I have received from a couple of different people a reforwarded message of the same title as this one including a resume for Herman Cain. I won't repeat that here, since you can go to the Herman Cain campaign web site and read their version of it. The resume I received by email does seem to be accurate.
Cain earned a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics at Morehouse College, worked his way through a Masters degree in Computer Science at Purdue University, ran and rescued the Burger King division and later the Godfather's Pizza spinoff of Pillsbury, and served as Board Member and then Chairman of the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank, all starting as a black son of a chauffeur and a cleaning woman in Jim Crow Georgia.
By comparison Mitt Romney's career following his birth in wealth and privilege seems somehow diminished.
I can think of little bad to say about Cain or his policies. Among those candidates with some measure of executive experience he seems to capture best the Tea Party sentiment and spirit. And imagine the long-term benefits of decoupling the racism issue from the party label. His greatest weaknesses would seem to be first, that we expect our presidents to come from the political class, and second, that he might have as yet unexposed disqualifying flaws. The upcoming primary season will go a long way toward settling whether those are concerns.
Cain's chance at the nomination seems much greater today than it did a few weeks ago, as three just-released polls show him in second place or tied with Mitt Romney at 17%. Among those taking a second look at Cain is the Wall Street Journal editorial page writer Dan Henninger and Democrat pollster Douglas Schoen. Here is Schoen's analysis of the influence of Chris Christie's withdrawal on the race. His conclusion? Cain gains the most. And speaking of polls, this one makes who the Republicans nominate incredibly important.
If Cain is nominated by the Republican Party to run for President, I will gladly don buckskin, apply warpaint, and go down to the harbor with him to help throw the collectivist notions and nostrums of the progressivists into the bay.
