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Herman Cain Wants A ‘Great Wall Of China’ Or A ‘Moat With Alligators’ Along Mexican Border

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Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain spoke to an enthusiastic audience in Iowa and unveiled some ideas for how he would keep illegal immigrants from entering the United States along our southern border. While his critics might conclude this is proof that Cain is a fringe, non-serious candidate, supporters of his could just as easily argue that Cain was merely firing up the crowd with his proposal that included alligators, since he was clearly joking – right?

Cain rallied his supporters, saying:

I just got back from China. Ever heard of the Great Wall of China? It looks pretty sturdy. And that sucker is real high. I think we can build one if we want to! We have put a man on the moon, we can build a fence! Now, my fence might be part Great Wall and part electrical technology. . . . Put me in charge of the fence and it will be a twenty foot wall, barbed wire, electrified on the top. And on this side of the fence, I’d have that moat that President Obama talked about. And I would put those alligators in that moat!

At least on the wall part of the proposal Cain seems serious, since many conservatives have long argued for an impenetrable fence. Yet regardless of how serious Cain intended to be with these statements, it’s no surprise why Cain’s popularity is increasing. How can you not show some admiration for a presidential candidate who so casually and humorously describes the Great Wall of China with this praise: “that sucker is real high!”

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  • Thelonious Funk

    Um, what?

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    I’m watching Cain on Glenn Beck right now, and he said he’d have some sort of loyalty test for Muslims to serve in his administration. I couldn’t help but wonder if Cain would also back literacy tests to keep stupid blacks like himself from voting. I’d guess no.

  • RhapsodyinBlue

    Then we can put a motor in the economy that way it can go VROOOM VRRRRRRRRROOOOOM and it can go fast an unemployment can be .5%

    Common sense

  • Skippy

    Fux ought to put this danged id iot on Red Eye.

    The “moat with alligators” was originated by Presidential Candidate Stephen Colbert.

    Write your own material, you m o r an.

  • Sam M.

    Publius219 said:
    I’m watching Cain on Glenn Beck right now, and he said he’d have some sort of loyalty test for Muslims to serve in his administration. I couldn’t help but wonder if Cain would also back literacy tests to keep stupid blacks like himself from voting. I’d guess no.

    Now we know why this idiot will never get elected.

  • bealzebubba

    He’s eaten way too much of that nasty Pizza.

    Again, the state of Georgia apologizes for this…person.

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    Cain = USA as Sovereign Nation

    Democrats = WELFARE STATE

  • RhapsodyinBlue

    NORBIT Jr. said:
    Cain = USA as Sovereign Nation

    Democrats = WELFARE STATE

    He’s doing as the founding fathers would’ve wanted, proposing elaborate, incredibly expensive schemes to keep new immigrants from coming in. Benjamin Franklin is doing a celebratory spin in his grave as we speak

  • Son of Sevenless

    This is madness!

    King Cains wish is our command.

  • lazzzlo

    Between the two options, I vote for the alligator filled moat!

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    NORBIT Jr. said:
    Cain = USA as Sovereign Nation

    Democrats = WELFARE STATE

    Your categories seem to imply some sort of exclusivity between the two, as though sovereign states can’t be welfare states or vis versa. Not that you’re really expected to know what the terms you parrot actually mean, but it’s worth pointing out either way.

  • Sam M.

    lazzzlo said:
    Between the two options, I vote for the alligator filled moat!

    I agree, Alligators are the answer.

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    Publius219 said:
    Your categories seem to imply some sort of exclusivity between the two, as though sovereign states can’t be welfare states or vis versa. Not that you’re really expected to know what the terms you parrot actually mean, but it’s worth pointing out either way.

    Ok, how about:
    Tea-Party GOP = Personal Responsibility
    Democrats = Government-Sponsored Dependency
    - or -
    GOP = NEW JOBS
    Democrats = NO NEW JOBS
    - or -
    GOP = DRILLING, and Independence from foreign oil
    Democrats = NO DRILLING, and empower 5th Century Theocrats

    CLOSE THE BORDERS NOW!

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    Cain will debunk the SEPARATIST-POLITICAL DESIGNATION coined “African-American”, and bring the Racial Smear- Strategy of the Left to an ENLIGHTENED END!

  • TerryDo

    Mr. Pizzaman is not too bright! He won’t even make it through the primaries, don’t give up your day job.
    Enough said!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Thorkil-Kowalski-Vrge/566276352 Thorkil Kowalski Værge

    How can securing your own borders be insane? The guy is not suggesting a stop for immigration. He is suggesting a stop for ILLEGAL immigration.

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    NORBIT Jr. said:
    GOP = DRILLING, and Independence from foreign oil
    Democrats = NO DRILLING, and empower 5th Century Theocrats

    If the GOP can drill us out of dependence on foreign oil I’d vote for them every time. Because that would mean they can do magic. And that’d be a valuable asset for any politician or political party.

