Two women accused Herman Cain of inappropriate behavior

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Raskolnikov;8530133:

Well that settles that. If Ann Coulter thinks it, it’s almost certainly false.

 Guys like you like to make a sarcastic point, and then ignore serious questions which challenge one's own rigid POV. Again, why were horrific RAPE charges against Bill Clinton by NAMED sources ignored? They are Juanita Broaddrick, Eileen Wellstone and Elizabeth Ward Gracen. Wellstone made the charge to Oxford campus police way back in Clinton's college days, and there were hints that others may have charged him with sexual thuggery at this time. If anything, a REAL reporter not working for Pravda might have wanted to pursue an obvious pattern. 
 You might want to put your brain to work, Ras, and try to rationalize and justify why there was media silence at the time.  Cordially, Rob :cool:

Well, Clinton DID drop out of Oxford.

 

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Poll finds that Herman Cain’s favorability numbers have dropped since sexual harassment allegations have surfaced. – Reuters

 

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Herman Cain raises $2M, heads to late-night TV - USAToday

Republicans tell Cain to come clean on sexual harassment charges -Los Angeles Times

DeRoy Murdock: America loses if Herman Cain’s bid is derailed

 

[Sabda]

“The National Restaurant Association on Friday confirmed that it granted a financial settlement to a woman after she filed a sexual harassment complaint against Herman Cain in 1999. The trade group also freed her from her confidentiality agreement, although her attorney said she doesn’t intend to speak publicly on the matter.” – The Hill

From your article.

The association announced its decision just as Bennett was telling reporters that the complaint against Cain involved “more than one incident”** that, in the woman’s opinion,** qualified as sexual harassment.

“My client stands by the complaint that she made,” he said.

Bennett declined to give additional details about the nature of the incidents, citing the woman’s desire to stay out of the spotlight. He did note that he believes Cain was no longer at the association when the woman’s complaint was settled. That means Cain was not a party to the confidentiality agreement and is not bound to follow it. He headed the trade group from 1996 to 1999.

What constitutes sexual harassment? If a man says I look beautiful can I decide, based on my own personal opinion, that is sexual harassment? Is there a basic standard for deciding what truly is harassment and what isn’t or is it all based on subjective opinion?

 

[Porkrinds]

It’s amazing how quickly right wingers can switch from “there’s no such thing as racism” to “you’re a racist because you’re criticizing our token minority candidate.”

Leonard Pitts Jr. has a good piece on the right’s sudden pious racial indignation over Herman Cain’s offenses.

• Do you think it gives Clarence Thomas a warm, fuzzy feeling to know he is one of Ann Coulter’s blacks? That is how Coulter put it on Fox “News” while defending Herman Cain against sexual harassment charges that threatened to engulf his campaign last week. Liberals, she said, detest black conservatives, but the truth is, “our blacks are so much better than their blacks.”

“Our” blacks? Really?

Social conservative pundits tend to be astonishingly obtuse when discussing race (See Exhibit A above), so it is good they rarely do so. Last week was an unfortunate exception, as one of “their” blacks struggled to frame a coherent response to allegations that he harassed female colleagues in the 1990s when he headed the National Restaurant Association. Though accusations of sexual impropriety have beset a bipartisan Who’s Who of black and white politicians, the right wing came out in force to argue that people are only questioning Cain because he is a black conservative.

This would be the same Cain who not so long ago said racism was no longer a significant obstacle for African Americans. This would be the same right wing that is conspicuous by its silence, its hostility or its complicity when the injustice system imposes mass incarceration on young black men, when the number of hate groups in this country spikes to over a thousand, when the black unemployment rate stands at twice the national average, when the president is called “uppity” and “boy.” But they scream in pious racial indignation when Cain is asked questions he doesn’t want to answer.*

And for good measure, the answer to the question, “Why don’t blacks vote Republican?”

• The answer is simple. Black people are not crazy. Being not crazy, they understand a simple truth about conservatives: They have never stood with, or up for, black people. Never.

Forget modern controversies like mass incarceration. Social conservatives, then based largely in the Democratic Party of the early to mid 20th century, opposed the Voting Rights Act. They opposed the Civil Rights Act. They opposed school integration. They opposed the Montgomery Bus Boycott. They opposed a law to crack down on lynching.

These are the people for whom African Americans are now supposed to vote? To make the argument is to betray a stunning contempt for the intelligence — and memory — of black voters. In talking about race, conservatives have all the moral authority of a pimp talking about women’s rights. Granted, “their” blacks might disagree.*

 

[SamH]

It’s amazing how quickly right wingers can switch from “there’s no such thing as racism” to “you’re a racist because you’re criticizing our token minority candidate.”

So are you of the opinion that a “good” black man knows his place?

Actually I thought this a much better opinion:

**American Way: A funny thing happened on the way to the Herman Cain lynching **

By any normal rules of politics, Cain should be toast. So what’s going on?

*Simply put, the media and Cain’s detractors have over-played their hand. By Friday night, Politico, which broke the original story, had published 94 articles ***on the allegations in under six days. Every other major publication had followed suit. Every time he stepped out of a room, Cain was mobbed by reporters.

Yet despite the maelstrom, Cain’s accusers remain anonymous and the details of the allegations oddly vague. With many conservatives believing that sexual harassment lawsuits are an industry and that frivolous cases are often settled to avoid more expensive litigation, there was a growing sense that Cain was being treated unfairly.

Cain’s very amateurishness became almost endearing. Rather than mouthing slick talking points, Cain got angry with the journalists (a profession loathed by most Republican activists) and claimed that he was the victim of a “high-tech lynching”.

That was the phrase used by Clarence Thomas during the ugly confirmation hearings for his seat on the Supreme Court in 1991. Thomas had been accused by Anita Hill, a former subordinate, of making crude sexual comments.

Vilified and mocked by the Left, Thomas’s righteous anger boiled over as he condemned the hearings as “a circus” and “a national disgrace” in which “uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves” would be destroyed. “You will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured by a committee of the US Senate rather than hung from a tree.”

Cain, of course, is also a black conservative. As such, he sends many on the Left crazy because he defies the standard categories of politics. White conservatives are eager to support conservatives of colour partly to combat allegations of racism but also because they appreciate the courage it takes for blacks to break out of the Democratic party straitjacket.

blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyharnden/100115731/american-way-a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-the-herman-cain-lynching/

And its not like the “Telegraph” is a big GOP supporter.

 

[Personanongrata]

Uh oh… Blond woman appears.
Game, set, match.