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I, for one of tens of millions, am very glad that Mr. Herman Cain has "suspended" his presidential campaign.

(By suspending, not ending, his campaign, he is still free to raise and spend money. We, the American taxpayers--including the 99%, are paying for his Secret Service protection for at least another 9.99 weeks. Why is it that government is only supposed to work for YOU, Mr. Cain?)

There are a lot of Republicans and very right-wing people who continue to support Herman Cain and actually think he would've made a good President. Not.

The reasons I am glad Mr. Cain's gone are not totally because I am a proud liberal and progressive Democrat. It is deeper than that. 

5) He may have been a successful businessman and motivational speaker and all that, but how can you truly "motivate" people by denigrating them and calling them lazy and worthless? ("If you aren't rich or don't have a job, it's YOUR fault!" said Mr. Cain.) I, for one of tens of millions of fellow liberals and progressives, believe in "Sankofa": reaching back and helping others up, not pulling up the ladder once you've personally reached the top.

4) I resent being called "brainwashed" and "living on a plantation" just because I don't think like Herman Cain does. Again, it seems like Mr. Cain and his campaign just ran on "applause lines". It is precisely BECAUSE I can think and analyze for myself that I made an INFORMED choice to be a liberal progressive and not a conservative.

3) I prefer my President to be readers AND leaders. Maybe if Mr. Cain "read" a little more, he'd know the name of the President of U-becky-becky-stan-stan and the successful Libya policy of President Obama, AND he would know and understand that it is NOT politically prudent to denigrate and make fun of another sovereign state.

2) I also prefer for my President NOT to play the "victim" at every turn. Every time Mr. Cain had a problem, it was always someone or something else's fault: the Democrats, the "liberal media", "unsubstantiated accusations", the middle class, the Black people who were "scared" of a "real Black Man"...yada, yada, yada. Mr. Cain may not have noticed, but there is already a "real Black Man" in the White House. I almost laughed when Mr. Cain said in his farewell speech that the "lies about him" were "hurting his family". More lies have been told about President Obama and his wife and family than Mr. Cain can shake a stick at--many of those lies told by Mr. Cain himself. But do you hear the President whining and complaining at every turn? No--Barack Hussein Obama is the role model that Mr. Cain should follow. Our current president just "brushes the dirt off his shoulder" and keeps on working for the good of ALL Americans.

1) I am equally incensed that Mr. Cain has set himself up as judge and jury of other Americans by stating that he would not "have any Muslims in his administration". On the one hand, Mr. Cain boldly states that there is no longer a "race problem" in America (of course, he then plays the "race card" when it is convenient for him), but he perpectuates other racial/religious/cultural stereotypes such as all Muslims are terrorists and Muslims cannot be "real Americans" nor can they be trusted. Well, it seems as if it is Mr. Cain who cannot be trusted. 

Good riddance, Mr. Cain. You are now reduced to a trivia question on "Final Jeopardy". Don't forget to ask Ann Coulter if she still feels that "her blacks" are better than "our blacks". "Our Black" is the scandal-free President of the United States of America, and you, Mr. Cain, are a joke and an embarrassment to all Americans.

• Herman Cain Goes Down Swinging The Stupid Stick As He Quits The GOP Race (kaystreet.wordpress.com)
• Garrett Quinn: Good riddance to Herman Cain (boston.com)
• The Black Conservative Candidate Hits The Immovable Liberal Object (fullback23.wordpress.com)
• Goodbye Herman Cain! (murraymsilveresq.wordpress.com)
• Poll: Herman Cain Can't Even Quit straight. (culturalhealth.blogspot.com)

5.5.5.

I mean...damn, Herman.

Really?

First of all just let me say that I really feel bad for this man's wife and family because they did nothing to deserve a clown like this, and especially not the kids. For all I know maybe his wife knew he was nuts before the wedding day, but I'd like to give her the benefit of the doubt. But that being said, nobody deserves to be saddled with an idiot like this, and an arrogant idiot to boot.

