Herman Cain

Olivia Hathaway

Herman Cain

Herman Cain announced today that he is going to run for the Republican nomination. Herman Cain is a business man. He has successfully built a business, Godfathers Pizza, from the ground up and it is still running successfully to this day.

According to his website, Herman Cain feels that despite the promises president Obama made during his campaign, including social security and health care, there was no follow through. Cain says that Obama cut 500 billion dollars from medicare with the plan to make up for the cuts in efficiencies, and “instead of getting government out of the way to make health care more affordable president Obama and the democrat-controlled Congress passed a new huge bureaucracy that's currently making health care more expensive and less accessible.”

“People want solutions.” This suggests that Cain believes Obama has not given solutions to what he promised he would solve. The solution to this, according to Cain, is leadership. “Leadership is not being the sharpest knife in the drawer. It is working on the right problem, asking the right questions, and removing barriers to success.” Meaning you can't simply be smart to be a leader; you have to know who to surround yourself with in order to get wise counsel. It is knowing how to confront a problem responsibly and with precision: knowing what you need to know and asking the right people with humility, and it is being able to be successful in making the way for you and others to be successful. ”The leadership of solving national problems the right way must come from the President.”

According to Cain, the President needs to be able to lead congress. He says “535 seats can not lead by committee, the founders of our country designed it to be lead by the President.” If elected President, from what I can tell from his website, Mr. Cain plans on making an exit out of war torn countries including Afghanistan, and Iraq, but he wants a good thought out plan to do so.

Cain said he doesn't believe Obama is a bad President. He says Obama has simply been getting bad advise because he has not surrounded. himself with the right people.

Herman Cain has only announced today that he is running for the Republican nomination so it is not clear who will vie for him. This will depend on how far he makes it. On Friday, Tim Pawlenty said that he will announce his candidacy bid this Monday, adding yet another name to the array of great people who could really bring sense and stability to this country.