It just never ends. Damn this guy would be effing hilarious as a President.

This is one of the greatest things I’ve ever seen.

what strange piece of shit is this lmao i can’t get the song outta my head

“i ammm amerrricaaaaa… one voice: united we staaand (WAAAAAAA-UHHHHHHH!!!!!)”

That was amazing. I’m definitely voting for Cain now.

OMG, OMG, OMG someone is smoking a cigerette call the PC police. Maybe that is the message here. Cain has said he is not going to be running a PC campaign. 

I hope this is not a real ad because it is so bad. I think it is more of a joke that ended up posted on you tube

http://hiddenleaves.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/obama_smoking_joint.jpg

Do you think Herman ever gets rattled? He seems so calm and collected all the time with such a pleasant demeanor, its really cool though I wouldn’t want him as my president. 

Actually Cain believes that as a business owner you damn well have the right to have smoking in it or get the hell out.

I think it was a secret message being sent to the tobacco companies. “When I’m president you can finally take off those pesky warning labels”

Bahahahahahahahahaha

Why do I get the feeling every time Herman Cain smiles at a camera, he’s thinking “Nailed it!”

The article had me really expecting something unusual, along the lines of the movie Eraserhead.  I found it lacking.  Bizarre, how so?

Very odd.

Your feelings may be a bit off. To me, his smile is an internal laugh and thought, “OMG, Palin had it right. I can make thousands off these idiots!” 

The smoker in that video looks like a dried up nicotine drug addict. Not the image ***I*** would put out there, but you know, Cain is f*cking you all in the ass anyway, so…

Freedom, baby. 

Cain is/was/will be a joke. Foreverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

On South Park.

He really believes in Hermann Cain–and that the connection between cigs and countless diseases is utter bull$hit.

Privatize your cigarette pleasure: socialize the health care pain when this clown drops dead from lung cancer!

 ”Hey…you ain’t gotta job? fire up and eat a pizza! Who gives a $hit! That’s why I’m votin’ for Hank Cain. And why not? There’s no future!”

The ad is like him,….. no real point and not really saying anything!

Isn’t Herman Cain a cancer survivor?

So now he’s releasing a campaign ad that glorifies an activity that is proven to cause cancer?

Cognitive dissonance at its best!

Herman Cain is a Koch brothers acolyte so that makes this smoker a Koch sucker.

Tryin’ to get the ‘heartland” folks, the ‘real American’ folks, the folks in Wasilla, the folks drivin’ F-3550 Extendo Cabs… tryin’ for the Bible Belt…

Trying to corner and capture the ‘stupid vote’ for Cain in ’12.

With Bachmann down, he may very well have it.

“Guberment aint gonna tell me I caint smoke!”

Cool! And I get the right to higher insurance premiums!

I LOVE ME SOME NICOTINE and TAR ‘FREEDOM!’

YEEEEEEE-HAWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!

You wear a Guy Fawkes mask when you comment, am I right?

How do you get to Status Quo? Take the Cain Train.

THAT WAS AWESOME!!!!!  haha, i can’t believe what I just saw!  This makes me love Herman Cain.  I feel like he has to have a sense of humor.

I feel like Hermain just caught me having alone time with myself. I feel so dirty now. 

Thanks patsy!

Looks like Cain has the far left loons running scared. ;)

Really? Most of you sissy liberals feel you have the right to tell a business owner how to run their business. You’re quite the exception, Timmy. How big of you. What’s the matter with the rest of your sissy clowns like GayHorizons, wee baby D, and the squatter from SF county?

troll much?

He didn’t get lung cancer. It was colon cancer. He’s under no obligation to tell people how to live their lives, what choices they should or shouldn’t make, what foods they should or shouldn’t avoid.

Or on your momma’.

You know Tebow is making an ass out of you, You missed the joke

u r just saying that because he is a black man..

My one serious vice is being a light smoker and the Cain commercial really blew me away.  Herman Cain is beneath contempt and I wouldn’t normally waste words on him, but this commercial, if it’s real, and it probably is, perfectly demonstrates the disconnect that exists in many American lives. What Cain is telling us in this commercial is that he’s stupid, arrogant and contemptuous of his fellow countrymen. Blowing smoke in our face says it all about most rightwingers, doesn’t it. And some of you on this blog actually think he’s a great American. Wow!

Ha!! An SNL skit?? Couldn’t be because it ended before it got too long overdone and forced!! GO HERM!! I’m not sure what the ad says. It’s like a poster on a locker from a high school election race!! Smoking!! One thing that brings us all together!!

u think
Cain can’t relate to your idea of real Americans.
Thass raciss.

Cuz u think that cuz he’s a black man, he must be a retard…can’t even make an ad without your help…
thass raciss.

Never proven just linked, along with several thousand other things. Less than 50% of the PEOPKE who smoke get cancer. Please don’t let the media fool you about everything this easily. It’s a nasty habit but cause and effect are hard to pinpoint.

Hey, buddy!

I’ve missed “you.”

Did Mediaite turn off the “Texan auto-response” feature, or were you away writing witty repartee for Perry’s next showdown with Mitt-man the More-Man?

999! 999! NINE NINE NINE in 30 minutes or it’s free free free!! Wait! That’s dominoes!

Well, at least u got the no future part right…but it’s got nothing to do with Cain…it has everything to do with the progressive outlook permeating the culture..

what’s wrong with a President that can laugh in the face of death?

I yield to your expertise in this matter

troll much?

good thinking.

You need to establish some sort of credible voice if you want us to believe that you are an actual human being and not just Abrams’ twelve yr-old nephew who needed some extra cash.