So now, after Ginger White has stepped out of the shadows to reveal that she, too, has been a focus of Herman's overheated little engine, the tally of alleged extramarital Cain Train sexual entanglements has risen to five. At this point, you don't say 'where there's smoke there's fire'. No. Because when there are this many women saying the man layed paws on them, what needs to be said is that 'where there's fire, there's fire.'

IMPORTANT POINT OF CLARIFICATION:  Ginger White was just a fling on the side for 13 years, meaning she was never pawed or groped without giving the green light. By her own admission she knew Cain was married the entire time and she knew what they were doing was "improper". But it was fun and he set her free from her "humdrum life" so I guess she figured what the hell. And no, I have absolutely no compassion for this woman at all. She was screwing someone else's husband for the perks, and there's a word for that type of behavior. But the other four women making allegations all claim the advances were uninvited, and that places them in an entirely different category - and it also sheds a hot spotlight on the character vacuum that is Herman Cain.

OK, moving right along. Cain was never going to be the nominee and he knew it. So did everyone else. He was the dancing bear, the hired entertainment brought along to keep everyone from paying attention to anything remotely serious. But the one thing Cain was definitely serious about was raising his profile so that he could sell more books and get stupid PAID making speeches and even possibly hosting his own Cain Train Power Hour on Fox News. But now, alas, those dreams appear to be melting like the cheese on a pizza in the oven way too long.

Oh, and this just in even as I write these words; Cain apparently is now reassessing whether or not to remain in the campaign.  From today's Washington Post:

“It’s a reassessment of where we stand and the road ahead, similar to other times in the campaign’s history,” wrote Cain spokesman J.D. Gordon in an email to the Fix. Gordon said that Cain will deliver his planned national security speech later this week in Michigan.

“He is not thinking of dropping out of the race,” Gordon added. “He is simply reassessing the state of the campaign. We intend to be full speed ahead.”

...riiiight...

What Herman Cain was gambling on (praying for on both knees with kneepads on) was that the women making these accusations of sexual harassment against him would at the very least remain anonymous and somehow bound by this agreement they apparently all signed at the behest of the National Restaurant Association years ago preventing them from saying mean and nasty things about the guy whom they claim did mean and nasty things to them.

Herman gambled. Herman lost.

Now that Sharon Bialek has come out publicly with her lawyer Gloria Allred and given a face to these accusations that Cain swears up and down simply aren't true, Cain is confronted with a variety of problems, such as how many accusations of this sort can he dismiss? The ramifications of this short-sighted approach are dealt with in more detail by my colleague Cheryl Contee in her post on the issue today. But one of the largest - and so far little-discussed - stumbling block issues that could very well cause Cain to stumble and fall is, well, the complexion of this face that Sharon Bialek has presented to the media.

Sharon Bialek is a white woman. Sharon Bialek is a blonde white woman who, from what I can see, also appears to have blue eyes. She is a single mother.

You know, Ann Coulter says that "our blacks are so much better than their blacks," and Herman Cain is the poster Negro Exhibit A for "their blacks." But brother? Let's you and me be clear on this one thing; the more credible this white woman becomes (and it doesn't have to be by much), the more I suspect you're gonna feel your neck start to itch and burn. Because if Clarence Thomas (your hero, I know) had been accused of sexually harassing a white woman? Yeah, well. Let's just say his now-famous accusation that he had become the victim of a high-tech lynching during his ultimately successful confirmation circus would have become a reality and the only bench he would be sitting on would be the one in his garage.

Sure, for now Rush Limbaugh is attacking Bialek's credibility and standing firm for House Negro Numero Uno. Others on the far right appear to be rallying to their boy's defense as well, claiming that this is just a well-orchestrated ploy. A hastily-constructed ad defending Cain makes the case that Herman must not be treated the same way they did Saint Clarence. But let's see what happens when accuser #2 steps forward and she turns out to be white as well...

I wonder what wonderful song Herman Cain plans to sing at this evening's press conference? He might want to steer clear of "Strange Fruit."