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Oct. 17th, 2011 08:35 amAhh, in true Republican fashion, say something offensive and then claim it was a joke........
Electric Border Fence A Joke Says Cain
by Jessica P.
Republican Presidential hopeful Herman Cain went on NBC’s “Meet the Press” to quickly walk back remarks that he’d build an electric fence designed to kill illegal immigrants as part of his approach to immigration policy.
Cain told David Gregory the whole thing was a joke and described it as not a “serious plan.”
Funny, in campaign rallies in Tennessee Cain spoke at length about the fence, providing details of how he thought the fence should look and how it would work. And he prefaced those statements with “we have a crisis of illegal immigration.” Those don’t sound like the words of a man cracking a joke.
It gets worse. Cain may be walking back his electric border fence, insisting it was a joke, but that ignores the fact that Cain’s crowd wasn’t laughing. They were cheering. And that’s a fact that no-one seems willing to acknowledge.
The scrutiny comes as the Wall Street Journal came out against Cain’s 9-9-9 plan acknowledging that an most individuals would end up paying a combined 17% or more federal, state and local levies on goods.
Cain dismissed the critique by, well, admitting that would be the case. “Don’t combine it with state taxes,” Cain told Gregory. “This doesn’t address state taxes. If you combine it together, yes, you would get that number.”
If Cain is on the defensive now, I wonder how he’ll feel at Tuesday’s debate.
Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/electric-border-fence-a-joke-says-cain.html#ixzz1b2u9M06N
Electric Border Fence A Joke Says Cain
by Jessica P.
Republican Presidential hopeful Herman Cain went on NBC’s “Meet the Press” to quickly walk back remarks that he’d build an electric fence designed to kill illegal immigrants as part of his approach to immigration policy.
Cain told David Gregory the whole thing was a joke and described it as not a “serious plan.”
Funny, in campaign rallies in Tennessee Cain spoke at length about the fence, providing details of how he thought the fence should look and how it would work. And he prefaced those statements with “we have a crisis of illegal immigration.” Those don’t sound like the words of a man cracking a joke.
It gets worse. Cain may be walking back his electric border fence, insisting it was a joke, but that ignores the fact that Cain’s crowd wasn’t laughing. They were cheering. And that’s a fact that no-one seems willing to acknowledge.
The scrutiny comes as the Wall Street Journal came out against Cain’s 9-9-9 plan acknowledging that an most individuals would end up paying a combined 17% or more federal, state and local levies on goods.
Cain dismissed the critique by, well, admitting that would be the case. “Don’t combine it with state taxes,” Cain told Gregory. “This doesn’t address state taxes. If you combine it together, yes, you would get that number.”
If Cain is on the defensive now, I wonder how he’ll feel at Tuesday’s debate.
Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/electric-border-fence-a-joke-says-cain.html#ixzz1b2u9M06N