Hey, Abrams! Hire me! I can do the CON voice like nobody’s business:

“Your stupid liberal-face is ‘shovel ready,’ but JObama Stalin won’t carry independents. Mitt will roll with RUBIO in tow!!! Suckers!”

See?

25 cents a word and I’m yours!

that’s millions, you slacker communist.

You’re doin’ the ‘momma thing?’

Really?

as obama blows smoke up your ass…hey, didja hear he took the stars and stripes from the doj website and changed it to a black strip with a quote from a known marxist?

Yes, they’re terrified he might self destruct before the far right makes him the republican candidate for president.

Dudes… you just don’t get it. This video is brilliant.

i….dont….get….it.

No no no no – you missed the point. It’s been EONS since any candidate reached out to Big Tobacco. Cain is the ultimate innovator, going boldly where no one else has gone since, well, since we all woke up and realized how frickin nuts smoking is.

Next up, I fully expect a revival of the movement to repeal the Civil Rights Act of 1965. This guy is FULL of ideas on how to return us to the spirit of 1776 – and the reality of it, too.

By the way, I’m starting to kind of doubt this thing is real; it sure feels like a spoof, what with the clear expenditure on production values of under three bucks, including the expended coffin nails.

Too soon, my man, too soon. After all, we’ve only had three presidents in a row so far admit to using illegal substances. 

You’d been cool calm and collected too if you were him and realized that he actually agrees with your last point.

Uh, we already have a black man in the white house that proves we do NOT assume that means he’s a retard. Look, electing Obama doesn’t mean we completely removes Teh Stupid from any shade of skin. Cain would be a sell-out now matter if he was blue, red or neggreen.

Right. He’s not in favor of colon cancer, but he’ll defend your right to get it. It’s all up to you. Seriously: only you. Because Cain doesn’t give a shit either way.

Oo oo another game.

Okay: Cain’s campaign song should be that one by Eric Clapton: Koch-Cain …

Yeah, I could do without the creepy closeup of Herb grinning

Exactly, Cain seems to be perfecting the art of fleecing the people, selling his book while campaigning and using $36,000 of his campaign money to buy books

the look he gives at the end >

Oh we get it, alright. And it certainly is brilliant, as self-parody, and maybe even as a deliberate self-sabotaging of his candidacy. He doesn’t really WANT to win, but if he does, he wants it to be clear that the very first executive order he issues is to install the Koch Industries board of directors as his cabinet. 

America – F**k Yeah!

I am America…and so can you.

The Evolution of a Masterpiece:

CAIN:  We need another commercial.  Any ideas?
BLOCK:  What if I were to look into the camera and endorse you.
CAIN:  Brilliant.  They’d never expect my chief of staff to endorse my campaign.
BLOCK:  Then I’ll blow smoke into the camera.  Literally!
CAIN:  Yes, that’s it!  And I’ll end the commercial with a creepy smile.
BLOCK:  Oh, Sweet Jesus, this is gonna be good!

Well Cain knows who’s buttering his bread. Pretty much only stupid people still smoke these days, the same sort of dullards who think his bek-beki-beki-stan-stan ignorance or electric fence gator moats borders are good policies. When appealing to the conservative base, you just can’t go wrong appealing to their stupidity, that much pizzaman gets right.

 One can’t go broke underestimating his fans’ stupidity

That’s right, eating crappy greasy pizza and swilling corn syrup laced Coca Cola is just as healthy as eating a low fat and sugar balanced diet. God I hate those sissy librulls, their food pyramids & vegetables. Michelle Obama is just as bad as Hitler, Maybe Ruckus will get his mother’s sister Jemima and she can whip up southern fried chicken and country fried steaks for all the Whitehouse’s visitors

Epic fail

I guess not too many acts get to your county

“You don’t have to be white to be a stupid bigot, I’m Herman Cain.”

Keeping up that fine tradition of any poster with Tex in his name, way to go.

I am sure most of the people behind and all the people in the ad are white

BAHAHAHAHAHA so hip lulz

BAHAHAHAHAHA so hip lulz

Good set of teeth though

Cause and effect aren’t hard to pinpoint when you have lung cancer and they’re literally doing surgery to remove tarry crap from your lungs, honey.

You gotta be kidding me! a mustache + a cigarette. 

Confession!
I just lit up another cigarette.
But I agree that smoking is a stupid and deadly habit and I would be better off if cigarettes and all other forms of tobacco were illegal. It would be so much easier to quit then, but what are the freedom issues? They are big!

With that out of the way, If Herb Cain is going for the smoker vote, it isn’t working on me.

A favorite word of the conservatives. Scared. Why? Because they are scared. They project a lot.

Kinda blows your argument away that we liberals elected a black man as president and most of the black men and women in government are Democrats.
Don’t take that too far and assume that I think black people must be liberals. Far from it. I’m just saying you can’t use that race card anymore.

Humorous rebuttal. Points for humor.

Bevis and Butthead are coming back on MTV.. maybe there.

Cain hasn’t been in the pizza biz since the mid 90′s.. he’s been a lobbyist for tobacco, fighting restaurant smoking bans, spoke out against lowering blood-alcohol limits as a way to prevent drunken driving, fought an increase in the minimum wage and opposed a patients’ bill of rights.

Is this a joke???
Is this real??
Is this Saturday Night Live??

Nailed it.

Making stops in Crazytown, Nutsville and Loon City.

Wow. You actually believe this — that one can inhale smoke into their lungs for years and not be at risk for serious consequences? 

