Sarah vs US history

[Dog Wonder]

Is the near historic high Bush's fault?

2.6 million jobs lost in 2008

Was Obama supposed to rehire all of them?

 

[SparrowHawk]

Is the near historic high Bush's fault?

2.6 million jobs lost in 2008

Was Obama supposed to rehire all of them?

He positioned himself as the solution to the horrors of the Bush Years. So I think it's fair criticism, He promised RESULTS and all we've gotten is staggering debt that could turn us into the next Greece, Staggering unemployment and underemployment with no real decline in sight.

In short we were promised RESULTS and what we have so far are REASONS as to why he can't organize a one car funeral. Check out the scathing rebuke from Herman Cain.

Cain: Obama Couldn't Run a Pizza Joint
Thursday, 02 Jun 2011 04:27 PM
By David A. Patten

Fast-rising GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain, the former Godfather’s Pizza CEO emerging as a strong contender in the Iowa caucuses, blasted President Barack Obama’s leadership abilities in an exclusive Newsmax interview, saying Obama “could not run one Godfather’s pizza restaurant.”

Cain, who has been rising fast in the polls after his impressive showing in last month’s presidential debate in South Carolina, called the president an indecisive leader who has lost most Americans' confidence.

“The president has demonstrated that he lacks leadership in a whole lot of ways [and] could not run a company,” Cain told Newsmax. “And I don’t mean to be disrespectful: He could not run one Godfather’s pizza restaurant.

“Instead of being decisive, he dithers,” Cain said. “Instead of having a management structure where he can entrust to some key people responsibility, he has an organization that is unmanageable. When he added 36 czars to go with the ones he already inherited, that is an unmanageable structure. So nobody knows who’s in charge."

Although GOP attacks charging Obama with weak leadership have been muted since the successful U.S. operation to take out Osama bin Laden, those complaints have resurfaced with the growing frustration over the lack of a plausible plan from the administration on reining in entitlements and deficit spending.

“So he’s not decisive, he dithers. He has a structure that doesn’t work,” Cain said. “He’s inconsistent, and he’s broken a lot of promises, and he is losing the confidence not only of a lot of his supporters, but has lost clearly a lot of confidence from the American people.”

Cain, a conservative talk-show host and a respected voice in management circles, is a turnaround specialist who is credited with saving Godfather’s Pizza from bankruptcy during his tenure as its CEO. Cain also served a stint as chairman of the National Restaurant Association, and was chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City from 1995-1996.

Cain’s broadside against Obama might have gone unnoticed before his abrupt emergence on the national political scene. A new Public Policy Polling survey released Wednesday shows Cain is now tied with former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in Iowa, behind only former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who officially announced his candidacy on Thursday.

Palin and Cain each had 15 percent, compared with 21 percent for Romney. Unlike Cain, however, Palin has yet to toss her hat in the ring.

The Public Policy survey was the third poll in the past week showing Cain near the top of the GOP heap — all the more impressive considering that he’s still battling relatively low levels of name recognition.

 

[Dog Wonder]

Life as a conservative talk show host must be good for the ego.

Nothing like a bunch of dittoheads to convince a person they could be President.

 

[Ms Tree]

I wonder what the rights excuse will be in 6 years if a republican gets into office and the economy is still tanked.

The idea of a 100% economic reversal in 2 years or even 4 is laughable. We have been on a slide for 30 years and someone is supposed to wave a wand and poof. ~sigh~

 

[dapoes]

I wonder what the rights excuse will be in 6 years if a republican gets into office and the economy is still tanked.

The idea of a 100% economic reversal in 2 years or even 4 is laughable. We have been on a slide for 30 years and someone is supposed to wave a wand and poof. ~sigh~

Grasp much furball?

 

[jimntx]

As much as it pains me to say this (being the yellow-dog Democrat that I am), Bush is not dumb. However, I once read a comment by one of his Yale classmates that said, "when we were in school, he was the most intellectually incurious person I ever met." He's not dumb. He's mentally lazy.

And that accent? Please, he was born in New England. All of his siblings were born in Texas, but none of them use that "good-ole-boy-jist-a-farmer" accent that he puts out.

 

[dapoes]

As much as it pains me to say this (being the yellow-dog Democrat that I am), Bush is not dumb. However, I once read a comment by one of his Yale classmates that said, "when we were in school, he was the most intellectually incurious person I ever met." He's not dumb. He's mentally lazy.

And that accent? Please, he was born in New England. All of his siblings were born in Texas, but none of them use that "good-ole-boy-jist-a-farmer" accent that he puts out.

You mean like that hillbilly accent like Clinton? Your yellow color suits you just fine! Bravo! Keep whistling in the dark on that one.

 

[SparrowHawk]

Life as a conservative talk show host must be good for the ego.

Nothing like a bunch of dittoheads to convince a person they could be President.

Since I'm not a conservative I can't say.

I also don't know what a "Dittohead" is.

As for Herman Cain, here is a guy who has actually created jobs and for a great many years made his living as a turn around expert and a stint at the Federal Reserve in Kansas City.

After completing his master's degree from Purdue, Cain left the Department of the Navy and began working for The Coca-Cola Company as a business analyst. In 1977, he joined Pillsbury where he rose to the position of vice president by the early 1980s. He left his executive post to work for Burger King – a Pillsbury subsidiary at the time – managing 400 stores in the Philadelphia area. Under Cain's leadership, his region went from the least profitable for Burger King to the most profitable in three years. This prompted Pillsbury to appoint him president and CEO of Godfather's Pizza, another of their then-subsidiaries. Within 14 months, Cain had returned Godfather's to profitability. In 1988, Cain and a group of investors bought Godfather's from Pillsbury. Cain continued as CEO until 1996, when he resigned to become CEO of the National Restaurant Association – a trade group and lobby organization for the restaurant industry – where he had previously been chairman concurrently with his role at Godfather's.

