Herman Cain convinced by God to run

markin ball
markin ball Posts: 1,076
edited November 2011 in A Moving Train
ATLANTA, Ga. - Herman Cain, whose campaign could use some redemption in the wake of a sexual harassment scandal, told a crowd of young Republicans on Saturday that God convinced him to run for president and that he "prayed and prayed and prayed" about it.

The Republican contender made no mention of the allegations from former subordinates at the National Restaurant Association. But his comments here were accented with more than the usual references to his faith and his calling to politics.

"I prayed and prayed and prayed. I'm a man of faith, I had to do a lot of praying for this one, more praying than I'd ever done before in my life," Cain told a crowd of more than 100 at the Young Republican National Federation, an event hosted by the Georgia Young Republicans at the Westin Peachtree Plaza. "And when I finally realized that it was God saying that this is what I needed to do, I was like Moses: 'You've got the wrong man, Lord. Are you sure?'"

Once he made the decision to run, the former chief executive of Godfather's Pizza said, "I did not look back. And one of the misperceptions that some people have (is) that I'm not in this to win it. I'm in this to win it, or I wouldn't be in it! I'm not going anywhere!"

Cain has repeatedly said in recent days he will stay in the race in spite of the swirl of accusations that have tarnished his campaign and halted his upward momentum in national polls. Four women who worked at the NRA claim that Cain sexually harassed them, and one of them, Sharon Bialek of Chicago, said he roughly grabbed her in a parked car in 1997 and propositioned her for sex.

With a Republican debate focused on foreign policy on tap for Saturday evening, Cain talked about the need to replace a "foggy foreign policy" with a reincarnation of the Reagan doctrine of "peace through strength and clarity." He also said he would "stop giving money to our enemies."

The debate among the eight major Republican candidates is at 8 p.m. and is hosted by National Journal and CBS News.
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  • Smellyman
    Smellyman Asia Posts: 4,528
    You have to play the god card if you're a GOP candidate.

    Otherwise you can't win. GOP has as many religious zealots as saudia arabia
  • usamamasan1
    usamamasan1 Posts: 4,695
    Our current President is of what religion?

    :lol:

    He lies
  • Smellyman
    Smellyman Asia Posts: 4,528
    usamamasan1 wrote:
    Our current President is of what religion?

    :lol:

    He lies

    Muslim?
  • usamamasan1
    usamamasan1 Posts: 4,695
    Really?
  • Smellyman
    Smellyman Asia Posts: 4,528
    usamamasan1 wrote:
    Really?

    and Kenyan
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,161
    god has convinced me not to vote for herman cain.

    hallelujah praise jesus!!





    :lol:
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • mikepegg44
    mikepegg44 Posts: 3,353
    yikes.

    I am amazed how many times what god wants someone to do is in line with what they would do anyway to stroke their own ego...
    that’s right! Can’t we all just get together and focus on our real enemies: monogamous gays and stem cells… - Ned Flanders
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  • JonnyPistachio
    JonnyPistachio Florida Posts: 10,219
    God told me to ignore him.
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  • Lizard
    Lizard So Cal Posts: 12,091
    gimmesometruth27 wrote:
    god has convinced me not to vote for herman cain.

    hallelujah praise jesus!!





    :lol:
    :lol: me too...after I prayed and prayed.
    So I'll just lie down and wait for the dream
    Where I'm not ugly and you're lookin' at me
  • mysticweed
    mysticweed Posts: 3,710
    Lizard wrote:
    gimmesometruth27 wrote:
    god has convinced me not to vote for herman cain.

    hallelujah praise jesus!!





    :lol:
    :lol: me too...after I prayed and prayed.


    you're luckier that most women who were on their knees around him
    fuck 'em if they can't take a joke

    "what a long, strange trip it's been"
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Smellyman wrote:
    usamamasan1 wrote:
    Really?

    and Kenyan


    dont forget the marxist bit.
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • MookiesLaw
    MookiesLaw Posts: 158
    At least Jesus loves him even if the women he sexually harassed didn't.
  • FiveB247x
    FiveB247x Posts: 2,330
    Anyone who says "god" or any other imaginary being speaks to them, we should immediately send them to a shrink and asylum.
    CONservative governMENt

    Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
    Hugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    doesn't this tell anyone that he shouldn't be running? that he needed to be "convinced" to run? doesn't that mean he really didn't really want to run? why don't people ask this question when someone says they were told by God to run for office?

    I'd be asking "so you're saying you are only running, not because you want to, but because god told you to?".

    what a joke.
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  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Kind of disturbing that a man running for President hears voices in his head.

    What if this prick actually made into office and 'God' then told him to have a sex change operation and invade Canada?
  • Grandma
    Grandma Posts: 259
    If God is telling Michele Bachmann and Herman Cain and most of the rest to run, he's got a heck of a sense of humor.
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Byrnzie wrote:
    ...
    What if this prick actually made into office and 'God' then told him to have a sex change operation and invade Canada?

    what if some prick got into office under dubious circiumstances and then decided to invade a couple of middle eastern countries.. wait.. what ????? same old same old. ;)
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • ONCE DEVIDED
    ONCE DEVIDED Posts: 1,131
    catefrances wrote:
    Byrnzie wrote:
    ...
    What if this prick actually made into office and 'God' then told him to have a sex change operation and invade Canada?

    what if some prick got into office under dubious circiumstances and then decided to invade a couple of middle eastern countries.. wait.. what ????? same old same old. ;)


    and what if god told him to invade iraq
    wait.. what ????? same old same old.
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