The funny thing is that nothing this guy says is even remotely memorable or persuasive. There are only two take-aways from this commercial:

1. Blowing smoke.
2. Cain’s smirk.

This may get a bunch of hits on YouTube from the curious, but what does it do to put to rest concerns that his campaign is amateurish?

Ms. Martel and others seem completely baffled, even offended by the Cain ad.  I found the advertisement obvious and consistent with Mr. Cain:  The Candidate does have “libertarian” propensities, it should come as no surprise that he finds government intrusion in personal decisions becoming more and more invasive.

Helmet laws, seat belt laws, cigarette laws, whats next, condom laws?  I could go on and on about the “nanny state,” slowly being built by Liberals.  Mr Cain is a very successful businessman.  Classical liberal business practices, desirous of limited Government interference, would be consistent with a man such as Cain.  No surprise there!

Hmm, isn’t that odd, the same leftists that fight and defend “Roe v. Wade,” and “safe and legal abortion” also, took away your cigarettes?  I could coin a phrase: “situational liberty.”  Ouch!   (Maybe we should read, or, re-read, John Stuart Mill’s “Essay on Liberty?”)  Just a thought?

The ad finishes with the handsome face of Mr. Cain, replete with a hint of mirth on the man’s face?  LOL

Purveyor of Rhetoric

NDanielson, you rock, lol… tell them like it is…..

Obama never used smoking to ‘rally’ his base.  Smoker rights groups are idiots, as a reformed smoker with an adult son that smokes, I say, yeah, you have to decide for yourself, but, don’t smoke around my me, in the house, in my car and guess what, he respects my request and never smokes in his own house, car… because he’s not an idiot and has every intention, like our POTUS of calling it quits one day. 

Way to go Herb!

So you’re saying that people who smoke are stupid?

Hey, I smoke and I vote! I love this ad, just love it. It is so outside the mainstream without the p/c makeover and it is just great…makes me proud…

I agree 100%.
I have not smoked in my car for about a decade. At least I have that much control. I know smoke stinks up everything, and I know it is not the way to handle pressure, etc.

What I am trying to say is that it is about as smart to smoke tobacco in public as it is to smoke dope in public, and it is flat out wrong to smoke in an enclosed place where non-smokers are. People who continue to smoke are not necessarily dumb, but they are addicted to something bad. It is never a good idea to encourage addiction, and our POTUS knows that.

If fact, if the add is supposed to be a subtle attack on Mrs. POTUS for her support of healthy eating, it is a very dumb way to go about it. I do think that was the subliminal message. “See! I won’t tell you what to do.” Cain won’t take away your freedom to be fat and lazy and out of shape. You can be as dumb as you want when Cain is president.

Finally, my confession was a confession. I know I am a “bad person” in that way. I only want to point out that there was a reason for the surprise of the man smoking and Cain smiling like it is an inside joke. It is one. He should be given credit for being very subtle but powerful in his message. It should make you think.

He is a smart man after all, and libertarians should consider voting for him. I still will not vote for him, but I am impressed by the subtlety.

What is that in your mouth? Is it lit? ;-)

I am a smoker and so many people are on their nerves now. What do we do. How can I pay my bills. CAIN has my vote. He is simple and he knows what is wrong with the world. “George Soros”

Dear America,
Are you freakin’ kidding us?
Regards, The World.

I agree.  South Park.  LOL.  or American Dad

I believe the message is more “subliminal,” more subtle:

What “they” are really saying is that “people who stupid are smoke?”

Purveyor  

Creepy.

i’m an x smoker and i love this ad.

all non smokers should thank smokers for their contribution
to local and federal taxes over and above their normal obligation

thank you for smoking.

i believe zero still smokes!

amen

I agree.  That slow smile juxtaposed on the music just kills me.

In other words, you’re on board with Cain because his chief of staff smokes.

I guess that’s as strong an argument as any Cain’s made so far.

are you saying that this ad doesn’t have the power to change minds… maybe even… change America?

Was this ad made by someone that is secretly anti-Herman Cain?

You’re the one bringing up him being black, not anyone else.

What was Herman Cain smoking when he came up with this ad?

Tea party, tell me this  is a joke right?
 This is a throwback to the 1960′s creepy movies–just in time for Halloween!
I love it!

WTF!

This add is the equivalent of some old drunken skank at a bar (in the old days when smoking was allowed) blowing smoke in some guy’s face thinking it is actually sexy.

Considering the low standards of tea-tards, it might actually be a successful pick up technique.

And wouldn’t that be lovely?  The tea-tards wake up after the primary with a terrible hangover and realize they’ve taken a loser home.

I don’t know what’s creepier – the creepy smoker who looks like a pedophile or Cain’s creepy grin.

I heard he might be born in Kenya too!

I heard he might be born in Kenya too!

DUHHH

BECAUSE SMOKING IS SOOOOO COOL!!!!

LOL

Cigarettes were being smoked in that commercial; not crack

He was a lobbyist for the National Restaurant Association.

Ahhh Herman, trying to blow smoke up our ass……of course that man in the ad supports Cain….he works for Cain, so Cain supports him.  Who are we taking America back from???  Have we been invaded secretly???  This ad is ridiculous..is he really just smoking tobacco???

“Ms. Martel and others seem completely baffled, even offended by the Cain ad.  I found the advertisement obvious and consistent with Mr. Cain:  The Candidate does have “libertarian” propensities, it should come as no surprise that he finds government intrusion in personal decisions becoming more and more invasive.”

I was baffled, but not offended. But, seriously, your explanation makes complete sense. And it certainly works in the viral sense… It’s definitely *different*.

