If only these debates were actual debates where each and every candidate on the stage gets the same questions and the same amount of face time. Obviously, our kingmakers in the corporate media will not allow that because they get to tell us who the front runner is. I guess I'm somewhat over that. However, as to the contention that Cain came across well, I disagree on two fronts.
First, when Dr Paul posed the following to Cain:
"Mr. Cain, in the past you have been rather critical of any of us who would want to audit the Fed. You have said -- you've used pretty strong terms, that we were ignorant and that we didn't know what we are doing, and therefore, there was no need for an audit anyway, because if you had one, you're not going to find out anything, because everybody knows everything about the Fed," Paul said.
"But now that we have found and we have gotten an audit, we have found out an awful lot on how special businesses get bailed out -- Wall Street, the banks, and special companies, foreign governments. And you said that you advise those of us who were concerned, and you belittled -- you say call up the Federal Reserve and just ask them. ... Do you still stick by this, that that this is frivolous, or do you think it's very important? Sixty-four percent of the American people want a full audit of the Fed on a regular basis."
Cain's response was that he didn't oppose an audit, and that when he served on the Fed it was a different institution. "You have misquoted me. I did not call you or any of your people ignorant. I don't know where that came from," he said. "You've gotta be careful of the stuff you get off the Internet."
Damn bro, you don't know where it came from? How about your own mouth:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=q18jMzTWJ9A
The last thing we need in the White House is another liar.
Second, his 999 plan effectively raises taxes on most of the country and simply will not fly. I prefer Dr Paul's plan. Zero zero zero.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/11/ron-paul-herman-cain-fed-audit-gop-debate_n_1006228.html
