I saw about 20 minutes of an interview with Cain last night. Now, I readily admit I follow politics about 1/1000th as much as you guys, so I didn't recognize the guy doing the interviewing. I think his first name was Reis and he had a British type accent. Anywho, he was doing a great job of not cutting Cain any slack and playing devil's advocate on many of his questions. I was quite impressed with Cain's demeanor and his stances on several of the issues discussed.
On the Occupy Wallskreet crowd, Cain cut them no slack either, saying the overwhelming majority of those people have jobs. The people he feels for are those that the economy has hit, but are actively getting out there trying to find jobs and make their own way. They're not sitting downtown with signs, they're trying to do something about their situation. He went into his thoughts on the banking/mortgage crisis and who he thought was really accountable, which was more the administrations fault for protecting them and trying to bail them out.
He was also questioned hard about the Tea Party and all the claims of racism. Cain defended them and when asked what he would say to Morgan Freeman and some other blacks who had made racism claims, he said "That's because they've never been to a Tea Party meeting and I'd be happy to take them to one to see for themselves." The last thing I heard him say, which is what I have heard echoed here many times, was that he's not a politician. That's what struck me because I had been thinking all along that there's no spin here. He's telling it like it is, the way he sees it. I hate politics for the most part, but this is refreshing to me.
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