Sweet Christ, when will you idiots start thinking for yourself and not believing every fucking thing you read in an email forward.  The internet is a wonderful thing….

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/jul/14/chain-email/chain-e-mail-claims-quote-top-redesigned-departmen/

America…F**K YEAH!! 

It’d be easier to pay your bills if you quit smoking.

As a smoker I know how expensive they are.

I also know now that you are an idiot.

As an ashamed smoker, I must admit that the taxes do assuage my liberal guilt a bit…

“We need doyoooohoo…”

Obamas politifact? LOL!

and lives on grease!

smoking is a filthy, idiotic, expensive habit/addiction.

as a smoker, I know this quite well.

To actually be PROUD of a bad habit is truly idiotic.

But I shouldn’t be surprised.  Tea-tards have been proud of their ignorance, why not their bad habits too?

Next add: an obese slob sluping up big macs and high fructose syrup celebrating his FREEDUMB!

“Change!” Ring any bells? ;)

I think hermain Cain will be good as a president but he has very little experience with foriegn countries. He could have one big pizza party and invite all the  presidents from other countries to the White house.We can call it the Pizza Summit.

Casey Mahoney Brad P

I never realized the Hermain Cain campaign was run by Nathan Thurm:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOLBQxk72NY

Great ad tea party!
In the  Next ad have Mr Block talking about saving jobs with a CIGAR in one hand and a BEER in the other!
 This is too MUCH!

They canceled Guy Fawkes Day due to budget cuts.

don’t be ashamed chrisg. if it wasn’t for you and other smokers children wouldn’t have school books or heated classrooms. i and those children thank you for smoking and we’re begging you not to stop.
God bless you sir.

I love it cuz it is causing all the libshits and the msm talkng heads heads explode.

hey chrisg, smoking is not a left or right habit. there’s no need to bash either side
about it.

By all means, please post the link to your “facts”.

with laughter

I also find it hilarious that if something isn’t wrapped in the American flag, you conservatives start pissing your pants.

You know, all we need is to have Cain and Obama as a team…they can invite foreign dignitaries over for beer and pizza. It would be an epic soothing of souls.

The camera brings it “up.” We’re all so conveniently color-coded. So much easier than thinking.

LOL

I like when he shakes his head to say “no” while reciting all those trivial slogans. LohohohoL  :)

Oh yeah, kinda like they did through 8 years of GW. Right?

Oh yeah, kinda like they did through 8 years of GW. Right?

Liberals and Obama

Actually, the argument deals with an overall bigger picture.

Liberals think that the government gives you freedom as a privilege.
Conservatives think that we have a God given right to freedom and government only restricts freedom.
If I wanna smoke and I own a business I should be allowed to light up and so should my customers.
Who cares if its bad for you…its my business and my customers. Cain’s showin that the government aint never gonna get him down.  

Yikes! That is a scary campaign promo. . . . . . . cain the unable, has given you yet another reason why he is perfect to run against Obama.  Please, please get the nomination. . . .

Yeah, they should take the warning labels off. Why do you need the government telling you what you should or shouldn’t put inside your own body? 

Obama: “OMG! I can get cool Red and Blue fancy posters and come up with corny taglines like HOPE CHANGE AND YES WE CAN! The Che Guevera, pot smoking, eco-friendly liberals will think they are part of revolution and vote for me! Even though I support wall street and wall street loves me! Then they’ll protest Wall Street without acknowledging that the person they voted for IS a wall street fat cat! Woooo ‘Smart and logical’ liberals! Nailed it!”

SARA, well done, as the joke Cain plays is subtle and to understand such, is insightful.  

The “cigarette,” is a metaphor for Mr.Cain’s political and Social propensities.  The Tea Party and the economic Conservatives, understand our Nation’s need to allow Capitalism the freedom and flexibility that once made America, the business juggernaut it once was.  Remember, tobacco was once a big agricultural business and played a large part in America’s birth as a nation.  If you don’t like cigarettes, don’t smoke.  Seems reasonable?

So too, does the “cigarette represent the over interference of government in our personal and daily lives.  The latest left wing crusade is what we eat and how we eat it.  Wether motorcycles, boats, guns, kayaks hang gliders, even if we save one life by over regulating or banning something, wouldn’t it be worth it?  NO!  

Moreover, Mr. Cain’s commercial is indicative of a very fertile and clever mind.  Mr. Cain has a sense of humor and seems to enjoy himself on his journey through life…  Or we can elect another “cookie cutter” Republican?  Ouch!

Purveyor

Yes both liberals and conservatives smoke (I would bet more conservatives tho).

Liberals however (typically) don’t wear their ignorance like a badge of honor like conservatives do.

Liberals typically are not proud of their flaws (smoking, obesity).

The new brand of conservatives disdain education (elitist) and prop up ‘regular folks’ for high leadership positions.

Tea baggers like Palin and Cain, cuz, “gosh darn they’re just like me!”

And that is exactly the problem.  They’re idiots just like the average tea bagger who supports them.

I’ll take a harvard educated elitist for president over an ignorant fool like Cain or Palin or Perry any day.

That’s what this ad represents. The Tea Party’s willful and proud ignorance.

If anyone is surprised Cain approved this very bizarre ad, check out his “snuff my seed” ad.

http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/herman-cains-reason-vote-gop-i-dont-0

Can’t wait till this hits the MSM.

I’m hoping the “liberal” MSM is holding off for the right moment for maximum impact….

Even the RNC and Bush condemned these ads as racist.

