Do You Think Herman Cain Was Brainwashed?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Poll question: Do You Think Herman Cain Was Brainwashed?

[Kennah]

1. More like brain-dried - Clothes dryers shrink stuff

[Avalux]

2. No. He's unscrupulous and worships the money god.

People will do and say anything for money. Brainwashing insinuates he is an innocent and not responsible for his actions. Nope.

[Zoeisright]

No, he's just stupid, selfish, and full of self-hatred.

Must be tough to hate who you are. If only he, along with other brain-dead repukes, would just shut the fuck up.

[LiberalFighter]

5. Agreed

[MADem]

3. OTHER: Anything's possible. Ask Mitt Romney's FATHER, the ill-fated GEORGE.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,941126,00.html

...Last week Michigan's Governor George Romney offered so inept an explanation of his shifting views on Viet Nam that it could end his presidential ambitions.


Romney's judgment has never been noticeably clouded by the hobgoblin of little minds. He strongly endorsed the war in July 1965 (before he first visited Viet Nam); he lent qualified support to the Administration's policy at Hartford last spring (17 months after his return from Saigon); and, most recently, he unequivocally denounced the U.S. commitment as a "tragic" mistake. Last week, during a Labor Day interview on Detroit's WKBD-TV, Commentator Lou Gordon wanted to know how Romney squared his current conviction that the U.S. should never have got involved in Asia with the comment he made after a tour of the war zone in November 1965 that "involvement was morally right and necessary."

Replied Romney: "When I came back from Viet Nam, I had just had the greatest brainwashing that anybody can get when you go over to Viet Nam."

Gordon: By the generals?

Romney: Not only by the generals but also by the diplomatic corps over there, and they do a very thorough job, and, since returning from Viet Nam, I've gone into the history of Viet Nam, all the way back into World War II and before that. And, as a result, I have changed my mind.



Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,941126,00.html#ixzz1aUT9qV15

[LiberalFighter]

6. When you have the right people providing the answers that you want others to have.

They can convince an Eskimo to buy a refrigerator or AC unit. It isn't so much brainwashing that makes it happen. One of the things that helps to convince others to keep other information away from them or have sufficient explanation that satisfies the listener.

I'm sure the military were very good at pushing their agenda even back then. It probably helps when some secrecy is involved that helps make it more probable whatever info they provide even to a member of Congress. Of course, there are many members of Congress that are total idiots.

[MADem]

9. That guy wasn't just a corporate putz on a factfinding tour, though.

He, too, wanted to be President.

What a campaign--Vote George Romney--I CAN be brainwashed!

Hardly a smooth move on his part, never mind that his family tree included a father and multiple sister-wife mothers, and one of those runs across the Mexican border to escape the law. All that was overshadowed with the brainwashing commentary.

[hlthe2b]

4. Greed.... corrupts absolutely...

and allows one to "believe" anything to justify it.

[Ikonoklast]

7. No, but this is what he sees when he looks in a mirror.

He's a little bit confused, is all.

[COLGATE4]

8. You can't wash what wasn't there in the first place...

[JoePhilly]

10. No brain to wash .... imho.

[lunatica]

11. He's a Conservative, so he's mostly cement brained

[meow2u3]

12. More like brain dead

Not to mention devoid of any conscience.

This song by Ice Cube describes Cain to a T (bagger):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw31g6zfUnM

[JuniperLea]

13. No brain to wash...

More like his palm was greased.

[quaker bill]

15. Beat me to it.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

14. No he's just a two bit opportunist jagoff. nt

[Bombtrack]

16. Um, black people are capable of being ignorant assholes on their own too.

He's a corporate douchebag, that is all.