAUSE SHE’S BLONDE…it’s because republicans as mush. They can’t stand to have a person a little rough around the edges, one that might, might actually want to make a positive difference.
      We have to elect those RINO guys…the slick guys, the ones that haven’t done such a great job so far..and those that are articulate and turn a phrase for a soundbite..pukes
      That is why Rebublicans will lose in 2012 ….and oh yes, the third party business. …wow, what a way to split a party at a crutial time in it’s history.
      As said. Democrats will stick together, right or wrong..Republicans will split the party with their need for perfection, which does not exist..
      KKK…if so do ou honestly believe he would announce it??? lets see this guy, lets hahaha…lets hear more about the “threat”… is it something to rile up the BPOS voters on either side?? KKK??? oh please…the boy is looking for pity votes..

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    • Supercalafragalisticexpialidotious
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 10:40pm

      Got to say, I’m sick of plastic people. I like that Cain isn’t as slick as Romney. Barf!

      And from what I’ve read and watched, I think I’ve made as rational a decision as I can. And I’ve decided: Cain is innocent. There as too many factors which add up to a major smear job perpetrated by someone who is afraid of Cain getting the nomination.

      I’ve got to say, finding out that the Obama campaign has over 200 staffer in Chicago alone was pretty interesting. And Bialek is from there (which is the tip of the iceberg with her), as well as the head of the Illinois branch of the NRA being a friend of Axelrod….it just all stinks.

      Anywho. Cain strikes me as an honorable, exceptionally smart, exceptionally hard working and successful, red blooded American man. And he feels strongly that he can help turn this country around as President. And again, he’s NOT a politician!

      People are so fearful, they don’t want to lose this election, and somehow the “not a politician” thing has been turned into a negative. Are people crazy? That’s a wonderful thing! It’s a huge positive! For all the Ron Paul supporters out there, I‘ve never understood how Paul couldn’t be considered an “insider”. He’s been in the House for 30-plus years.

      Cain is a leader. He’s the only person running who has had the kind of proven leadership abilities this country drastically needs- and that will resonate in the general elections! That is why Obama’s campaign is trying to derail him n

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  • V-MAN MACE
    Posted on November 18, 2011 at 10:32am

    Oh puhlease.

    Herman “I worked for the Fed, Don’t audit THEM” Cain is NOT that important.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 10:56am

      You need to back off the Alex Jones juice.

      Report Post » Gonzo  
    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:08pm

      You’re turning into a troll, Gonzo.

      Back off.

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  • Lloyd Drako
    Posted on November 18, 2011 at 10:09am

    In 2008, the first candidate to get Secret Service protection was Barack Obama. In 2012, it’s Herman Cain. These two have nothing in common except, um, wait for it, it’s right on the tip of my tongue, yes, they’re both (fill in the blank) ________________________.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:03pm

      They both wear nice suits.

      There, I said it. I’d say it again.

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    • Supercalafragalisticexpialidotious
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 10:52pm

      They’re both black?

      Well, yeah, that’s probably part of it. There’s obviously a very scary (but small) racist element in this country- just look at the story about the ex-skinhead who had to go into hiding and went through repeated surgeries to remove racist tattoos. That’s creepy.

      I even had an acquaintance in college back in I guess 2007, who, when politics came up, she stated she was not voting for Obama. I agreed and starting commenting about how he’s a communist, etc, and she was just like..”um, no, it‘s because he’s black”. Wow. It was bizarre. Really bizarre. She was so young, she must have been raised with that racist attitude.

      Made me realize everybody has preconceptions about everybody else- sometimes to an extreme which makes them racist or bigoted. I guess it’s part of life- but I think one thing that makes America somewhat unique in today’s world is that, generally, superficial differences are way down the list and work ethic, character, all the things which should really matter (as opposed to who your father was, for instance) really are the most important things to us.

      Randomness. Anywho. I think Cain could make a huge and really important stab at the culture of reverse racism, government dependence, and all the rest which has been created over the last 40 years by the democrats in this country. I’d say that was lower down on my list as to why I like him, but it’s a really, really nice thought.

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  • crazyrightwingmom
    Posted on November 18, 2011 at 10:09am

    Herman Cain is still my pick….he is the only one willing to take the bold steps necessary to fix this terribly messed up country. I don’t want a candidate to play around with the IRS and the rest of government….I want them to slash it away!

