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lynnf
05-23-2011, 06:26 AM
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Nevertheless, his many fine qualities notwithstanding, Herman Cain should not be the Republican Party's candidate for president for two vitally important reasons:

1) He is poorly suited to lure the marginal center away from Obama. White voters who are disenchanted with the false promise of Obama's post-racialism will not be motivated to vote for its Republican version, however genuine it might be. Black voters, on the other hand, have not historically been favorably impressed by black Republicans and are very unlikely to abandon a Democratic poster president, even though Cain is much more genuinely representative of American blacks than the Indo-Kenyan American who presently claims that role.

2) He is not even close to being a genuine conservative on the single most important issue presently facing the nation. Indeed, both his economic philosophy and his employment record are quite literally Communist. In the fifth of the "10 Planks" of the Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx demanded "Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly." In the United States, credit has been centralized in an exclusive government monopoly granted to the Federal Reserve; Mr. Cain was the deputy chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City from 1992-1994 and the chairman from 1995-1996.

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