Tuesday, November 08, 2011

Do I Believe Herman Cain?

Well, the Herman Cain Train has taken a helluva detour lately with the multiple stories of alleged sexual harassment.Today, after the latest accuser made a spectacle of herself yesterday in a her press conference, Mr. Cain decided to finally address the situation head on.
The first woman to go public is a woman named Sharon Bialek.
Miss Bialek claims that Mr. Cain made a very horrible advance to her after dinner and drinks. Miss Bialek claims that Mr. Cain drove her to a parking lot, put his hand under her dress, grabbed her privates and tried to force her head to an unmentionable area.
Now, Miss Bialek should be totally believed since she appeared with the ambulance chasing troll of a lawyer, Gloria The Red in her presser yesterday. And doesn't everyone accusing a serious presidential candidate of a serious charge of sexual harassment do it with glee?
So, Mr. Cain took on the allegations today in his own press conference in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Now generally, when there are so many similar allegations floating out there, one would say that Mr. Cain has a problem. Hell, even paying off a couple of gals does not look good.
But the problem is that noting really seems to stick to Mr. Cain. No one actually made a charge against Mr. Cain. And if Miss Bialek were to be believed, she had a minimal possibility of getting Mr. Cain on attempted rape charges. I mean, putting one's hand under a gal's dress and trying to force her head to a certain area of the body against her will would certainly qualify, right?
And why do most if not all the charges stem from the 90s and early 2000s?
If someone was as prolific a harasser as Mr. Cain and getting away with it, would he not get sloppy? Go too far?
And at the end of the day, I really looked at this man at this press conference and came away believing Mr. Cain.
Not a hundred percent. After all, he is a politician. But as much as I can and realize that maybe it is this possibility.
That Mr. Cain fancies himself as a kind of sort of ladies man. You know, flirts with women. Kind of in a way that, I suppose, a woman can take as kind of harassing. But not in the mind of someone like Mr. Cain. After all, Mr. Cain from the South. And men are much more friendly than in many other parts of the United States. Maybe these women did not see the difference.
But do I think that Mr. Cain is a serial sexual harasser?
No. None of what has come out, not even Miss Bialek's claims make me think that.
Having said all of the above, the real question is not about this. But whether or not Mr. Cain can or should be the Republican nominee for president.
I think that Mr. Cain finally tried to put this detour back on that train track and it will be up to Republican primary voters to decide.

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