Since cigarettes are legal you can smoke anytime you want. Your freedom however comes with some restrictions. Since cigarettes can cause cancer through second hand smoke, you are now restricting my right if you smoke near me. Generally states have made laws against smoking in public places.I live in a state with Republucan Governor and Congress who have a policy of limiting smoking in certain places.

this ad is weird. I also doubt its authenticity/.

Was it this guy sucking on a joint and blowing smoke.?

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS7fHeDwRGbQnYpV-y9n9OyBTbNwBQNH5TaBRMI6xQa1pjfDBZy

Then, the other 50% get Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. THat’s not bad, you just have to labor to breath so you can stay alive. Or wear oxygen 24 hours a day and take meds to keep your lungs open. THat cause and effect is not hard to pinpoint.

Lol.  Just don’t contribute to any Cain for President Superpac – cigarette butts go better with pizza crusts than the image of President.

Are you seriously trying to engage him in a debate with facts?  I admire your faith in the unassailability of a fact but a real Texan will not be intimidated by one.

And it makes Obama…?  A smoking Soros sucker?

I got just the response I expected…none.

Darn, those are the same stops Obama has been stopping his train at for the last three years…I was hoping with Cain we would get some new ones!  Oh well, at least Cain will do it with some humor.

Hey!!
That’s a great idea, Bell boy.
Thanks for the tip!!
Kinda like taking the “Beer Summit” crap and  going a step further.

 Move on folks!!
No hypocrisy here

What kind of man names himself after an Elk’s testicles?
Not one I could EVER take seriously.

Yes….The brave Chrisg is willing to pay the ultimate price so our kids can be indoctrinated by sick liberal minds.
A brave man indeed.
 

Wow, this country is a joke. I wish i was born in europe. Redneck ni@@a’s runnin for office.

Cain would SMOKE Obama!!!

Cain needs to do a campaign ad singing Camptown Ladies or Swing Lo Sweet Chariot…he’ll win in a GOP landslide

coriscus was right.You really DON’T get it.Over your head.

Didn’t get the ad and why is he smoking at least it’s online ad and not TV ad if it was a TV ad WTF.

Basically, I agree with you that liberals have very little, if anything, to be proud of.

The “cigarette” is a metaphor for left wing over regulation of our lives, meaning, the economy and our personal affairs.  It becomes obvious when you consider what Mr. Cain represents: An alternative and an end to liberal control over your aspirations and your behaviors!  Furthermore, his smile, invites you into his mirth, join him in the joke that Socialism must be made to be…

Scroll down a bit on this thread, you will find a more thorough analysis that I wrote earlier.

Purveyor of Rhetoric

Herman’s economic policy fits well in the Republican party of nein! nein! nein!

Sure, just as long as those black men completely repudiate their past and turn their backs on those who died to give them their rights, the Repubs will be glad to have them.

I like this ad. Even Maddow agreed that cons are good at creating shit like this.

i thought the same about Obama….until he got elected. Now I have been unable to laugh for some time…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0heL2Czeraw

Link to the official music video.

If you allow the government to tell you it is illegal to smoke on your own property….well, as you said, welcome to the ‘stupid vote’

“Cool! And I get the right to higher insurance premiums!”

There is no fascist organization that says you HAVE to have health insurance…..oh wait, THERE IS such a fascist organization!! Totally forgot the Federal Bureaucracy, my bad. 

Obviously….seeing as Obama didn’t sell a single one of either of his best-selling books during his campaign-trail book signings, right?

Oh wait, he totally sold thousands of copies of those books on the campaign trail, my bad, carry on.

Jackasses and contards, like “peas in a pod.”

Sissy? Is that what your mom called you? Geeeeeeeezzzzzz…..

“most of the black men and women in government are Democrats.”

I think the explanation of that, in light of the Dixiecrat era and Democratically-enforced decades of Jim Crow, segregation in the Democrat south, has to be Stockholm Syndrome.

Google the term ‘leading blacks off the Democrat plantation’ for more exciting insights!

Contards think? Whoooooooaaaaa….elitist!

“no real point and not really saying anything!”

This was about the ‘Occupy’ protesters?

You have yet to address the simple fact that everything you just listed is no one’s choice but YOUR OWN.

The point everyone below cannot seem to grasp is this: if you smoke for 30 years and die in your sleep cancer free, can you then claim that smoking doesn’t cause cancer as this person who smoked so long didn’t have it? No, no more than you can claim with any certainty that you WILL get cancer from smoking until you actually get said cancer.

Any easy exercise to illustrate how hard causality can be to prove is simply this: PROVE to me that the sun will rise tomorrow morning.
You cannot, because as far as causality is concerned past events are no proof of future events. The ONLY way you can prove to me, logically, that the sun WILL rise tomorrow is for it to ACTUALLY HAPPEN.

Sorry if anyone has difficulty still grasping this concept, as it it college-level philosophy/logic coursework….

Hahaha
Awesome PARODY video of Herman Cain’s Smoking Ad
 
Herman’s got a SEEECRET!
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhz4DRHwens

Koch sucker? Using the actual pronunciation of this name, “Coke”, does that mean he sucks cokes? I like to drink a coke once in a while too, what of it?

Speaking of the Koch brothers, I’ve been meaning to ask them where my check is for the two years of Tea Partying I did. Must have gotten lost in the damn unionized mail system, I guess.

it’s a disgusting commercial and one more reason I can’t stand him.