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  • Founding Father2
    Posted on November 18, 2011 at 10:05am

    Herman Cain is an honorable man, if not 15 years ago, now. If he doesn’t make it I would be all for Romney. Come to find out he is not as bad as the media keeps telling us he is. He is not a flip-flopper at all, the worst you could say is that he is a politician but no different than any of the other candidates. The flip-flop title was given to his as a campaign strategy by Ted Kennedy and the media and his opponents have continued to use it, even though it isn’t true. Check out the truth at about his flip-flopping: http://www.thedailycandidate.com/projects/nov/flip_flop_central.html

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    • GilbertAcct
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 10:12am

      FF… you’ve been posting the same lame link week after week. As I’ve said before, it holds no water.

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  • pizzatruth
    Posted on November 18, 2011 at 10:01am

    Somehow this has to be the Tea Party fault!

    https://www.facebook.com/pages/Pizza-and-Truth/273161649386570

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  • SgtB
    Posted on November 18, 2011 at 10:00am

    Does anyone else realize that the secret service’s FIRST duty is to protect the money supply at all costs?

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  • SgtB
    Posted on November 18, 2011 at 9:59am

    Imagine that, the Secret Service (originally instated to help insure the nation’s monetary system) is providing protection to a man who used to run a branch of the federal reserve. I used to like Herman, but after reading up on him, I see that he is just another gov’t supported candidate.

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    • truthisbrawn05
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 10:20am

      Gov’t supported candidate? That’s ignorant. Maybe he should drop his Secret Service protection if he’s elected president too. We wouldn‘t want a gov’t supported President. Probably a crazy Paul supporter.

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    • SgtB
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:39pm

      Damn right I’m a Ron Paul supporter. If you’ve got a problem with that then you can just keep trying to bring this country out of debt and war with a candidate that used to run a branch of the federal reserve, one that signed an unconstitutional healthcare bill into law, or one that thinks it is his right as a politician to force children to get vaccinated against STD’s against parental wishes and concerns. The only candidate that has proven that he is for the individual’s Liberty is Ron Paul. Try to win this election without me and you’ll have another two term Democrat because I refuse to vote for the lesser of two evils and will ONLY vote for a man who I would TRUST with the office of President of the United States.

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    • SgtB
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:48pm

      BTW, I don’t trust any person who needs a 24/7 security force provided by the taxpayers in order to protect themself from those same taxpayers. Before 1900, no President had secret service security. So for about half of this nation‘s history the president didn’t have it. During the time without it, 3 presidents were assassinated and of those, at least one was a tyrrannical dictator that tore the Constitution to shreds. Also, since the secret service, there has only been one assassination, and he just so happened to be the only president who challenged the federal reserve. So before the sec. service presidents had to face the public, after, presidents had to face the bank.

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  • GhostOfJefferson
    Posted on November 18, 2011 at 9:53am

    KKK?

    Damned Democrats.

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    • your sensei
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:58am

      KKK?

      Damn conservatives.

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    • BurntHills
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:32pm

      no self respecting REAL KKK is a Republican or ever was, that would be like standing in front of the burning cross and saying ‘nyah nyah fooled you’ and admitting they are Jews too.

      KKK was and is a pure democrat anti-Jew anti-black club. always has been since the 1870s. always will be. they can‘t be anyone else or they aren’t KKK.

      anyone thinking the KKK are ”’Republicans”’ are past ignorant and probably very young obamaghetto and obamamorons and certainly do not know ABOUT or anyone in the REAL KKK.

      the only thing binding obama to the fealty of the REAL KKK is his communist anti-semitic democrat view and he is backed by the democrat unions. they would dispose of him in an instant if he threatened them.

      God bless Mr Cain for Trying, but

      ANYONE BUT obama 2012.

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    • Nevermind
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:55pm

      Really? The KKK are dem’s? That is funny but said that you may actually think that. I am a black man and have went to their parades and listened to them speak ( i live in a rural area of MD) and i can assure ou that they dont agree with anything the Dems have to say. When has the KKK advocated for same sex marrige? Or repeal of DADT? Or Gun Control? Pro-Choice? The KKK push for most of the things the Tea PArty stand for which is why David Duke ( Former GOP Congressman of LA) supports the tea party.

      Wiht no votes cast in any primary i find it odd the SS assigned protection for Cain. He is pretty well off, shoudlnt he not waste tax dollars and pay it himself? When Obama got protection he was pretty much on his way to wrapping up nomination. Cain may not even make it past Iowa. The GOP is against wasteful spending unless they get something out of it.

      The KKK talk about the evel libs and thier control of the media, just like the fools on the blaze. The KKK used ot by Dems i can agree wiht that, but the southern strategy of 64 changed that one and all the Dems that were KKK swithced partys ( excpet for Byrd , but from WV who isnt in the klan?)

