re: #36 Buck

You really can’t take a joke can you?

Do you really think he said that seriously?

Bottom line, you can disagree with him on all kinds of policy, but to make him seem like he only ran a pizza joint, and doesn’t know anything about government is mealy mouthed at best… racist at worse.

WTF? Racist?

In what way is saying “X knows nothing about government” racist? Here’s a clue: saying someone is not qualified for a job is not racist. Saying, a la Breitbart, that someone has large nostrils and looks like a monkey, is racist.

Let’s break it down:

1) If the head of a federal department came to Cain and said: “here’s my advice on how to run your business”, Cain would probably have a negative reaction. What do government types know about business, after all? Funny how that doesn’t cut the other way though. Do you think that business leaders are pre-qualified to be political leaders? What about vice-versa?

2) You claim he was “joking” about the “three pages” thing. Let me ask you this: do you think his audience thought he was joking? If so, what was the joke? That of course, government bills need to be long and complicated, but, ha, ha, a caricatural business-type outsider would say they can be a lot shorter? It makes no sense. If you can explain this joke to me, please do.

3) He has a truly awful position on abortion. Are you OK with this?