Presidential candidate Herman Cain will join Lawrence on the show tomorrow night. It is something he said in a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal that's catching our attention today.
When asked about the ongoing Occupy Wall Street protests, the former CEO of Godfather's Pizza and rising GOP-star said, "I honestly don't understand what they're looking for." He brushed off the widespread demonstrations as a staged display to "distract from the failed policies of the Obama administration."
"Don't blame Wall Street, don't blame the big banks, if you don't have a job and you're not rich, blame yourself!" Cain said. "It is not a person's fault because they succeeded, it is a person's fault if they failed."
Cain acknowledged the banks fueled part of economic crisis of 2008. He noted it's 2011, suggesting to hold the banks accountable now is just an excuse.
The 19-day-old Occupy Wall Street movement continues to gain momentum with the Left, as Democratic politicians, progressive groups and unions are joining the cause.
Members of the Service Employees International Union, the Communications Workers' union, the New York AFL-CIO and the United Federation of Teachers joined today's big march on Wall Street.
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What a complete idiot you made of yourself. you self righteous little punk. shame on you.
People are struggling to survive medical care is through the roof, insurance is through the roof, deductibles are high, then you have rent, utilities, transportation and pay is in the basement. Even though you are just making enough money to barely survive you are making too much money for assistance and you’re the lucky one you have a job. You could have that student loan debt, a degree and find yourself over qualified for every job available. Yeah people can sit on their butts in front of their computers and say move to where the jobs are but that is easier said then done not everyone is without ties. I grew up in a time before the selling of the country when you could get two or more jobs easily and we had opportunity. It’s not the same for people today struggling just to barely survive. We don’t have honest investments we have parasites that play every loop hole to create an unbalanced playing field, loot companies then jump with their golden parachutes leaving the workers and stockholders holding the bag .Corporations seek out third world countries for their corrupt governments, slave labor and freedom to pollute, you don’t compete with that you end it’s profitability, don’t feed money into those economies. It won’t be easy at first the world is like a drug addict and unless it gets off it’s addiction to these globalized lies, it’s going to fall into slavery with the top 1% it’s masters.
Cain KNOWS he is NOT going to be President! However, he is NOT dumb. He is a businessman ----- a take no hostage businessman!
A Romeny challenger to Oboma is just WHAT HE WANTS!!!!!!!!!!
After the CRUSHING defeat of Romney in 2012, the nominee will go into hiding, and Herman Cain will become the voice behind the GOP Congress after 2012! McConnel will be gone, Boehner will be gone, and Kantor will be gone! The ONLY leader of the GOP, after 2012, in the mind of Herman Cain --------WILL BE HERMAN CAIN!!!!!!!!
Let us NOT forget that Ted Kennedy was once the 2nd most powerful man in the elected US government ..............If something was on the table that Teddy really disliked, it never made it out of committee - Unless Ted wanted a posture fight for media exposure!
if it's not 2008 mr. cain why is my house that i dumped blood sweat and tears into still underwater....guess that''s my fault...keeping in touch with the lack of compassionate republican thing
Cain's 9,9,9 plan looks interesting. It deserves a look.
Why did Lawrence not ask Herman Cain, "What
Democratic brainwashing?" What medium is there to justify this canard? This is Republican excess propaganda "guilt projection" onto the Democrats. Right-wing propaganda is constant, to Republi-con listeners to radio with the out-sized Rusted Lamebrain, and the watchers of television with Fox Noise, unfair and unbalanced, where a Democratic representative is never seen interviewed, where their Sunday-morning and nightly propaganda harangues are indeed, deliberately designed to brainwash all, including Herman Cain's presumed African Americans. The only antidote to Repugnican propaganda brainwash poison, dictated by the Corporate (aka Republican) Party plotters, is to watch the only Democratic medium there seems to be, on Lawrence's own MSNBC.I was 'cheering' for Herman Cain and I was yelling at that 'socialist' dirt-bag at the top of my 'Republican' lungs so loud my wife had to tell me to 'calm down'.......for fear that my head might explode....
Lawrence O'Donnell wanted to make Herman Cain look bad and stupid, but all he did was 'galvanize' Republicans ...especially conservatives around Herman Cain...we should all thank MSNBC and their 'socialist' host Lawrence O'Donnell for 'promoting' Herman Cain's Presidential campaign to make Obama a 'one-term-president'....
Thank you Lawrence O'Donnell!
WE THE PEOPLE bought houses we couldn't afford, WE THE PEOPLE choose to use credit instead of saving money, WE THE PEOPLE chose to hold on to money instead of spending it causing a blockage in the flow of capital (the very thing that drives the economy), WE THE PEOPLE took chances with our investments without monitoring them, the list of points would be too long for this. At what point did WE THE PEOPLE decide that we are not in control of the very things that we created?
When the Federal Government gave unique identity numbers to illegal aliens so they could get a loan from Fanny May and Freddie Mac...that's when "We The People" no longer mattered...
Herman Cain rode the civil rights movement and affirmative action for all it was worth.Now he's trying to use his race to better his political ambitions.Or just make a name for himself to sell idiots more books.He all ready sold bad pizza to the idiots.