Cain to Obama: Stop the Racial Innuendos

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Not surprising: Herman Cain's response to the State of the Union address included several disagreements with Obama.

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Ironic: Cain, a member of the far right who thinks Newt Gingrich is an "outstanding candidate," asked the president to put a stop to "racial innuendos."

Classic: He said the "first revolution" is going to involve โ€” you guessed it โ€” "9-9-9" (although he's no longer running for anything that would allow him to implement his infamous tax plan).

From Politico:

Cain pointedly told Obama to โ€œstop the class warfareโ€ and asked him to โ€œdiscourage your surrogates from making racial innuendoes.โ€

โ€œMr. President, most of all, stop the blame game,โ€ he said.

Cain took several questions at the end of his address, focusing on the 2012 campaign and Stephen Colbertโ€™s endorsement of his candidacy during the comedianโ€™s mock presidential bid in South Carolina. Cain said Newt Gingrich has some โ€œifsโ€ he needs to work out as a presidential candidate, such as some things in his congressional record, but that both Mitt Romney and Gingrich are โ€œoutstanding candidates.โ€ Cain added that he plans to work more with Colbert in the future to encourage the youth vote.

But โ€œthe first revolution, you guessed it, is going to be the 9-9-9 revolution,โ€ Cain said as he left the stage, referring [to] the tax plan that [formed] a centerpiece of his campaign.

Read more at Politico.

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