I’m a Proud Liberal but I saw the ad and I think it is VERY smart. More People smoke in the US than the total number of people that voted for either Al Gore or Bush. Smokers are tired of the vilification and of being ostracized. They are tired of the Anti Smoking Nazi’s and of their rights to enjoy a legal product being infringed at every occasion, not to mention the huge tax burden force on us by the non-smoking majority. If I were a Republican AND a smoker Cain would have won my vote. I’m not a member of an organized party, I’m a Democrat so Cain CAN’T count on me.

I don’t think Cain is running for President. Maybe he’s running for VP but more probably it’s so he can get richer selling books, going on Faux News and the Right Wing Talk Circuit. In the end Cain is only there to split the Bat Shit Crazy Crowd between himself Perry and the Air Head Michele Bachmann making sure Romney wins the nomination with less than 30% of the Republican Vote . Should something unexpected happen like Ron Paul winning Iowa AND New Hampshire then all bets are off.

Ahhh, this this ad hurt some Political Correct Idiots feelings?  Poor babies!  So, the guy was smoking, so what!  Millions of Americans still smoke and the government can kiss their butts when it comes to trying to prevent it, that is Reality and that is Life, two things the Left does not like to face.  They want the Kumbia crap that Obama is the Messiah and will make everything fine, yea, right, like he has done the last three years, lol!  Only thing Obama has accomplished is bring back Racisl Hatred, which he started using in his 2008 campaign.  I was a lifelong Democrat in 2008 but there was no way I was falling for BS and Lies I heard coming from Obama, I vote for record and acomplishments, Obama had none.  I know I will be Raising Cain in 2012!

HERMAN CAIN FOR PRESIDENT IN 2012!

I’m glad we’re on topic! How was this failure wonderful?

think ive heard that song in a John Holmes flick

you say you were a lifelong democrat now you say you’re raising cain. you aint nothing but a flipflopper. gtfo

Grow up.

Rasta_Farian – So what about the ad was glorify smoking? I didn’t hear he mention smoking once. I find it interesting that most of the people that rail against cigarettes are all for legalizing marijuana.

Cain was brilliant with this add. He new this would get crazy media attention, and since his campaign
budget is not as hefty as Romney or Perry, what a great way to get National Name Recognition virtually free. His grin at the end lets you know he knows whats up. Brilliant Cain, a man with a plan and finally some worth voting for.

I dont know…he’s already got some stiff competition in the WH now.

Go down to OWS…that should break your laughing dry spell

Unfortunately no…they keep getting picked up for Parties and socials at the white house.

No…it certainly does have that power.  If one blithering idiot with no congressional record, no Academic record, or shred of private sector experience can get elected by 53% with “hope and change” as a mantra, then this can as well.

Here’s an interesting article called Herman Cain and the Smoking Men: http://blogforliberty.com/2011/10/26/herman-cain-washington-insider/

Apparantly, Herman Cain was a pretty successful lobbyist who relied on Tobacco company money to make his obscure lobbying group into a powerhouse in D.C. 

“we all woke up and realized how frickin nuts smoking is”

Wow..I geuss this means the POTUS is nuts since he’s a smoker.

“Next up, I fully expect a revival of the movement to repeal the Civil Rights Act of 1965″

I’m guess that you’ve “fully expected” lots of things in your life that probably havn’t panned out for you.  Play the lottery….you should “fully expect” to win and join the 1%.

You don’t have to be white to be a stupid bigot I’m:

Jesse Jackson
Al Shartpton
Michelle Obama
Van Jones,
Eric Holder

Oh yeah…I’m also Barrack Obama….read my book for examples!

 How much has that other famous smoker, Obama, made this last quarter?

do your history.  It was the Republicans that supported the civil rights the Democrats were against it.  It was a Republican President that freed the slaves.  It shouldn’t be about race,  this country  needs someone that will bring everyone together instead of using race the race card to tear us apart.  Obama campaigned on bringing the parties together and now they have never been farther apart

Yes, that’s much worse than using the State Department to buy $70,000 worth of your books, as Obama did.  Even if you disregard the campaign benefits of book sales, which are obvious: Name/messaging recognition and association.

Huh. I’m only getting audio, the video seems paused from the start.

Pointing finger and laughing at you.  You have never changed your mind in your entire life, really?  Did you ever change which way you went to work, you flipflopper.  Oh, I forgot no one is ever allowed to leave the democratic plantation no matter what master does to you.  I guess being a Democrat is a religious choice.  So, since Bill is now an apostate, he should be treated as they do under Sharia, watch out Bill, people like cainlosesesmind are picking the nearest rocks.

Snowspot, it must be snowing in hell right now, because for the first time ever I agree with you.

Purveyor, with all due respect, I have to disagree with you about this. I really think you’re reading way too much into the ad, or else it went over a lot of people’s heads, which wouldn’t be surprising. I haven’t heard anyone else come up with this explanation, and as far as I’m concerned the cigarette bit was totally gratitutous and should never have been included.

The whole book issue is a non issue and frankly a deliberate smear on behalf of the Cain’s opponents on both sides.  Cain has been campaigning for well over a year, slowly building his support.  Also, remember that the current President’s report largest income sources have been from his books (IRS records).  Of course that little tidbit is being deliberatly left out.  If you think that
Remember, Cain is not a politician, he does not come out of an environment where running for second place cuts it.   His life and his previous experiences do not lend themselves to shooting for number 2.  The political elites can’t seem to grasp this, or do you, it seems.  

Barack Obama, the original smoking Prez.  An equal oportunity puffer.
http://themorningspew.com/2011/10/27/cain-staff-in-good-company/

As opposed to tax tax tax.  Or were you trying to say no, no, no.  Classy interjection there, accusing a black man of being a NAZI.  Oh, hey, in case you forgot the Nazi Party has endorsed your precious OWS.  Cheers!

