O’Donnell tries to lecture Cain on “being black”, among other things; Cain smacks him down again…and again…and again:
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Rather than substantive questions regarding the state of the economy and other policy issues, O’Donnell wants to play “gotcha” media journalism, hoping to do to Citizen Cain what liberals in MSM (O’Donnell describes himself as a “practical European socialist”) have been doing to other Republican presidential candidates. Good! Herman Cain is substantive on character. O’Donnell did Cain a favor here.
Who comes across as the one looking foolish and stupid on national TV? Hint: It wasn’t the GOP and presidential contender…
Even Kos Kiddies are cringing at O’Donnell’s interview:
1) When you think of Herman Cain, do you ever find yourself thinking, “gee, he was a black teen in the early-1960s. Why didn’t he participate in civil rights movement?” I’m not an African-American and wasn’t alive in the ’60s, but so what if he didn’t? I am not sure what the implication is there, but was it incumbent upon ever African-American to march? And does not participating in the civil rights movement imply … what? I suppose it might be a fairer question to ask a white person who was around in that era, but only slightly.
I’m going to go out on a limb and presume that Herman Cain was opposed to segregation.
2) Out of nowhere, O’Donnell asked Cain, who worked (but did not serve) in the Navy, whether he was qualified to be Commander-in-Chief after not serving in Vietnam. Really?! Is this still a thing? I have a hard time believing that O’Donnell genuinely cares about Cain’s lack of military service (Clinton and Obama never served), but was possibly trying to posit him as a hypocrite. But that’s kind of hard to do when, while not exactly serving, he was working in ballistics for the Navy.
Seemed like a completely disingenuous line of questioning on O’Donnell’s part, and made me cringe.
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