  • axel360

    Does anyone think for a second he might have been joking? There is no news here. As Thorkil said all he’s doing is talking about securing the borders. I’d be happy with a politician at least joking and pointing out the fact that revamped security is needed for the borders rather than a sitting politician not address the matter all together.

  • NORBIT

    Publius219 said:
    If the GOP can drill us out of dependence on foreign oil I’d vote for them every time. Because that would mean they can do magic. And that’d be a valuable asset for any politician or political party.

    Not as valuable an asset as Weiner’s been! lol!

    We should’ve been drilling for the past 30 years!
    We’re still using the oil, but we’re empowering 5th Century Theocracies instead of drilling our own!

  • http://24ahead.com/ 24AheadDotCom

    For the truth about this, see my discussion:

    http://24ahead.com/marie-diamond-clueless-deceptive-or-what-thinkprogress-herma

    That’s not my best, but even so note that no TPer I’m aware of is capable of or willing to defend their icon.

    Not only are TPers able to defend their icon, but the chances of them helping their icon by linking to that post or promoting it on Facebook and Twitter are slim indeed.

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    NORBIT said: We should’ve been drilling for the past 30 years!We’re still using the oil, but we’re empowering 5th Century Theocracies instead of drilling our own!

    See. This is the problem. Large swaths of the country believing things that are blatantly false. We do not have enough oil of our own to meet our consumption no matter how many places we drill and for how long we’ve been doing it. Not even close. This fact alone has dictated much of our foreign policy for the past 30 years, across parties.

    Yet the public at large so lacks curiosity at the policies that govern their lives that even the most blatant and egregious of falsities can become dogma.

    We (collectively speaking) complain about gas prices and jobs yet our media spends a week talking about Anthony Weiner’s cockshots. And they only do it because it’s what people consume.

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    See. This is the problem. Large swaths of the country believing things that are blatantly false. We do not have enough oil of our own to meet our consumption no matter how many places we drill and for how long we’ve been doing it. Not even close. This fact alone has dictated much of our foreign policy for the past 30 years, across parties.

    Yet the public at large so lacks curiosity at the policies that govern their lives that even the most blatant and egregious of falsities can become dogma.

    We (collectively speaking) complain about gas prices and jobs yet our media spends a week talking about Anthony Weiner’s c0ckshots. And they only do it because it’s what people consume.

  • http://www.libertarianism.com/ Jack Burns

    Ha Ha he said Alligators…

  • Thelonious Funk

    Alligators don’t do so well in the desert.

  • david r

    Thelonious Funk said:
    Alligators don’t do so well in the desert.

    Those people are so poor, the gators would end up as barbecue pronto.

  • illusive man

    Can’t sleep. (sigh)
    You don’t need to round up every illegal in the country or make a “moat filled with alligators” to keep them out.
    All the government needs to do is pass legislation that would make it a crime for any company/business to hire an illegal.

    If an illegal can’t find work, then why stay in the country?

  • mdonato

    Herman Cain is such an idiot. Everybody knows the only acceptable way to defend the borders is monkeys with lasers.

  • Greg

    Want more Cainan solutions to modern problems…

    - address the problems of urban education by fitting children with iron shoes
    - research dollars directed to the completion of a large astronomical globe
    - replace all existing moldboard plows with more modern heavy plows
    - all federal arts funding directed toward music composed on a triangular harp

    Campaign slogan…
    “Take a trip with me back to the 8th century!”

  • VogVoo

    OK, that dude is making a lot of sense dude.

    http://www.online-privacy.no.tc

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    NORBIT said:
    Not as valuable an asset as Weiner’s been! lol!

    We should’ve been drilling for the past 30 years!
    We’re still using the oil, but we’re empowering 5th Century Theocracies instead of drilling our own!

    Who’s “we”? Exxon Mobil? Shell? Hess? Private multinationals. All this oil gets sold on the open market. It doesn’t stay here.

    If you’re saying there should be a Nationally OWNED Oil Company in America, like Citgo:

    “CITGO Petroleum Corporation (or CITGO) is a United States-incorporated, Venezuela-owned refiner, transporter and marketer of transportation fuels, lubricants, petrochemicals and other industrial products. The company is owned by PDV America, Inc., an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A., the national oil company of Venezuela. The company has its headquarters in the Energy Corridor area of Houston, Texas.”

    Then I’m all ears. The price of gasoline today in Venezuela?

    .37 cents a gallon.

    http://incomingbytes.blogspot.com/2011/05/gasoline-in-venezuela-037-gallon-in.html

    –Cobra

  • Mas Liberty5

    The “writer” wrote:
    “How can you not show some admiration for a presidential candidate who so casually and humorously describes the Great Wall of China with this praise: “that sucker is real high!””

    Or when some politician that is actually the President of the USA thinks there is 57 states.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ed-Durffee/1311278663 Ed Durffee

    illusive man said:
    Can’t sleep. (sigh)
    You don’t need to round up every illegal in the country or make a “moat filled with alligators” to keep them out.
    All the government needs to do is pass legislation that would make it a crime for any company/business to hire an illegal.