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    • IAMMADDOG
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 3:10pm

      Nevermind….you are way beyond ignorant. David Duke was a democrat congressman. And no he does not support the tea party. I suggest you go to the person that told you that and punch them right in the mouth while screaming LIAR!!!!!!!

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 4:22pm

      @ NEVERMIND, @ SENSEI

      I save this information on my laotop just for fools like you.

      Historian Eric Foner observed:
      In effect, the Klan was a military force serving the interests of the Democratic party, the planter class, and all those who desired restoration of white supremacy. Its purposes were political, but political in the broadest sense, for it sought to affect power relations, both public and private, throughout Southern society. It aimed to reverse the interlocking changes sweeping over the South during Reconstruction: to destroy the Republican party’s infrastructure, undermine the Reconstruction state, reestablish control of the black labor force, and restore racial subordination in every aspect of Southern life.

      To that end they worked to curb the education, economic advancement, voting rights, and right to keep and bear arms of blacks.[30] The Ku Klux Klan soon spread into nearly every southern state, launching a “reign of terror” against Republican leaders both black and white. Those political leaders assassinated during the campaign included Arkansas Congressman James M. Hinds, three members of the South Carolina legislature, and several men who served in constitutional conventions.
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan

      continued…………..

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 4:26pm

      @ NEVERMIND, @ SENSEI

      EXCERPTS OF HISTORIAN DAVID BARTON’S BOOK,
      “SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT:
      AMERICAN HISTORY IN BLACK AND WHITE”

      The republican Party was started as the Anti Slave Party. The original targets of the Ku Klux Klan were Republicans, both black and white, according to a new television program and book, which describe how the Democrats started the KKK and for decades harassed the GOP with lynchings and threats. An estimated 3,446 blacks and 1,297 whites died at the end of KKK ropes from 1882 to 1964. Not only did the Democrats work hand-in-glove with the Ku Klux Klan for generations, they started the KKK and endorsed its mayhem.

      “Of all forms of violent intimidation, lynchings were by far the most effective,” Barton said in his book. “Republicans often led the efforts to pass federal anti-lynching laws and their platforms consistently called for a ban on lynching.

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 4:37pm

      @ NEVERMIND, @ SENSEI

      Democrats successfully blocked those bills and their platforms never did condemn lynchings.” Further, the first grand wizard of the KKK was honored at the 1868 Democratic National Convention, no Democrats voted for the 14th Amendment to grant citizenship to former slaves and, to this day, the party website ignores those decades of racism, he said. “Contributing to the evidences was the 1871 appearance before Congress of leading South Carolina Democrat E.W. Seibels who testified that ‘they [the Ku Klux Klan] belong to the reform part – [that is, to] our party, the Democratic Party,’”

      Barton writes. “The Klan terrorized black Americans through murders and public floggings; relief was granted only if individuals promised not to vote for Republican tickets, and violation of this oath was punishable by death,” he said. “Since the Klan targeted Republicans in general, it did not limit its violence simply to black Republicans; white Republicans were also included.”

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 4:48pm

      @ NEVERMIND, @ SENSEI

      Barton wrote. “Three years after the Civil War, and the Democrats from the North as well as the South were still refusing to recognize any rights of citizenship for black Americans.” He also noted that South Carolina Gov. Wade Hampton at the 1868 Democratic National Convention inserted a clause in the party platform declaring the Congress’ civil rights laws were “unconstitutional, revolutionary, and void.”

      It was the same convention when Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, the first grand wizard of the KKK, was honored for his leadership. Barton’s book notes that in 1868, Congress heard testimony from election worker Robert Flournoy, who confessed while he was canvassing the state of Mississippi in support of the 13th and 14th Amendments, he could find only one black, in a population of 444,000 in the state, who admitted being a Democrat.

      Eisenhower signed the GOP’s 1960 Civil Rights Act after it survived a five-day, five-hour filibuster by 18 Senate Democrats, (including then Senator Lyndon Johnson).* And in 1964, Democrat President Lyndon Johnson signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act after former Klansman Robert Byrd’s 14-hour filibuster, and the votes of 22 other Senate Democrats, including Tennessee’s Al Gore Sr., failed to scuttle the plan. (Johnson only signed the bill when it was politically expedient for his presidency and the Democrats).*
      *Parentheses content, mine. Not the author’s.______

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    • your sensei
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 6:41pm

      Rational Man . . . You and Mad Dog should compare notes. The KKK is not about Democrat or Republican – just labels. It’s about liberal and conservative – world views.

      Here, I’ll show you the problem with your willfully obtuse obsession with labels – only a Republican would ever consider suspending habeas corpus.

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