{"id":9197,"date":"2011-11-10T10:53:28","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T17:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=9197"},"modified":"2011-11-10T11:13:10","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T18:13:10","slug":"the-herman-cain-question-is-he-the-hulk-or-is-he-bob-dole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2011\/11\/10\/the-herman-cain-question-is-he-the-hulk-or-is-he-bob-dole\/","title":{"rendered":"The Herman Cain Question: Is He The Hulk or is he Bob Dole?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Herman Cain … Hulk… Bob Dole.<\/p>\n

I chose to address these accusations directly, rather than try to do it through a series of continuous statements or spokespeople because that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the person Herman Cain<\/strong>is, is to take my message directly to the people.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Well, a businessman by the name of Herman Cain<\/strong> stepped forward. Here I am. But I know from the American people that I have talked with and I have spoken with over the past several months, we are not going to allow Washington or politics to deny me the opportunity to represent this great nation.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153But you see, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s one thing about Herman Cain<\/strong> that I think that a lot of the American people know, and that is, just because it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tough, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no reason for me not to do what I feel like I have to do. And because of what the American people have said to me during these turbulent times, we will get through this. We will get through this.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Well, I happen to think where it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s coming from is that some people don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to see Herman Cain<\/strong> get the Republican nomination, and some people don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want Herman Cain to become president of the United States of America.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n

And the word for the day is illeism<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Herman Cain goes Hulk on us!\u00c2\u00a0 Herman Cain Smash the Democrat Machine!<\/p>\n

The political figure made famous for third person usage, Bob Dole<\/a> — thank you Norm MacDonald for being the bright spot during a dark period in Saturday Night Live history — in reality, it shouldn’t bear one way or the other on the presidential selecting for Bob Dole — maybe there is something on the matter of it reflecting upon a person under fire and pressure, but the 1996 contest ame down to this classic George Carlin line:<\/p>\n

“I think people show their ignorance when they say they want politicians to be honest. If honesty were suddenly introduced into politics, this country would fall apart. And, I think people know that deep down. They like their bull shit out front where they can get a good strong whiff of it! That’s probably why they picked Bill Clinton over Bob Dole. Clinton was honest about his bullshit. He was up front. He came right out with it. Dole tried to hide it. ‘I’m an honest man’.”<\/em> –
\nGeorge Carlin <\/span><\/p>\n

I would think there would be a website made up entirely of Bob Dole third person usage, but I can’t quite find one.\u00c2\u00a0 That may be something from Web 1.0, where we are currently at Web 3.0.\u00c2\u00a0 (This blog being a remnant from Web 2.0).\u00c2\u00a0 What I’m left with is this classic quote:<\/p>\n

“If something happened along the route and you had to leave your children with Bob Dole or Bill Clinton, I think you would probably leave them with Bob Dole.”<\/em><\/p>\n

And this Los Angeles Times editorial from the time<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I think Bob Dole has catapulted ahead of Bo Jackson in terms of pop cultural references on this matter.<\/p>\n

SMASH!<\/p>\n

And regarding that particular Bob Dole quotation — some things never change.\u00c2\u00a0 Here’s a blogad I just ran across:<\/p>\n

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Herman Cain … Hulk… Bob Dole. I chose to address these accusations directly, rather than try to do it through a series of continuous statements or spokespeople because that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the person Herman Cainis, is to take my message directly to the people.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Well, a businessman by the name of Herman Cain stepped forward. Here I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9197"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9200,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9197\/revisions\/9200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}