Cain became a member of the board of directors to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City in 1992 and served as its chairman from January 1995 to August 1996, when he resigned to become active in national politics. Cain was a 1996 recipient of the Horatio Alger Award.

Cain was on the board of directors of Aquila, Inc. from 1992 to 2008

Compare this to a guy who has never had to work the phones on Tuesday so he could collect enough money to make payroll for his workers on Friday. He did hold a private sector job if you call being a University Professor private sector.

I love Ron Paul because I think he's the right man for the job. However I'd LOVE to see Herman Cain run against Obama then he can attack Cain by saying he's "Not Black Enough". Oh that would be one funny race, all those rednecks down South waving Cain posters. That and I'd love to see "Teleprompter Man" go one on one with Cain in the debates. Cain would eat him like of of his Pizzas.

 

[Dog Wonder]

Have your heroes always been politicians?

 

[SparrowHawk]

Have your heroes always been politicians?

Cute. I don't care for the entire Freedom & Liberty stealing lot of them. I'm tired of having my wages confiscated to fund a global empire that only serves corporate interests. The interests of "We the People" are not being served and truth be told if Bush were occupying the White House this very day, this post would remain as written.

I've been on this earth not quite 57 years and I've seen three Presidents that were worth the space they took up. I'll stack rack them from best to less best

1. Ronald Reagan
2. John F Kennedy
3. Bill Clinton

Best of the rest from best to worst.

Richard Nixon
George Bush Sr
Gerald Ford
George Bush Jr
Lyndon Johnson
Jimmy Carter - Barack Obama - TIE

You could easily IMO make a case to lower LBJ to dead last due to his expansion of the war. Nixon was also disgraced but did have a lot of foreign policy success, I just can't make Bush Sr the best of the rest.

 

[777 fixer]

WRONG! Check the article I just found.

Wrong about what? The fact that Alaska has been paying out royalty checks to residents since 1982 and that Palin has nothing to do with it?

 

[SparrowHawk]

Wrong about what? The fact that Alaska has been paying out royalty checks to residents since 1982 and that Palin has nothing to do with it?

That the Wind fall tax was added to the royalty checks is my understanding.

She also had a budget surplus and still cut the budget.

She neither as smart or stupid as some make her out to be. But let's have a moment of candor, is she in the same league as Reagan, JFK or Clinton. Clearly, at best the answer not yet and maybe never.

 

[Ms Tree]

I was under the impression that republicans don't like to tax corporations? Is this one of those do as I say not as I do things?

Intellectually she is not very bright. That is easily discernible by her vocabulary, speaking style and the content of her statements that are not scripted. Financially she seems to be quite astute, at least as far as milking her fame for every dime it's worth. She has never run a company or anything so according to you that is a definite negative. Then again, Mr. Paul only ran a private practice with a hand full of people so I do not know where that fits into things. By that standard Mr Cain is far more qualified. Then again some of the presidents you admire (Mr. Reagan) never ran anything so I guess it just depends on .....?

Palin is a joke. She is there to stir thw base up. She is running 60% +/- ratings. She could not get elected dog catcher right now. She quit her day job because she could not hack it (some say because of the investigation). Neither she nor her daughter could keep their legs crossed long enough to get married but I'll be damned if they are not going to tel everyone else that this is the way to go. And you talk about Obama being an empty suit?

 

[SparrowHawk]

I was under the impression that republicans don't like to tax corporations? Is this one of those do as I say not as I do things?

Intellectually she is not very bright. That is easily discernible by her vocabulary, speaking style and the content of her statements that are not scripted. Financially she seems to be quite astute, at least as far as milking her fame for every dime it's worth. She has never run a company or anything so according to you that is a definite negative. Then again, Mr. Paul only ran a private practice with a hand full of people so I do not know where that fits into things. By that standard Mr Cain is far more qualified. Then again some of the presidents you admire (Mr. Reagan) never ran anything so I guess it just depends on .....?

Palin is a joke. She is there to stir thw base up. She is running 60% +/- ratings. She could not get elected dog catcher right now. She quit her day job because she could not hack it (some say because of the investigation). Neither she nor her daughter could keep their legs crossed long enough to get married but I'll be damned if they are not going to tel everyone else that this is the way to go. And you talk about Obama being an empty suit?

That's laughable. We're being led by a guy who locked himself out of the White house and walked into a glass door! You know I finally figured it out as to why we have all of this deficit spending!!! We've been sending the money to ALL 57 instead of 50 States!!!! Mr Pot meet Mr Kettle!

 

[Ms Tree]

That's laughable. We're being led by a guy who locked himself out of the White house and walked into a glass door! You know I finally figured it out as to why we have all of this deficit spending!!! We've been sending the money to ALL 57 instead of 50 States!!!! Mr Pot meet Mr Kettle!

There is a difference between things like 57 states or misspelling potato due to the pressure of the moment and perverting history for political gain. Ford was clumsy. I am sure all presidents not to mention the general public has had their moments as well. The fact that you seem to be incapable of discerning the difference between the two is a bit surprising but it does explain a few things.

But again you did side step the issue. Is it OK to add a windfall tax to the oil companies or not? Palin supported it during her 1.2 term as governor. Not so sure she will admit it now. She might very well pull a Romney and not talk about that slight 'tax increase' indiscretion. Sounds like another case of 'bad when your guy does it but good when mine does it' syndrome. AKA hypocrisy.