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[li]The story/plot was painfully slow and meandering (the opening was a full minute of horse riding/flower shots).[/li][li]The constantly off centre frame shots, zooms and quick cuts were simply disorienting. [/li][li]The acting was just nutty (cue full-bodied beer swig 0:24). [/li][li]The dialog was lame and cheesy (“Take a real look at Herman Cain, I think you’ll like what you see…sly smile…Kinda like when you watch one of my films.”). [/li][li]The main character was utterly unsympathetic (a pompous blowhard/ass whose views the audience would ultimately detest).[/li][li]The final shot of Cain was waaaaay too tight! (His head comes off as fat, his teeth as crooked and his 'tash as weedy). Waist up shot with a stiff back and arms folded would have been much better.[/li][/ol]
Cain needs to fire whoever directed that trash.
Hell of a lot of trouble to go through just to be ambassador to South Africa in the next Republican administration. But hey, Herm, it’s your money.
Cain isn’t going to win. Here’s why. Take an Olympic sized swimming pool. Drain out the water. Fill it with vanilla wafers. Now toss in one bag of Oreos. That’s a pretty good depiction of the Republican demographic. Cain is at or over his limit of support right now. Don’t forget, the very foundation of the so-called Tea Party movement is racism, no way in hell are they going to put a black guy on the ballot.
Cain can lie about Obama as well as any whitey can- he recently claimed that if “Obamacare” had been in effect when he got cancer that he wouldn’t be alive today. Nevermind that there is nothing factual about the statement, all that matters to his brain-dead party is that it smears Obama.
No, Cain has no chance whatsoever at winning the nomination. Now if we’re talking about casting him as George in a remake of The Jeffersons, then you might be on to something.
I love this. Cain speaks at Tea Party events all the time to packed crowds of “vanilla wafers”, but they’re racist and won’t put him on the ballot (that’s not even their call, btw)?
You’re a class act.
The Teahadists love to tell us how un-racist they are, and to prove it they’ll cheer an Oreo with no chance of winning. Should he actually be a viable candidate, they’ll flock to the white guy with the best chance of beating him.
Technically, an Oreo is slang for a person of black and white parents, so, it’s more applicable to Obama rather than Cain, who’s parents are both black.
Also, I love the “should he actually be viable” comment right after the “no chance of winning” assertion. Nice switch!
You are wrong. An Oreo is someone who is “black on the outside and white on the inside”, i.e., a black person who has rejected black culture and lives to the greatest extent possible as if he or she were white. Bi-racial has absolutely nothing to do with it.
I stand corrected.
Because, you know, Presidential living is as black as black gets.
I’m sure not all Tea Partiers are racists, and there are doubtless some who are so naive they don’t even realize that that’s what’s motivating their fellow travelers. But there are plenty who are openly and unabashedly racist, and most of the rest, the only positions they stand for which they can clearly articulate are racist ones. Consider the Birthers, for example, who have a very large overlap with the Tea Partiers: That’s nothing but racism.
I’m not so sure. To me, it seems the TP hate Obama because he represents change. At any event, we most likely will never know, overt racism is so unacceptable in today’s culture, even genuine racists are unlikely to admit it publicly.
All the Tea Party is is the racist anti-tax far right extreme of the Republican Party. The business Republicans in their three piece suits and crocodile shoes get to act all innocent and say “What? Not us! It’s the Tea Partiers” so the reptilian-brained among them can hurl their venom without tainting the main party. Hatred is the bread and butter for right wing candidates, from the paranoia over the Scary Brown People from Mexico to Newt Gingrich’s claim Obama is the “Food Stamp President”. Nope, no racism here, move right along.
The whole “hope and change” thing resonated with college kids and wide eyed leftists who hate Cain because he may make some changes to tax policy, god forbid simplifying the tax code.
I hope Cain gets the nomination.
I hope so too because Obama would mop the floor with him. The reason that I personally oppose these right wing “tax reforms” is because they’re all just different ways to lower taxes on the rich. Cain’s silly 9-9-9 plan is just pablum that fits on a bumper sticker.
I will expect you to return here after it’s over and admit that you were completely wrong.
Oh, so you expect the black guy to mop the floor, do you? And to use another black guy as the mop! See! Leftie/liberals are the real racists!
If they were anti-tax, they wouldn’t protest against their taxes being lowered. That’s why I say that racism is their only position they can clearly articulate.
And DJ Motorbike, just the fact that someone supports change doesn’t mean all change is good, and I’m kind of surprised that anyone on this board would make an argument like that.
Deal.
Also, I just learned something regarding the 9-9-9 plan that I did not know before. Cain intends to use lower rates for areas of increased poverty. He doesn’t give a specific number but those struggling will pay less income tax as well less of a national sales tax.
I was going to give a scenario of someone in the poverty level under the current plan vs. Cain’s 9-9-9 plan but, until Cain reveals the percentage he intends to tax on those in his “empowerment zones” I won’t even bother because I’ll just get called on assuming what the rate will be, and rightfully so.
So poorer people will have to reveal their income to every retail sales clerk in order to get a discount on their sales tax?
Do you really think that would be his solution? Honestly? I have no idea how he wants to accomplish it, but really?
He mentions empowerment zones, which in my opinion, might imply a lower overall sales tax in those areas. Wouldn’t be a bad idea, honestly, because what’s the draw back? You have people from outside the area bringing money to an affected area to shave off those 1, 2, 3% of the sales tax?
Yes, I think that would be his solution, because there is no other. They can’t set sales tax by zone, populations are too much in flux to do that. Are they gonna average out all the incomes within a zip code or something? If there’s one rich guy living in an area he would skew the average and possibly make everyone around him ineligible for the break. Oh, and maybe make him a target for everyone who wants an extra 2% off their bags of Cheetos. I would be tempted myself. 
Or, you could have the IRS send out some kind of discount cards to people which they can use when they buy. How would that fly? The Republicans are already up in arms over the “intrusiveness” of the IRS. And what a huge fucking bloated bureaucracy that would have to be.
Oh, yeah, and how are businesses going to document that they sold thousands of products to different people at different tax rates, and calculate that tax, and then justify their payment to the IRS at an audit, which they will have to be able to do. That would be a HUGELY expensive cost for retailers.