Quote from AAAintheBeltway:
Nothing personal RCG, as you are only reflecting the orthodox liberal viewpoint, but how dare you call Herman Cain a"porch monkey." I''ve never heard the term, but I assume it's some variation of "Uncle Tom". This is a man who by his own sheer grit, intelligence and force of personality turned around a losing company, saved thousands of jobs and created many more. He is an inspiration to pretty much anyone who listens to him, not least because he is a man's man, not a whiner or complainer but a doer.
The contrast with the current occupant of the White House couldn't be more stark.
I frankly don't understand where Colin Powell comes into this. Yes, he endorsed Obama, but his judgment had already been seen as suspect. He is a career Washington player, and no doubt had his eyes on a Cabinet appointment. Anyway, I offer Allen West as a pretty authentic black man, a tough as nails Army officer who forfeited his career to protect the troops serving under him. Another "porch monkey"? I would love to see the "porch monkey " ticket of Cain and West.
It's funny, I've heard the term porch monkey before but wasn't 100% sure what it meant so I had to look it up. It seems the term refers to someone who is "lazy" in other words, someone that just sits around and watches people all day from their porch.
How the f*ck does this describe Cain? Jesus man, he is probably one of the hardest working African Americans in the country. He can't be serious that other African Americans call him that. Here is Cain's bio:
After completing his master's degree from Purdue, Cain left the Department of the Navy and began working for The Coca-Cola Company as a business analyst.
In 1977, he joined Pillsbury, where he rose to the position of Vice President by the early 1980s.
He left his executive post to work for Burger King, then a Pillsbury subsidiary at the time, where he managed 400 stores in the Philadelphia area. Under Cain's leadership, his region went in three years from the least profitable for Burger King to the most profitable .
This prompted Pillsbury to appoint him President and CEO of another subsidiary, Godfather's Pizza. Aiming to cut costs, Cain over a 14-month period reduced the company from 911 stores down to 420. As a result of his efforts, Godfather's Pizza finally became profitable. In a leveraged buyout in 1988, Cain, Executive Vice-President and COO Ronald B. Gartlan and a group of investors bought Godfather's from Pillsbury. Cain continued as CEO until 1996, when he was asked to resign by the board.
Later that year he became CEO of the National Restaurant Association â a trade group and lobby organization for the restaurant industry â where he had previously been chairman concurrently with his role at Godfather's.
Cain became a member of the board of directors to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City in 1992 and served as its chairman from January 1995 to August 1996, when he resigned to become active in national politics. Cain was a 1996 recipient of the Horatio Alger Award.
Cain was on the board of directors of Aquila, Inc. from 1992 to 2008, and also served as a board member for Nabisco, Whirlpool, Reader's Digest, and AGCO, Inc.
I mean shit man, is there anything this guy hasn't done? RCG, why do you hold this man in such contempt? Seriously. I would think he would be a role model for the African American community. Seriously, I don't get it.