And here we have the perfect example of those tolerant progressive democrats on parade. Well as the old say goes, you racist pig, Delta is ready when you are.

Point taken.

Still, like you, I needed an explanation for such an aberration from the “political norm?”  Hence, I found such in the fact that Mr. Cain is NOT the “political norm.”  How refreshing!  After all, cigarette smokers are people too?  

As a matter of fact, America used to comprised of eccentrics, inventors, characters and adventurers and I saw Cain’s advertisement as telling those American’s who live “out on the perimeter,” that he will represent them too.  (That he too, has a little eccentricity)

I listened to Mr. Cain give a couple of interviews and he said  ”Let Herman be Herman” and let “Mark Block, be Mark Block,” which is a very succinct explanation to my, typically, complex analysis. Ouch!  Apparently, both Cain, Block and the rest of his campaign crew, have a proper mixture of libertarianism in their political inclinations?  

A philosophical influence of mine:  John Stuart Mill, a 19th century Libertarian who was vehemently oppose to the prohibitionists, while at the same time, supportive of women’s suffrage.  Mill postulated that Government should not interfere with individuals liberty, as long as citizen’s pay their bills, educate their children and don’t abuse their wives and/or cause trouble with other citizens.  Yet, the cigarette metaphor shows how consumed contemporary Liberalism can be with other people’s actions and behavior, that are really nobody else’s business?

I interpreted Mr. Cain’s ad as a way for Mr. Cain to tell us, that he too is tired of Left wing imposition into our lives.  If people will let “Herman be Herman,” then he will oblige to their idiosyncrasies, within reason.

As for “anyone else coming up with this explanation,” I noticed that too.  I was proud of the fact!

Thanks Amigo

purveyor:

Here’s what I don’t get about Herman Cain: I was really starting to get behindhim, but then he starting backtracking on too many positions. The one that still has me and a lot of other people confused is his stand on abortion, such as it is. One the one hand he says that abortion should not be legal under any circumstances while at the same time maintaining that it’s a woman’s personal choice to have an abortion. I mean, which is it? I was disappointed when Sean Hannity asked him about this yesterday and still wouldn’t pin him down. I think it’s time someone did once and for all.

Since you can’t reply to this, I’ll just check back periodically.

PHIL, 

Just wanted to add:  I think you are my Brothers age, meaning you are 10 years older than I.  I am not a religious man, rather I use my intellect and philosophy as a guide.  However, as any soldier will tell you, “there are no atheists in fox holes.”  Ergo, I have been known to say a prayer as there have been moments in my life…

John 8:7  ”He that is without sin among you, cast the first stone.”

I am not without sin, and in a very quiesent way, Mr Cain told us by using that ad, that neither is he “without sin.”  Furthermore, wisdom is not the sole province of success.  Failure contains important lessons, also?

Purveyor

Again, point taken and I too am concerned.

I don’t know if you read my posts from 5 or so days ago on another Herman Cain Thread, specifically about his stance on abortion? I covered the Legal, Supreme Court History and just what the broad implications are if we even thought of overturning Roe v. Wade. (I recommend you try to find them) Roe, was based a number of cases, all built upon each other!

I truly don’t believe Cain wants to be bothered by people who are consumed with other’s personal decisions. Ergo, that hint of Libertarianism?

I conclude that Cain sees his potential Presidency, as solving the economic and National Security of America. Frankly, I believe he would rather the “God Squad” go home and let him work. This is where my thesis on “neutral principle” comes into play. Do we want our Laws based on reason or emotion? Ethics or morality?

Given the recent discoveries of medical science regarding, “fetal viability,” I believe we should re-visit the tri-mester regulations, set down in Roe. However, I do not believe in eliminating the procedure. Regardless, this is not the time for an abortion debate as “the enemy is at the gates!”

Purveyor

Purveyor:

It’s not the abortion issue itself that concerns me right now, because as you say, “the enemy is at the gates.” What concerns me is Cain’s inability to answer a simple question without the doublespeak. He’s been asked to clarify his answer several times now, and he keeps repeating the same contradiction and asking “Does that clear it up?” NO, IT DOESN’T!

Racist!!!

OK,

I’ll pay more attention to Cain’s rhetoric and see if I can see what you are seeing, or, not seeing?

Conversely, I suppose you could do the same and we compare notes? Curiously, it must sound as if my mind is made up when all I started out doing was commenting on the quirky ad… Oh well. LOL

But, as of now, I like Cain. I also like Gingrich as he the broadest intellect. Gingrich would make a good President as well as a formidable advisor! Also, Gingrich would really beat up Obama in a debate. Ouch. I don’t like Romney or Perry as they are what the Republican Party is spoon feeding us, and the Party always seems to “spoon feed” us.

Anyway, Its good to find someone who takes this responsibility seriously. Well done!

Purveyor

I see no blithering idiot in the white house but a bunch of them at the Republican debates. One pissed off conservative is what your name should be.

Smoking is cool! Bring back the 50′s! Bring back the 50′s! Wooo hoo!  Give your big middle finger to progress! WOOO HOO!

Are you too lazy to type out Barrack Obama or ‘the president of the united states?’ No wonder China owns us.

I know i hate when black people speak about equality when everyone knows it’s the white man that’s the victim here! Stupid illegals and blacks and gays getting in the way of me and my nascar.

Wow..you’re a racist. So everyone voted for Obama cause he was black..not because he was articulate, well spoken and had a message that resonated with people?

