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11-13-2011, 03:28 AM
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Cain says God persuaded him to run for president...
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11-13-2011, 03:45 AM
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I don't understand why this is a story.
A great majority of the US population prays on a regular basis and relies on their relationship with God to hold a strong influence over their lives.
Is this supposed to be some sort of "negative" for Cain? Because you seem to be presenting it as such.
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11-13-2011, 04:02 AM
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Originally Posted by PaceAdvantage
I don't understand why this is a story.
A great majority of the US population prays on a regular basis and relies on their relationship with God to hold a strong influence over their lives.
Is this supposed to be some sort of "negative" for Cain? Because you seem to be presenting it as such.
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It wasn't I who thought that this is a "story"...the Associated Press did.
And I would never call a close relationship with God a "negative".
I just think that it's a little odd to see a presidential candidate inform us of his dialog with God...right after repeated sexual harassment allegations.
But hey...I could be wrong.
After all...the Lord works in mysterious ways.
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Last edited by thaskalos; 11-13-2011 at 04:05 AM.
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11-13-2011, 06:59 AM
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Originally Posted by thaskalos
It wasn't I who thought that this is a "story"...the Associated Press did.
And I would never call a close relationship with God a "negative".
I just think that it's a little odd to see a presidential candidate inform us of his dialog with God...right after repeated sexual harassment allegations.
But hey...I could be wrong.
After all...the Lord works in mysterious ways.
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Let me see if I have this right: People have alleged sexual harassment charges against Cain, so this somehow is supposed restrain Cain (who has also alleged his innocence) from communicating with God? Why?
I tell you a truth: There is a far more disconnect between Obama's recent assertion that he knows what God wants him to do (see article in "Religious" thread) and his proven character deficiencies many, many times over.
Boxcar
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11-13-2011, 07:46 AM
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A desperate man who has started sliding in the latest polls looking to get the votes of the Boxcars of the republican party. I love his latest gaff mentioned in the latter part of the article about Obama discontinuing the space shuttle when it was GWB who made that decision.
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11-13-2011, 07:57 AM
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The Voice of Reason!
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Blame Bush. 
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11-13-2011, 08:43 AM
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Accomplished man, and well ??
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11-13-2011, 10:26 AM
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Originally Posted by Tom
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I actually think that putting an end to space shuttle was one of the few good decisions that Bush made. Just go to show how desperate Cain is. Take a good decision made by a republican, act like it is bad one and blame it on Obama. Is this really the best guy you can up with?
I sure that Newt will be up a few more points in the polls after the debate last night. He is going to the GOP nod by default. He made his dumb statement early enough that everybody has forgot about it. Now if he can just keep from making another one.
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11-13-2011, 10:51 AM
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The Voice of Reason!
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Is this really the best guy you can up with?
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Who knows?
That is the purpose of the debates.
After last night, two names stand out now.....Newt and Michelle.
When all is said and done. the economy and jobs might not be the major issues come November 2012.
Who do WE want taking that call at 3:00 am?
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11-13-2011, 11:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Tom
Who knows?
That is the purpose of the debates.
After last night, two names stand out now.....Newt and Michelle.
When all is said and done. the economy and jobs might not be the major issues come November 2012.
Who do WE want taking that call at 3:00 am?
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You're probably right.
Cain makes Newt look like a choir boy and Perry makes Michelle sound like a poet.
Romney's your run of the mill Rhino who doesn't belong.
Let's hear it for a Gingrich-Bachman ticket.
At the very least the Republicans will be united.
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11-13-2011, 11:19 AM
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Cain first said that a long time ago, around when he announced. It has nothing to do with desperation, its what he believes.
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11-13-2011, 11:49 AM
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Cain says God persuaded him to run for president...
...and to reach up women's skirts seeking the burning bush. 
Ocala Mike
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11-13-2011, 12:35 PM
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Originally Posted by PaceAdvantage
A great majority of the US population prays on a regular basis and relies on their relationship with God to hold a strong influence over their lives.
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Belief in a personal God is fine, as long as you keep it that way...
PERSONAL.
I got no problem with folks talking to God, teenagers do it before a math test, soldiers in foxholes, etc. It's when they claim that God talks back. That's when I run for the aisles.
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11-13-2011, 12:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Robert Goren
I actually think that putting an end to space shuttle was one of the few good decisions that Bush made. Just go to show how desperate Cain is. Take a good decision made by a republican, act like it is bad one and blame it on Obama. Is this really the best guy you can up with?
I sure that Newt will be up a few more points in the polls after the debate last night. He is going to the GOP nod by default. He made his dumb statement early enough that everybody has forgot about it. Now if he can just keep from making another one.
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You're really concerned about "dumb" statements candidates and politicians make, eh? You should lobby to have Congress pass a "three-strikes-you're out" impeachment law whenever a president meets his quota. If such a law were in place, I believe Obama would have been impeached around 7 times, already.
Boxcar
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11-13-2011, 12:42 PM
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Originally Posted by TJDave
Belief in a personal God is fine, as long as you keep it that way...
PERSONAL.
I got no problem with folks talking to God, teenagers do it before a math test, soldiers in foxholes, etc. It's when they claim that God talks back. That's when I run for the aisles.
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God does talk to his people, just not in the way you think today. Do you think God is both deaf and dumb? He's God who neither hears, nor can he "speak"?
Boxcar
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