    If an illegal can’t find work, then why stay in the country?

    Your kidding? Are you saying there is no such law on the books now? I know Arizona tries to make it tuff but with so many Liberal Judges throwing up road blocks to protect illegals, nothing gets done.

  • Spike1

    I see comercials every day on TV that say we have enough oil in North America for the next hundred years. This doesn’t include 30% of America which is owned by the government or the off shore wells that are being used or can be developed if the government would get out of the way. The enemy of the people is their own government, it’s time the people took back their government.

  • Spike1

    In 1973 there was an oil embargo and oil was in short supply, gas was 35 cents a gallon. The governent said it would take 10 years to develope our own resorces and it wasn’t worth it. Now 37 years later the government still won’t allow oil companies to open new wells and we are paying the price. Is the government stupid or are the voters stupid for electing these idiots ?

  • americanborn

    Keep on rappin “cain”, you are slowly but surely tightening that noose. How ironic a repub slime like this that exploits the poor as normal behavior is preachin about stopping cheap/slave labor!! The teabaggers are grabbin anybody even this trash to support their views. As soon as he would take office the teabaggers would hang him on the front lawn of the WH.

  • J Baustian

    Publius219 said:
    If the GOP can drill us out of dependence on foreign oil I’d vote for them every time. Because that would mean they can do magic. And that’d be a valuable asset for any politician or political party.

    The US has more reserves of fossil fuels — coal, oil, and gas — than any other country in the world… enough to last hundreds of years. We can easily switch existing autos and trucks to run on natural gas — this is not new technology, I’ve seen them off and on since the 1960s. We can use coal here in the US instead of exporting it to China, then they send the soot back to us via the jet stream. Coal can also be turned into a liquid fuel that will run in our existing internal combustion engines.

    So, if we really want to end our dependency on imported oil, we can. And we can do it without creating a new transportation infrastructure or neglecting the existing one. All it takes is willpower — which means we’re going to need a different president.

  • J Baustian

    Cobra said:
    The price of gasoline today in Venezuela?

    .37 cents a gallon.

    Gasoline prices at the wholesale level are the same everywhere in the world, after slight adjustments for shipping costs. Prices at the pump vary widely because some countries, states, provinces, and cities apply taxes, and because some oil-producing countries subsidize fuel costs to keep the people from overthrowing the regime. Venezuela is one of the latter, naturally.

  • hgovernick

    Do your homework, Vain Cain. There are lighted tunnels from Mexico to the United States through which you can drive trucks. Build a wall? What an idiot.

    Just make it illegal to hire undocumented workers for your Republican friends who own the companies now doing so. That will stop the flow much more effectively than any wall or moat, dolt.

  • Jordan Wilborne

    Que pedo con este pinche negro..se cree perrisimo hablando con pendejos igual que el..aver que vaya a poner una puta electric 20ft wall en su pinche home country de Africa aver que le pasa a ese pinche puto punal mayate..se parase al puto chango que esta en esta fotito ——> ..I..(-.-)..I.. Ala verga con negros como este putin..

  • Jeffreybuehner

    Literacy tests for ‘stupid blacks?’ I thought you were dead, Senator Byrd. Typical cowardly liberal spewing hate against any minority who has the temerity to wander off the government plantation. Also, you dope, nice hiding behind ‘publius’ when you don’t have the balls to use your real name when using the term ‘stupid blacks.’ Afraid somebody might yank your spindly a$s out of the coffee house and beat the potchouli out of you? Pus$y

  • Ana Echeverria

    And this comment came from a Black American?  Oh, I see!

  • http://www.facebook.com/alfred.leffall Alfred Leffall

    Hey man i agree with you 100% Herman Cain,is an idiot, An so are his stupid followers,And with comments like, 20 ft.electried fence’s an ”moats, filled with alligators, he may not get a single,hispanic
    american vote.so all i can say,is republicans are very stupid, if they are not able to see that ‘mitt romney
    a man who’s smart an can talk,an engage, but there hatred, is so deep about ”mormen’s.they will make
    a fatal mistake.If they nominate,uncle tOM,”cain.as there nominee.obama will march right back in the whitehouse,And these stupid republican’s will look like the ”bewildered,coyote,who failed to catch the roadrunner

  • http://www.facebook.com/alfred.leffall Alfred Leffall

    herman cain,,will help re-elect obama.hey listen up stupid republican’s your best bet is ”mitt romney,an dont say,i didnt warn,you,but you will most likely say,who is this liberal,but good if you dont listen,but how many mistakes have you already made,let me count the way’s””””””’sarah palin,michelle bachman,chris christi,rick perry,you even,thought donald trump was your savior,but ”’herman cain will surely be your entrapment.

  • Anonymous

    The next time I read a blog, I hope that it doesn’t disappoint me as much as this one. I mean, I know it was my choice to read, but I actually thought you’d have something interesting to say. All I hear is a bunch of whining about something that you could fix if you weren’t too busy looking for attention.
    kia soul

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