Why the Cain Train will (sadly) be derailed eventually.

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

look, Cain could have called his simple plan a complicated name like "Flat 9% Income, Sales, and Corporate Tax Plan for building a 21st Century American Economy"...but he has a enough marketing sense to simply call it 999, which opens up an opportunity to explain his simple plan in 30 seconds.

Doesn't it sound multiple alarm bells with anyone who's read Revelation and looked at a picture of Cain's forehead, though?
Oh wait, didn't the original Cain also bear a sign there (Cain's mark)... but the dark skin is Ham's curse, nothing to do with any of these... sheesh, I need to get my story straightened out.

I see you've been IM'ing with prophetman, who is probably flipping out right about now  

[minionofmidas]

look, Cain could have called his simple plan a complicated name like "Flat 9% Income, Sales, and Corporate Tax Plan for building a 21st Century American Economy"...but he has a enough marketing sense to simply call it 999, which opens up an opportunity to explain his simple plan in 30 seconds.

Doesn't it sound multiple alarm bells with anyone who's read Revelation and looked at a picture of Cain's forehead, though?
Oh wait, didn't the original Cain also bear a sign there (Cain's mark)... but the dark skin is Ham's curse, nothing to do with any of these... sheesh, I need to get my story straightened out.

I see you've been IM'ing with prophetman, who is probably flipping out right about now  

Nah, that racist lunatic'd have his biblical quotes a lot straighter. I was just associating freely. (By the way, there are no marks whatsoever on Cain's forehead... but it does look like there might be, on some pics, when reproduced in low quality. Such as the one in E's sig. In other words, about as rational a belief as the belief in holes in Obama's Hawaiian birth story.)

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

was prophetman banned?  he would sure be entertaining right about now...

[Peeperkorn]

Well, his credentials are:

- a ex CEO of a pizza chain.

And that's all.

It would be kind of stupid to vote for such a person in the worst recession since 1930, but who knows? He is a Republican and loves America and jesus and stuff.

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

Well, his credentials are:

- a ex CEO of a pizza chain.

And that's all.

It would be kind of stupid to vote for such a person in the worst recession since 1930, but who knows? He is a Republican and loves America and stuff.

well, at least he isn't an ex CEO of the taqueria chain. 

[Peeperkorn]

Well, his credentials are:

- a ex CEO of a pizza chain.

And that's all.

It would be kind of stupid to vote for such a person in the worst recession since 1930, but who knows? He is a Republican and loves America and stuff.

well, at least he isn't an ex CEO of the taqueria chain. 

Mexican culture is by far closer to the USA than Uruguay.

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

Mexican culture is by far closer to the USA than Uruguay.

Not sure how long its been since you were in the States, but Mexican culture is the culture for large portions of the USA

[Averroës Nix]

Well, his credentials are:

- a ex CEO of a pizza chain.

And that's all.

It would be kind of stupid to vote for such a person in the worst recession since 1930, but who knows? He is a Republican and loves America and jesus and stuff.

Hey, I don't think that Cain is qualified, but that's not the only thing that he's done. The guy has decades of executive experience in business, and he's served on a number of corporate boards, and he was chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.

[Peeperkorn]

Mexican culture is by far closer to the USA than Uruguay.

Not sure how long its been since you were in the States, but Mexican culture is the culture for large portions of the USA

Well. congratulations, I don't like it at all.

They can't even speak or write Spanish properly.

[Peeperkorn]

business,

Yes, because being the POTUS is just like business.

[Averroës Nix]

business,

Yes, because being the POTUS is just like business.

Is that your idea of a witty retort? Quoting a single word and making an inane statement that has almost nothing to do with what I said?

I don't like being taken out of context.

[Peeperkorn]

business,

Yes, because being the POTUS is just like business.

Is that your idea of a witty retort? Quoting a single word and making an inane statement that has almost nothing to do with what I said?

I don't like being taken out of context.

It's a mad world.

[Averroës Nix]

business,

Yes, because being the POTUS is just like business.

Is that your idea of a witty retort? Quoting a single word and making an inane statement that has almost nothing to do with what I said?

I don't like being taken out of context.

It's a mad world.

That's insane troll logic.

[mondale84]

It will be derailed because there is no "Cain Train" it is an imaginary construct resulting from the wet dreams of certain conservatives (some people on this forum among them) which has no basis in reality. Even if there is a "train" in the sense that some (questionable) people believe in Herman Cain...the rails it is currently "running" on are imaginary.

[Peeperkorn]

business,

Yes, because being the POTUS is just like business.

Is that your idea of a witty retort? Quoting a single word and making an inane statement that has almost nothing to do with what I said?

I don't like being taken out of context.

It's a mad world.

That's insane troll logic.

I thought that your Aristotelian logic would be kind of better. I mean, syllogisms, is not THAT difficult.