It's probably not the end of the story.

Yesterday in an interview with Piers Morgan on CNN, I was asked questions about abortion policy and the role of the President.

I understood the thrust of the question to ask whether that I, as president, would simply “order” people to not seek an abortion.

My answer was focused on the role of the President. The President has no constitutional authority to order any such action by anyone. That was the point I was trying to convey.

As to my political policy view on abortion, I am 100% pro-life. End of story.

I will appoint judges who understand the original intent of the Constitution. Judges who are committed to the rule of law know that the Constitution contains no right to take the life of unborn children.

I will oppose government funding of abortion. I will veto any legislation that contains funds for Planned Parenthood. I will do everything that a President can do, consistent with his constitutional role, to advance the culture of life.

Via Jeff Emanuel.

I know we've had a lot of Cain today. Too much Cain really but it's unfair to do the original post without putting out his statement.

With that said, that answer is laughable.

Look at the exchange with Piers Morgan.

MORGAN: By expressing the view that you expressed, you are effectively -- you might be president. You can't hide behind now the mask, if you don't mind me saying, of being the pizza guy. You might be the president of United States of America. So your views on these things become exponentially massively more important. They become a directive to the nation.

CAIN: No they don't. I can have an opinion on an issue without it being a directive on the nation. The government shouldn't be trying to tell people everything to do, especially when it comes to social decisions that they need to make.

Cain didn't say "The President shouldn't be trying to tell people everything to do, especially when it comes to social decisions that they need to make" he said "the government". That includes the Congress and the courts, which he now says he'd appoint judges to that would remove the "right" to abortion. And where was that statement last night about judges?

This isn't the first time Cain has made a muddle of what seems to be a pretty straight forward question.

As I said this morning, taken in totality, I think Cain is pro-life. The problem is that once again he's taken simple things and made them into a mess.

Related enough... Cain was on with Sean Hannity this afternoon and addressed the Romney-Perry showdown at the most recent debate.

Cain tells Hannity Romney-Perry fight over immigration in debate "reflectled negatively on Perry. Â… I think Mitt handled himself well."

More Cain: "Mitt was trying to have a civil conservation. Perry … shot himself in the foot” by talking over Romney in debate.

So the great hope of the "not Romney" camp is defending, er.....Mitt Romney.

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I guess that's all this is for the left -- scoring political goals.

They didn't like the arrest and lawful conviction and execution of Saddam Hussein because that was "conservatives scoring a goal."

But now Obama (Nobel Peace Prize winner, 2009) can claim to have more blood on his hands, and top diplomat Hillary Clinton is giggling, "We came, we saw, he died."

And nasty little femme Kos is jizzing himself over it.

Yayyy! A Democrat killed someone!

Take that, cons!

By the way: I'm pretty happy this terrorist is dead.

But then, I'm not evaluating military actions based only on whether they can increase or decrease my party's standing in the polls by a percentage point for a couple of weeks.

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The pampered populists are learning all sorts of lesson of life on the streets.

Not only did this guy at Occupy Toronto sniff some innocent girl's (no doubt stinky) feet, he also... um, tried to get protesters to drink urine, claiming it was a five hour energy drink.

If I understand the dialog here, other protesters tell the guy to stop narking on the foot-sniffer. The guy tries to deliver the foot-sniffer's knife to the cops (or the "legal team," as he calls them), but other protesters try to throw it away.

This is a pattern we're seeing a lot -- discouraging women from reporting rapes, etc. For some reason they think solidarity extends to protecting fellow leftists from sex-assault charges.

Come to think of it, that's not really new news, is it?

In related news, unbelievably, Occupy L.A. isn't really focusing on work.

Rachel Goldie, 20, decided to leave the protest Wednesday because she felt it had been corrupted by people who didn't care about economic justice. "Everybody is pretty much just partying it up," she said.

And by "partying it up," she means "sniffing the dirty feet of strangers as they sleep."

Which, actually, is how I mean it, too.
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Oh, Dear Lord, the vetting is outstanding, isn't it?

A vehicle Perry currently rents t had previously been used in a drug ring. So, like, it's haunted by Cocaine Ghosts and stuff.

Boo!

What I'm now waiting to hear is that the plane's name is an ethnic slur. Like, The Flying Taco-Bender or something.

And the Washington Post is finally vetting a handsome, well-spoken, clean and articulate minority Senator who some have plumped for the highest office in America.

That Senator? Why, Marco Rubio, of course.

Their big scoop is that while Marco Rubio often says his family fled Castro's regime, in fact, they emigrated two and half years before Castro seized power.

So, you know.

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I've been sick yesterday and today, and not Batman: Arkham City sick either. Actually sick.

Andrew Breitbart suggested I watch the below videos, about the Frankfurt School's attempt to create a path to Marxism that could work in prosperous America. Because agitation among the (relatively well-paid) working classes wasn't working.

What did they come up with? Political correctness, and creating a new style of cultural/social warfare.

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Well, I mean, we all benefited from the bailouts, right?

But I mean these guys benefited more than most.

Multiple directors or former directors of the Federal Reserve banks who played a key role in the 2008 bailouts had an apparent conflict of interest, according to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report. These directors had business relationships with companies and banks that received large infusions of government money.

