The Herman Cain Scandal

So if you read Drudge, you've already heard something about Herman and some sort of harassment scandal while he was a lobbyist for the National Restaurant Association. I know, just when you thought you've heard all about Herman, you go and find out he was a lobbyist. It just keeps getting better. This calls for a bulleted list to get our minds around this guy:

• Federal Reserve Chairman of Kansas City
• unrepentant and unapolgetic as to the problems created by the Federal Reserve Banking Cartel
• unrepentant on his support of TARP
• a company man, just about anyone who goes up the corporate ladder does so by a clever combo of butt-kissing and backstabbing. That's not always true, but a generalization that usually works. Another alternative is that you are incompetent, and it's politically easier to promote you than to fire you. Ask anyone trapped in middle management. Horatio Alger stories don't apply in the corporate world.
• favorite movie is the Godfather, a movie about corruption and power taken by force. Not The Ten Commandments or Ben Hur. Coincidentally, this was Obama's favorite movie as well.
• wants to dress up as Ron Paul for Halloween, if he had to. I guess we see who he thinks is scary.. That's pretty weird, unless you take into account that Ron is the archenemy of the Fed.
• wants to tax us more. Oh, but it will really be less! If you actually believe that our overall tax burden will go down, I now deem you too stupid to operate a computer. Please back away from the keyboard.
• Doesn't advocate any substantial cuts that will bring us back to sustainable levels. You are going to have to start talking trillions in cuts to make that happen.
• He's a Keynesian economist who is totally down with central plannning.
• As a lobbyist for the National Restaurant Association, what he did was get federal breaks for big restaurant chains. You guys do know that McDonald's and the like get government subsidized help when going abroad to compete with the other government subsidized businesses abroad, right? However, your mom and pop diner pay for that subsidization and are totally on their own. These services aren't available for small players. As we have learned on this blog, the goal of the monopolist is to shut out competition using the government. This is not free market competition, but is more more akin to socialism.
• He used $100,000 of his supporter's money to buy copies of his own book through his own shell corporation:

Mr Cain is the sole owner of a corporation called T.H.E. New Voice, Inc., which sells self-published booklets, DVDs and videos chronicling the pizza magnate's rise to fame. 

Look out Obama, there's a new narcissist in town! Seriously, you've got some serious humility issues when you come out with a book that looks like this:

Herman is the sole beneficiary to his own little shell company, creating some major conflicts of interest, reports the Daily Mail article:

This news may present legal issues for the presidential candidate, since he is the man that would be profit from this payment to his company.
He and his campaign are not worried, however, and a spokesperson said that they even ran the decision by a campaign lawyer before doing so and he concurred.
'If they know Herman Cain, they wouldn't even make such an assertion,' Mr Cain said in response to the issue.  'How's that for political correctness!'

• Herman Cain refers to himself in the third person. That's kind of weird.
• What we've got here is another Establishment "yes man" here to preserve the status quo of printing money and pushing the artificial talking points full of Pavlovian key words that keep the conservatives in line. No thank you.

Oh, did you actually think that this post would be about sexual harassment? Did you actually think that I'm stupid enough to be distracted by a Clarence Thomas parallel meme. Not me, I'm keeping my eye on the money, ya'll.


Update:

Found more demonstrable facts at The Daily Paul:

• Bankrupting employee pensions at Aquila and getting sued for it:

According to a massive class action lawsuit against Aquila’s board of directors – including Cain – he allegedly steered employees into heavily investing their retirement savings in company stock, while at the same time shifting their business model from straightforward energy generation to risky energy trading – the kind of corporate greed that infamously brought down Enron, Mother Jones reports. In the suit, it claims that Cain and other top officials violated a 37-year-old federal law that requires employers to responsibly manage the retirement programs for their employees. Their pensions and life savings were lost.

• Endorsing Alan Greenspan architect of the Real Estate Bubble. We all saw that on the debate. It was hilarious.
   
• Breaking FEC laws on allowing a non profit to use funds for political purposes.

• Dismissing the 08 downturn of the economy.
   
• Endorsing a stock during the downtown that lost 80% of its value.

• Donated to Mitt Romney's 08 campaign.

• Was against the flat tax before he was for it (1 year later).

• Altered his "tax" plan to allow for hedge funds to make more. Read up on derivatives and other shenanigans to understand what this leads to.  

• Wants a gradual 23% unconstitutional national sales tax.

OH Please, oh please give me an "outsider" who totally agrees with the Establishment on everything. That will change our nation for the better!!