seriously?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/herman-cains-modern-day-religious-test/2011/06/20/AG6PsVdH_story.html

Don't be deflated because nobody responded. This kind of xenophopic bigotry that we have come to expect from the extreme right. It is a wedge issue, and currently aimed toward Mexicans and Arabs.

no worries here,, my ego is not so fragile..lol

a public forum is a hit or miss deal, some topics will attract interest and others wont,,,,


I dont take it at all personal, Im usually too busy responding in some other thread at that point anyhow,,,lol

Honesty is a detriment to running a campaign.

He could say he is a "uniter and not a divider". or "hope and change"

Both of those have worked out really well..

Im glad he is honest about his bigotry as well.

Id rather he wasnt a bigot, though its nice to be made aware before the polls.

I find it ironic that when someone of color is a republican and they speak their mind it is somehow offensive or bigoted.

Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton both had a history of making bigoted comments against jews, but this was ignored because they were democrats.

Obviously, I am not black, but it irritates me when I see people like Cain and Clarence Thomas or even Michael Steele trashed simply because they don't think or act like Jackson or Sharpton.

Cain, Thomas and Steele are successful people that should be looked up to while Jackson and Sharpton are clowns that should be shun.

That isn't up to me.. but I think 50 years from now unless things change people are going to be posting the same stuff you do about race and wonder why people don't care.

thats all nice and dandy

but I truthfully dont care his gender or his race and ESPECIALLY not his political affiliation

I would still consider him a BIGOT because of his own WORDS which suggest that someone should be more suspect than others MERELY on their religious label

plenty of 'successful' people are bigots, and I dont begrudge them what they are 'successful' at because of their bigotry(if one doesnt overlap the other),,but it still doesnt change that they are bigoted,,,


people should not feel threatened into silence about bigotry because of how 'successful' or 'reputable' the person afflicted with said bigotry might be


I dont care for bigotry, and I dont feel ashamed to share that opinion, I feel embarassed that someone with that position who would otherwise be seen as 'successful' and probably therefore 'smart' and 'rational' should be in position to spread the idea that muslims should be seen as unloyal until proven loyal,,,,

Democrats talk plenty among themselves about the black sheep in our party. Why on earth would we do that publicly? That's what we have people like you for.

Jesse Jackson had plenty of potential

his PERSONAL life (as opposed to statistics he read about or others experiences he HEARD about) and experience , Im sure, nderstandably, caused him many 'bigoted' views

I think his ambition began to overrule his integrity and he came up short,,,reaping what he sowed


I dont think Sharpton has been viewed by many other than extremists as anything but an opportunist

notice, although both had a shot at being the first black president(the one thing so many claim got President Obama elected), they didnt even win their party nomination to run,,,,

so much for the theory that their flubs are ignored,,,,

So you are saying that "understandable" bigotry is ok?

Jackson had a tough life so him hating on jews was fine with you?

It is no theory. They didn't win because they were clowns.

Palin isn't going to win a republican primary because she is a clown.

Obama is a smart guy that ran for President at the right time.

He didn't win because he was black he won because MCCain was an old man that picked a clown as running mate.

Although Obama matched him by picking the clown Biden, McCains age and his clueless comments on the economy were too much to overcome.

that is what the "good" germans said after they lost world war 2.

Im saying that 'understandable' bigotry

ie, bigotry resulting from defense mechanisms built from PERSONAL EXPERIENCES

are 'understandable'

,,not that they are 'ok', as I didnt vote for Jackson or Sharpton,,,


I agree that they didnt win because they are clowns

I disagree that honesty is the real 'reason' people lose elections, I think it is their 'views',,,it helps if we know what they 'honestly' are so we can make those determinations for ourselves though

I didn't say that honesty is why people lose elections.

I said it was detrimental to running a campaign.

I disagree, he totally won cuz he was BLACK..

and no other black person has ever ran before.......?