But you’re not racist if you vote for Hermain Cain because…he’s articulate? Nope. Intelligent? Nope…uh…Republican? yep! Bingo!

Yeah because we all know nothing spells freedom like telling people who can get married and having the government define life, wiretapping your phones and sending your kids off to war. make it harder to sue a business that screws you over and spit on peoples civil liberties.

I sure do love that Republican freedom. And that Republican small government. I just wish I was a corporate personhood to be able to enjoy all that freedom.

Yeah people should have a right to get lung cancer and die in the street. Unless you’re Terry Shivo then you have to get the Government to step in and make sure your husband doesn’t pull the plug on you.

H y p o c r i s y thigh name is the GOP

There’s a difference between educating the public you’re chosen to represent and being forced to do something. I can smoke if I want to. But If i do smoke, I shold know what’s in what I’m smoking.

You do know who pays for it when an uninsured smoker gets halled off to the emergency room dieing of lung cancer right? ALL OF US. In higher premiums. So you’re behavior efects society as a whole. Cause..and effect. Is that too difficult to comprehend? A doctor cannot refuse to help a patient who comes in asking for it. But the doctor has to get paid. So … again..for all you anti-Obamacare anti-warning label conservative idiots out there. WHO PAYS FOR THOSE PEOPLE. The answer again WE ALL DO!

The conservative response is always..Oh no a liberal said something clever. Fox News tell me what to say! Oh ok. Well YOU guys did it too.I love it. Great game. Nevermind if it’s right or not it’s always, well you did it too!

Yeah because ALL the Occupiers love Obama and all are eco friendly pot smoking hippies. I’ll just ignore the 99% website and the various ages, income groups, and demographics presented there and just go by what John Stossil tells me.

Then I can go around decrying wall street fat cats while at the same time licking the bung hole of the 1% and being a little b*tch to the Koch brothers. Because only me and my tea party deserve to be respected. We are the only ones that have a right to be mad. Those Occupiers have no one to blame but themselves for how crappy their life turned out. But I the teabagger can blame Obama for how crappy my life is and that’s ok.

I hate when protest movements I don’t agree with overshadow and eclipse my protest movement :( GRRRR

Whoa someone doesn’t know their history. Hoo boy. So Republican is just your brand? Is that it? It’s your sports team. It doesn’t matter waht their ideologuy was in the past compared to the present it’s all about the brand right?

Well guess what, I am a liberal, and I would have voted for Abraham Lincoln. In fact…I would have voted for every Republican presidential nominee until Herbert Hoover. You see Republicans where the original elitists. Who believed they knew better than the masses. And in a way they did. Democrats where the populists. However as industry grew, and the working class grew, and their working conditions deteriorated, the progressive in the Republican party left to the Democratic party and became new deal democrats. Leaving the Republican party as the party of the wealthy.

And how dose the wealthy get the normal people to do their bidding? Well starting with Barry Goldwater, what you do is go after the racists and the people who are afraid of progress. Which is why most of the southern Democrats all left to the Republican party in the 60s. Because the Republican party was in favor of segregation. Anything to get the votes. And that’s been the Republican mottow since. Serve the rich, by scaring the shit out of uneducated white people. Tell them not to go to college because “it’ll brainwash you!!” so they stay ignorant, and keep voting you in over and over and over again. Wage a war on science, a war on progrsess..and pretend to be the party of Jesus (jesus was the worlds first hippy) and the lemmings will do whatever the hell you want.

The Obama smokes….effing hilarious!

By chance are you college educated in literature or the arts? If not, you are one of the few insightful people out there. I feel like it’s our job to explain it to the less fortunate. See my other post.

How much do you weigh? Long term, obesity probably costs us more. Shall we outlaw sweets, hamburgers? Do you wear cologn or a scented deodorant? I know people so sensitive they can go anaphylactic and die if exposed too much. Shall we stop production on anything with a scent or make wearinig such products in public illegal? After all under Obamacare, WE ALL WOULD PAY.

Isn’t it fascinating that so many missed the complexity of this commercial? What other product has so many rules, regulations and bans by businesses (usually because of local laws not preference), cities, states and the feds.? Actually there are a whole lot of products with even more government intervention, but none have the same effect on the audience because they haven’t the visual (thanks Hollywood) or emotional (smokers) impact.
And what other product (excluding Harley-Davidson motorcycles) brings up images of rugged individualism a la the American cowboy, rebellion against the existing establishment a la James Dean, and the “bring it on” attitude of all of us who have been pushed to the edge.

It really resonated with me, reminding me that Americans have always been able to overcome obstacles because of our determination and character, not because the government convinced us independence was overrated and not even worth entering the race.

As a ” new brand” conservative who ” disdains” education, let me expound on why this attitude may be growing.

Like many students who did well in high school, college was a forgone conclusion.
Associate Degree, Batchelors Degree, Master’s Degree, but my auto mechanic, the plumber, and I’m pretty sure evenn the guy who mows my neighbor’s lawn has a higher hourly wage.

How is this possible you ask? My degree is in English literature. How much worse if the degree is in something more esoteric? Our colleges and universities have milked the American belief that a college education guarantees financial success. We use to understand that effort and determination was the way to success. Now we’ve raised a generation who thinks a 6 digit paycheck should come with the diploma.

So, yes, my attitude about education has changed, but just how it has become elitist? If anything, it’s the opposite. And as for “propping up regular folks”….. I have complete confidence in every individual to stand on his or her feet, even without government crutches like FDIC, WIC, Welfare, and social security.