"You want a job, don't you"?

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Anyone but me notice the *ahem* similarities?

One blond, attractive, articulate, female accuses the black (yes, I'm playing the race card) republican Presidential candidate of making unwanted sexual advances towards her and the white, I mean right-wing attack dogs circle the wagons, play the race card, attack her attorney, call her a broke, desperate, liar, working undercover for Rick Perry/Rham Emmanuel/the media.

It has been interesting, if also predictable, to watch conservatives reacting to the Herman Cain sexual harassment allegations discover the horrors of anti-black racism. After all, they’ve spent the past three years claiming that the real victims of racism in the United States are white.

The other blond, attractive, articulate female accuses the white (race card again) democratic Presidential candidate (yes, I'm bringing party into this) of being her lover for 12 years, complete with audiotapes and the white, I mean right-wing and the media goes wild.

After Bill Clinton denied having a relationship with Flowers on 60 Minutes, she held a press conference in which she played tape recordings she had secretly recorded of phone calls with Clinton.[2] Clinton subsequently apologized publicly to Mario Cuomo for remarks he made about the then-Governor of New York on the tapes. However, news reports at the time speculated that the taped phone conversations between Flowers and Clinton could have been doctored.[2][3] Clinton aides James Carville and George Stephanopoulos also backed this claim as well.[4] George Stephanopoulos later claimed in a 2000 interview with journalist Tim Russert that "Oh, it was absolutely his voice, but they were selectively edited in a way to - to create some - some impression." [5]

And Republicans say they have better blacks than democrats? Contrast the black republican Presidential front runner jobs plan snark,

“He suddenly reached over and put his hand on my leg under my skirt and reached for my genitals,” said Bialek, a Chicago native who worked for the foundation for roughly six months in 1997, according to the Restaurant Association.“He also grabbed my head and pushed it toward his crotch.”

When she arrived in Washington to meet Cain, Bialek said she found he had upgraded her hotel suite. Cain took her to dinner at an Italian restaurant, then drove over to see the National Restaurant Association headquarters. But Cain stopped the car outside the group’s office and made an advance, she said.

Bialek says she told Cain at the time: “What are you doing, you know I have a boyfriend, this isn’t what I came here for.”

Bialek said Cain said, “You want a job, don’t you?”

Compared to the African American democratic Presidential front runner's American Jobs Act the GOP is blocking and obstructing because they think the majority of voters are suckers (pun intended).

The purpose of the American Jobs Act, which President Obama sent to Congress this week, is simple: put more people back to work and put more money in the pockets of working Americans. The President's plan will rebuild the economy the American way -- based on balance, fairness and the same set of rules for everyone from Wall Street to Main Street.
The American Jobs Act reflects a commitment to strengthen the recovery and help increase access to jobs for all Americans.

republicans impeached President Clinton for trying to conceal a private, consensual, oral sex act from his wife, daughter, and the country. Remember?

President Bill Clinton's administration created 22 million new JOBS.

Compare and contrast that.

Herman Cain says "If you are falsely accused of sexual harassment, it's your own fault. You need to blame yourself!!!"

Campaign buttons for Republican Presidential candidate Herman Cain are seen on sale as he campaigned Friday in Talladega, Ala.

A big old H/T to Shady Grady for the perfect headline for this post. I have been snickering all day watching gop, Presidential front runner Herman Cain twist in the wind due to Politico's expose of the charges of sexual harassment in his past.

Josh Marshall
I’m trying to put together a Herman Cain harassment timeline. This is a work in progress because I’m having a hard time keep track of it all. So bear with me.

1. Politico allegations are false. Story is crap.

2. Yes, there were allegations. But they were false.

3. Yes there were allegations that were false and I don’t know what money was paid.

4. I don’t know whether money was paid. And it would be wrong for me to find out whether money was paid because it’s confidential.

5. There was a in-depth investigation. And I was cleared. But I don’t know anything about it.

6. Here’s the gesture that led to my getting accused of harassment.

7. Okay, I remember some discussion of a settlement number.

Yep. Herman punk'd the republicans and the media big time. I mean, didn't they vet this guy? Or, did they honestly think we wouldn't find out about those scary skeletons in his closet?

Field Negro

I would like to welcome Mr. 9-9-9 to the world of big time politics.

It seems that my man forgot one thing while he was jigging and joking his way into the hearts of white conservatives across A-merry-ca: Your skeletons will always come back to haunt you. We all have them. But we don't all try to get elected as the leader of the free world, or, for that matter, to become a member of the most powerful "democratic" judicial body on earth.

And so here we go again; yet another black conservative is the victim of a "high tech lynching". The last one survived the metaphoric rope around his neck and ultimately found himself in a position where he can influence whether a rope is put around the neck of others.

Have the media and the gop forgotten the vague accusations of Gennifer Flowers, Paula Jones and Anita Hill?

I wonder if the Koch Brothers are going to repossess Cain's big, nice, shiny bus?

I wonder if the Huntsville Federation of Republican women regret inviting him to dinner at the Marriott?

I wonder if Herman Cain is still Alabama State Senator Scott Beason's (r. racist Gardendale) Boy?

I almost feel sorry for the gop and the mainstream media. They thought they had themselves the perfect racist in Herman Cain.

Herman Cain has become, in many ways, the perfect racist. America lives under the interesting premise that a racist can’t be Black. That’s like believing that a man can’t hate his sibling, or that a woman can’t advocate for a man to beat his wife (as Whoopi did to Oprah in “The Color Purple”). The truth is that racism is typically most effective when you put a Black face on it, and Herman Cain has volunteered to become the cute little political puppet which allows white America to say the things that they are afraid to say.

Too bad. So sad.
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