The office of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who caucuses with the Democrats, noted that the report did not name any names, "but unambiguously described several individual cases involving Fed directors that created the appearance of a conflict of interest." The group of 18 people connected to both the Federal Reserve and a bailed out company included: the CEO of General Electric, Jeffrey Immelt (who is now President Obama's jobs czar); Stephen Friedman of Goldman Sachs Group Inc.; and Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JP Morgan Chase.

Here's Jamie Dimon's connection to Obama, per Wikipedia:

Federal TARP Funds
As JPMorgan Chase's Chairman, President & CEO, Dimon oversaw the transfer of $25 billion in bailout funds from the US Treasury Department to JPMorgan Chase on October 28, 2008 via the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).[16] This was the fifth largest amount transferred under Section A of TARP[17] to help troubled assets related to residential mortgages. It has been widely reported [18] that JPMorgan Chase was in much better financial shape than other banks and did not need TARP funds but accepted the funds because the Government did not want to single out only the banks with capital issues.
JPMorgan Chase advertised in February 2009 that they would be using their capital base monetary strength to acquire new businesses,[19] ....

Of the US's nine largest banks, JPMorgan Chase was arguably the second healthiest bank, and did not need to take TARP funds. In order to encourage smaller banks with troubled assets to accept this money, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson allegedly coerced the CEOs of the nine largest banks to accept TARP money under short notice.[21] JPMorgan Chase was also the first of the largest banks to repay the TARP money.

Relations with the Obama Administration

Dimon is a Democrat and worked in Obama's adopted hometown of Chicago. After Obama took office and JPMorgan Chase repaid its bailout money more quickly than most, he became influential in the White House,[22] although Dimon has often publicly disagreed with some of Obama's policies.[23] Dimon was one of three CEOs found by the Associated Press—along with Lloyd Blankfein and Vikram Pandit—to have had liberal access to United States Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner in the seven months after the financial crisis in fall 2008.[24]

As for Friedman, not only is Goldman Sachs Obama's biggest contributor, and not only is the Obama Administration infested with so many Goldman Sachs people that Goldman almost is the government, but he personally served in the Obama Administration, too, as chairman of Obama's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.

He's long been called out as having benefited from the bailouts. Again, from Wikipedia:

On May 7, 2009 Friedman resigned as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in response to criticism of his December 2008 purchase of $3 million of stock in Goldman Sachs.Friedman, who remains a member of Goldman SachsÂ’ board, came into violation of Federal Reserve policy when Goldman was converted to a bank holding company in September 2008, thereby placing it under the regulatory authority of the New York Fed. Friedman requested a waiver from this violation when the conversion occurred, which was granted roughly two and a half months later.

Although these three are Obama cronies, I have no doubt a lot of Republican-affiliated people are implicated somewhere here.

The whole damn thing is crooked.

Thanks to RDBrewer.

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The video is worth watching if you're in the mood for a blood-pressure rise. A very smug leftist marches into a restaurant to shout and carry on, because the owner is on the board of Sotheby's, which, in turn, he insists is a "union buster."

Meanwhile, Occupy Columbus is off to a, ahem, lightly-attended start.

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This is a really fun video, comparing Obama's soundbites to Jimmy Carter's.

Amazingly, Obama is cribbing from Jimmy Carter's playbook.

Now that's thinking outside the box. more...

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Herman Cain during the Las Vegas debate, in response to the following question: "Mr. Cain, a lot of prominent conservatives now are coming forward saying that your 9-9-9 plan would actually raise taxes on middle-class voters, on lower-income voters.":

The thing that I would encourage people to do before they engage in this knee-jerk reaction is read our analysis. It is available at hermancain.com. It was performed by Fiscal Associates. And all of the claims that are made against it, it is a jobs plan, it is revenue-neutral, it does not raise taxes on those that are making the least. All of those are simply not true.

Herman Cain after the Las Vegas debate:

“We’re not going to throw the people at the poverty level under the bus,” Cain told an audience at the Western Republican Leadership Conference. “No, we’re not going to do that. But we’ve already made provisions for that. But I just hadn’t told the public and my opponents about it yet. So we’re going to take care of those who are less economically advantaged.”

Go to his website and read about his plan ... including the parts he's not telling anyone about.

Really?

Is it just me or does his whole platform seem to be made up on the fly?

It'll be interesting to see if the flat tax Rick Perry is set to propose next week goes through a similar process of starting out simple and flat (enough for even TurboTax Timmy to understand) and then becoming more complicated and less flat with each passing minute as people dig into the details.

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If you get raped -- and look, you're gonna get raped, I mean, look at this crew -- do not go to the cops. We certainly don't want any pigs around here, harshing our mellows.

No, report the rape to our own Occupy Baltimore "Security Committee."

We will make sure the rapist... gets counselling resources.

The pamphlet says that members of the protest group who believe they are victims or who suspect sexual abuse "are encouraged to immediately report the incident to the Security Committee," which will investigate and "supply the abuser with counseling resources."

The directive also says, in part, "Though we do not encourage the involvement of the police in our community, the survivor has every right, and the support of Occupy Baltimore, to report the abuse to the appropriate authorities."

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